Monday, May 9, 2011

The Birthday Boy!

This adorable little boy turned one last week! I still have a hard time believing it.




See this cute bib? The candle is a washcloth. Love it!



We had family and a few friends over for dinner and cake on Sammy's birthday. It didn't seem like a lot of people were coming until everyone was here. We had 12 kids, age 5 and under, running around. It was chaos. Lots of fun, but chaos! And, luckily, Sammy loved it all. He just watched and watched as everyone ran around him.



This is my first attempt at a decorated cake. I think I did pretty good! (It's a tiger in case you couldn't tell.)


And some cupcakes to match.



He liked the cake alright but got really excited when we gave him the ice cream.



"Yeah, THAT'S the stuff Mom!"




He also had lots of fun with the balloons. We opened gifts (ok, Lucy mostly opened gifts!) and played. Sammy also surprised us all with walking! He had taken a step or two the day before but during the party, while everyone was sitting around in the front room, he actually "walked" for the first time - a good 4 or 5 steps. It was pretty exciting. Unfortunately, with everything going on, we didn't get many pictures so these will have to do!



On another note - our weather has been so strange!
These are some of our tulips the day before Sammy's birthday.




These are our tulips 2 days earlier. And today? Pouring rain. Gotta love spring in Utah!

3 comments:

Hillary said...

Cute cake! You did an awesome job. (Like no one could tell it was a tiger! HAHA) That 2nd pic looked like he was wearing little lights on his head or something. I had to do a double-take. :) Of course he had to wait until the party to walk. You're right about this Spring-pretty hard to plant grass in this crazy weather. Once again, so sad I had to miss it all. :(

Hillary said...

Oh yeah, one more thing-way cute bib!! :)

Ashley Poulsen said...

Cute!!! I can't believe how old our kids are getting!!! And the cake turned out so good!!