Sunday, March 31, 2013

Day after the party....Present time....

The day after his birthday we opened the presents...He was little tired the actual day of the party so we waited...and he is not really into opening gifts which is just weird since he loves destroying stuff...so I did most the opening off camera but he did pick a few to open himself...oh and he loves balloons! (by the way...he is FILTHY in all these)






 Hat is one of the words he says...
 even if he always rips them off his head








 opening his card he got in the mail from mimi and pepaw

 Let me explain the bag of veggies on my knee....Griffin tripped while holding his new vtech book that is apparently really heavy because it hit my knee and I was brought to tears....He felt bad so he was kissing it to make me feel better

 rockin with Elmo

 He had a cupcake from his party for desert....thought we would try him diving in one more time
 WHOA WHOA likes it!!!




Still more birthday fun to come!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Griffin's Rookie Year Celebration! Big #1!

We had Griffin's first birthday party last weekend!  It was amazing!  We had it at my parents house...they spent all week making sure everything looked perfect.  My sister made an amazing smash cake for Griffin and a cupcake field for everyone else.  

I NEVER knew how much actually goes into a kid birthday party!  Holy Moly!  Between goodie bags and decorations...and invitations and cake...toys for the party...jumping castle or not...Whoa! A LOT of stuff!  But it all came together so great!  I spent so much time preparing and being so excited then the party came and went in a blink of an eye...I am not so great at party's ...I get overwhelmed and don't know where to be...luckily Joe is great and so is all my family so they help me out.  We are blessed with the most amazing friends and family.  I am flabbergasted when I think about all the people who came and showed love for Griffin.  I am about to show you a BUNCH...like a TON of pictures (thank you photographer Missy for manning the camera).  But we had a lot of loved ones that were unable to make it so I want everyone that was not there to feel like you were!  
Here we go...Hope you got lots of time!
(oh and if you don't catch on just by looking at the pictures..It is an NFL football party)

Amazing cupcake football field -- THANK YOU AUNT NICOLE


I am SUPER proud of this!  My mom and I worked real hard while my daddy entertained Griffin....It is a picture from every month of his life.  His football life banner! .It was hard to get a good picture of it...




More cute decorations




 Awesome jumping castle!  G and daddy watching the big kids

 Lizzie and Dylan jumping

 Brody goin in!


K So I know it doesn't look like he is having too much fun in a bunch of these pictures but I swear he had a ball!!
 Meeting the guests
 havin a bite
 trying to get to the big kid drinks

Katie, Mary, Viri, Naye-lli and Nolan
 Rylee and Ryan
 Time for ball play




 love this face
Saying hello to Castiel 
 kids jumping like crazy




 Gettin my buddy back out to the party


 Sand box play time for the girls
 Blaine ridding the big wheel


 Stace and Matt
 Big wheel time for G


 Griffin is IN LOVE with the wagon!




Lisa, Aubrey and Jack

 Blaine pulling his sister Reagan around
 Cake time!  His AWESOME smash cake!  -- AGAIN THANK YOU AUNT NICOLE!

  Singing Happy Birthday -- He was confussed






 I think he thought he was going to be in trouble ... so I helped out




 Finally got him to taste it


 He enjoyed it!


 And really liked while people clapped!







 He was done after 
 Then thought it would be fun to get cake all over me

 Talking with Chrissy and Tacia

 Look at how lucky this boy is...

 More wagon....and keeping his eye on Missy with the camera
 Blaine pointing at bubbles
 Gina, Julian, Rene, and Brenda
 Matty T
 Photographer Missy
 Roy, Gio, Joe and Griffin leaving
 Gio...such a cutie!
 bye bye jumping castle
 BIG BALL TIME


 Julian pulling little Gio
 Cutie Mason loving his balloons
 one happy man






 Jess and Gio
 Back home after the party...dirty boy... getting ready for bed

 Our BIG ONE YEAR OLD!