Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you!!

We had Christopher's 1st Birthday party this Saturday. What a week leading up to it! We had a storm Monday, the first storm of the season and the worst we've seen in years, all on the same day. We had two trees down just on our block, a tree went down on our stairs at work, and half the area lost electricity. By Wednesday it was over 80 in Monterey and we were worried it would be TOO hot on Saturday! It was beautiful. It did get a little warm, but the day turned out great. The party was fun, food was amazing and watching Junior smash (or play with) his cake was worth all the planning.


He was a little unsure at first. It might have been the overall size of the cake, or the crown of 25 people oohing and aahing.


He starting to dig into it a bit...


Then started to nibble...


I think David was a little more excited about the cake than Junior.


Whom Junior decided he could probably share just a little of his birthday cake.


Mommy was excited too!!!


Eventually, Junior made quite a dent in his cupcake cake...


And then he was... done.

He was such a trooper. He even gave high-fives to a few guests.



Posed for some photos with Grandma and family...


Loved the hat on Grandma instead of himself.


Then we opened gifts. He loved his new chair from the Stahls.


His new truck...


And then started to fade. He did so well. He helped Mommy open his gifts and then went right down for his nap at 1:30 (thank you Grandma!).

Thank you everyone who came to help celebrate the one year since we welcomed Junior into this world. It's been such an amazing journey and we are all so excited to see what Year #2 brings us!