Monday, November 12, 2012

Junior's Birthday Party

Our Junior is now 1 year old! Well, technically he's 14 months and 19 days old now, but we'll just pretend that this is a current post - like all my posts :)
Anyway, Junior had his one year birthday party on August 18th because my parents were due to leave the country on August 21st and we wanted them there for his special day - even if it was a little early.

We had a party at our Stake Center Pavilion.


Junior was just learning how to walk and was crawling more than walking at this point.

We were so happy to have all our family at the party.


I'm a big goofball!
We had set up some pools for the kids to play in and I bought a huge bag of all kinds of squirt guns for the older kids.

It didn't take long for the adults (mostly Jonathan) to get in on the squirt gun action.
The little kids loved playing in the inflatable water table I bought for Junior. He and his cousins all loved it!


Mostly the adults just chatted while all the kids played.

 
Here's the group of older kids trying to strategize against Jonathan.

I think shortly after this photo Jonathan got pushed into the pool.
Here's Kaisa's awesome afro!
So of course he had to retaliate!
 

 

 
Junior loved playing in the water, but bad mommy forgot to bring him a towel and some warm dry clothes :(
His aunt was generously donated one of hers.

Then it was time for the birthday cake! Of course we also forgot candles, but he doesn't know how to blow them out anyway so I wasn't worried. We sang to him and let him go to town on his smash cake.

He didn't quite know how to attack it at first, so he just played with it in his fingers.






He eventually got the hang of it and liked it, but I think he still wanted to just play with his friends.

Then it was time for presents. He really loved everything he got.

 
Here are videos of him eating his cake. Enjoy!
 

Most of these photos are courtesy of my awesome friend, Sarah. I probably would only have 4 photos if it weren't for her. We are just so happy to have such a fun little boy who continually lights up our lives. We hope for many more happy birthdays!

Loves,
Karen

2 comments:

Unknown said...

love this! (: still wish i could of been there! love that boy!! :D

The Funny Farm said...

He is so stinking cute!! I cant believe he is one already :)