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

Veterans Pool

Just before Labor Day we went to the Veterans Pool for Junior's first "real" pool experience. I got free tickets from my work so we figured we wouldn't be wasting any money if he hated it. We went after work so it was later in the day and that meant that the pool was mostly shaded and it was a little cold. Junior liked it, but he didn't love it.

Mostly he liked splashing the water at the edge of the pool and picking up all the leaves, dead bugs, whatever was floating at the edges.

 We only stayed a little while, but it was enough.

I can't wait for next year when I'm sure he'll enjoy himself a lot more.

Loves,

Karen

Junior Can Walk

He's a walking boy! This video is from when Junior was just learning to walk. It's so weird to look at these since now there's no stopping him and he's running all over the place. He's such a cute sweet boy.

Loves,

Karen

Playing In the Toybox

Looking at these pictures now I can't remember if he got in the box all by himself, or if we put him there. But he sure loves playing in there - he still does, even though these pictures and videos are from early August.

What a handsome boy!

He sure makes some funny faces!

And he loves to cheese it up!

We just can't get enough of him. Hope you enjoy his antics as much as we do.

Loves,

Karen