1st birthday party pics

He hadn't napped all day and was exhausted.
The goody bags!

My pinata is broken!
Pulling open the pinata
Cleaning off the cake
Not much made it in his mouth, he was more interested in the texture.

Blowing out the candle
The crappy, uneven, melty frosting (but still tasty!) cake
He wouldn't hold still long enough for the whole tattoo to stick.
This was after a fall =(


Don't snap my eyepatch!




He was trying to escape his party to go the party nearby where older kids were playing tug of war and throwing balls.
Our awesome pinata.


Birthday pirate!

Finally! The photographer promised them within the week-we just got them yesterday! Be prepared for a deluge of pictures. I won't post many pics of the other kids (we have over 200 pics!) so it won't be too bad. Sorry they're in complete reverse order.

Today was the party!

Today was Zanthias' birthday party. Pics will be coming as soon as I get them from the photographer. I am SO glad we chose to do that, because things were stressful enough and we wouldn't have had any pics. It was pretty hot out, which sucked, but it was shady in the pavilion and there was a decent breeze. Lots of people showed up, and most of the kids were in costume, which was super cute. I shouldn't have waited to do the cake last minute, it ended up looking pretty crappy, but at least it tasted good. The only 2 bad things were all the fire ants-Zanthias was throwing his cake all over, and pretty much instantly there were fire ants all over, and I got bitten once =( Luckily, it was just on my foot, so I was ok.

We forgot the pirate photo prop (where you stick your head through the hole) =( Zanthias had a great time. He got knocked down once, and hit his head, and then fell down later and smacked his head. He was pretty upset since it was concrete. Everything was really fun, and we gave all the kids balloons and goody bags to take home. Drew set up the video camera to tape it all, so eventually we'll have a small compilation video to show you (I have over 3 hours of video to go through!) Zanthias was so tired, he ended up falling asleep in my arms.

Boo at the zoo

We went to Boo at the Zoo on Friday with some friends. We were a family of pirates, and our friends were a little girl, a teddy bear (her baby), and a security blanket. They won first prize in the costume contest, and we won second. We got 4 free passes to the zoo. It was really fun, but really hot. Of course, the next day, it got really cool out. Oh well!

More playground fun

Who left this here?
Having fun!
Digging in the mulch


The weather has been so cool this weekend, we went for a walk with the dogs!

Crazy face!


Still coming, a day in the life of a 1 year old...but here's some fun photos for now!

Happy birthday Zanthias!

Happy birthday to my beautiful boy! Tomorrow, I'll be posting a photo set entitled "A day in the life of a 1 year old". You've brought such happiness to our lives and you're loved more than you will ever know.

Fun at the playground

Bonking my head on the tetherball
I'm big enough to play!

Peekaboo!

I crawled through the tunnel by myself!

Yeah, I'm hot.

It was a hot one today, but we had fun anyway!