William's First Birthday

It's only been two weeks since the party, so I consider it a pretty good success to be getting these photos up already (especially considering everything else that is going on...). When I started planning William's party, I had ideas and plans a-plenty (thank you very much Pinterest!). Of course, what I didn't plan on was moving less than a month after the party. Once that stuff started going full swing I majorly eased up on the party knowing that I just wouldn't have time to make it super over-the-top and that I would only stress myself out if I tried. So we settled on a simple Ice Cream Social theme (I had to pay homage to the fact that he was born during the Ice-pocalypse somehow!) and called it good. And naturally, we took way too many pictures, so I'll stop with the meaningless babble that you aren't really interested in anyway.

Our (very!) simple décor and our ice cream sundae bar

Couldn't resist putting him back into this outfit from his newborn photo shoot!

Pretty much the only "craft" project I tackled for the party and I'm really happy with how it turned out!

Digging into his gift from Aunt Macy and Uncle Mike

Playing with his new cars with Uncle Mike

Apparently Great-Grandpa got in the way. Whoops

Sifting through all the packing materials to get to the gift from Aunt Amanda and Uncle Nick

Finger Puppet Books!

Not too impressed with the new outfit from Grandma and Grandpa...

But loving his new wagon!!

Wagon rides with his buddy Caleb

Family picture!

As Darrell puts it, food is too precious to William for him to have done any cake "smashing" and subsequent wasting of it. He instead opted to very delicately pick at the frosting.

But, he did enjoy it!!

Almost forgot to put on his birthday hat!

Which was a very short-lived endeavor

Back in the wagon--and outside which makes it even better!

Too cool for his shades

Already picking up the ladies in his new ride

Packing stuff in his new suitcase--he's ready to go see Darrell's family in the Carolinas!

So, there you have it. A crazy day, but so much fun. We're so fortunate to have such wonderful friends and family--near and far--who not only helped us celebrate this wonderful day, but also helped us GET to this wonderful day. Because it does take a village to raise a child--and we've got ourselves a very good one.