First Birthday Party!

This is the 4th blog post written about the boys' first birthday... can you tell we were excited?  Well, this should be the last and below are lots of pictures from the boys' birthday party!  For their first birthday, we decided to keep the party "relatively small" and invite only our local immediate family... which already adds up to 15 people!

Here we are decorating the house that morning...

Hats, streamers, plates, forks, napkins... oh my!

Mr. Giraffe took post by the front door to greet our guests...

Lots of balloons to match the colors of the birthday cakes...

A few more closeups of the cakes... incase you haven't seen birthday blog post #3!  :)

The chocolate cake...

The strawberry cake...

And, my favorite, the banana cake...

The guests started to arrive...

One handsome birthday boy...

The second handsome birthday boy!  You can have a sip of that in exactly 20 years, my dear...

It's a pizza party so let's eat!

The boys getting their first taste of pizza...

They weren't too crazy about the pizza (we recently figured out that the boys aren't fond of any tomato based foods!), but the crust seemed to make a good teether...

Six different pizzas... even one with anchovies!  Yummy!

The four male cousins...

Time to light the cake... I mean cakes!

They weren't too excited about their birthday hats...

Forget the hats, let's make a wish...

Mmmmmm... Bryce gets his first taste of butter cream icing!

It was so good that Benjamin nearly bit my finger off!

"I can do it myself, mom!"

Bring out the high chairs and let's dig in!

The poor monkeys never had a chance...

We discovered an evil side of cousin Grant...

The poor monkeys were eaten limb by limb...

Time to open presents!

Learning Farm, My Starter Laptops, rubber ball...

Wonderful chaos!

Lots of books...

Big legos and big trucks...

More trucks, more balls, more toys...

A thoughtful gift from Aunt Lizzy... she framed the cards created by friends and family at my baby shower last year.  I'm going to hang them in the boys' room!

Later that evening... we had two sticky, cranky and exhausted babies ready for bath and sleep!

All washed up and smelling good in their pjs...

A few books to read before bed...

The only survivors...

Thank goodness we have 12 months before the next birthday party!