1st Birthday Bash!

I can’t believe we made it… but we did.  Cason turned 1.  Whew, what a year.  I decided to throw a little party.  Yes, yes, he won’t remember… but I will.  And darn it, we deserve a party after this year.  So we gathered family and a few of Cason’s friends and family and partied hard.

I’m no graphic designer but I love to pretend like I am.  There are billions of awesome invitations out there that would have taken like 5 minutes to get but no, had to do my own.  You will start to see a theme here :-)

Cason’s favorite food is Cheerios so I couldn’t leave those out!

Cake Balls.  This was my first (and possibly last) experience making cake balls.  They were yummy, but somewhat labor intensive.  I have it out of my system now.  Head over to THIS site if you really want to go cake ball crazy. 

 

Drinks.  I love Izze’s.  If you haven’t tried them, you should.  Very yummy.  I also had a drink called Dry Soda.  The flavor we had was vanilla but they have lots of flavors.  I went all over town to find them- Central Market was the place.  It’s carbonated water and a little flavor and a little (very little) sugar.  If you are expecting a sweet soda you won’t get it.  I love the vanilla and the cucumber.

Just plain ‘ole water bottles with labels I printed on the computer. 

Chocolate dipped pretzels- Yummy!

My sister made cupcakes, thankfully.  They were super yummy and at the end of the day, I forgot to take one home to get pictures of C digging in.  Oh well, I’ll fake the photos another time. 

Here’s 1 of the 3 pictures I got of Cason during the party, and it’s not that great.  Great job Mom.  Oh well, I think some other people got some pictures.  He’s not ready for the slide- he leaned straight back and didn’t really enjoy it.  Maybe next year. 

Here’s one of the other pictures I got.  Cason’s back.  Great.  At least Michelle and Jack look good. 

 

Okay, got the party bug out of my system for a few years.  I’ll stick with backyard celebrations until he is old enough to help pay.  :-)

Cason loves wandering around behind his new toy.  I think he loves the freedom of walking.  He will walk and walk until he runs into a wall or a piece of furniture- then look around and grunt for one of us to come turn the toy around so he can get back to walking.  Over and Over it goes.  I guess I need to find a bigger open space to roam.