Tegan's 1st Birthday Party!!

We had an awesome time celebrating this little man's 1st birthday last weekend!  Long ago we decided on a monster theme because this sweet boy is definitely our little monster!!

 Here are some of the fun things we did for decorations!  I was a little bummed because it was supposed to be cold and rainy during Tegan's party so I didn't dare do any fun outside decorations.  The Dining Room Table

 Tegan's First Year in Pictures!  It is so cute I still have not taken it down!

 The Birthday Banner!

 The Food

We did lunch and had pulled pork sandwiches, green salad, cookie salad, fruit, veggies, and chips.

The Birthday Boy in his Birthday Chair!! 

 The Cake

I know...it is pretty much the cutest thing I have ever seen!  My sweet sister-in-law Eliza made it as a gift to Tegan for his first birthday!

 Tegan's Monster Cake!

 The Cousins

We were luck to have some of Tegan's favorite people come and celebrate with us!

 Tegan with his Monster Pinata!

 The kids were so excited to break open the pinata they quickly got in age order line and took turns trying to break open this bad boy!

 Tegan got the first swing...

 Pax got the 2nd, and each kid got about 5 after that!  Finally we brought in the big guns and had Uncle Jacob bust open the pinata!

 The kids (and Jerika) were so excited to get some candy and prizes!

 Then we opened presents...our family was so generous and brought Tegan lots of fun toys and clothes!

 Thanks everyone...each one of these things have been worn, played with, or spread around our house already!  The boys (yes Pax is letting Tegan play with some of them) love them!!

 The Birthday Boy with his Cake!

 This was while everyone was singing Happy Birthday.  I love the look on his face...I don't know what he was fascinated by more, the song or the fire on the candle!

 He always knows something great is about to happen when we strip him down and put him in his high chair...I love the look of anticipation on his face!

 He was a little bit hesitant at first...that lasted about 20 seconds!

And then WHAM BAM he went right in for the good stuff!

 He seriously downed about half of that cake before we decided that he had had enough!  He was a pretty happy little man!

Thank you everyone who came and helped us celebrate Tegan's big day!  I feel like their first birthday is such a huge milestone...that you actually were able to get this kid through an entire year!  It was as much a celebration for me and Andy as it was for Tegan...we definitely couldn't have done it without our our families and friends so THANK YOU!!