Believe it or not Jack and Elijah are 1 year old (they’re actually 13 months old now…so we’re a little late with this – sorry).  We went in to Maryville to celebrate their birthday, February 6th.  We decided to do the party on Saturday the 7th and lots of friends and family showed up!

The Cake

We waited for everyone to get there – and the boys used this time to play with some of their decorations.

Elijah

Jack

Once everyone arrived we started eating some of the great finger foods that our families provided.  They were delicious!  Of course all of that food was capped off with the cake.  And the boys each had their very own small cakes to eat!

Jack's Cake

Eli's Cake

So you can see what the cakes looked like beforehand.  Very attractive and delicious (thanks Pat!)  Everyone sang happy birthday and clapped for the boys as the cakes were presented.  The boys got to see their first birthday cake shortly thereafter and were very interested in the candles (Elijah even tried to touch it)!

Cakes with candles

With the candles blown out (courtesy of Mama and Aunt Suzy) the cakes were placed on the boys’ trays ready for consumption.  At first they just picked at the icing here and there.  But after a few minutes they really got into it.  Especially Jack who pretty much destroyed his entire cake.  Take a good look at the before pictures of the cakes above, because here is the aftermath.

Eli and his cake

Jack's decimated cake!

Overall I think the boys really enjoyed their cakes.  It took a highly skilled team of cleaners to rid the boys and their high chairs of every piece of cake and icing (I think we’re still picking cake out of their hair).

Boys eating cake

Next up was opening presents.  The boys got some GREAT gifts – thanks to everybody who got them something.  At first they were more interested in the bows on the gifts than the gifts themselves.  But once we started opening them they started paying attention to what was inside!

Presents!

All in all it was a really great day and the boys had a great time (so did mom and dad!)  Thank you everybody for making their first birthday so memorable.  Here is one last picture of mom and the boys (dad had a bad hair day…)

Mom and the boys

Special thanks to Denise Ensor for the great pictures!