We started the day off with pancakes for breakfast. He likes pancakes so I thought I would give him a special treat. Daddy came home early from work and we went to the park for about 20 minutes, because he wasn't really into it and we wanted to catch an early dinner. We opened presents before we left for dinner. He really go a lot of cute things. He especially loved the "microphone" we got him. He loves to bang that thing around and when he does he gets the funniest grin on his face. What was really awesome was that he crawled to his pile of presents and opened every single one by himself. Spencer and I didn't have to open any of his gifts for him. The girls weren't like that, they wouldn't open their presents, but Reed sure knew what he was doing. After presents we took him to Texas Roadhouse for his birthday dinner and they sang to him. It was really funny because he just looked at them like they were all nuts.
Since his birthday landed on a Thursday this year we had his actual party that Saturday. We invited our neighbors and really good friends. It was quite the party.
We had quite the spread. His party was monkey themed so I made pizza monkey bread with marinara for dipping. I also had a salad, a fruit tray with fruit dip and I made a spinach and artichoke dip for some chips. It really turned out good. Spencer did all the decorating and he did AWESOME! I made cupcakes for everyone that came. We had chocolate with chocolate buttercream and banana with cream cheese icing. They were so yummy. Reeds cake was the banana because he REALLY likes bananas. This is a collage of pictures from his actual birth-day and his party a couple days later. The yo-yo monkey there in the middle I started making for him before he was born. I finally got it done a week before the party. My friend Katie mentioned that I should sell them, then I told her how long it took me and she took back the comment....it was really funny.
He was pretty cute with his cake. Made more of a mess than CJ did, but not near as messy as Avary was.
We invited our good friends the Kelly's, the same who mentioned I should sell the yo-yo monkeys, who had a girl just about a week and a half after Reed was born. We joke around that they are "betrothed", it is really funny. Anyway, back when he was blessed and CJ was baptized we got some pictures of the two of them:
And here they are today:
The cute little love birds. ;) It was really sad later though because we found out the next day that she had broken her leg 10 minutes before they left for Reed's party. Poor thing, her mom said she was fussy all day except at my house. You can see a little swelling of her leg in this picture, the left leg. She is such a doll though and Reed just towers over her. They are so cute. We went to her first birthday party just a couple days ago, of which I did the cake (pictures to come in a later post).
It was such a fun day. We had so many wonderful friends that came and supported Reed for his birthday. We are truly blessed to have such wonderful people to call friends here in Colorado. The only thing missing was family. He seemed to have had a good day. We sure love ya, buddy! Happy birthday!
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Too dang cute!!! Looks like you all had a great time celebrating. Wished we could have been there to see all the action in person. Have a fun year ahead Reed! We love & miss all of you.
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