What a great weekend, wow! I feel so blessed to have the life we have. It truly is wonderful. Becky and Bryce came down Friday evening. Ivy, Jeff and The Cake made it Saturday morning. It's overwhelming feeling to know that people care so much about Rex to make sure they were able to come to his very special day. Even if that means renting a car or leaving the house before the sun is up after working a 12 hour shift.
We had invited a lot of people, a few couldn't make it for various reasons but that's ok. Rex had a great time playing with his grandparents and all of the other kids there. He loved the attention and was a good boy the whole time. We bought a play tent with a ball pit thing in it. That was a big hit for kids of all ages.
After everyone ate and played for a while we decided it was cake time. Everyone gathered around his highchair and sang him the birthday song. Then we let him loose on his cake... and then we waited... and waited... haha... he didn't want to dig into it. I gave him a few bites and he seemed to like it and he eventually piked at it a bit. Then he decided he was interested in the plate it was sitting on so he tipped it over and got the plate. Such a silly little guy.
We took his gifts home to open them. That seemed to work out very well since his attention span it's that long yet. On the way home he reached over to one of the gifts on the seat and tore up some tissue paper. He thought that was pretty great.
Anyhow, he got a lot of great things! I'm certain we will not have to buy him any clothes until he reaches 2T! He also got several fun toys and books. Ivy had a very special book made for him, it's all custom to him. It talks about how much we all love him. I look forward to reading it to him for years to come. It will always remind us of them and his 1st birthday.
After the party we got to hang out with everyone and it was nice to just relax and not be in a rush and let Rex & Cake play together. Sunday we all went to the pool. All the kids LOVE the water. I think that's Bryce's favorite part of coming down here. After the pool we went to a BBQ event that was going on. WOW it was super hot but it was kind of fun to go try the foods and get out of the house. All in all it was just a super nice weekend of spending time with people we love and celebrating our little dude!
*The photos are from my phone so I don't have a bunch of good ones of other people. But I wanted to add at least a few on here
Aww, we won't miss it for the world! It was such a great weekend. Rex's party turned out prefect and he is sooo adorable! Hard to believe we have toddlers now!!
ReplyDeleteIt's nuts how fast time goes with kids! Wow... I'm glad we were able to make it to Cakes party. I need to write about that too... and his 1st haircut!!
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