Decorations: I wanted to have some decorations, and decided the easiest thing to do was make them. I got ideas off the internet and made some little pennant banners and used the party circles in the middle of each pennant and put them throughout our living room/kitchen. I also made a Happy Birthday banner for the front door. I found some red/white and black/white polka dot balloons and used those in the room as well. One of my favorite memories of the day was when my dad was using the helium tank to blow up the balloons and he sucked in some of the helium from one of the balloons. Oh. My. Goodness. It totally cracked me up! In my family we always put up a Happy Birthday banner and Zach thought it would be good for us to start doing that too, so I picked one up and we put it on the fireplace. I had a few extra Cooper pictures sitting around and some photo books/scrapbook/baby book that I've done over the last year and that was it for the decorations.
Food: We had BBQ that Danny made for us, potato salad and slaw from the general store near Mom and Dad's, baked beans that Mom made Saturday morning, mini hot dogs in crescent rolls, and chips for lunch. I thought about trying to be all creative and think of piratey foods to go with the theme, but decided to go easy and go with something that Cooper would actually try since it was his birthday. It was so wonderful!
I wanted to find a pirate cake that was cute pirates - not pirates of the Caribbean pirates. With a little bit of help, we were able to find one at Publix. We don't have one anywhere near us, but there is one in the 'Boro and Jessica offered to order it and pick it up for us. It turned out so cute!!
The cake that Cooper ate came from Ms. Rhea Ann, who sent the cake with Mom and Dad. She has made our cakes for every major event in our families (graduations, weddings, etc.) and she so sweetly made this for my little guy's first birthday. It was delicious of course and Cooper loved it! He wasn't to sure about it at first and just kinda picked at it, but after Zach pushed his whole hand in the cake Cooper figured out it wasn't so bad. He still didn't just grab handfuls of cake, but he did enjoy every bit that he could!
The day went so smoothly and it was wonderful to celebrate with our families that have supported us so much through Cooper's first year of life. Because we had lots of people coming from out of town, we had people coming in starting in the morning and stayed around until that evening. We ate lunch, opened presents, ate some cake, and watched the Cooper slideshow. It was wonderful! Cooper did great again... he got a good nap in the morning, but then didn't rest again until it was time for bed. He started getting a little fussy, but for the most part he just was soaking up all the attention he was getting!
We also worked it out (thanks to Andrea) so that we could video chat with Zach's grandmother that lives in AR and wasn't able to be there. It was a surprise to her and it was so cool that she got to see Cooper a little bit at his party.
It was such a wonderful day loving on and celebrating the little guy that has won the hearts of each and every one of his family members.
2 comments:
Hi. I was just blog surfing (clicking the "next blog" button on blogger) and it took me to your blog.
My name is Esther. I'm a married, 33 year-old mother of a son who just turned one. I work full-time as a social worker. I see that your favorite movie is also Ever After and in one picture of your son my son, Walter (who turned one on April 9) also has the same outfit! We have a few little things in common. Just wanted to drop you a line to say your family seems really nice and I enjoyed eaves dropping on your lives. Hope you don't mind!
Of course I don't mind! I love it that you randomly found my blog and that we have some similarities!
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