One Year Old and Over Two Months Late!

I realized that I haven't even blogged Mason's birthday party yet, so even though it's now over two months late, here it goes! And since it's kind of a big deal, I better not skip out on this blog entry. It was a very fun party although everything did not go as planned. The worst part of the entire thing was Mason's mother bringing Mason to his own party almost an hour late. Can you believe that? (She does have very good reasons, however.) We then had to wait for other ingredients for the food to arrive, so it started even later. This caused everything else to be post-poned so everything was kind of rushed, which I hated. We couldn't take too much time opening his presents or watching him eat the cake because we had to get the jello slide going before the sun went down (that's right - JELLO SLIDE!!). So after eating dinner, we quickly helped him open his gifts. We quickly went into singing to him and watching him dig into the cake while everyone got started with the slide. As you can tell, he really enjoyed the cake. It took a little help and persuasion for him to start eating it, but once he started, he just kept eating until he had cake on pretty much every part of his bare skin. Including his toes! At one point he stopped to do "Patty Cake, Patty Cake." That is why there was frosting and cake all up his arms, from 'rolling it!' Everyone seemed to enjoy the jell-o slide. How could you not?!! It was a bit cold at first, but no one seemed to mind. From left to right: Phil and Steven

Vance and Ben

Mark and Jesi

Chloe and Kristy

Malory and Carter

After playing at the park, we went swimming at our place. Taylor and Carter in the kid pool

Birthday Boy in the kid pool, and the Adults in the big pool

After swimming, we went back to our place and ordered pizza and just hung out. Overall, it was a very successful and fun party. Thanks to everyone for all your help with the food and other preparations (like making all that jell-o!) and your generosity in giving Mason awesome gifts!