Happy 1st Birthday Parker!

Parker was lucky enough to have three celebrations for his first birthday! He celebrated with Aunt Kari & Uncle Art on his actual birthday, went to NY Memorial Day weekend to celebrate with our family, and then had lots of his friends over for a cookout to celebrate a few weeks later.

Here are a few pics of our celebration with Uncle Art & Aunt Kari:

Testing out his new "Retro Rocket"

Uncle Art made Parker his first birthday cake...who knew he was so talented??

Not so sure about the cake at first...

Obviously he was a fan - He ate every bit of it!

We decided to make the LONG trip to NY on Memorial Day weekend so we could celebrate Parker's birthday with our family. Chad ended up taking an extra day off so we were able to surprise my family and get there a day early. We left at 4pm on Thursday evening, thinking Parker would sleep most of the trip. Unfortunately that didn't happen...he slept on and off from 9-12 but was wide awake from about 12am on. I was a little worried that he was going to be miserable when we got there at 3:30 and he only slept for a few hours before he was ready to get up for the day. But he was so happy! I guess he loves Sandy Pond as much as the rest of us. My mom worked so hard to make sure everything was perfect for the party and of course, it was! Thanks, Mom for making it such a special day for Parker!

His very talented Mia made him four birthday cakes - here are the truck and race car. The other two were a teddy bear and a #1.

Reading a book with Great Grandma D. and Aunt Shannon

He obviously liked his cake...

He started out licking the frosting and grabbing at it with his hands - Eventually

he gave up and just went face first into it!

So tasty!

Parker and his cousins, Megan & Molly

I'm still waiting on pictures of his third birthday celebration. Somehow I didn't get one picture on my camera! Parker had such a fun time playing with his friends. Our house hasn't seen that much activity in awhile, and at one point I'm not sure we could have fit one more toy, person, or baby in our livingroom! Debbie did an awesome job with the cakes - She made a 3-D baseball and a baseball field. We were so glad to have so many friends come to celebrate with us!

I still can't believe Parker's one year old already...those first 12 months flew by! He's such a sweet boy and we love him so much!