Today we had our dearest little chap's first birthday party.
Just so hard to actually believe little Ben is one year old. In some ways it seems so much longer. This last year has been very, very intense.
Today was a "Milk and Cookies" themed party, which in all honesty didn't really take off.
When we lived here 9 years ago we used our back door almost exclusively as "the door" but this time around because of now having two dogs and two little people, its easier not to have to tackle the back gate and just use the front door. Connie still uses the back, but she is the only one. The sliding door is hard to unlock as well. What does this have to do with the party you ask?? Well I set up the "dessert table" to face the back door, it was quite visually exciting, I had bunting, a balloon centrepiece, a cupcake stand and other deliciousnesses. It looked great when approached from the back door. But everyone came in through the front! SO when you turn around the corner it was nice, but not the WOW factor I was after.
We had sausages in bread, hamburgers and coleslaw for the main course.
A pretty spectacular cake (if I do say so myself) done in the shape of a 1.
Heaps of cookies, cake pops, m&m's and jaffas.
Sugar overload, let me tell you.
Presents were great too...
Nan & Pop = clothes
Margie & Frankie-Pop = coat
Dunn family = Tonka truck
Geary family = Moon car (to go with the rocket we already have)
Holloway family = Trike with a trailer
Pulcifer family = clothes.
We got him a tractor that makes an awful amount of noise.
