It's the Big One!

Happy Birthday to my baby boy, Jacob! Born on Friday, the 13th of April at 5lbs 10oz, he was just the most precious. Every stage has been our favorite and I can't believe a year has gone by already! What a joy he is to us and I can't imagine life without him.

Doesn't he look so big? Here he is after church, what a handsome little guy!

We had planned a BBQ and invited a bunch of people over, but I thought since the weather was going to be nice and we'd be outside, we'd be fine in our backyard. Well, I'm finding that the forecast in Colorado is rotten. It said it would be in the 60's , well it wasn't. He was too cold for anyone to go outside so we had 14 adults and 17 children all inside my house. Thankfully, no one seemed to care that it was a little crammed and we had a fun time and yummy food. But, then I forgot to take a picture of Jake after he'd eaten the cake, I forgot about the HUGE macaroni salad I'd stayed up until 2am making and nearly forgot about the pinata. Some had already left and the rest stayed so we could do the pinata (and mostly so I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown). Are any of you like me where you want it all to go as planned and if it doesn't, then you get so bummed that it went otherwise? I never realized I was that way until just recently.

But, we got a cute little birthday cake that they give for free if it's the first bday. He didn't do as much damage as I thought he would.

He was a little nervous with the crowd of people staring at him but loosened up after a bit.

The kids were SO anxious for Jake to open his presents and enjoyed it thoroughly, as you can see them all crowded around him. They were all so cute trying to get him to open the gifts.

David (his cousin) missed Jake's party so on Sunday during dinner at Clint and Kara's, David pulled out their gift to Jake, a orange 'n cream popsicle, which was probably his favorite gift he received.

He couldn't get enough of this popsicle. He kept fussing b/c it was too cold on his fingers and when I took it away, he nearly flipped out, well actually there was a bit of a tantrum. It was pretty emotional for him... a bit dramatic for me.

Kara made a German chocolate cake and since Jake was familiar of all the faces in the room, he went to town! This picture was taken after I wiped his mouth a bit( I just kept forgetting about the picture taking...) but we enjoyed watching him eat it!

Max put a ball in Jake's jacket making him my little hunch back boy. I'm not sure when this was but I know that either Clint, David, Max or Maddie were around because Jake has a superb mohawk going on. You'll never see Jake without one when they are around. As much as I might protest the mohawk (mostly for church), I DO think it's really cute on him.

It was a great bday for Jake, he got lots of fun toys and LOTS of sugar to last him a whole year and I can't believe he's already 1! Happy Birthday to my big boy!