Austin's First Birthday Party

On October 11, 2009 we had a big first birthday party for Austin! A lot of love went into this party for our sweet boy. Cupcakes was the theme, blue and green were the colors, and lots of smiles, love, laughter, family, friends, and fun was what was had by all who were able to make the party. It was a great day. 100 family photos were used as banner decorations, 50 balloons, 50 cupcakes, hot dogs, hamburgers, mac n cheese, and presents galore! As everyone arrived the birthday boy was playing in the playroom. Then not to rearrange his schedule too much he ate a hot dog and some mac n cheese. While we were in the eating mode it was cake time! True to Austin form he enjoyed every bite of cake and smiled the entire time. Then it was gift time. He put on a show. With each gift that was opened he laughed, smiled, and wanted to play with it right away. I made gift bags for the kids full of yummy goodies and candied apples for the adults. It was a great party. Lots of help from my parents and Brian with the cupcakes and food and decorations. Thank you to everyone who was able to come - Enjoy the slide show!

Happy 1st Birthday Austin!

We celebrated Austin's first birthday last Sunday the 11th with a big cupcake party! I have a ton of pictures to post to the blog, but I wanted to make sure this blog was up for Austin's first birthday. 365 days ago I was settling into my room at Northside with Brian as we anxiously awaited tomorrow (the 15th) when I would be induced. Time has gone by too quickly as it usually does when you just really want it to slow down. However I can look back on this first year of Austin's sweet life and know that I held him every second I could, got up with him night after night knowing that time would go by and he wouldn't get up every 3 hours, I nursed him and enjoyed that time to sit down and look at my baby (and as a bonus my other baby - Logan would climb up and sit next to me and hold my ear), and loved him more than I thought I could. I was in love the moment I saw him; though I was worried we wouldn't bond because of the emergency c-section where I was put to sleep, but that didn't stop us from being in love! I just finished writing his birthday letter, I have mentioned it before but my friend Lisa told me that she had wished she wrote to her kids on each of their birthdays so that when they left for college she could give the letters to them. That inspired me so on each birthday I write a letter. At 7:10pm tomorrow October 15th I will take Austin's picture. That is something else I do, each birthday at the time my kids were born I take their picture. Although Logan's 2nd is a picture of him face down because he didn't want his picture taken (imagine that)!

Austin, thank you for picking me to be your mommy. You bring sooo much love and joy into our lives. Logan equally adores you as much as you do him and your daddy loves coming home each day to find you standing next to Logan at the window waiting for him. You have been walking for a few weeks so you are often a bit too busy to be held for long stretches of time, but sometimes when you are sleeping I pick you up out of your crib and sit with you in your rocking chair where I hold you as long as I want. I love you little bit!
Mommy