We had the best first birthday party for Briley that I have every been too. It was a wonderful yet sad day since my little boy is growing so fast. The theme was fishing and both my sisters and their kids and my mom came down early to help set up for the party. We also had a lot of help from Brians mom and dad. Since my sisters are really creative it became better than I could have ever imagined. The temperature broke 100 but we still had an amazing turn out with what I believe was at least 40 people.
The entry into the house. We had the fish fry in the front by the garage. This was an attempt to be in the shade and out of the way of the back yard. The men hung out here for the first half of the party.
Briley getting ready for all the people to arrive.
We hung the party favor pails in front of the kitchen. At the end of party we cut them down to give to the kids and they were filled with sunglasses, fish picture frames and swedish fish.
Briley sporting his bass pro shop outfit. The hat stayed on for at least one minute.
We had birthday pictures taken and had no clue what to do with the 10x13 so we made it into a board where the guests could sign.
The food: fruit salad in a watermelon fish, gold fish, fish cake, and we also had kid friendly jello shots with blue jello and gummy fish inside. The main meal was fried fish (caught by daddy), hush puppies and french fries.
This was Briley's special cake made by my sisters. As you can tell, my sisters also had face painting. Avalyn is in the back sporting the hello kitty look.
A close up of the cake.
The backyard was the water park. Due to not wanting to post too many pictures I didn't show the kids playing, but we had a slip n' slide, kiddie pool, sprinkler, and a little pool were the kids could pretend to go fishing. This is Briley running down the hill after getting wet. He had such a good time.
Some of the people crowded in our house. When everyone came in we had people standing in the kitchen, dining room and living room.
Cake time for Briley
It took him quite a while to get the hang of eating cake. At first he wanted me to feed it to him and really didn't want to touch it. Finally after several minutes, and me practically destroying the cake for him, he grabbed a big piece. He thought it was delicious.
Then he just went after it with his mouth. He didn't eat a whole bunch, but it was enough sugar to have him miss his second nap and he stayed up until 9:30. Oh well, it was his birthday.
We gave him a quick bath before presents.
He got tons of great presents from all of his family and friends. Grammy and Grandpa gave him a really cool 2009 coupe. I can't wait until he learns to drive it around everywhere.
He also got this really cute chair that will be perfect to go fishing with daddy in.
After the party was over and everything was cleaned up we decided to give Briley his first haircut. We learned a lesson and next time we will put on Elmo to distract him. It isn't the best haircut but what 1 yr old actually gets one without mistakes. He obviously wouldn't keep his head still but Mau-Mau still did a good job.
July 14th was his actual birthday so this is Briley looking at his Elmo birthday card from Grammy and Grandpa. You can also see his cute haircut.
Another perk about being one: you get to turn your car seat around. I will find out tomorrow if he is 20lbs (another requirement)but I am pretty sure he is at least 20.5 lbs. We took a trip to junction and he had so much fun looking out the window.
Happy Birthday Briley!
Brian and I decided that Hunter (our yellow lab) was going to be both of our birthday gifts to eachother so I expected nothing from him. I was so excited when I saw a beautiful new Bible from him on my birthday morning. I loved my old Bible but it had Schaal on the outside and Perkins is more pertinent right now. He also got me a target gift card b/c its my favorite store.
My mother in law got me a beautiful clock that we put over our fireplace. I love it and so does Briley; every time he comes in the room he yells c-l-ock, over and over. 
