The Big ONE!

Yep, it officially happened. My sweet little baby is no longer a baby... he's one year old! We are so blessed to have this sweet little boy in our family!! Because he is the cutest little boy we had to have a big party that lasted for days to celebrate.

Here's my little guy the morning of his birthday. Isn't he just the cutest little boy EVER?

Caden's birthday was on Thursday and the kids went to daycare. They had cupcakes there and the other kids sang happy birthday to him at lunch. 

We took the birthday boy and Kay-bugs out to dinner that night at our family's favorite restaurant, El Rancho Grande. I got what I normally get, 2 cheese enchiladas and a taco, and split it with the kids, but our kids must have been extra hungry because all I got to eat of my whole dinner was the taco and few bites of my encha. The kids ate my whole dinner! :) Luckily Tyler shared some of his dinner with me or else I might have starved! :)

 This little kid downed his food. We ended up taking his plate away because I was worried he ate too much.

 Love me some Kay-bugs!!

 After dinner we came home and Caden got to open his presents from Mommy and Daddy.

 Kayla was such a good helper and opened all of Caden's presents for him.

 Caden got a toy vacuum and a tricycle.

Then on Saturday we had Caden's family birthday party. I have been planning his 1st birthday party since he was born and decided to do a "monkey" theme since I like to call Caden our little Monkey.

We sent out invitations a few weeks before.

Tyler helped me come up with the saying that said: 

"Swing" on in for lots of fun; 

Our little "monkey" is turning one!

Be at Caden's on April sixth, 

for pizza, salad and banana splits. 

It starts at four, so don't be late,

 'cause Cader-tot's asleep by eight. 

Then we decorated the basement with all sorts of monkey things

On the table I made a monkey centerpiece and had two of his 1 year pictures sitting out. We also had animal cookies, green and yellow M & M's, and Banana chips for people to munch on. 

 I made this for our game. We played "pin the tail on the monkey"

We had green and yellow balloons

 And Caden's smash cake with a banana on it.

 But my favorite part were the monkeys and bananas hanging from the ceiling. Thanks to my sis-in-law  Meg for making them.

We have the best family that is so supportive, and with both families we had over 30 people come to Caden's party. 

 We started out with pizza then moved right into our game. 

Here's everyone before we started: 

Colton, Makayla, Caden, Sadie, Carson, and Maddie. (Cole and Hannah think they are too big now to play games)

 Caden got to go first at the game, but he needed a lot of help from Mommy to put his tail up.

 Then all the other kids got a turn.

 After everyone went, we determined the winner was Colton!

Colton got a special prize of cotton candy, but everyone got a goodie bag that had a green drink, animal cookies, monkey fruit snacks, a monkey pencil, candy, and toys. 

Here's #3 playing with #6

Aren't they so cute together? :)

 Then it was time for presents. I'll tell ya, this little boy is sure loved and spoiled by all his family. He got so many cute clothes and toys. 

Obviously one year old's don't have a very long attention span, and every time Caden would get a toy, he just wanted to play with that and threw a few little fits when we tried to open another present. 

Thanks so much to everyone for all the cute gifts for Caden! We appreciate it so much. 

After presents, Caden got his very own smash cake. 

 We sang Happy Birthday to him then I helped him blow out his candle.

 I thought he would dig into his cake right away, but he didn't know what to think of it at first.

 I finally gave him a taste of it on my finger and he gagged on it... funniest thing ever!

 But once he got used to the taste and texture, he was hooked.

 This is what my cute little monkey looked like by the end.

Daddy was in charge of giving Caden a bath while the rest of us went off to enjoy our banana splits!

 We had such a fun birthday with our little monkey who is now walking!!

Guess it's time to start planning his 2nd birthday.

Happy 1st Birthday Caden! We love you so much!