The birthday weekend started out with a BIG surprise. I was busy working in the dining room on Thursday afternoon, and had just put Eli down for his nap. The doorbell rang, I heard a package drop, and I went to greet the UPS man. Well..that UPS man turned out to be Auntie Liz!! She left a package with a letter inside. It read...'Auntie Liz would never miss little Eli's first birthday!!!' and had a crazy picture of herself in her best 'gotcha' face! It was just what I needed that day, and truly don't know how I would have made it through the weekend without her help. She helped me clean, decorate, cook, and really helped keep me sane for 4 straight days. Eli was full of laughs the whole time she was here, and we really made some sweet memories.
here she is surprising Eli when he woke up
We took Eli to Jim & Nick's on Friday for his birthday lunch, and then headed back to Island Playground to run off some energy(and lunch!).
We had fun on Friday, but we're positive that he thought Saturday was his actual birthday! He was only 2.5 hours away from being a May 1st baby, so that's ok!
Here he is lounging in his new beanbag, waiting for his friends to arrive
It just wouldn't have been the same without his Mimi there! She always brings the coolest toys too :)
He played with his cake, but didn't really eat too much of it. I finally went and got him a cupcake, and he tried to devour the entire thing in a matter of seconds. I just loved his highchair banner too. I just threw it together with the leftover supplies that I had!
He's a fan of sweets :)
A quick family photo before daddy had to leave for his game
I'm so glad that I took the time to make most of his decorations. I've never been much in to crafts, but I've never really had a reason to be either.
I did a picture banner of his first 12 months
And a birthday banner!
These were so much fun to make!
Our monkey cupcakes turned out great, and Eli's little smash cake was so cute! We decided to make all of the food ourselves, and really kept it pretty simple. We ended up having to move the party up to 12:00 on Saturday because of baseball games that afternoon, so we wanted to make sure there was plenty of food for lunch.
So much to blog about, and so very litte time. I'm sad to say that I won't be blogging quite as much, but very excited about being able to work from home now. Most days I'm busy juggling 3 different jobs...full-time mom, nanny to Brinley, and medical biller. Makes me exhausted just thinking about it, but so far so good! Praying that I'll be able to keep up with that, and also keep my house somewhat clean.
I have entirely too many pictures to sort through from last weekend. I have pictures from 4 different people's cameras, and haven't had the energy to sit down and start editing yet. I'll be posting some fun things soon though!
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