Matthew-saurus's Big Day!

After a dreary and wet week, we had the most gorgeous weekend...which was very fortunate because Saturday was our little man's 1st Birthday Dinosaur Party!  I will save his 1st year recap for his actual birthday this week and share some pics from his party.

The best family shot we got - I am just happy I remembered to at least attempt to take one!  Matthew was a little cranky that I was delaying the cake eating...and Nate had his sights set on it too.

It took him a second...and seeing his brother start to taste it to get him going...but once he did...

...he had a hard time stopping!  I finally took it away from him once he slowed down the fist fulls he was cramming in his mouth!  (and no reactions...phew!)

Nate not only sampled the smash cake but also managed to trick his Alie in to giving him a second cupcake and scoop of ice cream!  "No, I haven't had one yet..."  What a stinker.

He was pretty tired after the party (and having his nap delayed) so he was content to let his brother and cousin open his presents and have them handed to him.  (He crashed shortly after this picture was taken.) He got some really great presents - and amazingly nothing that we already had!  So they have been having fun playing with all of the new fun things!

 I was in such a mad rush before the party getting food out, etc that I totally forgot to take pics of all of my decor before everyone arrived.  Bummer.  But I did take a few after the fact...

The last of the party favors...Dinosaur crayons and I made coloring books with dinosaur coloring pages.

Not a great pic, but here is the "Wall of Tracks" with his monthly pics with "Stinky" the dinosaur.

Book signing table

And it wouldn't have been a Cox 1st Birthday Party without some "incident"...We had that moment of "where's Matthew??" panic towards the end of the party...and when we finally found him we realized he had managed to sneak away from all of the grown ups at the party and make his way all the way up the stairs (very quickly) and in to the playroom.  Talk about scary....but he was happy as a clam, just wanted a different toy to play with!

I had so much fun putting this party together (luckily it's time to start on the next one...ha) and I was so happy that so many of our friends and family came over to celebrate with our little Matthewsaurus!  I know he won't remember this day but I hope he will one day look back at the pics and see how much he was loved!  (More pics in the birthday album to the right)

We were all beat on Sunday but after all four of us slept in and saw our family off, we packed up our party leftovers and took it to a trail to have a picnic...it was such a perfect day and the boys had fun relaxing and being outside.