Miles, the Party Animal

On Saturday, February 23, we celebrated Miles' first birthday. What a MILEStone! We had his party at Mimi's house because our house is too small for all of the people we invited. I think it worked out pretty well. Some of our close friends and wonderful family were on hand for the celebration--including, Mimi, Uncle Trey, Honey, JoePa, NeNe, Uncle Alvin, Lynda Climer, Mommie Cica, RanRan, Meemaw, Papaw, Hannah & Colson Matlock, Shawn and Clarkie Graham, Megan Seals (who photographed the party beautifully), Miles' Fairy Janet (who came all the way from Texas), Margie (Miles' babysitter) and her husband, Aunt Julie, Diane Sain, Aunt Lisa, Uncle Mike, Catie Beth, Mary Claire, and of course Matt, me, and the birthday boy.

Fairy GLAMmother Janet and Diane Sain

Glammy and Miles

Miles and Colson

Hannah, Colson, Me, and Miles

Miles greeting his Uncle Trey, Lynda, and Aunt Julie.

Miles making NeNe and Uncle Alvin laugh.

A teacher friend of mine made Miles' birthday cake, which was just for him. Matt and I made cupcakes--yes, he actually helped me decorate them!!

We had lots of yummy goodies for our guests to eat as well as a ball pit for Miles and Colson to play in. Oh, and if you are wondering....Elmo was the theme of the day b/c that is Miles' favorite character. I couldn't pass it up.

Miles loved the make shift ball pit...even though he was a little tired.

Seeing JoePa cheered him up a little bit, though. Miles loves his JoePa and wanted to hang out with him during the whole party.

We sang happy birthday to the birthday boy....



And then we let him dig in....

Miles was ok with his cake. I figured he would dig in immediately, but to my surprise, he didn't. He kind of sat there waiting on me to tell him, "No. No. Don't do that." He loves sweets. However, we now know that he doesn't like sweets or sticky icing on his fingers. We enjoyed watching him try to eat his cake anyway.

He eventually warmed up to the cake, somewhat, and had a little fun. I think he just needed to wake up a little bit.

Needless to say...after the cake eating...we had to give this little red face a bath! Then...came presents...

And boy did he get a lot of presents!! A BIG thank you to everyone for his gifts.

After presents came play time...

...with Mommie Cica and some bubbles.

Next, it was more pictures....

JoePa, Honey, and Miles

Papaw, Miles, and Meemaw

Miles and his NeNe

Another photo op with Mommie Cica.

And Mimi with a few of her favorite guys.

Miles had an amazing first birthday...so amazing that I don't know how I am going to make his parties in the future better than his first. We are incredibly blessed to have such loving people in our lives, who took time out of their weekends to spend with our special little man. He had a blast at his party. Thanks to Mimi for allowing us to crash her house for the day!