Walker is ONE!!!!!

I am so on it!!! FOUR BIG blog posts in a week! I am so proud of myself! Now after this one I will be all caught up! What a good feeling.  So the babe turned ONE!!!! holy smokes..... I can't believe it. When people say it goes fast they aint kidding :).  It really is such a happy, sad, fun, and exciting time.  The day of his birthday (I hate to admit this, but I am) I was a little bit of a train wreck.  I nursed him up until the night of his birthday and I felt like that was good enough and a big accomplishment considering what I went through for the first 6 or 7 months of nursing.  I didn't think I would be that sad about it.   Thinking about it now I am NOT sad or miss nursing.  I thought I would.  I feel so FREE now haha.  Having your first you are kinda lazy and can just hang out and feed your baby.  I can't imagine going that long with my second, third ....... You can't just do whatever you want and lay around with your kid, you have other ones to worry about, But who knows :)  What I was most sad/emotional about was the fact that I will never have a first do "first" things ever again and that made me sad.  The first time watching your baby do...well, ANYTHING was so exciting and so cool.  Because its new for them and new for you!  I know it will be fun for the next but just not the same with your very FIRST BABY!! Anyway enough of the depressing stuff Walker is super cool!!! I am OBSESSED!!! over and over again.  He is my little buddy and I love it.  I love taking him places, shopping with him, playing at home, and most of all watching his cute personality come out more and more each day. He is SOOO funny.  Cracks me and Brandon up all the time.  He definitely is a little goofy like his parents and we love it!  He says "hi" (while waving) he says all gone/done, when you say nigh nigh he waves, he pulls himself up and walks along everything and anything, talks talks talks, crawls like a maniac, has 8 teeth, always has a concerned look lol, scrunches his nose and breaths really hard hahaha, eats pretty well, still drinks his bottle morning and night, takes two 1.5 hour naps a day, sleeps about 12 hours a night, loves facing forward now in the car, doesn't care much about his toys just wants to play with the tupperware drawer all day long, and LOVES sweets just like his mama.  That pretty much sums him up! He is awesome! (Brag moment) :)

So, Birthdays have always been a big deal in my family growing up! Both of my brothers had big parties for their daughters first birthday.  I didn't really think we would especially living far away from most of our family.  And definitely not as many people as they did (were not that popular) haha Well when it came down to it Walker was spoiled, We had two parties for him, one at our house in Springville, UT with Brandon's family and some friends and one at my parents house in California with my side of the family,  family friends that we have known forever and of course some of our greatest friends. It was a lot of time spent and a lot of creativity needed to come out of me, but needless to say it was SO FUN planning and it definitely kept me busy (which I LOVE)  I know he is only one and has no idea what the crap is going on, but it was fun anyways and I am glad we did what we did! I went to my friends baby shower in August and it was pirate theme.  It was darling and perfect!  So I copied her and did the same for his birthday party!  It was an easy theme and I found too many fun things to do!  Brandon and myself are learning Photoshop so we made everything on there....His invite, food tags, favor tags, thank you cards, signs, his months banner, etc. I would love to get really good/faster at it and have it be a little side job from home for some extra cash money :) we will see! We had so much help from Brandons mom, my mom, some friends, and some family..... we appreciated it SO much!! The only regret form his birthday that I do have is I didn't take many pictures with Walker and his party guests :( I am usually so good at that too....It is still bugging me!! BUT I do have lots of pictures so here ya go.........

Yummy cupcakes from The Sweet Tooth Fairy (my fave)

Our friend Sharlan works there and made his cake, we love

Brandons Grandma Judy.....we love her

Brandons parents (Walkers Grandpa and GiGi)

He wasn't too sure

this is about how messy he got......boring

present time

YAY!!!! a new car seat!!! haha poor kid (good thing he doesn't know)

Brandons parents got Walker a fun swing set for the backyard

his cute little friends

California Party (hence the outside ness)

we made his very own water bottle wrappers :)

I crave cake pops probably everyday!! their a little time consuming but they are GOOOOD!!!

My mom makes the babes their cake every year.... he LOVED it

I just had to because it is just too cute ( Sharlan made this one too)

treat table

favors...... so fun to make, rice krispie pirate heads on a stick

Love these girls....ALL of them and miss them terribly

These cool cats live in SF now and they DROVE down for the weekend, we LOVED it!

cake time round TWO

hahahaha that face

Harlee was so cute and wanted to help and watch

so full but couldn't stop

pit stop, drink time

LOVE him

Our niece Logan and our niece Harlee playing in the pool

his invite we made....i put two per page for printing and now i cant figure out how to just have one. haha so heres two of the same thing lol

my parents with Walker :)