Sam's birthday

It was Sam's first birthday on Saturday and we had fun celebrating all day. We didn't have a big party or do anything extravagant because he is only one and doesn't know it's his birthday and won't remember anyway, and besides, we're cheap. :)
We started the day off with about 100 balloons in our front room. His first reaction picture to the balloons isn't very good because he was mad that I left him with dad so I could go set up the camera so he was screaming. Then on top of that he crawled into the kitchen instead of the front room, so basically he messed everything up. Just kidding.
After he calmed down he had so much fun playing in the balloons, but you wouldn't know it by the pictures I took. I couldn't capture a smile for the life of me. I got a few, but I'm sad with how the balloon pictures turned out. At least he had fun!This is when he realized there were balloons!




After playing in the balloons for awhile we then went to McDonald's for lunch. When we walked in the place was so busy! So we decided to let the boys play for awhile, since that's why we go to McDonald's for lunch, and then we went to Wingers to eat.

We met Grandma at Wingers. She brought Sam a cute bucket full of fun things.

Then we went to Nana and Grandpa's house. I love this picture of Grandpa and Sam. Grandpa's showing that Sam is one and Sam agrees with a thumbs up.

Sam's Aunt Mandy brought him a present, but he was more interested in the ribbon, of course.

Jordan was more than happy to help open the present.

And Sam was more than happy to shake the paper and ribbon around.


Notice how he still has a good hold of the ribbon with the toy right next to him. :)

After dinner we had cupcakes and opened presents with Grandma and Mogie (my dad). Since Sam loves to bark like a dog I decided to make dog cupcakes.

By the time we got around to eating cupcakes it was almost bedtime. Sam was so tired!

He was so tired he just stared and poked holes in his cupcake.

After eating a little bit he squished the cupcake in his hand for awhile.

Happy Birthday Sam! We love you and your smile!