Luke’s 1st Birthday Party

Luke had his first birthday party on Sunday. It was fun but very tiring!

Gwynn sees that Grandma came by to help get everything ready.

Both kids waiting on Grandma to come inside.

Grandpa (“Paw”) and Nancy came early too because they had a long drive down to Florida ahead of them.

Checking out the monthly pictures of Mr. Luke.

Gwynn fell asleep before everyone started arriving and was surprised to see guests in the house when she awoke.

Luke discovers the balloons.

One of Luke’s new toys is a hammer and blocks. Let’s hope he uses the blocks with the hammer and not Gwynn’s head.

The centerpiece.

The Chicken Coop was a egg hunt.

The Duck Pond was… a duck pond.

Here the kids went through the corn to find toys.

Some grub.

(They’re actually from Publix…shhh…)

This is what they feed chickens for KFC to get them nice and fat. I think it’s the M&M’s.

The “main” cake.

The smash cake. Or rather, the gently touch and eat cake.

Gwynn and Emerson putting farm animal stickers on the wall.

Party favors.

Luke wondering why everyone is outside and he isn’t.

Daddy learning why the A/C wasn’t working upstairs. It got fixed thanks to Uncle Jeremy.

Luke preferred grabbing the corn to grabbing the toys.

Everyone having fun.

Pigsty time. The kids put balloons with pig faces drawn on them into the pigsty as quickly as possible.

Luke excitedly opening up a present. He was disappointed that the present wasn’t edible.

Gwynn trying to steal some attention away from Luke. She got these cool glasses and her own balloon from Aunt Sherry.

Either Luke was really tired or he was playing Peek-A-Boo.

Trying to get Luke to smash his cake. He wouldn’t.

With some help from his sister and cousins the cake was quickly demolished.

Nom nom nom!

Even Emerson got into the action.

This picture summarizes the feeling of a 1 year old’s birthday party.

“Get me outta here!”

No party is complete without a little cornhole.