1st Birthday Party

Since we've be celebrating for 3 months, we're calling it
"Brisco's Birthday Quarter 2011!"

 Opening his first birthday gifts:  beautiful books from Uncle Mike, Aunt Leanne, Eden, and Lil' Bit.

 Instead of a big birthday cake, we opted for Cake-Pops.  It was quite an undertaking.  I would only recommend it if you have lots of help!

  "When is everyone coming over for my party?"

 Before the party, we made the cake-pops.  

7 adults + 7 hours = 300 delicious cake-pops = 1 special little birthday boy

Each had to be individually wrapped...

 The final product was well worth the effort.  Everyone loved them!

 

 Thanks to help from our wonderful family and friends, we were ready when guests started to arrive!

We had a great play area for the birthday boy and all his friends.

 When Brisco woke-up from his nap,
it took him a little while to get ready to party.

Brisco wore his fancy #1 sock monkey t-shirt with bow tie.  

He was way too cute!

 After a few minutes, he was ready to start entertaining his guests.

 Thanks to our family, the meal was so delicious.
Thanks to Mr. Mike, Brisco was able to serve the most delicious pulled-pork sandwiches to his guests.

 "MOM!  Not in front of all my friends!"

 Brisco did sample the cake-pops,
but he also had his own sock monkey cake.

Happy Birthday, Sweet Boy!

 "I don't know about this!"

 "Oh wait...that's pretty good."

 "More please?"

"Now that's some good cake!"

Gamma peddled cake-pops to all the guests.

 "I think I've had enough."

 As you might notice from the TV screen, we had a little storm come through and had to move the party inside.  It was present time so Brisco didn't seem to mind.

Brisco helped Mommy write down his gifts.

 You can only hold his attention for so long, then it's time to play.

I've never seen Brisco do this:

It was the cutest thing ever!
He grabbed little Domenic and gave him a huge hug!

These three guys had a blast!

We were so blessed to have so much help.  Thank you to all of our friends and family for making Brisco's 1st birthday such a special day for us!