The beginning of family fun festivities....part 1

Our family made it safely and we couldn't be happier. Kari and her family made it from Arizona and Alisha and her family made it from Wyoming. Now it's time to party and that is what we plan on doing. We started off our fun family activities with Zander's first birthday party. Can you believe he is one years old? Where has the time gone? You will be getting lots of pictures throughout our festivities because where we have no kids to brag about we always have our adorable nieces and nephews to brag about and I must say, we have the most adorable ones in this world! Warning....cute pictures ahead......

Here is Oakley showing off her awesome dance moves in front of a Peacock. How cute is she?? I know, cute!

Me with Oakley, Ty and Zander having fun at Willow park

Ty and Oaks really liked the animals and were really excited to see them. They are getting so big!

And here is our cute niece Journey enjoying family and fun. Well, I don't know if she really was but she was sure happy and seemed to enjoy herself.

A quick picture of Ry and I at the party

Zander sure loves his uncle Ryan and loved playing catch with Uncle Ryan

Zander loved that ball. Again I love how their relationship is protrayed so well in pictures. They have so much fun with each other.

Grandma G and Zander at his party. He was having a blast.

My heart seriously melts at this picture. Look at those eyes....mom's gonna have a hard time telling him no when he is older :)

Here is cousin Danika helping Zander enjoy his presents

Zander got some new books from Granda G. He really loves books

BEWARE: THE FOLLOWING PICTURES ARE SO CUTE THAT IT IS HARD TO DESCRIBE THEM IN WORDS....ENJOY!!! (Sorry they are backwards in the sequence of events)

Here we are with Zander after he got done eating his own cake

Some of the guests at Zanders party

Uncle Ryan and Zander

Here is the damage that Zander inflicted on the cake. I think he did great if I say so myself. Look at his eyes, they are sugar glazed. He had so much cake!

Here is Alie, Brock and Zander. Cute family pictures. What proud parents!

Zander enjoying his cake and of course all the attention he was getting.

Here is daddy assisting Zander with his cake.

Cute father/son picture

This was at the beginning when Zander started eating it. He didn't waste time. He did work!

Another cute picture.......

Zander testing the waters....figuring out if it is something good to eat. As you can see from the pictures before, he found out it was delicious!

And yet another cute picture.....

And so it begins......

Everyone looking at him waiting for him to dive in.

Zander waiting patiently for his cake. Look how cute he is!

Zander's own cake.

Well, we hope you enjoyed our first installment of our fun family activites for the next two weeks, stay tuned.....more to come!