Dawson's First Birthday!!!!!

It's my birthday and I'll say CHEESE if I want too!

Well today was the big day! I cannot believe it came so fast and it went soo fast too! :( Today was a great day -- it couldn't have been better -- we spent the entire day outside! We had Dawson's party at a local park and it all worked out perfect. We got to spend time with all of our family and friends; including my family from out-of-state came! It was great to see them all. Dave got the pleasure of grilling all the hot dogs and brats.

Dawson had a ton of fun with his cake (BTW, he got his own little "dig in" cake as the rest of us ate the cupcake cake! He absolutely loved it and totally dug in -- we ended up taking his clothes off and not putting any back on for awhile. We had to clean this boy inside and out! He had cake everywhere, up his nose, in his ears, hair and eyes. But he loved it and had a blast eating it! I could hear people saying they've never seen a 1 year old eat as much cake as he ate! So far, so good, no tummy aches!

Dawson didn't quite understand the gist of gift opening, but he had his big sister and lots of friends helping out. There was no lack of assistance! Dawson was more interested in the cards than the gifts I think anyways, hehe!

Dawson did get a really cool Tonka truck that he literally fit right into!

Dawson got a lot of really need gifts, books (in which we needed) and BOY toys! He needed them...poor little guy was playing with Barbie pianos and other GIRL toys. :)

Dawson's godparents Jamie and Brian spent quite a bit of time with Dawson today too -- they came to the party at the park and then came to our house afterwards for the "afterparty", I guess you could call it! My Mom and Grandma also came over and it was absolutely gorgeous outside, so we sat in the front yard and played yard games and just hung out (yes, Jen had a few beers). It was a blast! Dawson did get to take a snoozer for a little bit, but Kylie, nah, that wasn't happening! After Dawson got up, we had unraveled some of his toys, so he got to play with them and crawled around and discovered that grass wasn't so bad after all!

Brian got the joy of going on the tire swing with Dawson! It got to a point where Dawson could have totally fallen asleep. :)

Dawson and Brian spending quality time!!

We ended the evening about 10:30 p.m. when Jamie and Brian went home! :( It was great to spend some time with our favorite friends though!