Today we celebrated Christian's first birthday. I decided to do a pirate party theme when I was at the Dollar Store preparing for Manny's birthday. While picking up supplies I noticed that they had a bunch of pirate decorations, so that helped me to make my decision.

The day started off a bit late. I had wanted to get to the Hall at 9:00 a.m. because the party started at 11:30 a.m. and I didn't want to rush. However, we didn't get to the Hall until 10:00 a.m...ouch!

On the way to the Hall we picked up his cake from Copenhagen, and it was totally amazing. We had told them that we were having a pirate themed cake, and the baker made the suggestion to actually have the cake shaped in skull and crossbones. The only part that I didn't like was that the cake was a little scary for a first birthday. John was saying that perhaps they didn't know, but HELLO, I asked them to inscribe, "Happy 1st Birthday Christian". It would have been more appropriate for a 7th or 8th birthday, but whatever...it was a masterpiece.

I can't believe my little boy is going to be 1 (officially) tomorrow. This year has gone by extremely fast. I won't say that it has been easy. Christian didn't start sleeping through the night until a couple of weeks ago, but it has definitely been amazing. Who ever would have thought that I would be the proud mother of TWO boys!