Birthday Party # One

November 16th 2011

We celebrated Eithan's first birthday a few days early!

We wanted to be able to share this day with some of our friends here in our 'lil town. 

{We'll be having a family party this weekend.}

Everything went beautifully.

There were wonderful people.

Lovely Presents.

Good Junk Food. 

Happy Children.

It was simply delightful.

Eithan loved having all our friends over.

We had the Schmidts, the Christensens, the Asays, and the other Asays over.

He especially loved getting his first cupcake all to himself.

He didn't really know at first if he could truly have it.

Once he figured out that it was all his. And that he could eat it....

You gotta love the frosting face.

It is probably one of the most precious pictures we all get as children. 

We then opened presents.

And, I have to admit, I was hoping that Eithan would get crazy with it.

But he didn't.

I guess all those times of telling him not to rip something finally paid off. {smile}

It went mostly like this...

With a little bit of this...

And a whole lot of cuteness!

But sorry.. no ripping, excited, squealing with delight pictures for this little boy.

And I forgot to take pictures of all the company. There were only these two.

Mike Asay, Marsha Asay, and Kevin Asay

{With Eithan on Marsha's lap}

Lane Christensen, Will Christensen, Anika Christensen, Brittany Schmidt and Macy Schmidt

If you look behind the castle jungle gym.. you'll see Sydney Schmidt too.

So.. who are we missing? 

Aubrey Asay, Tim Schmidt and Cy Christensen.

They were there too!

All in all, simply wonderful!

I think everyone had a good time, and we LOVED having people over.

Now, I get to do this one more time with family.

Wish me luck!

P.S. To all those who may be reading this and feeling slightly left out because you weren't invited. Please know that we thought of you... but our tiny apartment cannot accommodate that many people... so know that we thought of you... wished you were there... and hope you enjoy experiencing his first birthday through pictures.