Josiah's 1st 1st Birthday Party

The theme for this party, as you can see by the cake, was MICKEY MOUSE!! I had plates and napkins left over from the baby shower my friends from college through for me, so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to use them. The absolutely wonderful cake decorating was done by Julie's (Dan's mom) neighbor and the pastors wife. The did an incredible job. They used a picture I had printed out to decorate the big cake and the little one has the picture on top. They thought that would be best since the black frosting really stains bad. I was grateful not to have black stained all over Josiah at the end of the cake smashing:)

We invited everyone in church to join us for lunch. It worked out perfectly. At first we weren't sure we would have enough food, but as usual we had plenty for everyone plus leftovers!!

This was the first picture I had taken with my new hair do. Kelly did a wonderful job of coloring and cutting my hair while we were up in the UP. It took me a little bit to get used to and I had to brush off a negative comment right away, but now I love it:)

Josiah absolutely loved being sung to. When we started singing "Happy Birthday" to him and everyone was looking at him...he was just giddy:) Definately going to take more after his mom in that category than his shy dad:)

It didn't take him long to get right into the spirit of the 1st birthday cake!!!

Since we were at the church and there was no bath tub to throw him into, we had to improvise!! I think he had just as much fun taking a bath in the kitchen sink as he did getting messy and digging into the cake.

Brayden was the ever helpful best bud and helped Josiah open his presents:) I think they both had more fun with the paper than with the presents!!!

That is until we put him on his new Winnie the Pooh fire truck. He loved and still loves that car. It has buttons, music and within an hour he figured out how to get on and off it by himself. It has been the best gift thus far:)

Overall I think Josiah had a really fun time and we were glad that so many joined us for the festivities. He got many wonderful gifts and had a fun time getting all messy and eating cake:)