Welcome to Spruceville, pop. 4: August 2008

Well, Patrick is now 1 year old! I can't believe it has been a year. It seems like yesterday that I was pregnant and had huge swollen ankles. Ha! But, it's true, my baby is growing up. Yesterday, August 1st, was Patrick's birthday. Mark took the day off and I took a 1/2 day and we spent time hanging out, getting things ready for his birthday party, and getting his pictures taken. As you can probably guess, I have a lot of pictures from the last two days. I'll start with photos from yesterday, his birthday, of Patrick eating some cake.

We got Patrick's birthday cake from a bakery in Colorado Springs, Old Colorado City to be exact, and it was sooo yummy. They made Patrick his own little cake to dig into so we gave him that cake on his birthday and saved the other one for his party on Saturday. Here are the photos of his individual cake and him digging in - tentatively at first, and then really getting into it.

Testing the waters...

Digging in...

Too much cake....

Here are some photos of Patrick's birthday party, which was today, Saturday August 2nd. Patrick had fun, or as much as can be expected for a 1 year old! Many of Patrick's friends and family were able to attend and we would like to thank all of them for coming and helping us celebrate. Patrick had fun, had more cake (of course), and got some great gifts. He is enjoying his "big boy carseat", rockin' pup, and all of his other toys. He also cannot wait for the weather to get a little cooler so he can wear his new jeans from Great Granny, and his new Broncos jersey and Jordans. He will be so adorable! Mark already said that will be his outfit every Sunday once football season starts, so keep an eye out for that post! Patrick's party 'theme' was monkeys, mainly just because I thought the invitation was cute it grew from there. Plus we do call him Chunky Monkey and such, so it fit. On Friday he made a monkey at Build-A-Bear named Martin, and the bakery was able to copy the monkey from the invitation onto the cake. I think it came out pretty cute.