Happy First Birthday Ian!

I can't believe Ian has been with us for a year (well, over a year now)!  He's turned out to be such a cute, fun little guy.  Very happy-go-lucky and loving.  He doesn't care much for sleep, but he does love food!
Anyway, I wanted to throw Ian a little party, nothing too fancy or elaborate. I just did simple cupcakes with homemade frosting. I do not like the greasy, stinky, overly-sweet store-bought frosting, yuck! I made Ian a little smash cake (you'd NEVER know I took 4 classes in cake decorating by looking at this cake!).  I also made a pinata that turned out much better that I thought it would.  The party was simple and fun.  We invited a couple of friends and I even ordered a parachute off of Amazon for the kids to play with. My decorations were minimal, but the streamers I hung vertically over the archway between the front room and the living room were well-received by the guest. There were a couple of snack dishes, a kid's music mix playing in the background, and that's about it.  Nothing too over-the-top.

The pinata was actually really quick an easy to put together; it was my first using cardboard.  The most time-consuming part was putting the crepe paper on (specifically cutting with scissors the 10,000 horizontal cuts).  I cut a good chunk of my finger off in the process.  I also got my iPhone stolen at Walmart on a last-minute trip to buy some more crepe paper for the pinata.  But that's a story for another day. I did get my phone back though!

 
I didn't have my phone to take pictures (worst two weeks ever), but a couple of friends tooks some pictures for me.  I don't think Ian really knew what was going on, and he was a good sport for having in nap cut into by the party.  Nevertheless, it was Gabe and Elisa who had the most fun, afterall it was mostly their friends that were invited.  Ian did have one little baby friend, Preston come to his party.  Ian got a couple of nice gifts, even though I said no presents were necessary.   All in all it was a cute and fun little party.  Ian dug into is cake like a champ.  Here are the links to the videos:
The pinata: https://youtu.be/Zoe5N09kbhM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLK1qG_Hk84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wRXCsphE9o

  I have some still pictures of Ian eating his cake somewhere on the computer, I will post them if I ever do find the file.