First Birthday Party

We celebrated Colton's first birthday a week early in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. Half of my family is from Florida, so we always meet near Destin the week after Christmas. My in-laws recently got a beach house in Florida, so they were down there, too. We decided to get all of the family together to celebrate Colton on December 30th at the beach house. The weather was a little cloudy and chilly that day, but we were still able to go out on the screened in porch and take a few pictures on the deck. Colton is not really into anything quite yet, so I didn't really know what to do about a theme. I decided that since we were at the beach, a Finding Dory party seemed appropriate. I'm not one to go all out for birthday parties....I like to make things easy. So...we ordered pizza and salad, grabbed a cupcake cake from Publix that came with a small smash cake, blew up some balloons, and printed off some pictures of Colton to hang from a piece of twine. I didn't get the best pictures of the decorations because of the light coming in the windows. Oh well!

Unfortunately, my usually happy baby was having a few tummy issues and wasn't in the best of spirits at his party. In fact, he cried a lot. It made me sad because that's just not like him. I had envisioned this perfect party where he was happy and laughing and was smashing his cake, but that didn't happen. He stuck his hand in the cake and it was covered in icing. Instead of licking his hand, he opened and closed it a few times and decided that he did NOT like the fact that it was dirty and he cried. Haha. But we made memories and that's all that matters! He had a lot of family around to celebrate him!

People who attended his party: (more for me to remember than for you guys)

Mom, Dad, and Weston (4)
MeeMee and Papa Jeff
Nana and Papa Gene
Aunt Katie, Uncle Mike, Tyler (5), & Tanner (3)
Cousin Matt, Stacy, and Harper (1)
Uncle Wayne, Aunt Dawn, & Aaron
Ms. Bonnie (Weston's teacher), Roger, Heather, & Bonnie Rose (7 months)
George & Connie

Here are a few pictures from the party...








Colton LOVES balloons! Seriously, his entire face lights up when he sees one.


He was SO mad I put that hat on his head!


Cousin Harper

















Never thought we'd be celebrating a January birthday at the beach. Not a bad place to have your 1st birthday. Only the best for Mr. Colton!