FIRST Birthday Party.

We celebrated Peyton's birthday at The Arbor's Park (down the street from our house) on Saturday, March 12th.  It was the perfect place and it was such a gorgeous Arizona day.  The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and there was a slight breeze.  It got pretty warm though towards the end, and a lot of people seemed to get their first burn of the "summer", I know we did!

I remember last year when I had Peyton, everyone said, "Well Peyton's birthday will always fall during Spring Break!" and I didn't know if that was a good or bad thing.  But nonetheless, I realized this year his birthday parties will probably either kick off or end a lot of people's Spring Break's, including his when he gets older.

Okay, par-tay details!

I decided to do a Safari Theme.  Everything was homemade.  All the crafts, cupcakes, everything!  I was very pleased with how it all turned out.  I'll let the pictures do the talking! (warning: picture overload.)

Here we have all of the decorations:

Birthday Boy's special shirt

Peyton's Wild Journey -- a collage of
his monthly pictures.

Here is all of the fun that was had!:

ALL of Peyton's Aunt's & Uncle's

Clapping!

Pointing!  Or as we pretended he said, "I'm this many!"

Sisters!

He loved crawling down the hill

And now for the cake smash!:

(He swiped off the frosting & Steve had to help him get a little dirty. :)  The best part was when Peyton fed Steve some cake.  Ever since then, he's been "feeding" us food.  Aww!)

It was such a fantastic day!  I honestly couldn't have done it without the help from our parents.  Thank you a million to them and to all of our friends for celebrating with us!

"Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world."

-Unknown