Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Big Bash

We started things off by just letting all the kids play with balloons - it's amazing how much fun they can have. Even the older cousins were having a blast...probably more fun than Tucker actually.


Here is Tuck with all of his loot. He made out quite well!


Tucker was content to watch as his crazy brothers opened most of his stuff. I tried to get them to let him at least try it once or twice but that wasn't really working.


This room was clean about an hour ago, I swear.


He's gearing up for the cake...you can see he's ready to have at it - he's trying to grab the plate from me.

This is my brother after making an exceptionally good catch to save my carpet from the cake that fell off of his plate. Good job Chris!

And finally, the after-cake shot. He did a good job with it for sure. And he really liked his first cup of milk. Yum!

7 comments:

Jody said...

That cake is awesome! How'd you do it?

Anonymous said...

Wow! The birthday party looks like it was a fun time for all. Love the "eating the birthday cake" picture. Jaimee, you are so right...they most certainly grow up too fast.

The Tufts said...

1-year birthday parties are the best! He is sooo cute--His big blue eyes are unreal!

I second the question from the first commentor--how did you do that awesome cake?

Jaimee said...

Well I am flattered that you guys think the cake is good - I wasn't sure what I thought about it. You just use the gel decorating tubes to make spiderweb shapes, then I sort of smushed them down with my finger because otherwise the colors stayed too dark. Then you drag a toothpick from the center out. I copied a picture I found online and I think that I should have used the neon set of colors instead of the standard to get brighter colors. But it comes with pink instead of red so I think the best option is probably getting both sets. Thanks!

Sarah said...

What a party! Happy birthday Tucker! Great cake!

Anonymous said...

I got skillz. :-)

Becca said...

The party looks great. I can't believe how fast kids grow up. Tucker is so cute!! I too love the cake. What a fun idea.