Levi's 1st Birthday Party!

We celebrated Levi's first birthday a day late on Saturday with a small "dog" party. His first word was dog and he loves the book "Go Dog Go" (which ends with a big dog party) so the theme had to be pups :). We had a meal of some of Levi's favorite foods; meatballs, sweet potatoes and fruit and then finished off with chocolate cake with butter cream frosting. My Mom always made the best shaped cakes for my parties, so I wanted to continue the tradition with my kids. It didn't turn out how I saw it in my mind, but the first time Levi saw it he said "dawgu" so I felt satisfied! He was really cute during the birthday song, but I have no pictures because I was a distracted photographer :) Did any of the fam take any pics during the singing? All I have is video. Levi relished in the attention, smiling and looking around the room and then happily clapped for himself when we finished singing. Any way...here are a BUNCH of pics!

The silly puppy cake (supposed to look a little like our Penny)I made some paw print cupcakes tooUncle Seth and Nora enjoying the festivities The birthday boy in his dog clothes with his PopThree generations of Reese BoyerI guess Aunt Molly really means it when she says I'm edible!first bite of cake....what is this crazy stuff?!whatever it is, it's crazy good!silly face with Momma and Dada

Thanks for celebrating with us! We sure do love our little doggie loving 1 year old! Soon to come, Knochel Family Vacation pics and details! We spent Sunday - Wednesday in the great outdoors and had a wonderful time!