So it's 11:05 pm on November 30th- a whole month and then some after Gavin's birthday party. How terrible am I? I am probably at risk of getting my licensed revoked by the "awesome blogger mom league of America"! My goal is to update three posts in 55 minutes...which is now 54 minutes because I have to be in bed by midnight! And go....
Gavin's birthday party was a BLAST!!! We had so much fun celebrating with our friends and family and LOVED seeing everyone turn out with their facial haired support. Yes- it was a mustache theme. People ask me- what's a mustache party? It's a party where everyone wears a mustache...duh!
A few highlights of our day:
Putting on the mustaches- I got to be the model to try out the awesome mustache tattoos that my father-in-law found in Detroit. They were so ridiculously awesome. They stayed on so well, we could have worn them for days...we didn't though...sadly.
Then it was the birthday boy's turn!!!
I can't stand the cuteness...
A family of hairy lipped fellows (Harper did eventually get a mustache from eye liner- we weren't about to leave her out!)
Our good friend Jackie made us yet ANOTHER awesome cake. She is so talented. She just had a baby, so she wasn't going to make the cake this year. She told me she'd look up a few cake ideas for me to order from Walmart...we started brainstorming and by the end of the time, she was signed up to do it. So cute...and so yummy!
Okay- so not only am I getting my blogger mom license revoked, but I am going in some terrible mom book- we totally forgot to get a video of Gaving blowing out his birthday candles. I thought of it the second he blew them out- all by himself, mind you. I almost had everyone sing to him again and reenact the whole thing, but I thought that was a little over the top...now looking back, I kind of wish that I had. So here is the moment in still shots...
We played "Pin the mustache on Gavin" as a party game. It was so fun!
Gavin was very amused to see a huge blow up picture of himself with mustache stickers all over it. And really, who wouldn't be?
Be still my heart. Look at that sweet boy saying hi to his friends as they got to his party.
We loved having both our families there- or as many people as could be there from both of our families. My dad had his gall bladder out literally the day before. He had been in the hospital ALL WEEK and every time he talked to me he said- "I'm going to be at Gavin's birthday party- with a mustache." Pops always keeps his promises.
We call Matthew's family "the party elves" because they are the most awesome party assistants you could. I tend to freak out having people over, but two years in a row, they've helped us helped us pull everything together at the last minute.
Matthew's Niney came to the party from Arkansas. She is precious and we LOVE her. After the birthday party, we all went out to dinner with our mustaches on. She was walking across the parking lot kind of on her own and she said that a man rolled down his window in his car, smiled at her and said "you just made my day!" Ha!
What a fun day to celebrate our little man!
He's a sweet little guy and I can't wait to see what fun is to come in his 2nd year!
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