{ben}{angela}{kai}{dax}: 2011

Kai's 1 year photo shoot

Enjoy the pictures below taken by Potatobug Photography for Kai's 1 year photo shoot:

The Cake Smash!

Halloween

Kai was an elephant for Halloween this year, Ben and I did not dress up. I really want to make sure we do next year though!

Kai and Ben at Ben's Halloween work party.

Before we headed out trick or treating.

Kai and his cousin Kensington. Doesn't she look sooo cute in her costume?!

Our last trick or treating stop was at our house and by then he got the hang of it. He picked his candy and put it in his bucket all on his own. It was pretty cute.

Here is a video of him when he came trick or treating at our house:

Enjoying his very first sucker.

Pumpkin Patch

Here are some pictures of our visit to the pumpkin patch!

Kai's Birthday party was a lot of fun to plan and get ready for. We ended up moving his party to Ben's work so we had more room for more people coming than we expected....Ok, I am going to complain for just a little bit. We thought we were going to have more people come since I had an RSVP regrets only on his invitations, well only a couple people RSVP'd but...we had a lot of people not come which is fine but there was no RSVP. It was pretty frustrating since we made special arrangements for more people, including more food. ANYWAY, if you are reading this just take note to be sure to RSVP to people's invitations you receive!

Ok back to the party. We played a couple games, one were T/F trivia questions about Kai and the other was a picture timeline of Kai that they needed to put in order. My sister Alisha won both of them, so we decided to get the second winners as well. My sister Jamie won one of them and Ben's cousin Heidi won the other.

Here is the room set up before the guests arrived.

Kai enjoying his lunch.

Trying to get into his gifts, he was excited to get playing with his new bus!

Kai did not appreciate the loud singing.

We forgot to open gifts before the cake so we had to multi task.

What a messy baby! He almost ate the entire cake!

While we were in Maui I put together a video slideshow of Kai's first year that we debuted at the party. I can't get the video to upload because it is too big, so you will have to visit my facebook page if you would like to see it.

Kai's Birthday

Our little guy turned 1!

When he woke up he walked into the family room and started heading for the kitchen but his activity table we got him for his birthday caught his eye and he turned and went right to it. He played with it forever until we finally made him go eat breakfast. He loves making the music turn on, then he goes and dances until it turns off, then he goes and starts all over.

Here he is trying to blow out his candle before we even got it to him. This was the only time he tried to blow his candle out. We couldn't get him to do it for his birthday cake or at his birthday party.

This is Kai blowing his candle out, it was so cute!

Kai's play group went to the Farm on his Birthday, which I thought would be the perfect activity for him. He enjoyed looking at all the animals, but thought they were all dogs and he did his "whoof" noise the entire time we were there. You can see in this picture his lips are pursed saying it :)

"Here chicky chicky!"

He loves to play in the dirt and rocks. Here is his all-boy dirty face.

He was actually pretty good at opeing his gifts, but this is the only picture I have of him with his present. He got his activity table in the morning and a touch and feel book and bath tub boat after dinner.

Here is his really cute cake he got from Cold Stone. I was really happy with how it turned out. Kai really likes ice cream so I thought this cake was fitting.

I thought this picture was SO FUNNY!
Scared of the smoke I guess :)

Sugar rush!

Food Coma...

Ben's Birthday

Well, the old man turned 29 this year (sounds like a big celebration is in order for next year).

Here he is with his breakfast burrito from Rancheritos, go ahead and judge us we LOVE these things!

He's actually on the phone with work right now, but he popped his head in to pose for a picture. Don't ask me why he answered his phone right before we were going to sit down for breakfast, I had to sit and stare at my burrito while it called my name for what felt like forever ;)