Fiesta!

We had Miles's 1st Birthday Fiesta on Saturday. We felt so blessed to celebrate with family and a few friends.

The dining room table...I set out his scrapbook and baby book for people to look at. Plus, party favors, cupcakes, the smash cake, and a place for donations.

In lieu of gifts, we asked people to donate travel sized toiletries to be donated to Mobile Loaves and Fishes. We filled this bucket...and then some!

A set of Maracas for party favors!

The smash cake

In the kitchen we had our Mexican buffet...I didn't get a great pic of the whole table, but we had quesadillas, tamales, queso, fruit, veggies, and lots of chips, salsa, and dips :) Of course, we had beer and margaritas, too ;)

The birthday boy modeling his sombrero






So, we are just getting the party started...kids all playing out side on the swing set, in the water table, and in the bounce house. When all of a sudden... a SNAKE drops from the tree. Not just any snake, but a 6 FOOT long giant, humongous, scary looking snake. All the moms and kids ran inside and all the dads ran outside to check it out. Jon first tried to get it with a shovel...no success. So he brought out the pellet gun (with a scope;)) and eventually killed it. So gross. and so crazy.


All the guys, checking out the snake situation...







Once the snake crisis was handled, we got back to the fun! Miles loves his new water table from Mimi and Papa :)





Enjoying some grub with his best bud, Chase.





Cake time!





Not sure what to think at first...





With our sweet boy...

He totally got into he cake.

He loved it, but who's idea was it to get black icing on the smash cake...oops ;)

Next up, Pinata! We got a pull string pinata, since there were so many little ones. The idea of a bunch of stick-wielding toddlers and preschoolers scared me ;) Rather than having them take turns, Jon had the (genius) idea to have everyone grab a string at the same time...

Woohoo!!! Candy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to all our friends and family for celebrating with us!

And thank you for your generous donations! The people of Austin will SOOO appreciate all your donations!