Grant's First Birthday Party!

We had a beautiful, sunny day to celebrate Grant's first birthday!! My parents were so kind as to provide the party location...many of the birthdays in our family are in the summer so the lake just feels like the right place to have birthday parties! (We were missing a few special people this day.  Especially sad was Aunt Meg - she was in Seattle being a big girl and working hard!  We celebrated with Grant's other grandparents a few days later in VA!)

Thanks to Pinterest and Etsy I was filled with birthday decoration ideas. I don't think I will have as much inspiration (or as much time to think about it) in years to come and Grant will only turn one once so I make no apologies! I'm didn't really want a theme but bright and colorful was what seemed to emerge.

My friend Katie has an amazing cake recipe that my mom offered to make Grant (along with her famous icing). He had his own smash cake!

First there was birthday singing....


First birthday singing!! from Chelsea Tedder on Vimeo.

Then he thoroughly enjoyed cake eating :)

Love my birthday cake! from Chelsea Tedder on Vimeo.

Sweet family and friends came to celebrate with us.

We opened some presents.

There was lots of time for play...

Including leftover fun with decorations the following day :)