Mother's Day and Oliver's Birthday

One week ago my little man turned 1 year old. We had his birthday at Matthew and Hillary's house since they have a large enough yard to hold everyone. This was a hard day for me because I woke up with one of the worst migraines I've had in a long time. I had wanted to make Oliver's cake myself, and I wanted to spend the afternoon just playing with him. I did get the cakes baked for his birthday, but never did get around to frosting them (even with Nolan home to help me) and instead of playing with OLiver that afternoon, I sent him off with my mom. I had to enlist the help of my terrific oldest sister to get him a cake. At least Nolan got to take him to the park in the morning. By the time of the party I was feeling well enough to actually leave my couch and join the party. My SIL was great enough to take pictures for me.





Nolan made a pinata for the party. He wanted it to be as indestructible, but still breakable as he could. So there were two layers of cardboard, separated by wooden dowels to support the entire structure. We didn't even bother with blindfolds, and everyone who went at it got 3 hits as hard as they could. The person to break it? Grandpa Jensen.

So, since Oliver loves food, I thought that he would just dig into his cake and make a huge mess. Nope, he decided that he would rather just pick off the M&Ms and eat those instead of the cake. As you can see he was very careful just to get the M&Ms.

I've decided to copy my sister, and ask to get family portraits done for Mother's day. Mother's day happens to coincide with OLiver's birthday, so we did both family portraits and first birthday pictures. My favorite out of these 3 is the "E" photo.

I love the pictures! I can't wait til they're ready for pick up! I am so excited to do this each year.