Happy Birthday To Our Sweet Little OWEN

On December 29 Owen turned the BIG 1! And what a fun and special day that was. I always had mixed feelings about having a baby so close to Christmas, but sometimes that just happens, and I was actually really happy with how much it felt like Owen's special day and not just another day looped in with all the holidays. We started off the day with a laid back morning so we could party hard later in the day. For lunch my parents treated us to some yummy Red Robin (ya I like to start em' young), and we even had the waiters sing to Owen! It was so cute. Then after lunch was met up with Cory's dad, sister, and three of Owen's cousins at Monkey Joe's. This is a super fun play place that has huge blow-up slides and bouncy things that Owen has in heaven with. He LOVED the slides, and we even let him go down by himself! He would just giggle all the way down. Owen was probably the youngest one crawling around and going down the slides, which made it a little difficult, but we all still had a lot of fun! Owen's oldest cousin Colby (10) really loves taking care of and playing with Owen. He helped me out the whole time we were there and would take Owen up and down the slides over and over again. It was so sweet. Owen is truly blessed with AWESOME cousins on both sides!! Then it was back home for a quick afternoon nap before the party started. For his party we had all of our family in the area come over to my parents house, where we ate some yummy food, opened lots of fun presents, and watched Owen dig in to his very own cake, which is pretty much the main event at all 1 year old birthday parties. :) We really felt so blessed and lucky to have so many family members their to help celebrate Owen's birthday. It wasn't until we got back home to Battle Creek, after New Years, when everything started to sink in and I got emotional thinking about how fast the time has gone from when Owen was born. How quickly that first year goes by, and how much our little one had changed. Just one of many of my sappy mom moments.
Happy Birthday to our sweet sweet Owen!! You have made our lives the happiest they have ever been! We love you so much and are blessed beyond words to have you as our little boy. Love, Mama and Dada