Cole's 1st Birthday Party

We had Cole's birthday party today! Mommy wasn't thinking and totally forgot that this weekend was Memorial Day weekend! But we had a good time! We went to the park and Ms. Carolyn, Uncle Tommy, Aunt Nicole, Ashlea and Kelly all came to celebrate with us! Thank you all SOOOOO much for coming!! We had a picnic lunch of sandwiches, chips and soda and then played for a little bit before opening presents and having some cake. The red on the picnic blanket came out more pink than red...but oh well! LOL! After cake, Cole was pretty much done for, so we packed up, said goodbye and headed home for a nap! :-) It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun!

Eating lunch!
Ryan the Cow
The truck from Ms. Carolyn!
Learning farm from mommy, daddy and brother
Cell phone from Grandma Judy
Reading the card from Ashlea and Kelly
Waiting for cake!
The smash cake!
It was a little too windy to get the candle to stay lit
Ryan eating cake
Starting to demolish the bear
Kelly with his taco chips and cake! LOL!
Still working on it!

Yummy!
I don't want it to be gone!
Ms. Carolyn and Cole
Aunt Nicole, Uncle Tommy and Cole
Cole watching Kelly go down the slide.

Video of Cole eating his cake. :-)

Saturday...

So my dreams of sleeping in were crushed when the boys woke up around 6am and decided to crawl and drool all over me! Apparently I looked like I wanted to wake up. I managed to doze a little while they were being silly and finally woke up around 8am and got the boys downstairs and got them some breakfast. Then I got them both in the bath and dressed cute. I showered and got dressed, then Josh got up, ate breakfast and showered. We ran some errands and then put together a picnic so we could head to the park. It was a really beautiful day so it was nice to be outside. Josh had to go into work for a few hours. So the boys and I went home and took a nap, then when Josh got home we went to an empty parking lot so Ryan could practice riding his bike. He's doing a GREAT job!! I'm really impressed! However the saddest news of the day, my beloved camera died. :-( A WEEK before Cole's first birthday and I have NO camera. I'm really trying to see if there is any way I can manage squeezing some money out of our budget for a new one, but I just don't see how it is going to happen. The biggest downer is that my camera was my photo camera AND my video camera...so I'm left with NOTHING...this totally sucks!! RIP wonderful camera...you were SO good to me! Here are the finally pictures and video taken by it at the park...

Cole is a walking man!!!

Cole walking...

I finally got video of Cole walking!!! It's not great, but you can see him. :-) He's doing great! He's actually trying to walk first and crawl second! YAY! Cole!