the birthday cakes...
oh my goodness...the highlight of the party! who would have thought it?!? the kids LOVED the bobbing for apples...
all the girls had a great time getting their nails and faces painted...
sweet mcintosh sisters...kathryn and lauren...
the herrington kids...
nana sat with baby jacob in the driveway and he played with dice :) he was totally unimpressed with all of the carnival games his daddy built for his party!!!
sarah and ava. both of them had freshly painted nails...thus the pretty hands in their laps!
drew lovin' on one of his many lady friends...this time its sarah katherine...
the kids decorating their treat bags...
more apple bobbing...
drew and kate throwing bean bags with all of their might...
this is where baby jake spent the majority of his party. poor little guy. can't even catch a break on his own birthday!!!
hudson and maddox enjoyed their lunch together. so cute...
the higginbothams attempting the football toss...
yea for baby jacob!!! my 3rd child who has no tricks learned to clap about 3 days before his party! i would highly recommend delaying the teaching of clapping until then. makes for some precious 1st birthday party pics!!!
sweet little guy just sat there in the middle of a mob while all the kids sang. i was so surprised he didn't start crying! it was a little overwhelming to say the least!!!
g.g. making sure jacob was enjoying his cake!
sarah, baby jake, and drew...
obligatory cake pictures. he's an ole pro at sweets!!!
kids decided the bean bag toss made a great fort!
drew and his bff ava...
didn't i just post a picture exactly like this?!?
all the kiddos enjoying the candy walk...dancing to the monster mash...
moved the candy walk into the garage after the wind started blowing the place markers around!
drew the fireman carrying his spiderman costume...
miss alison grabbing some jacob sugar...
it took us a while to realize mary mcrae was sneaking gumballs the whole time she was quietly sitting on the couch!!!
annabeth and nina...
mary mcrae and anna leigh...
family pic...minus mac...
what was left of the apple bobbing station. the kids were hilarious. we were bribing them away from the apples with candy! isn't it supposed to be the other way around?!?
after the party, the family stayed to watch baby jacob open his presents. [after jacob's mid-party bath, tim asked what to dress jake in. i told him to grab anything. i thought it was self explanatory to grab an outfit that actually fit and was appropriate for the weather...i guess i was assuming too much!]
an attempt at a family picture...~~~~~~~
i had a really really really hard time deciding what to do for jake's 1st birthday party. i wanted to avoid "halloween" as we will probably be having birthday/halloween bashes for the next 17 years...i finally settled on a carnival theme. i figured with 4 kids, 1 with a halloween birthday, we would get a LOT of use out of carnival games! so, i put handy daddy to work...he built a football toss, a bean bag toss, and ring toss, and a grand prize game...we had those "booths" along with a candy walk, soccer kick, face and nail painting, apple bobbing, and duck picking game. we were going to have sack races, but the yard was still really soggy from the 49 inches of rain we received in september and october :( the kids all had a great time and i think the parents did too! i couldn't have gotten the whole party together without the help of my grandmother, uncle rob, aunt josette, and cousin chelsea who came over early on saturday and let me boss them around all morning :) the weather could NOT have been more perfect...i know a lot of people were praying for the beautiful day we received! i am so thankful for all of our family and friends who spent part of their halloween to celebrate jake's 1st birthday!!!
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