Red Velvet Cake

For every one of my birthday's I've wanted my mom to make me a Red Velvet Cake. I had it for my 1st birthday and wanted to continue the tradition with Sawyer. I made my first cake from scratch for Sawyer's birthday party! I even made the cake topper (Jon helped a bit with cutting out the figures :-})! It wasn't easy hot-gluing all those Popsicle sticks together, so I was very proud of my little creation!

I'm pretty sure Sawyer liked it too! :-} Nothing like giving a baby his first taste of sugar!


Takin' a little break...

...And diggin' back in :-}

Sawyer's Birthday Party!

We had a birthday party for Sawyer at my parents house last weekend. Family and friends joined us for a couple hours and watched Sawyer try to figure out how to open presents! He looked around with a confused, almost worried, look on his face for awhile, but I think he might have been frustrated with the hat on his head :-}

Once again I fail as a photo-taking Mommy... We didn't get any pics of Sawyer, Jon and I together as a family... And even the ones we did take of Mommy & Daddy with Sawyer weren't that good - BUMMER! Here's the best ones.


Now, the worried face. "What's going on?" "Why is everyone looking at me and saying my name?"!


PRESENTS! Mommy showed Sawyer what to do, and he caught on a little bit!


Then, he chilled out with his favorite part of opening presents - Chewing on the paper and bows!

One Never Looked SO Cute!

Here is Sawyer on the morning of his FIRST Birthday :-}

Sawyer Makes a Friend

The day before Sawyer's 1st Birthday was beautiful weather-wise. Jon ended up not having to work, so we packed up and headed to the FREE Como Zoo (So nice that it's free)! Since it is still a little chilly all the animals aren't out yet... But we got to see some Monkeys, Lions, really stinky Giraffe's, and Sawyer made friends with a Tortuous!

First 70 Degree Day Playing in the Park

Little Sawyer has had cabin fever for about 2 months now (like most northerners get at the end of a long, cold winter)! Finally, we had a warm day and were able to go to the park and play. It was great! We went as a family and brought Texas along too. We walked around a lake near our home and Sawyer got to check out Ducks and all kinds of other people and their dogs enjoying the day! Then we let him out of the stroller to run around and explore dirt, grass and trees for the first time :-}

Blowing Raspberries

Sawyer loves blowing raspberries! He'll get your arm or leg if it's bare, or anything else he can find :-}

One COOL Dude!

Easter

Easter Egg hunt at church.


The whole happy family!

Sawyer and Mommy wrestling around :-}