Happy 1st Birthday Gavin!

This year Gavin's birthday lands the day before Thanksgiving. Next year Gavin's birthday will be on Thanksgiving and I will always be thankful for Gavin no matter what day his birthday is and no matter what day we have to celebrate. This year it we celebrated on November 15th. I went back and forth over where to have the party. There are not a lot of options for winter one year old birthday parties. I happened to find that McDonald's was an excellent option. It includes set up, take down, a birthday cake and ice cream as well as happy meals and party favors for the kids. What more could you want as a mom. The kids all had a great time and all we had to do was show up. Gavin ate the majority of a very large piece of birthday cake. Everyone said "oh he will just smear it everywhere they never really eat it." Oh he ate it and then he ate some more he was generous enough to offer a handful to his friend Alyssa who is 6 and saw this half chewed piece of chocolate cake extended to her and politely declined it. He had great friends, great food and great fun! I would call it a success. He now has so many toys that I don't intend to buy him much if anything for Christmas since he won't remember or know the difference. He received a very cute toddler 4 wheeler from his Aunt, Uncle and Great-Grandpa that he has taken too quite nicely. At first he didn't know how to drive it but then one day I was just sitting in the living room and he came zipping past with a very large smile on his face. So cute! The only bummer of the party was that I, the planner, forgot of all things to charge the batteries in my camera and video camera we got a lot of footage but we missed some of the cake. If you are out there with any photos of this please send them my way.