Now on to the festivities!

Starting off with some red almond blueberry pancakes for birthday breakfast. Reese snarfed like six pancakes!

And of course we had to throw him a party! It's not like you turn UNO everyday. I saw on another blog that someone made their son an UNO shirt for their first birthday so I just took the idea and ran with it and it was so fun! I didn't know this about myself, but I really like planning parties! Originally I was only going to invite family and just make it a small get-together, but that didn't last long. Pretty soon the guest list included 14 adults and 9 kids! But people didn't show which was disappointing but a lot less stress. It turned out to be just right with the Crandalls, Fuquas, and Nakayas.

The Decor

We started off the night with an UNO competition. Jeff won the prize box which included a word search book, candy, and a High School Musical UNO card game.

Next up was the pinata. I made this a little too strong, the kids had a hard time breaking it open. Note to self: take cereal box out, only use newspaper layers, and put the candy in after it's dry.

I was nervous that the kids, especially Reese, would be scared or intimidated by the pinata because when you hit it, it was a pretty loud smack. But they all LOVED it! Reese had a big grin on his face the whole time.

They took turns, youngest to oldest. Ryder was after Reese...

...followed by Carson (he kept hitting lefty)...

...then Yuki with some "help" from Masaru...

...Jory and then Masaru (but I don't have a picture of him actually hitting it)...

but after a few rounds we had to break out the big guns. Adam finally had to beat it to death to get it open.

Then it was cake time!

Thanks for your help, Melissa! It turned out awesome!

After we got the cake cleaned off of Reese, he opened a ton of presents! He got so spoiled! Thanks Mom, Jeff & Julie, Stacy & Keith, Melissa & Dru, Chelsie & Shawn!