Andy, Kristen, and our boys(+ 1 princess): Knox Turns 1!

It's hard to believe that it has already been a year since we met Knox. This year has been filled with so many wonderful moments. It's hard to remember what life was like before Knox was here. I feel so blessed with our family. Enjoy some pictures from his special day (week).

Here is Knox on the morning of his birthday waking up.

Knox LOVES scrambles eggs, so I made him eggs with cheese, and of course he had his morning banana. (both my boys have a banana every morning!) He was also trying milk for the first time, and he is not a fan. Neither was Drew and he still isn't.

I needed to move the straps up on Drew's car seat so they were playing with it. I don't know why it's so fun to be in your car seat when you don't have to be. We had a cushier car seat for Drew (Britax), but I passed it on to Knox and ended up buying Drew a less expensive car seat that converts to a booster (etc.) I have been very pleased with it.

Knox's party was a lot of fun. It was very casual (and so easy to plan for). I made the cakes and we ordered pizza. We had a few friends and family come celebrate. It was perfect for a 1 year old birthday party, and I had nothing to stress over.

Here's our family picture before the party got started.

Knox received a kitchen for his big present from us. My mom found a great one at a yard sale that was like new and the boys have LOVED it!

Here's Knox with his apron on.

Here is when the kitchen was brought out. All of the kids flocked to it.

These are some of my dearest friends Christi and Tara. I'm so blessed to have them in my life! Of course they were there to celebrate with us.

Here is Drew with a few of his friends, Rae-Rae and Landon (who are brother and sister)

Knox was checking out the kids eating and I was planning on not giving him pizza for his dinner. I thought "he's too little to have something so unhealthy", but when he saw it that was it. He made it very clear he wanted to try it and he scarfed it down. Now that he likes pizza it does make it easier when we have our weekend family pizza/movie night.

I found invitations on sale and they had a frog on, so that became our theme. And when I say theme, I mean what the cake was going to be. I found a simple frog cake design on line and I was able to replicate it. Then I just made a small cake for Knox to dig into (which he didn't). Oh, well.