Paxton’s Birthday Party: Mama & Daddy

Paxton’s Birthday Party: Guests

I tried to take pictures of Paxton with all of his party guests! I didn’t get pictures with everybody but did get some good shots!

I call this the “I love Nic” picture!

Sweet picture of Amanda and Paxton!

With Aunt Loretta and Uncle Jeff! He looks so happy!

With Aunt Pat and Uncle Bobby…I took about 12 of them and he wasn’t cooperating! Of course photographing a 1-year-old is hard!

With Aunt Diane…again no cooperation from the newest 1-year-old!

{One of the pictures I was unable to get was a shot with Paxton and his Aunt Rebekah and Cousin Emmy! Emmy slept through the fun parts of the party…presents and cake!}

Paxton’s Birthday Party: Grandparents

Paxton had a great time with his grandparents at his party! We didn’t get any ‘nice’ pictures of him with his grandparents just some ‘action’ shots with him munching on his cake!!

With grandmother and papaw. Love this shot…especially his arm sticking straight out into his papaw’s mouth!

With nanie and grandaddy! Love the crossed legs and that expression on his face!

With nana and papaw! Looking straight at the camera with a cake beard!!

With papaw and mamaw! Still with crossed feet…so stinkin’ adorable!!

Paxton’s Birthday Party: The Cake

I made cupcakes and a tiny smash  cake for Paxton topped with a “1″! His daddy and I blew out the candle {and I was holding the flaming cake out of Paxton’s reach! At one point he tried to touch the flame…boys!}

He had a bit of a slow, somewhat neat start to the cake!

Then daddy held it up for him and he really got into it!! Oh my goodness, the laughter in the room watching this boy eat cake! It was wonderful!

He just dug right in resulting in frosting and cake all over his face!

Look at those gorgeous eyes…

At one point he was holding the cake like a sandwich!

And he even shared with Papaw!

There was cake everywhere, all over his hands, on his belly, all over his face, in his hair, all over the high chair, in the floor but it was so worth every bit of mess!! He promptly was taken to the bathtub and bathed!

{And I snapped this shot of his sweet crossed little feet while he was nibbling cake!}

To be continued…

Paxton’s Birthday Party: Opening Presents

After lunch we opened presents! Paxton enjoyed opening but was quite focused on getting cameras, cell phones or video cameras!

We started off opening his biggest present…

A slide!!! We’re going to have so much fun this summer playing on the slide! {Daddy put it together after the birthday party and Paxton and his cousin Emerson enjoyed sliding! Emerson slid probably 50 times in a row!!}

New shoes!!

New clothes! He was quite excited at this moment!!

A new book! He received several books and we’re all going to enjoy reading them! He just simply loves books and I enjoy new stories to read to him!!

Having a wonderful time at his party surrounded by family who love him!

And of course, one of the things that excited him the most was hangers! Kids just love the simple things!!

To be continued…