Matthew Turns 1!!

I can't believe it's been a whole year since we welcomed our near-11 pound sweet Matthew into our family!  What a joy he has been and such a wonderful, perfect addition to our family!  I'm thinking I'm going to do a post all about Sweet Matthew tomorrow, so for now I'll just share his birthday party pictures!

We had a red, white, and blue sailboat theme and we celebrated with close family and friends while we were home for Thanksgiving.  It was a perfect day, even though Matthew had to go down for nap for part of his party!

Happy Birthday Matthew!

We had balloons, hanging balls, and sea gulls!

Our cake matched the invitation and Matthew had his own little cake to eat as well!

Matthew was so excited, he could hardly stand it!

The cake sitting on decorative red fabric and fishing net.

And of course we had to have Robin's cookies!  They also matched the invitation perfectly!

My grandmother put the sailboat stickers on the back of the cookies.

The front entryway welcoming our guests!

12 months of Matthew!

We took a quick family picture before everyone arrived!

My favorite part of the day was finally meeting my cousin's sweet little one!  It was a task taking their picture all together!

Matthew was holding her hand!

We ate brunch and had such good food!  We also had orange juice, tea, chocolate milk, and lime water.

And we had a lot of food!

Matthew was not nearly as interested in his cake as JM was!

But he did eventually dive in and eat a little.

He also had a certain little "helper" to help him eat his cake!

John Michael could not resist helping Matthew!

Afterwards, Matthew opened a few presents and some sweet cards!  We had an awesome afternoon and had such a fun time celebrating Matthew's first year with us!