It's My Party...And I'll Cry If I Want To!!

Saturday we held a party to celebrate Canon's birthday.  We invited a couple of families from our ward here and a family from our old ward came out too.  We served our classic Philly Steak Sandwiches for lunch and had cake and ice cream.

For Canon's first time opening presents, he did exactly what I expected... more interested in the wrapping, and wanting to take the time to play with the first item instead of moving to the next gift.  The other kids were more excited about Canon's presents than he was.  When it came to the birthday cake, Canon was really mad that Mark strapped into the chair.  But in the end, I'd say he's a  NATURAL.  I can hardly stand how cute he was diving right into that cake.  You can even see the frosting in his eyelashes.  A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!! I think it's safe to say that Canon likes carrot cake and the cream cheese frosting.

Thanks to our good friend Eric Stevenson for being our cameraman, here is a movie with all the birthday party footage.  I won't be offended if you don't want to watch it all because it's about 11 1/2 minutes, but you'll definitely miss out if you don't watch it to the end.  During the present opening, you'll notice that I got a big surprise out of some family news.  (Just pay attention when we're opening the yellow envelope what was mailed to us...)

Enjoy the movie and a slew of cute birthday pictures!  

To watch the video, click here.

I bought a simple cake decorating kit, and this is what I came up with. It was my first ever decorated cake (other than the bunny cakes I did for Easter.  Those were decorated with candy and stuff, so they don't count. It's a totally different ballpark.) I was quite proud of my Tigger Cake.  The brown is chocolate frosting, and the orange and pink colors are dyed vanilla/cream cheese frostings.

Daddy helped Canon open his presents.  He was really interested in the first book.  :)

Canon enjoying the wrapping 

Mmm!  Mommy, this cake is so yummy!

*Gasp* This is delicious!

I think I missed a piece.

Nope, I got it!

Can I have a birthday party everyday?

Can't talk now... eating!

Oh yeah!  SO GOOD!

And my all-time favorite picture...

Happy birthday, Canon!!