barberic wife: Hudson's birthday party

We celebrated Hudson's birthday on the Saturday before his birthday (his birthday was on Tuesday). We invited many friends and family to come and celebrate our little guy! I think we ended up having 43 people--which is a lot for the size of our house, but thankfully the weather cooperated and people could eat and play outside. We kept the party pretty low key, since we had been out of town the Tuesday-Thursday before the party. Thankfully, our friends Matt & Julie kept the boys for a few hours on Friday, and we were able to bake, decorate, clean, mow the grass, and get other party preparation done (without the boys).

We followed what we have done in the past and had an 11:30am party. It gave Hudson a chance to take a morning nap and then have a while before he would be tired again for an afternoon nap. We also like to do a full meal when we are inviting that many people from out of town. With family coming from Marshfield, Green Ridge, Rolla, Kansas City, Marshall, and Higginsville, we want to make it worth their time to come. We decided to keep it simple by getting pizza, and then having fruit, chips, cookies, cake and ice cream. We had lunch, hung out, and then sang 'Happy Birthday' and watched to see how Hudson would react to the cake. I think he liked the cake part, but could do without the icing. He kept trying to get the icing off his hands, or give it to me, but when he actually got a bite of cake, he enjoyed it. Most of our friends left after dessert since it was coming up on nap time for their children. So we opened his gifts after that with family...and then he went down for a nap!

We had such a great day celebrating Hudson! I never take as many pictures as I wish I would have....but I do have some to share :)