This past weekend we had Ryder's 1st birthday party... Rangers themed, of course. Talk about one of the easiest themes I have ever worked with. Baseball itself has a thousand and one party options, but when you add in the fact that the Texas Rangers' colors are red and blue... OMG, so easy and inexpensive. And since I pretty much threw this whole thing together in one week, I was loving how easily everything came together. The food for this party was also so easy... hot dogs, nachos, and popcorn. No prep and hardly and clean-up. Awesome! Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves... the adult, the kids, and most importantly, the birthday boy! He was passed from person to person, enjoyed watching his cousins run around like crazy people, and walked (or should I say crawled) away with some pretty fun gifts. A pretty successful party for our mister mister.
Since Ryder does have so many cousins and little friends, I had some games planned to keep the kids busy for a portion of the party... first up, pin the bubble gum on the baseball player. Savannah came up with this game. Pretty creative. I always love watching kids play any sort of "pin the ______ on the ______" game. It's funny watching their dizzy little bodies try to get it right.
Next up, the pinata. Always a hit... kids love whacking things... kids love candy... end of story.
Each kids got some sweet Rangers shades to wear while outside waiting their turn to hit the pinata.
The last game/activity I had planned was a bubble gum blowing contest. Turns out that the gun I bought for the kids to chew for this (Big League Chew) is kind of difficult to blow bubbles with. So it came down to two of the adults at the party competing against each other. She won, he didn't.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Ryder, happy birthday to you! Cake time... which he had NO interest in. All he wanted was his bottle (have I mentioned lately how awful it is going to be to kick that habit).
A party is always better with kids... Ryder had a decent turn out... between cousins and friends, we had kids running all over the place.
Time for presents!! This is where things got crazy. Every kid there wanted to help. Ryder just sat in front of me looking at everything as it was pulled out of the bags. His big sis and older cousins were way more into the gifts than he was. It was all a tad overwhelming at that moment for him. Once we got everything home and opened it up for him, he was good to go. He has been playing with all his goods all week long. Boy made out pretty well.
Daddy and his one year old (ahhhh!!! and the bottle. Seriously, the dang bottle is in just about every picture!!!!)
Ryder and his cousin, Tex. The family now has two crazy one year olds to contend with. Watch out!
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