Noah's First Birthday

Sunday we celebrated Noah's first birthday at his other grandparents' home. Will and Ginger live right off the Blue Ridge Parkway in the mountains of North Carolina. Just gorgeous. It was a great party. Jessie had worked so hard....especially on this cute little teddy bear cake for Noah. She said it took hours to ice it. She did each and every tuft of fur. Wow. She also had a beautiful spread of goodies....she had helped Ginger the day before cook and bake. Especially yummy was the homemade french bread and Jessie's warm spinach dip. I made some bacon wrapped water chestnuts and brought cut up fresh veggies and dip. Noah LOVED the little chocolate cake that was just his. He was a little timid at first...then started going for it. Bigtime. He's a chocolate lover like his daddy.

It was so cool to drive up Ginger and Will's long driveway and see this banner on their back upper deck. It was huge. Michelle made it for them and sent it from Georgia. It was really cute. It was all done in the blue and brown that Jessie had as the colors for the party. Some of the polka dots were outlined, some not. I think her writing is terrific. She should sell these. She also made a great one for Megan's graduation in June. Cute!

Noah loved playing outside after all the inside festivities. Ginger and I were watching him play with his cousins and Uncle Josh, when he just seemed to beg to get into his little pool. Ginger put him in.....and we just laughed at his reaction. We think he must have been thinking he had the coolest grandmas around that let him get into the pool with his clothes on. Jessie said if Noah was happy, she was happy.

We got him a soccer ball...which he loved. We also got him lots of books. He liked them a lot. But I think his favorite thing was the plastic bin we got him to put his books in. He climbed right in it.
Happy Birthday Noah!!!