Owen's & John's Mickey Birthday Party!

Owen is now a whole year old (and John just turned 33!)   Because Owen's birthday is just four days after John's they will probably be sharing family birthday parties for many, many years.  I decided that the theme of Owen's 1st birthday party would be Mickey Mouse.  Not super original but he loves the show when it's on and I figure with big sister the way she is there won't as much Mickey watching in his future as she had!

The party was last Saturday and it was John's actual birthday.  I still had lots of stuff to do that morning so John gladly left with Megan to have some quality Daddy-Daughter time.  They went to Home Depot for the Kids' Workshop, went to Burger King for lunch, went to Megan's first movie theater experience and then picked up this cute Mickey balloon bouquet for Owen!

Here's the picture the Gennrich side of the family is waiting to see.  Grandpa not only sampled a couple cupcakes before the party started but he also modeled the Mickey party hats for us!  It fits you well, Grandpa!

I wanted to do something different for the meal so we had a waffle buffet!  I figured everyone, especially kids, love breakfast foods and, as coincidence would find us, my Grandma had a Mickey waffle iron!  In addition to the Mickey waffles we also had Belgian and oatmeal waffles with an assortment of toppings.  A ginormous fruit salad, scrambled eggs and Mackenthun's made breakfast sausages rounded off the buffet line.  We sure were hungry as there was not much food left!

Owen hadn't had an afternoon nap so by time presents rolled around he wasn't in the best mood.  He was excited to see this big box though!  Megan did the honors of opening the gifts and she especially loves anything in wrapping paper.  This was the first present to be opened and it was a big John Deere tractor which pretty much stopped the whole party.  Owen got a lot of other nice presents too: clothes, rocking chair, jammies, bath toys and money :)  Thank you!

We took a little time for some candid photos after presents were over.  Here is a cousin pile-up on the couch!!

The birthday boys!

Owen showing off his new rocking chair!  I guess this next year is really going to "rock" for him...

And we tried to get a new family picture.  It's harder than you'd think to get four people looking and smiling at the same time!

 

Finally, the moment we all were waiting for!  Owen's smash cake time!!  A big shout out to Grandma Lewis for making this Pluto cake for Owen to demolish.  Marshmallows for the nose and eyes and fruit rollups, frosted for the ears, and plain for the tongue.  I love it!!!  Owen loved playing with it, not so much the frosting or cake.  He got fussy towards the end and we gave him his pacifier but he wouldn't even take that after he got it covered in frosting.

 

 

 

 

I made cupcakes but John had requested a DQ ice cream blizzard cake.  Needless-to-say we had a lot of desserts!!

 

What a fun party!  Thank you to all who were able to join in the fun!  Let's do it again next year!