Mason's First Birthday Party!

Happy First Birthday to our little Peanut! Mason doesn't technically turn one until tomorrow, but we celebrated yesterday. Here are some highlights...

The theme of Mason's first birthday was "On the Green" for two reasons. One, everything had an environmentally friendly focus (we even asked guests to keep their gifts "green") and two, we incorporated a golf mini-tournament. Here is Uncle Justin (and Great Grandpa Saner in the background) at the course. Unfortunately it was rainy but the guys were total troopers.

Uncle Jeff came prepared with his umbrella (obviously he is one of the experienced golfers.)

The golfers included Tage, his friend Danny, Uncle Jeff, Great Grandpa Saner, Uncle Jared, Uncle Justin and Uncle Keith. The guys planned to golf 9 holes but then they decided it would be fun to ALL golf together (instead of breaking up into groups) so an hour and a half into the golf game they were only on the 3rd hole. Since there were some significant others and children waiting back at the party for them, not everyone got to finish the 9 holes.

I love Mason's golf hat. And those are Mason's first pair of shoes! One fell off in the car and he was so upset, he wanted us to put it back on immediately. I made the argyle design on Mase's shirt using this tutorial.

We are so proud of our families and friends for keeping their gifts recycled, reused and organic! There was NO wrapping paper waste and Mason got some great gifts (new organic cloth diapers, a Klean Kanteen, LOTS of new-to-us books and a few new and new-to-us toys and clothes.)

Now the cake.

The best part. :)

I ordered Mason's smash cake from Tessa at The Frosted Cake Shop. It was her first request for a low-sugar, organic cake. As you'll see, Mason approved. All I told her was that our colors were apple green, orange and brown and that it was a "golf" theme. Mase's cake looked almost exactly like the bib (which I also made!)

At first Mason gingerly picked the frosting pieces off the top of the cake and ate them one at a time.

Once he realized the cake was all his to eat, he got right down to business.

THEN when he discovered there were two delicious layers-- it was all over for that cake.

"Here Mama!"

I think Mason literally sat there for 40 minutes working meticulously on eating as much of his cake as possible. It was everywhere.

It was a wonderful day, Mason had a great time at his party and I think our family and friends did too. These are just about all of the pictures I took but Auntie Jaime took some too, so hopefully I'll have more to post later on. All week I'll be sharing the rest of the party (food, decor, activities) on the Pear Tree Events blog, so check there too.

Mason's first birthday party was intended to be a huge THANK YOU party to all of our family and friends for helping us survive our first year of parenting. We could not have done it without their support (physically, emotionally and mentally.)

We are excited for year #2. :)