Happy Birthday Trent! You're one!

What a fun, fun day. And Trent did not disappoint.

We sang to him to get him out of his crib in the morning, and he was very excited. "This is so fun mom and dad! Let's do this every morning!" Tim had the day off of work, so Trent is always very excited for that. Then at 10 am, Trent's picture was on Good Things Utah on ABC for a Happy Birthday wish.


The rest of the day was spent getting ready for a little birthday boy party. I spent the day in the kitchen, and when the going got tough, Tim ended up there too. First, the football and helmet shaped sugar cookies for Trent's football party (yes, we are imposing football on our boy before he knows what he likes himself) didn't seem to look like footballs and helmets after they expanded and fell in the oven. This is where the "humble yourself and ask for help" part came in, and I called my new sister-in-law to recruit her cookie decorating skills. Then we had footballs and helmets again. When I didn't have food coloring, Genius Allison used Koolaid to color the helmets. Wow!



The cookie saving was imperative since I had already had a birthday cake disaster. My two layered cake, which yes I have done successfully in the past, broke like the Great Andres Fault on top, and it looked horrible! This is when Tim said, "Let's build a football kickstand and put a football on the cake." Which perhaps rendered my 'I Can Have a Good Attitude about this Cake' sign unnecessary. It read: This cake represents our hearts: Broken because our boy is growing up so fast, but full of love and sweetness for how much we love our little boy. See. Can we be impressed? I am trying to have a good attitude about my cookie and then cake disasters. Both fixed by dear husband and sister.

(We didn't take enough photos of the decorations, and here, the football eventually was placed on top the cake.)

Luckily I am really good at spending money at the party store, so we had cute decorations, a football goal post on the wall, little chocolate footballs on the table, a football crockpot, a penalty flag, D-Fence hat for Trent, streamers, balloons, coordinating green and brown. Yes. I am good at spending the monies.

We had a lot of fun blowing amazing Gymboree bubbles. They are amazing!





It was so super fun. Trent loves bananas, so we gave him a banana cream pie for his cake. This part in the kitchen was complicated. We made it from scratch, and this was one of those recipes that says, "Add the butter, add a part of the egg yolk then add the whole thing, then spin around and somersault, all the while don't stop stirring the custard! Thank goodness Tim and I were both there so we had four hands. Trent did a great job with his pie being excited and putting on a show. Don't stand too close, banana cream pie is flying.

Want some pie Uncle Curt?

At this moment, the house is still a disaster, but I choose to blog. Trent got more presents than can be taken in by a little boy, so I daresay I'll be hiding those presents and taking them out a few weeks at a time. Smart mommy huh.

Logan was a very good elder cousin and wanted to make sure Trent knew how excited he should be about each toy. Logan is so cute with his common new toy response, "Oh no! What should we do!?"

I don't think Trent knew at first this was a basketball standard, but I do know he was really excited about the big box to bang.

He loves his basketball hoop!

It was so fun to have great people celebrating with us. Thanks Jason and Meradith and Stephanie for designating themselves as photographers. We definitely needed that. And thanks Nanas for your help always.

Isn't this a great treasure of a photo. Trent with his Grandpas.

Birthday boy after his banana cream pie bath.

Princess Lucia and Little Man Trent

And thank you for reading. All of you people are so kind to let us spoil our child with love and attention so ridiculously and to still put up with us. Trent is lucky to have so much love!