Cannon's 1st Birthday Party

Well, my baby boy is officially one!! It is so bittersweet!! I am so happy for him to be growing up and reaching new milestones, but also sad that we are officially done with babies at the Mitchell house. We just about have Cannon off of bottles. He is moving to one nap a day too, which I am actually thrilled with! We have our mornings back for running around and fun and then come back for naps in the early afternoon. He's walking and seems to be picking up new words daily. Today, he was trying to say "Peek a Boo!" while hiding his eyes with his hands. He was saying, "Teep a poo!". SO STINKIN' CUTE!!

Us snapping a few pics before the chaos began!

The whole family!! Aren't I lucky to be surrounded by all of these handsome guys?
We had a cowboy themed party since it is rodeo time around here! I've always wanted to have a rodeo party for one of the boys and luckily, Cannon's birthday fell just at the right time!

His giant boot cake that Nana made for him. Notice a little smudge missing from the front? Cade woke up from his nap and came into the kitchen with icing all over his face. I asked him if he got into the cake and he said, "Nope! No, I didn't!". Hmmmm.....

Cannon enjoying the cake. He didn't really dig in and go after it. Though, being kid #3, it isn't like he hadn't had cake before!!Plus, who needs cake when you have cheetoes? A boy after my own heart!

I had gotten all of the boys these belts made with their names on them and they were adorable! Cannon's, unfortunately, is a little too tight! I had it on the last hole and he was squeezed in it, so I pulled it off of him.

The weather, well, it sucked! It was one of the coldest, rainiest days we have seen all winter!! AND, to make it even worse, we've been enjoying beautiful days in the 80's and then we get this on a day when we will have a house full of kids?? I had rented a big moonwalk. The big kids went out in it and freezed their tails off.

I really don't know how they could stand it out there!

Luckily, Ruffles the clown showed up, so we had some inside entertainment as well! Ruffles did tattoos, face (and arm...) painting and balloon art.

Notice Carson and Cade's belts. Love 'em! AND, Matt made them Pat Green t-shirts that they will be sporting at the rodeo this week. That's a whole other topic, but those boys are ECSTATIC about going to hear Pat.

Cannon was all about biting the balloons... We are so lucky to have such great friends! A lot of our friends from all over came to celebrate Cannon's big day. We don't exactly live close to anyone anymore, so it was so sweet of them to come. Cannon was trying to swipe Jay Banks' hat here...

He had a great time chatting up Dylan! (And stealing his hat too...)

THEN, Cannon just woke up looking like a full on toddler today. Look how old he looks!

He opened all of his presents this am, with the help of his brothers..

We had a great party, despite the crappy weather!! THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!!!

In other, non-birthday, news:

The big boys had go Texan Day at school last week. Carson looking just too handsome!

Cade looking so stinkin' adorable!And Batman jammies! My boys really love their super hero pj's. Cade's superman jammies with the cape were in the washer tonight and he was HACKED off!
We have a crazy week ahead of us! The big boys are on spring break, I'm at the height of busy sesason at work and Matt is still volunteering out at the rodeo. GOOD TIMES!