Cake Smash and One year photos

Well I stuck the pictures on facebook but I have to quickly put them on here as well so they can make it into the blog book...that hopefully I will get on cause I am getting behind...but this is my journal so I need to make sure I continue to make this into one. 

Anyways I always thought the little cake smash photos are cute for one year olds...and Corbin enjoys food so I thought we could get a few cute photos of him and I am pleased with how they turned out. My sister does a great job with her little photography and I sure enjoy that she does it!

At first I don't think Corbin knew it was food when I put it in front of him but as soon as he tried just a little lick of it he knew it was the good stuff..he made the mess completely by himself. Here's a few. Pure enjoyment!

I got this cake for $4 at walmart...yeah I was pleasantly surprised and impressed actually! especially cause I called and asked if they could make one within 2 hours. :)

I wanted to try to do a little bath tub clean up shoot after but Corbin wasn't up for that idea. I think he was tired at this point and way sugared out. So even though I look like a mean mom I did not leave him in the tub too long and only got these shots showing he was pretty upset. ha but he calmed down after we were down taking photos..of course.

of course I had to get one of his cute bum!!

I tried to get a few just regular shots for his one year old photos but he just wanted to play with the toys so I wasn't going to get too upset not getting any because we are suppose to take family photos this week so hopefully I can get a few then too. But I am happy with these few we got. The faces we got are ones he pulls often! :)

totally one of his faces he gives me quite often. love it

he loves reading books right now so I happy we got this shot ..hope the love for books continues..unlike me.

being silly

Big thanks once again to my sister Courtney! If you want your pictures for cheap look up Poulsen Photography! :)

Quick trip to St. George

We decided to take a quick trip down to St. George because Jesse got Memorial Day off. We just went from Sunday to Tuesday. I have not been on a trip since I have had Corbin well besides up to Bear Lake maybe? Anyways I was in need of a little get-a-away..just to have some fun away from home. 

Jesse had to work Saturday--and we did Corbin's party Saturday night-so we left Sunday morning. I must say I was really worried about how Corbin would do driving down there. I know its not way far..but he hates the car and starts to fuss within 20 minutes of being in the car if not sooner. So I was hoping that he would maybe just take a good long nap in the car...but it did not quite happen even though I thought maybe there would be a possibility if we left around nap time.. Nope. He slept 30 minutes and hated the rest of the car ride basically. But with only one stop to play at the park and eat lunch we made it to St. George-even though it wasn't the pleasant car ride...it could have been worse.

My Grandparents just recently moved down there and it was quite nice to be able to stay with them! I think they enjoyed us there as well! ;) My Grandma is so cute and spoiled us. She had us a cute little welcome sign and she even put mints under our pillows! And she made us delicious strawberry waffles for breakfast which you have to put ice cream and whipped cream on at Grandma's house! And I shouldn't just being saying Grandma is was definitely Grandpa too-all of that was probably his idea and doing right?..

Corbin enjoyed playing with Grandpa...but maybe because he allowed him to just crawl out into the street... ;)

This was a talking parrot and it would repeat what you said in a funny parrot voice...as you can tell we enjoyed it.

Anyways we mostly just wanted to relax down there and didn't plan much. We went on a little hike that we decided will be fun to go back to again when we have more kids as well. It had little pools of water once you got into the canyon that most kids would swim in. Corbin enjoyed playing in the water even though I wasn't prepared for him to get wet..oh well. It was a perfect little beautiful hike though!

My Grandparents had not been up to the Dixie rock so we did the little hike up there to look out on the city with them.
(Hopefully I will get these pictures from my Grandma soon...)

It was so nice to be able to go down to St. George and see my Grandparents and have that short little vacation and get out a bit! :) Especially now thats its summer and Jesse works a lot its nice to get that time to spend all together! :)

And of course if we stopped at that Chevron Corbin had to get his first picture on the big rocking chair! :)

Corbin's First B-day Party.

We decided about a week before Corbin's birthday that we should have a little party for him and just have a BBQ and some swimming with the family and some friends. I decided that it would be cute to have a little theme to the party but didn't have the time or desire to do something big. So randomly I went with a fish theme--I figured we were swimming..his swim shorts had fish on them and I could do a few simple things. (and funny thing is this last week he learned how to tell us what a fish says..so he must like fish too ha) I made 2 different fish cupcakes and marshmallow fish pop things..had some swedish fish and gold fish, carved the watermelon as a fish...made a jello fish bowl-they were all just simple things to make it a little cuter I guess? It was fun to start off the holiday weekend with a BBQ and swimming and get together with everyone!

It was crazy to look back on his month to month pictures and how different he looks in some of them.

playing peek-a-boo with the plate

From this pictures he looks real excited for the cake but he actually wasn't too interested in his cake this time around...I think he learned from the first cake smash we did for pictures that it was a lot of sugar! and I think he ate quite a bit for dinner right before.

But he did manage to get a little dirty still.

We got plenty of new toys for Corbin which I appreciated but I decided to try not to take all of them out of once so he can be entertained with them longer! He definitely loves balls and cars right now and we got some he loves--we thank everyone for them..even though no one will read this. ha! It was a fun little party for him and I'm glad we decided to do it! :)