simply taylor raye : Thatcher's First Birthday!

It's been about a week since Thatcher turned one, and I think I'm over the blubbering "I can't believe my babe is a year old!" thing. Most of the time.

Luckily he started walking full force a couple of days before his birthday, so it gave us something to be so excited about that I didn't think as much about him growing up. Plus, there was that whole planning and prepping for his party thing.

It was such an exciting weekend! My mom flew in Thursday and Thatcher was so excited to have his Gam Gam around!

For Thatcher's birthday party we decided to do a Where The Wild Things Are party. It was the first book that Thatcher paid attention to and giggled through, so we thought it would be fun. It was so fun making decorations and getting everything ready for the party. I was very very lucky that Jeff went along with all of my planning even though he thought it was a bit overboard. He's the greatest! Thatcher had such a blast playing with all of his friends and family and getting so so spoiled, of course. We have the greatest friends and family!

The BEST surprise though came at the party. My uncle Mike texted my mom and asked where we were because he wanted to send us something. This made zero sense but she texted him the address back, and then a few minutes later my cousins Kim and Leslie walk in the door. I was so shocked! They flew all the way from Missouri to come see me and meet Thatcher. I was in tears, it was so so sweet to see them! It's a surprise I'll cherish forever!

And now, lots of pictures.:)

Thatcher and Dada playing while we decorated. He freaked out about the balloons!

Guestbook table. We found these fun crowns instead of party hats, and put out a picture of Thatcher from each month out. My favorite thing was that we took Thatcher's copy of Where The Wild Things Are and used it as a guestbook so he'll always have everyone's birthday wishes!