Happy (late) half birthday!

My little pal turned a half a year older last week while on our road trip. I still can't believe that he's already a year and a half! I'm pretty sure that time sped up after his first birthday because he's grown like crazy in the past six months. 

Miles Waylon Wolf loves to laugh, dance and EAT! He tinkers with everything and is always making a mess. He is night owl and a late riser and especially loves to nap. He is a mischief maker and a bulldozer of a boy!

Miles' first birthday party

 Miles' birthday party was terrific! Unfortunately, a lot of the photos from the party were either blurry or super bright from the flash so I'm sharing the best from our evening. Miles was such a sweet boy the whole day and enjoyed all of the love and gifts from our friends who joined the party.

 Adorable, right!?

  The desserts were amazing and huge thanks to my sweet friend Melanie who baked her buns off the night before for us. I can't bake and that's a fact so she really helped this mama out!

 I followed this really easy tutorial on how to make these woodland animal party bags and they turned out great!

 

 Joanns was my go to for most of the decorations, plus I'm cheap and they always have coupons and sales. The cupcake garland was really easy to make. All I needed was twine, colored cardstock, sticker letters and some baby free time and there you have it, personalized bunting!

Since we were going for a woodland theme I thought it would be cool to incorporate slices of wood to the table. Thanks to my dear ol' husband for being resourceful and cutting up branches we found in our alleyway. For the centerpiece "M" I used moss cloth that I cut to size and hot glued to the cardboard letter.

 Birthday boy!

  He had fallen off his chair right before we sang to him so he was pretty adamant about being held instead of playing with his cake. He did look pretty darn cute wearing his cowboy hat with frosting on his nose though :)

 

 Miles took some good shots at his pinata!

The damn thing was so hard to break that eventually we just had the kids jump on it till they got to the candy.

 Pooped out!!

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy first Birthday, sweetheart!

We love you SO very much!

xo

mama and papa

What a day

I made this birthday hat for my boy!

I got these sweet critters at Target and added sparkly party hats to there cute little heads.

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 Yes, it's after midnight and yes, Miles is still up but I don't even mind because after a dark day like today all I want to do is eat him up and hold onto him forever and ever. Our aching hearts and loving thoughts are with the victems of this weeks shootings here in Oregon and in Conneticut...

It's a party!

 How AWESOME are Miles' party invitations!? My girlfriend Danielle "Yelley" Rauto does such a fantastic job at updating our family illustration. She also designed the back which look equally as badass! My little pal's birthday is in less then a week and I can't help but get a teensy bit sad about my boy getting older. It's only natural, right?

cake and teeth

 

Working on decorations seems like it's taking forrrreever! But, my hard work is paying off because everything is slowing coming together and looking awesome! Here is a little peek at his cake toppers. I just finished the party favor bags and they are ADORABLE! Even hubby was excited about them. In other news, Miles is teething really bad. It's been really rough for him this time around and this second molar is kicking his butt. Poor baby woke up almost every hour last night screaming and having a cold on top of it hasn't helped. Isn't teething the worst? Thankfully, he's been a pretty cool dude during the day and we even shared an hour long nap this morning with some park time after. Not a bad day for a little sick fella.

A happy birthday!

 I celebrated my 25th birthday with my honeys on Friday and boy, is my heart full of thankfulness!

Steve skipped work so we sort of milled around the house until noon and then ate big fat cheeseburgers and bread pudding. After our bellies were full we went to a couple antique shops in the neighborhood and finished our day with pictures from the photo booth which is always fun. That evening per my request we made grilled cheeses, drank wine and watched Wes Anderson flicks. That was my sweet day.

 Those are some sleepy baby eyes.

 Special gifts from my dear.

As you know I collect old photos so I was super happy to add this little lad to the collection. a

tricks and treats

Hi guys, first Halloween was a success! I woke up kind of cranky and didn't really shake the grumps till later in the afternoon and by then Steve started to get in a funk too. I think he was a little let down that we didn't spend Miles' first Halloween with any of his buddies that have children. It wasn't for lack of trying, we just couldn't coordinate with anyone for some reason. Also, I realized that with him having only one day off a week it adds extra pressure to get as much family/errands/projects time in as possible which can drive anyone a little nuts. I need to cool it on the to-do lists and learn to relax a little more. Know what I mean? Anyways, by the time we took Miles around to our closest neighbors we were in much better moods and had fun sharing such a cool holiday memory with our son. You can win em' all and yesterday, fun holiday or not, was just not our best but by the end of the day we sucked it up and ended up having a really awesome time together.

On a side note, Miles said his first real, repetitive word this week, MAMA!! Holy smokes, it's the cutest thing ever. "Mamamama MAMA MAAAM" all day long. So cool! 

And hey, my birthday is in two hours, 25!! I am so thankful for this past year. So many exciting, important things have happened to us. I'm feeling extra blessed.