Tyson's 1st Birthday

 We had a Monsters Inc. Party for Tyson which was great timing because the movie Monsters University had just come out so there was a lot of choices in Monster party decor. Here is my sully cake, it was really fun to make and actually pretty easy, love those kind!

 

Pin the eyeball on Mike Wysowski, all the kids loved this, it got a little crazy there for a minute because of coarse, everyone wanted to be first, but thankfully our littler kids were patient.

We thought of everything...we had green, purple and aqua balloons, one for each kid at the party, monster decor, Sliced Mike apples, a sully cake, mike wyzoski eyeball cupcakes, ice cream and mike and sully green and blue milk.  It was a little crazy but super fun! 

 So Cute!!!  Tyson loves his Honey!  

This picture was a little hard to take because Poppy should have been there too.  For Liv's first birthday, I took a picture of my mom and dad with her right there on that couch, my dad was also there to help liv take a few steps on her very birthday and she even fed him some cake.  We miss our poppy!  So glad that we have such an amazing, wonderful and strong Honey to be with!

 The kids were not so happy to be taking pictures: it's hit and miss sometimes they love and it others...not so much!

 We also had a monster making table, I pre-cut lots of different shapes and things that looked like hair, teeth, arms and legs and bought some googly eyes and face stickers.

 Tyson did pretty good and dug right in to his eyeball cupcake, he had fun devouring and ate quickly, once he decided he was done, he did not want anymore, I guess he is not too much of a sugar guy, just like his daddy.

 Opening presents is always a little lack-luster at 1 year old birthday parties, they can't do much and don't show too much excitement.  He was just as happy climbing up the slide and sliding down it, he is pretty good at doing that all on his own.  In fact, he made it all the way to the top and fell right off the ledge onto the grass.  He was fine, just a little freaked out.  Mommy and daddy got him a mickey mouse chair because Liv had a princess one and he loves climbing into it; and a ladybug toy with shapes and sounds.  Honey gave Tys a Bat-mobile shooter car, he was pretty excited about this one!  the front even opens up into a car ramp and batman and joker can race down.

 All of the Rich side of the family came as well and The Ericksen's, Thanks to all who came, played, ate supported and brought a little something for our litte Ty guy on his 1st birthday.

 Happy birthday sonny, we love you!

Bear lake and 4th of July festivities

 Happy 4th of July!!!!

Family of 4, wow how the time flies!

 I think that Tyson is really starting to look like his daddy, he will be so handsome!

 Tyson was really such a good boy this weekend just chillin' he is so happy and easy going, wasn't that way for a while but he is great!

 Taking Liv and Luella for a paddle board ride. These two had such a fun time together, they needed their breaks, but they are going to be really good friends!

 Liv was in one of her "Don't take my picture" moods, at least she had fun with daddy on the kayak!

 This is better!  Cute little 4th of July girl

 Sara was in town and we are awesome sporting our glow bracelets.

 Festive dinner with the whole Patterson clan!

This is my patriotic pretzel jello.

 Cob and Coleson, the crazy looking and the chunk, but two of our favorites!

 Mmmmm...

 Captain America and his just as dashing son.  Lance had to leave after the dinner on the 4th to go back to work on Friday...Boo and of coarse he only had 3 appointments and only 2 showed up, but they were the first and last apt.'s  of the day.

 Honey and Tyson, the star! Tyson loves his Honey, every time he sees her or hears her voice, he immediately crawls to her and climbs her legs or he will just cry until she holds him, it's so cute.

Between all the families we went through about a million sparklers, liv loved them

Liv and Luella playing with the squirt guns.  They each took their turns giving it and taking it.  It was funny to watch.

 Craft Time: Painting American flags, or something with red, white and blue colors.  So cute!  Millie was funny, she had so much fun painting that she went on and painted her tummy.

 There was a huge rain and wind storm on Friday night, lance and Ben went out to save the wave-runner from sinking.  Crazy waves! They think if they would have left it out there for another hour it would have. 

 Hanging out and watching the storm.

This picture cracks me up, pat always makes awesome faces when I try to take his picture.  Love ya!

 Hey there good looking!

 This is the life of Tyson, loves to crawl under things and then ends up getting trapped. 

Game time...this picture speaks for itself.  They did this while the girls have craft time. So funny

Way to go mom!

 Tyson loved his food this weekend. Licorice...

 Watermelon... and everything in between.

 Are they related? They were standing the same way and holding their hot dogs the same way and chewing the same way, it was awesome!

It was a really great weekend, we had a ton of tun at Bear lake, we used our wave-runner a lot.  Liv and I got on the tube while Lance pulled us.  Jaden and a few of the other cousins got up on skis and Corbin wake boarded.  Liv loved swimming in the water, she didn't want to get on the raft, she just wanted to swim around.  Oh and my mom bought a water totter and that was pretty fun, lance and I just got thrown in a lot, but Anna and I had a pretty good rythme in fact we kept trying to fall in and couldn't. Great food and lots of it provided by most of the family and lots of laughs were had after the kids went to bed!  Making up songs on the porch with my mom or listening to her impression of a cricket, AKA a phone off the hook, (lol) it was all good fun!  Thanks everyone!