The Last First
We celebrated Luke's Big First Birthday on October 11th… 7 days prior to his actual birthday. This is, of course, the Last First Birthday party we'll be throwing for any of our little ones. No. More. Babies. Promise! With age and time and the crazy, busy schedule, I was a little less motivated to throw the big birthday bash as I did with the others (actually, they've gotten noticeably smaller, one-by-one) - but I couldn't let little Luke look back and see that he wasn't celebrated in the same way Sam and Charlie were… So out came the fancy, show cake … and the sweet little smash cake… both are absolute requirements for the first birthday! We kept the guest list to just our immediate family - but that still gave us a pretty good sized party. So, here we have all the usual suspects… devoting their day to celebrating this sweet little munchkin! Here I am, looking ragged as can be. I can actually look back at each first birthday party an