Jude's 1st Birthday Party

Instead of slaving for hours to get my house absolutely spotless to have a bunch of people over to just make a mess again... my mother-in-law suggested we have Jude's 1st Birthday party elsewhere. Genius! So we rented out a very nice place at Lake of the Woods here in Mahomet. It worked out perfectly! We had mostly family come down, and everyone had a wonderful time despite the 50 degree rainy weather!

I decided on an elephant theme for Jude's 1st birthday. It was so much fun to come up with fun decorations and Jude's Nana even found him a cute elephant outfit!

 

Check out my birthday boy!

 

Jude in his elephant ears, seconds before he took them off!

 Cake time! Jude tried to pick it up like this first. Everyone laughed out loud, so he set it down like he was doing something wrong...

 So then he tried to eat it this way... keeping his eyes on everyone watching him.

"I LOVE CAKE!!"

Daddy shows Jude one of his new books!

 Some relatives that heard it was an elephant theme dressed appropriately! How fun! Jude was scared of their elephant noses though.

The rest of these are some pictures of the cake and decorations. I had a lot of fun making the decorations!