Eli's First Birthday Party!!

Eli loves dogs! One of the reasons he loves going outside is to see the dog. He loves to look out the window to try and find the dog. The dog noise was his first animal noise he learned to make and "dog" was one of his first words. His love for dogs made thinking of a theme for his first birthday party a no-brainer! We decided to do a Go, Dog, Go party! I saw many cute ideas on the internet for invitations and decided on making this....

To go along with our Go, Dog, Go theme we had hot dogs and chips, puppy chow, and puppy dog cupcakes! Yum. 

It was so fun to have lots of family over to our house to celebrate Eli! Everyone had a blast! And speaking of blast...We got balloons for decorations, but decided just to leave them on the floor for the kids to play with. The balloons were a bit over-blown up and would randomly pop. It was pretty funny and added to the fun. 

Eli loved all of his presents! Eli enjoyed opening everyone of them! He also loved looking at each card. I have never seen a kid love cards like Eli does. It is so funny. He sees them as little miniature books. We save all the cards he gets and put them with his books and enjoys looking at them over and over. Cards with music are extra fun, he will study the front then when he opens it and hears the music he starts to dance. So cute!

Thank you everyone for making Eli's first birthday party special! He is so thankful for all his new fun toys and books! Thank you also to Great Grandpa and Great Grandma Sanders who sent Eli a sweet birthday present all the way from Colorado!

I wish I would have gotten a picture of everyone who was at the party, so Eli could look back at it when he gets older....but i didn't. Maybe I will remember next year :) 

Here are some pics from the party! 

Puppy cupcakes!

Cute and yummy!

Some of the chow!

Early arrivers and some of the popping balloons

Eli was a bit more interested in what everyone else was up to, lol.

He liked all the attention on him.
Making everyone clap :)

Our little family :)

Go Eli! Yay for chocolate!

Thanks again to all our guests!

Papa and Grandma, Caleb, Lindsey, Granny Boo and Grandpa Dadee, Gran-nana, Uncle Zach and Aunt Leah, Aunt Missy, Madalynn, Aunt Melanie, Aunt Lisa, Amye, Kai and Sully!

We love you all!