Happy First Birthday Abbott!!

Well, technically it's tomorrow but we celebrated today. We had forecasts of severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings and Jack was running fever this morning but by party time, it was perfect. We had no rain, few clouds and Jack was just about his normal self. We were able to take Abbott's high chair outside and let him dive in. Soon after we made it back in the house and Kelly began opening presents, the skies opened up and it poured, hailed and was very windy. Someone wanted us to have a great party today and to them, I say "THANKS!" Abbott loved his cake and it was so fun to watch him get all messy. He wasn't too interested in opening presents, but he was interested in playing with them and so was Jack. Kelly would open one and Jack would take it over to Popo and say, "Popo, will you open this so I can share it with Abbott?" Which really meant, "so I can play with it." but we had discussed that the presents were for Abbott but that he could probably play with some. It was a really great day and it couldn't have gone much better!

In case the cars didn't give it away, you knew this was the place by the balloons and star!

We had a nice wagon ride where we found lots of flowers (weeds).

Abbott has 2 pretty yellow flowers and Jack has a "little tiny flower".

Abbott loved his balloons!

While Jack and Abbott were napping, a few people got in a game of Bocce ball. Kelly and Dad won. YAY!

Kelly made these cute cakes for Abbott's birthday. Janet made an extra one in case this wasn't enough. I don't think it got cut into at all.

Look at these cute boys with their Wannie & Poppa!

So cool in his sunglasses.

There were just a few people there to help Abbott celebrate. This is about half.

He is really excited to dig in!

Jack's wondering why only Abbott gets cake when we'd been telling him all morning that he was going to get to eat some cake.

MMMMM, he really liked his cake!

Kelly likes it, too!

He was messier than he looks, but doesn't he look so cute?

He got some cute rock & roll shoes, along with many many other gifts.

"All for me!"

Jack was very good at helping Aunt Kelly open Abbott's presents.

One present.

"Yotsa presents!"

Here's our live doppler radar. Red is not good.

Tim, Justin (Ryan's brother), Jack & Abbott all playing with some new toys.

Jack, Abbott and Moma Jo.

Jack was a little tired of the party so we came back to the hotel where he got his second wind. He and Wannie and Poppa played and played and were just plain silly, if you can imagine that. We had such a great day and we're looking forward to the rest of the weekend!