Jack's First Birthday Party

We celebrated Jackson's first birthday with a party a few days before his actual birthday. We chose to do a smaller party with mostly family. Smaller as in 13 adults + 2 kids plus our family of four! It was such a great evening, even I was surprised at what a great time we had! While everyone was getting settled Jack + Gabby played on the floor. At one point gabby reached out and touched Jackson, which caused Jack to burst into tears! I guess he found her forwardness a little too much! We started with presents, in which Lincoln was so great at opening all the gifts for Jackson. Jack was far more interested in all the cards anyways, which really gave me a laugh. We did cake right after as a few guest needed to leave a little early. We set Jack up in his highchair and gathered everyone around. He smiled and smiled as we sang to him. We didn't really want him to dive into the amazing shark cake that Stephen and I had made for him so I gave him a cupcake to try. He didn't really eat very much of it and stayed super clean. Slightly disappointed but I will try again on his real birthday to get him into some cake! After that he just spent the evening playing with his various aunts, uncles, grandparents that came! It was a great evening, Jackson really enjoyed himself and we all had a good time!