Time for a Fiesta!

 

We had a blast celebrating Aaron's 1st birthday on Saturday. Everything came together better than planned. Since his birthday is so close to the 4th, it is only fitting to celebrate in Red, White, and Blue and with fireworks! What a great way to celebrate! I'm sure Aaron thinks it's all in honor of him!

There were lots of friends and family. We love this kind of party and mixing family and Spanish-speaking friends.  

Besos from Tía Stephanie

We also love when our yard is full of kids playing everywhere!

Aaron had his first "mordita."

This is a tradition in Mexico after the candle is blown out to take a bite of your birthday cake and usually someone tries to push your face in the cake. Alisia and Caleb are very familiar with this, but it can sometimes end up in tears. Aaron was soo excited to have icing all over his mouth and wasn't bothered at all!

I grabbed a camera and this is what it looked like from his view with everyone watching.

Opening gifts was funny because he had no idea what to do! He was so cute though. When he finally saw it was more than a bag and paper, he wanted to open the gift and play with it. But then we would take it away and give him another one to open. He got frustrated and mad and started crying! It was soo cute though.

Then we "carefully" and "safely" set off some fireworks and sparklers in the street.  

 

We had to balance out the Red, White, and Blue:

We went up on the hill from our house to watch the fireworks. It was a good view of the city. At 10:23 we were remembering all the work that it took for him to come into the world. I guess fireworks is how he's gonna remember all of his birthdays!

A big THANKS to everyone who helped us celebrate!