Birthday Boy

Remember this?? I'm pretty sure it was yesterday that Luke was just our TINY, wrinkly, fragile little nugget!

But somehow our little monkey boy turned 1 on November 23rd! (I may or may not have teared up a bit- where has the time gone??) We had a small party with our friends here a few days before his actual birthday.

He went from excitement and curiosity...

then to this (look how mischievous!)...

then ended like this- with no help from anyone!!!

Then the sugar high kicked in!

On his actual birthday we were in Arizona for Thanksgiving.

Look at his birthday sunset in my parent's backyard. Beautiful. Everyone should move to AZ. Seriously. (c'mon Nathan!)

Birthday dinner- this is what Luke usually does when he sees a camera. This might remind some of you of my own baby pics, never could see my eyes!

We had another cake for him after all of our family came to town and this is the birthday cake that I made. Not quite as cute as I hoped but Luke didn't mind!

And he didn't get quite as messy this time either, must have matured a little over those few days! ;)

Thanks to everyone who celebrated with us and who helped us spoil him rotten! We don't know what we'd do with out our Lukey boy in our lives. This has been the best year ever and he has truly made us happier than we could ever imagine. We feel so lucky that we get to watch him grow up- just stop doing it so fast buddy!