Party!

We had a party for Ryden's first birthday today.  It turned out great despite my lack of planning.  All of the important things were there: family, friends, food and of course CAKE!

The plan (a very rough plan) was to grill at the park.  I didn't have time to get groceries this week, so we got food this morning.  Also, made the cake this morning . . . easiest cake ever (pretty cute too if you ask me).

Part of the lack of planning is my fault, the rest is to blame on Grandma and Grandpa who decided midweek that they were coming Saturday instead of Sunday.  I definitely thought I would have today to prepare for a party tomorrow.

So . . .  There is never anyone at the park grilling or using the shelter so I wasn't worried, but today of course it was reserved for a huge group of people.  Onto the next park (it would be so much easier if we had enough room to invite people to our house).  The Deerfield park didn't have a grill, but we had already told everyone that we were moving so my amazing husband went home and brought our grill from home to use.

 Besides that minor glitch, the weather forecast for today was SEVERE storms with tornadoes across the midwest.  Fortunately, the bad weather has at least held off for now and we were able to enjoy an afternoon at the park (even though it was a little breezy).

The Cake:  Chocolate cake cut into chunks layered with chocolate
pudding and crushed Oreos.  The inspiration was just a dump
truck with cake in the back but Jana came up with the brilliant plan
to use the cute, CHEAP dump truck and bulldozer.