Halloween Birthday Party

On Saturday we had a birthday party for a one year old and the party was a Halloween costume party. Of course I decided to make Max's costume this year. Since we have been very busy with house stuff I was running out of time and decided to go with a cookie monster costume since it is easy. On Saturday morning Tayler reminded me (thankfully) that I never finished Max's costume. I ran into panic mode because I needed to glue pieces onto his hoodie and I didn't know if it would dry in time. I got everything out and that's when Max wanted to help with his costume. He actually glued on a couple of the cookies and he had fun doing it.

Unfortunately it was overly warm on Saturday so Max did not last long in his costume. He would wear it for five minutes and then take it off...then want to put it back on because all of the other kids had their costumes on.

From the time we got there Max kept asking for cake. He saw the cupcakes and has a one track mind. I kept telling him we had to wait for the birthday girl to have her cake before we can have cake. Finally Max got to eat his cake and sit next to Owen...even though they did not speak to each other.

After cake, we headed out to the "pumpkin patch" via horses pulling a wagon. Tayler was excited about this part to go and pick out a pumpkin. I did warn her before we left the house not to have high expectations because this is not a WI pumpkin patch. I like to call it a faux pumpkin patch. I don't think she completely got it until we arrived at the patch because she was disappointed. Hey, we live in the city and we live in the desert, this is the best we are going to get.

Everybody had fun at Mona's first birthday party and all the kids got to pick out pumpkins to take home. Happy First Birthday Mona!

I got to end the day sharing a bottle of wine with my best friend!