Birthday Party

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OWEN!!!!

We had a little party for Owen Saturday and I think it went fairly well. It was great to have some of our family here and a couple of friends over. They were all so generous! We are very blessed to have so many people that love our son.

A few months ago I had grand ideas for a great party (if you follow my Pinterest boards you would know!) with cute theme and decorations; cute photo invitations and pictures but somewhere along the line I said "Who am I kidding?? This isn't going to happen!" and kept it simple. I took too long with invitations so I sent an Evite 10 days before his party. I found a printable on this site to decorate Owen's highchair and hung Owen's monthly pictures on some twine with mini clothes pins above the fireplace. I had realized that having a themed party with lots of decorations wouldn't have been for Owen. My desire to have a cute party would have been so people would come and be impressed with me and what I had done. Thus the party would have stopped being about Owen and become about me and I do not want to be that mom. Ever. I'm sure I will always have to suppress this desire to impress people with my cooking or mothering or craftiness or whatever but there will always be someone who is better at it than me and that's okay. As long as I'm loving my son, pointing him towards Jesus and doing the best that I can then that's enough.

Owen didn't get too into his cake. He's been really texture sensitive lately so he didn't really like having frosting stuck all over his hands and only a little cake made it into his mouth. I guess I'd rather have that than him screaming for more. Overall we had a great time just celebrating our little boy!