McKinley's First birthday party

On August 27th, we threw McKinley's first birthday party! It was quite the bash! The theme of the party was, "Our Wild Child is turning ONE". So I went with animal print for all the decorations and McKinley's party outfit. We had the celebration at Pioneers Park, a beautiful park here in Lincoln! The weather turned out to be just perfect and made for a wonderful event!

These are the cakes that Travis used his artistic skills to create! If planning doesn't workout, I think he has a future in cake decorating :)


McKinley had lots of friends and family there to celebrate with! Here she is getting some love from her Meme...

Of course Pepe was there too...

And Grandma and Grandpa Hulse!

My cousins Becky and Misty also came up from Omaha (well Becky is actually from New Jersey, but she happened to be visiting her sister Misty in Omaha at the time, so that worked out great to get to see her and her 3 girls too!)



And we had the Oxford's and the McConnell's there as well!



McKinley was nice enough to pose for a small photo shoot I did in front of a beautiful tree at the park! I got some really cute pictures of her in her cute party attire!




Here she is ready for some dinner!


Mya took the opportunity to help feed McKinley her dinner! Mya loves feeding McKinley, she's such a great helper!


McKinley had fun opening her presents! She got some great stuff! She wanted to play with each thing and didn't know why she had to open another present and not play with the one she just opened!



And of course we had the traditional first birthday experice! McKinley had her own personal pink and black heart shaped cake!


At first she wasn't quite sure what to do with or think of the cake!


She thought it was fun smearing it on her chest!



Then she realized, hey this stuff is actually pretty good and really started to enjoy herself!

I think she had a good time, what do you think?


We had a wonderful time celebrating McKinley turning one! We're so grateful to all of our family and friends who were able to come and celebrate with us and for the wonderful presents you spoiled McKinley with! We had a wonderful day celebrating a wonderful milestone in our family! I'm going to leave you with one of my favorite pictures of my sweet little girl from the party! I love my little one year old!