These pictures were taken at my nephew's First birthday party! We had such a great time celebrating his eventful year! As you know, the first year of a baby's life is full of new experiences and events. We used his first birthday to highlight all of those "firsts" with all his favorite foods, pictures of all his special moments and time with the friends and family who have followed his journey over the past year.
There were probably over fifty people in attendance and each of them got to celebrate his life together. It was a very special experience - not only because of the hard work that everyone put in to make it an event built just for him, but because of the chance to honor the little guy in our life. Some people say he's a bit spoiled 
The pictures here were taken by David Teng Photography. I encourage you to check out his site and see my Facebook page for a bigger album!
Joey's favorite TV show is a show called Word World. It's an ingenious show where all the characters are spelled out to encourage word recognition in little children. It's a really great show! We bought large wall decals and mounted them on foam core. Then, we placed them all around the lawn. They didn't last long because Joey kept going up to them and kissing them all over!
Because Joey is 1/4 Korean, we wanted to celebrate his heritage. We set up the head table with picture books from his first year, towers of goodies to celebrate prosperity. We even had raffle cards for a little game we played towards the end!
After finding these gigantic favor balls and stuffing them with candy, toys and all kinds of fun things, the only way we could have made it better would be to build this giant gum-ball machine. Mommy and Daddy worked hard to build this and it came out just right. It was a huge hit at the party!!
A birthday party isn't complete without cake! The beautiful cake was gobbled up by the birthday boy in a matter of minutes. He loved every bite! See the Facebook page for pictures of the GORGEOUS cake!
Who doesn't love a chocolate fountain surrounded by all kinds of goodies to dip in it? We had to end the party on a sweet note and all these fruits, marshmallows, cookies and chocolate helped to do just that!
Big thanks to David Teng Photography for capturing the day in photos!
