Bryce's birthday party

Last night we had a few friends over to celebrate Bryce's birthday. Of course, we missed all of our family and would have loved for all of them to be able to join us. Kelly started preparing the main entree on Friday night: twenty pounds of pork shoulder on the smoker.



18 hours later, we had some delicious North Carolina pulled pork.



Bryce loves balloons when he sees them at grocery stores so I had to go pick him up some balloons.











Which of course meant that we had to divide them up and let Cason play with half of them.



I love these next two pictures. I can't remember what Bryce was crying about but at least it wasn't Cason being mean to him.



Love their tree frog shirts? My aunt Lou Ann got Bryce's outfit for him right around the time he was born. Lou Ann -- I bet you didn't know that is my all time favorite outfit for him. I even checked Osh Kosh and ebay to see if they had the same outfit in bigger sizes (so he can wear it in future summers) but no luck. I got Cason's frog shirt on ebay.



A few candid shots just to prove we had friends over.





Poor Josiah and Cason were just dying for some frog cake!



I gave Bryce one of the frog's eyes. He had been crawling around the house playing with the fork when I went to put him in his highchair. I love the look he gives the eye.



Alissa -- check out how much frosting I had to use to build up the "snout" of the frog!





He didn't really eat this much, he threw a huge chunk down on the floor for Kielers.



After a (much hated and quick) bath, we had Cason help Bryce open presents.



Chris, Lacy, Josiah, and Luke got Bryce a super cute animal book because he loves animals and some awesome red eyed tree frog dishes from Rainforest Cafe. After this picture he pretty much wandered off. Cason opened a few more presents but Bryce was nowhere near so I didn't get more pictures.



Thanks to all of our friends for helping us to celebrate Bryce's big day!