A year ago on Friday, we welcomed our sweet little boy into this world. This past year has been quite the journey. We were able to celebrate his first year of life this weekend with our friends and some family. Christian's parents were able to fly out for the weekend to join in on the festivities. Special thanks to both of them for all of their help! We also have great friends out here that helped us celebrate the big day. We love them all and consider them our family as well.
Opening presents
Thank you everyone for the fun presents!
The Party
Saturday morning we were planning on having his birthday party at the beach in Kailua.
Late on Friday night we got a call from a friend warning us about the earthquake that just hit Chile, and the tsunami alert for Hawaii, scheduled for 11:00 am, right in the middle of his party. We really didn't think much of it. We thought that by tomorrow morning the warning would be called off and everything would be fine. 6:00 am Friday morning, we woke up to the tsunami alarm. I'm not sure if any of you have heard this alarm before, but it is really really loud, and really really scary sounding. They test this alarm the first Monday of the every month, and the whole island can hear it. So we were pretty startled when the alarm went off, and a little nervous about it, because it wasn't a test, it was real. We checked the news online and read that all of the beaches would be closed.
We had to come up with Plan B for his birthday party. Do we even have it? Where? Do we move it to the afternoon after the tsunamis have hit? So, the indecisive people that we are, we finally decided an hour before the party that we were just going to move it to the park and keep it at the same time. We rushed to the store to go fill up his balloons and find ice and we were surprised to see that the island had gone mad. There were long lines at the gas stations, and everyone was frantically trying to stock up on supplies before this tsunami hits. All of the store employees looked pretty stressed out, so I felt pretty dumb when I asked one of the workers if I could get some helium in my balloons. Of course the ice was all out.
Aside from the crazy/confusing morning that we had, the day couldn't have been better. The weather was beautiful and everyone turned up! Maybe because everything was closed and they didn't have any other place to be, or they just love our little Tristan. :)
Yes, he does live in these shorts. He took a quick nap when we got there and then he was ready to party!
The Entertainment
Since the party was moved from the beach, we had to quickly come up with some fun entertainment while at the park.
Shiloh and Haley impressed us with their juggling act.
We filled up our leftover balloons with water and launched them with our towels. I take water balloon volleyball very seriously.
Tristan got a hold of one of the water balloons.
Be careful Tristan.
Oh no, danger.
pop.
The Cake
He used his thumb as a spoon.
Happy Birthday sweet Tristan.
12 comments:
Sounds like a great time! Pretty crazy about the tsunami warning. Glad it turned out to be anticlimactic and didn't even interfere too much with the festivities.
Tristan sure is beautiful. Love the one of him on the slide. And Shandra, your arm is RIPPED in the v-ball pic. Wow.
Happy birthday to T-bone! Bags and I will send something late:-)
happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear T-dogg, happy birthday to you!! wish we could have been there. T is soooo cute. you guys are all cute. great pics and so glad you guys are safe.
Those are adorable pictures. Happy 1st Birthday Tristan!
Happy Birthday! He really is such a cute dude. So little and petite still too. Love it. Glad his birthday party turned out good in the end. :)
At least, thanks to the tsunami, you will never forget his first birthday party.
Sounds like it was fun. We wish we could have been there to give him hugs and celebrate his birthday with you.
Great pictures, as always.
Yay Tristan! The cake pics are SO cute. I'm sad we were so late to the party - looks like we missed some pretty awesome entertainment. Happy b-day Tristan!
It was a great weekend! How did I miss the juggling? Glad we could be there.
"Happy Bertday Trithan" love your buddy Kai. Lokks like a blast and we are so glad everyone is alright after we heard about the tsunami warning.
Love the pics! Happy birthday to the little guy...glad everything turned out alright. Mom said the cupcakes were amazing--good work! Wish we could have been there....Happy Birthday!
What fun, even if the morning was chaotic! Looks like Tristan sure enjoyed himself. I love how the water balloon exploded on him! I can't believe they are already one either!
So cute Shan! I wanted to see pics of the monkey cupcakes you decorated before they got destroyed by baby T. He is so adorable! I'm obsessed with his eyes and lips! I love the banners! Those pics are perfect! Cant wait to squeeze him!
What an adorable little guy! I'm so glad we got to meet him and see you a few months ago!
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