The Browns: Weekend Rewind {Sept. 21-24}

We had an extremly busy weekend!! Thank goodness we both took Monday off to recover! ;)

Friday: Robbie worked late so we had him in the morning! William loved watching him play the Wii. Our sweet friend Jane from EC who works with my dad, sent William the cutest birthday gift!! It is a personalized puzzle. He loved it! We tried to show him how to put it together, and he throws the pieces about where they should be. ;) I ran lots of errands for his party.

Saturday: This was William's official first birthday!!!! When I went in to get him, he was all smiles! Sorry for the blurry picture, ugh! I fixed him a birthday breakfast of granola waffle and peaches. I left him with Mama around 9 and met the guy at the clubhouse to go over everything and see where I could add tables, etc. I scooted to Chick Fil A for some breakfast before picking up Hannah. I had to take something back to a store, get tablecloths from Party City, and pick up the highly anticipated cake from Edible Art!! I was so hoping it would turn out the way I wanted. They had never made a VHC cake before, and I gave them two images to basically merge. The cake turned out GREAT!!! I loved it! Robbie's parents got here around 2:30 and Leroy and Jeremiah stayed home with a napping William while Linda and I ran to Sam's Club to pick up water and chicken salad. We came back home and Robbie got off at 5:30. We went to Outback for dinner with Mama, Hannah, Stephanie, her dad, Jeremiah, Linda, Leroy, and Robbie, William and myself. It was delicious as usual. We had to run to Ashley and Willie's to pick up the chairs and tables to borrow. We finally made it home around 9:30 and put William to bed. We were all beat and had a long day ahead of us!!

Turning one is exhausting!

Sunday: Party day!!! We had a busy morning of setting up the clubhouse. Mama stayed with William so that he could get a longgggg nap since he wouldn't get an afternoon nap. Linda, Leroy, Hannah, Robbie and I headed to set things up. Everyone was so helpful! Robbie scooted to Harris Teeter to pick up the fruit tray. When we were putting it up, I realized they had put VEGGIE dip in it instead of fruit dip!! I called HT and the nice guy offered to bring the right dip to our house. Thank goodness because I was just on EDGE and this was one more thing!! We then ordered pizzas and Robbie, Linda and I went to pick those up and get balloons. When we got back to the clubhouse, it was crunch time! We grabbed a slice of pizza and went to work! My friend Jennifer was there making chicken salad sandwiches with her homemade rolls and heating up her meatballs! Ashley arrived with the pigs in a blanket. We had to get William dressed and he finished eating. I barely had time to get dressed and put on makeup, haha! As we were tying balloons to the outside of the clubhouse, my MIL and Robbie both thought they had their hands on them, and two balloons went flying in the sky. I was LOLing but Linda started crying!!! I think she realized how stressed I was and how I wanted things to go smoothly and be right! I was like please tell me you are not crying over these balloons!!! Thankfully, that was our ONLY hitch the whole day. We did realize right before William smashed his cake that we didn't have a lighter, but OH well!! I am doing a whole separate blog post on his party, but it definitely went great! We had so many people come out and celebrate our boy!! After it was over, Robbie's parents were a huge help and helped us pack stuff up and clean the clubhouse and they hit the road back to Moyock! We grabbed dinner at Mexican since we were all starving and wanted something quick.

Driving Nana's car!

Monday: Robbie and I both took Monday off. William was exhausted and slept until 9 am! This would usually be great, but we had to be out the door by 10:30 to get to W's 12 month checkup! So he had a special treat- breakfast in bed while Mama and Daddy got ready, ha! We made it to his appt and he checked out GREAT. We are so blessed!! We went to lunch at Zaxby's afterwards. William was ready for his afternoon nap after that, following this weekend of no consistency haha! He slept for 3 hours, which gave Robbie and I plenty of time to put together all of his toys but one. We did the Cozy Coupe (Which comes with a VIDEO of instructions), train table, pirate ship, fire station, and pillow racer. We had Golden Corral for dinner and got ready to start our week!!