Irvine Park

Our family loves celebrating birthdays and on Liam's big day I wanted to do something special. We were trying to think up ideas of where we could go and we finally decided on having a picnic at Irvine Park. We had never been there before and it was such a great day! I packed up a picnic basket with yummy treats and we had a nice little lunch under the trees. Afterwards we walked around the park, rode the train, climbed on the trees, went on a pony ride, laid in the grass and watched the ducks in the lake. It was one of those days that I will always remember and hold dear. I couldn't have asked for a better way to celebrate our little guy's first birthday. Here are some photos from our day, enjoy!

Liam turns one {nautical birthday brunch}

Our little guy turned one last month and we threw him a party to celebrate. We thought it would be fun to try something different so we invited everyone to come over for a birthday brunch. It was a wonderful morning spent with friends and family and everything turned out very nice. Here are a few details from the day.

Yummy sweets table complete with doughnuts and cinnamon rolls (from N7 creamery)

I make the gold L with glittery gold scrapbook paper (you can see the tutorial here)

Rope and twine in clear jars = easy nautical touches :)

Above the coffee and juice station I pinned up some of my favorite instagram pictures of Liam from his first year

Bagel station

Pancake and waffle bar with lots of toppings!

This was my creation. Nom nom.

Nautical inspired goodie bags (blue paper bags, twine and mint life savers) 

Photo displays are always such a nice touch at birthday partys and it's fun to look back at the past year

The birthday boy and his cousin, Kaylee

For the kids, I set out some newspaper hats for them to decorate as well as some string to make fruitloop necklaces.

It was very simple but it was a hit!

piñata time!

He got pretty excited when everyone sang happy birthday to him

Cake!!

I think he liked it :)

Puerto Peñasco {family vacation}

We took a family vacation to Mexico and it was ah-mazing. We woke up early one morning, piled into a van (all 12 of us!) and made the trip down to to Puerto Peñasco.
It was a wonderful week! We spent our days switching off between lounging by the pool and playing at the beach. We made so many great memories and enjoyed being together.
Here are some photos of our trip. Enjoy!

horseback riding on the beach (one of my highlights!)

we went walking on the beach every morning.

a snapshot of the pool taken with my iphone

panorama shot taken from our balcony

a few more iphone photos from our trip

On our last night we went on a sunset boat ride and I loved this beautiful view of Puerto Peñasco's horizon.