Happy Birthday Sam!

We celebrated Sam's first birthday this weekend (it was on the 17th).

Anthony had Thursday off, so we started the fun right away. We went and took a tour of Mrs. Cavanaugh's chocolate factory. Anthony's sister Genevieve and her son Josh came with us.

After the factory tour (it was a very small factory with a very small tour) we went to the Capital again. With Anthony working there, our kids are going to get great exposure to the Capital.

Friday started very early. First, we took the kids to the dinosaur park. They had a ton of fun walking around and finding all of the dinosaurs in the park.


Sam was excited for his cake, but it does not show because I had to take the presents away and make him really mad.

I have been so busy lately, so I did not make Sam's cake. I already feel like such a bad mom for celebrating late, so this was just like the guilt cherry on top.

Sam had a ton of fun with his Elmo cupcake. He was not using his hands at first because he was not sure about touching it.

He ate a bit, and then he started painting on his tray with the frosting.

Then we went outside and did some fireworks. Carson was scared of all of them. He did not want to hold the sparklers and he covered his ears when we did the loud ones. Sam and Zoe were little pyromaniacs and could not get enough.

We went to the a family reunion (for Anthony's Mom's side) on Saturday. It was at a park in Salt Lake.

We made cotton candy for everyone.

Sam is learning the art of cotton candy very early.