THE SAUER FAMILY: The Birthday Bash and Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! I actually don't have any pictures to post from AJ's second Easter, but AJ did walk for us several times taking 6-8 steps a couple of times. I will try to get some video of him walking this week while I am home with him on Spring break!

The following pictures tell the story of AJ's March Madness Birthday Bash...

The one-year olds got the party started with their own game of basketball! AJ took the lead in showing them the slam dunk!

Heidi helped AJ open the first few presents...

then Kaylee took over to help with the last few presents!

Okay, I had to get a picture of the pink and brown cupcake balloon that we got AJ for his birthday. I wanted AJ to have a balloon floating by his crib when he woke up on his actual birthday, so I had Brian stop and get one late Wed. night. However, the only balloon options at that point were the pink birthday balloon or an Easter balloon. Needless, to say my little man ended up with a pink balloon, but luckily the babysitter had a nice blue one for him as well!

Here's Uncle Mark showing AJ how to use his very first remote control car that they got for him. It's fabulous! AJ also got a ride-on fire engine, books, summer clothes, a Fridge-Farm, a Little-People tractor, a DVD with differenct kid's shows, a dunp truck with blocks, money for his piggy-bank and sand for his sandbox! THANKS EVERYONE!

I may be no Martha Stewart, but I did decorate AJ's birthday cake myself and was quite proud of the way it turned out! This cake was for the guests!

Aunt Cindy made AJ his very own basketball cake.

The cake looked so much like a ball, that all AJ wanted to do with it at first was throw it off of his tray.

So, I had to cut the ball in half so that AJ could get to the cake part (remember he doesn't really like the icing). Once I did that, AJ was on a roll.