Rio's 1st Birthday Party

September 23, 2012

Rio and Miss Morgan 

 Rio and Miss Kylen

 Rio and his MomG

 Jen, Ryan and Ky

 Rio and Matthew. Matthew is Jen and Ryan's boy who is always adorable with Rio. Ryan coaches with Gabe at the U. I am so sad I did not get any pictures with Mason (Matthew's brother) who is also super cute with Rio. They all play together at the U of U soccer games.

 Rio's favorite place at the little gym! Notice Ashton holding her earring... Rio yanked that thing off real good :)

 These two cannot get enough of each other.

 We got Rio and Parker's Birthday cake from City Cakes. They were able to make it Vegan and gluten free!

 The Aunts and Uncles were able to make it.

 Our dear friend Alexis and her kids, Eva, Will and Markus. 

 "The Fam"

 We had Parker over to take pics for the boy's invitations. Gabe took the pictures while I tried to distract Rio. Parker was so patient and acted like a sweet big brother while Rio kept climbing on him, trying to wrestle him, and relentlessly attempting to take Parker's ball. Gabe made them on Shutterfly. Great job babe! We actually did not end up using them as the Little Gym sent out their own invitations for the party. 

For Rio's 1st Birthday, we celebrated by having a birthday bash at the Little Gym where Rio goes for his weekly Bird class (they call his age group little birdies). Because Parker's b-day is a couple days before Rio, we decided to have the party together. It worked out extremely well. It was the perfect place as the little kids and big kids all had stuff to do- thankfully! There were a couple of instructors who played games with all the kids and made sure the big kids were careful and aware of the little ones. For some reason I was a bit nervous during the entire party and therefore my mind was not on top of snapping good photos. I wish I would have had all the kids get together for a group photo and an individual of Parker and Rio. Oh well... next year! You learn as you go, huh Court :) The party was on Saturday and Rio's Birthday was on Sunday. I will post Rio's stats and official b-day pics shortly.