Sweet Orange Fox

I think this weekend recap should be titled "Weekend Recovery - Ongoing." Wow...I didn't know it was possible to pack SO much into just a few short days. There were definitely some ups and downs, but it was all so worth it for the little guy's one and only FIRST birthday!

All of Friday was spent on party preparations since I had neglected them for months. Our photographer recently said that she hopes her kids will one day forgive her for always posting their photos so long after all of her clients'..."the life of a photographer's kid!" she said. And I immediately thought about how I can relate. I make hundreds of party decorations a month for all of my customers..spend tons of time on them and go ALL out, and then there I was at midnight the night before my own child's party telling myself that he didn't really need a high chair banner. Poor little guy! 

Unfortunately I came down with some sort of bug Friday night that kept me up all night long with terrible nausea, throwing up, the whole nine. I still don't know if it was food poisoning, exhaustion/dehydration from the craziness of Friday or what. I was hoping it would be gone by Saturday morning, but it was even worse..and I was this close to canceling the party. Of course I couldn't do that to Trent, though....however, all shreds of hope for the high chair banner were definitely lost at that point. Everything I had saved on the to do list for the morning of ended up just taking a back seat. It was everything I could do to just take a shower and half dry my hair. Sigh. I swore everything would be homemade and perfect...but in reality I ended up scraping pink sprinkles off of a grocery store smash cake five minutes before guests arrived. Who says I am not easygoing??


By the time the party started I was at least functioning a little better, and we all managed to get through it just fine! It was so fun to see family and friends, celebrate Trent's birthday and just think about all that has happened this past year. He wasn't too interested in opening gifts, but he could have sat in his high chair and eaten cake all day long. 








After everything wrapped up, all three of us took a nap and ventured out to Starbucks, but it wasn't too long before we realized we were all still exhausted and that bedtime was going to come early! So we headed home to recharge for a big Sunday!

I woke up feeling almost 100% thank GOD. We started out the day with breakfast at our favorite local spot, Three Squares. I think we ordered one of everything and ate every last crumb. From there we went to our favorite park downtown to just walk around, people watch and let Bevo stretch his legs. 


After a quick nap time at home, we took Trent to the Dallas Zoo "Halloween Nights" event. We weren't sure what to expect, but it was amazing. Trent did some trick-or-treating, saw some animals, looked at all the other kids in costumes AND managed to hold on to his bucket the whole night. Couldn't have gone better if you ask me. 




We stopped at Grandma and Grandpa's on the way home to say a quick hello, and then it was off to bed. 


We really can't thank everyone enough for helping celebrate Trent's big day with us...and especially for everyone that pitched in to get things together at the last minute while I was hanging my head over the toilet! Now that our big Halloween celebration is over...bring on turkey and trees!!! 

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