Our little pumpkin turned 1 on October 21, 2013. My mom came down from Iowa to celebrate, as well as we had a bunch of our Austin friends (second family ;)) over to the house for a fall birthday party. The weather was perfect. My mom and I had fun cooking and decorating for a few days leading up to the party. All-in-all, we had a wonderful party hosting 30 guests on a $175 budget!
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| The Menu: cupcakes, ginger spice cake, apples with fruit dip, fruit kebabs, beef and white chicken chili, and beer bread and corn bread |
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| old school 20-somethings represent |
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| swinging amongst the "pumpkins" in the tree |
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| Iowa crew |
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| work peeps |
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| neighbors |
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| crazy Scott making faces :P |
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| Smokey and Elijah eating lunch |
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| "what's that?" |
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| month-by-month growing |
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| opening presents |
