One year old! (And an announcement...)

Isaac turned one year old yesterday! We can't believe how quickly his first year flew by. We are so blessed to have him in our family. 

We had a small party for Isaac at Grandma and Grandpa de Hoyos's house. We had dinner together and Isaac helped himself to some raspberries, hence the red mess on his face in the next few pictures!

We started the party by blowing out the candle on the cake. Of course, Isaac needed a little help from Daddy.

Singing Happy Birthday

Isaac isn't quite sure what is going on...

 Then we decided to open presents before we got too messy from eating the cake.

Sporting his new hat and playing with his new toy.

He got lots of great presents, tons of new clothes (very needed!) and a little something special...

"Big Brother Isaac" - it will be official mid December!

It's true, we are expecting baby #2! I am about 14 weeks along - the due date is 12-12-12. We feel very blessed! We did not expect our second baby to come so easily or quickly, seeing as it took us 2 years the first time around. It was quite the shock! But we are so excited, and I think it will be great for Isaac to have a younger brother or sister. They will be 18 months apart, which is both scary and awesome!

Just to explain the picture above, we bought a custom made shirt on Etsy that says "Big Brother Isaac" with the intention of using it to announce our pregnancy. We planned on having everyone open a present or two for Isaac, since he is too small to understand what's going on still. We specifically gave Jared's grandparents the box with this shirt in it, to let them see it first and then show it to everyone else. Funnily enough, they opened it and said "Big Isaac! That's so cute!" It  seemed to take a few minutes for everyone to get that it says "Big Brother Isaac" and that we were actually announcing our pregnancy with it! I think it ended up just confusing everyone more than anything, so we didn't quite get the reaction we had hoped for. :)

Next up - cake time! I think pictures can do a much better job than words with this one...

It started out innocent enough...


Starting to get the hang of it.

Awesome.


It gets worse...

The final result. Beautiful.

Needless to say, he enjoyed his cake quite a bit.

We quickly cleaned him up and gave him a chance to play with his toys.

A natural drummer.

And that's that! It was a fun day!

Just in case you missed the announcement in the middle...

(Also we cut his hair recently... here are the before and after photos):