Liam's Welcome Party!

Today was Liam's Arrival Party!  It was lots of fun visiting with our family and friends and they enjoyed meeting Liam for the first time.  Thanks to Grammie for all her hard work planning the party.  The party was a jungle theme and we had lots of jungle decorations including balloons, jungle animals, and a jungle diaper cake that Grammie made. Guests  signed a photo matt that had Liam's picture on it that we can frame and hang in Liam's nursery. We also had an advice book for our guests to sign and and write parenting advice for Mommy & Daddy.  The menu was a BBQ we had BBQ chicken, slow cooked BBQ pulled pork, cold slaw, fruit salad, potato salad, homemade mac & cheese, jungle animal cupcakes, and animal crackers for party favors. To top off the party was Liam's Jungle Cake!  It was a yellow cake with fresh strawberries that had a picture of Liam on the cake.  It was ADORABLE!  All our guest really liked the idea! We decided not to have a baby shower when I was pregnant.  We wanted to wait until after Liam arrived so we could thank all our friends and family for their support. We waited until the right time when he was old enough (6 weeks old) and Chris and I were up for company.  It was so wonderful to have just one day where everyone came over and visited with Liam.  Liam was such a good host he let everyone hold him and he enjoyed the attention. Liam got a lot of special gifts too including; diapers (lots of diapers!), a homemade quilt, infant seat, infant basketball hoop, clothes, swing and lots more.