Cooper's 1st Birthday Bash!

We celebrated Cooper's 1st birthday in style with a yummy dinner, dessert and a present -- all while wearing birthday party hats (a perfect Strauss-style doggy birthday party).

Cooper's evening started out with a steak dinner. Here's Cooper waiting patiently for his meat.

Cooper scarfing the steak.

Moving on to dessert. Cooper waiting patiently for his birthday cake.

Getting a little closer to his birthday cake with a little sniffing and licking.

 Cooper staring at the cake in his food dish, but not yet allowed to eat it.

Cooper's allowed to eat it...finally!

But he wouldn't eat the birthday cake in the bowl (even though I put it back in there more than once), he ate it outside of the bowl so that he could make a mess!

Then Cooper received a gator for his birthday present. He's already trying to figure out how to rip it apart!

Happy 1st Birthday Cooper!!