Well....Justin and I are now the parents of a ONE YEAR OLD! Yesterday, November 28th 2009 at 6:34 am, our sweet baby girl turned one. We cannot believe that a year has gone by already. It has been an amazing year of first smiles, laughs, rolls, steps, holidays and hugs. Right now as our baby is sound asleep on Daddy's chest I am looking around our home and realizing that.....
We no longer have a living room.
It has been taken over by toys. *sigh*
OH the joys of parenthood! :) Thank God we bought this house!! Otherwise we would have no room!
So for those of you who could not attend, we had a "Winter ONEderland" theme. We decorated the whole house with snowflakes and snowmen and penguins. Since it is chilly in the winter, we had a "Chili bar" (get it??) with three different kinds of chili (Thanks to Ellie's two wonderful grandmothers) with all kinds of toppings. We also had cornbread, salad (thanks to Ellie's Auntie Melissa Legs), Potato salad, and of course.....cake and ice cream! There were just under 50 people here, and luckily the weather was great so we were able to use our back yard as well. It was really a great time. Thank you to all who came or sent her gifts!! We have a LOT of thank you cards to send!! :)
Well...here are some pics from the party. For more pictures, you can check out my Facebook page.
Here she is opening her first present!!
Oops! Can't have a party without a little tears!!
She loved this card...
Opening some gifts. My friend Megan's daughter helped us open all the presents. Thank goodness! We couldn't have done it without her!!
Reading Pat the Bunny
Here she is....somewhere in the middle of all her presents! With Mommy, L, and her two grandmothers.
The best present of all!!
My cousin Jodie and her ADORABLE little girl Anika!
Look at my hands!
Time to get ready for cake!
Her snowflake cake...
Her smash cake...
Singing happy birthday!
What IS this?????
Feeding mommy....and smashing cake in mommy's hair and face!
I'M DONE!
I love my uncle Rick!
Friends.
The Fam.
Cousins
Her favorite gift!
And her new play hut all set up in the living room!
Ainsley checking it out
Peek-a-boo Grams!
And with her new hand painted bed from her Auntie Jen!
She has all KINDS of other goodies....she got tons of clothes, some books, and a bunch of different toys. We are trying to decide which ones to put away for now and which ones to keep out. We are planning on doing a rotation of toys so she can feel like she is getting "new" toys all the time!Well....thanks again to all who could make it...and we missed all of you who couldn't! We also hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for this year!
Take care,
Esella, Justin and Katie
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