Lunch

Apparently Baby wanted lunch too!

When its cold out...

and there is hurricane remnants around this is how we roll as we watch Haydyn's soccer game.

Pre-Halloween fun

With Isaiah and Lily

Our girls

Adelaide was flat out hugging all over her and Lily could have cared less. Love them and how much they love each other.

Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O

And on that farm we had a party! Old MacDonald's farm was the theme for your 1st birthday party. A couple of months before your birthday I began thinking of what theme to use for your party. The fact that you give us sweet smiles when we sing the Old MacDonald song to you, you love the Old MacDonald hand puppet we have, and you love all animals made it easy.  We stuck with the theme and decorated using red and white as well as cow print balloons (and a barn with animals one for you), hay bales, and a rocking horse.  We had it September 22 from 12-2, the Saturday before your birthday, at a nearby park. It was a joyous time of celebrating your first year with our family and friends.

About to sing.  This was such a sweet moment to me.  Hearing everyone sing to you made my heart smile.

Daddy giving you your smash cake.

Surprise, surprise you went for the graham cracker "door" first.

Not excited at all but atleast you touched it.

Daddy decided to pinch off a little for you to taste.

Well maybe we can say you tried it.

Our little cow in the dress that Aunt Kim made for you.

As I was looking for ideas I came across this cake and I just had to make it for you.  It was a labor of love for your Daddy and I and we are super happy with how it turned out.  The barn was your smash cake and the pig, sheep, and chick cupcakes were cute additions.

The cake and cupcake table.

Ham and turkey sandwiches with lettuce, tomato, mustard, and mayo.

Miss Adelaide's Garden of cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli, and carrots with red peppers serving as bowls for the ranch dressing.

Chicken feed, a pumpkin patch, hay bales, fresh eggs, tractor wheels, and muddy fence posts made for some yummy treats.

Don't forget the cow patties and tails.

Water and capri suns with a basketfull of apples.

Family and friends...

who love you so much!

We love you, Adelaide.  Happy Birthday!

Giddy up zebra

Your Birthday

So what all did you do on your 1st birthday?  Your Daddy and I spent much of the day remembering what we were doing at specific times of the day last year.  A much less painful day for me I must say!  It was so much fun to get to tell you Happy Birthday all throughout the day.  And don't worry the song was sung several times as well!

You woke up and in I came with the camera... all flashy and stuff.  You didn't seem to mind too much.  You obliged to a few pictures and then let me know that it was time for breakfast.  We did our morning routine of you nursing/eating breakfast and then you playing while I ate.  Good Morning America was on in the background then came Live! with Kelly and Michael... you know, the good stuff.  It wasn't too much later that you went down for your morning nap.  It wasn't the longest nap (~50 mins) but enough for you to be cheery when we went to meet Granny for lunch at Cracker Barrel.  I figured you would want their biscuits... or maybe that was me.  Anyway, after a good lunch we headed to Goodwill before coming back home for your nap.  You went to sleep fine and took a better nap (~1 hr 20 mins).  Yay for good naps!  After a little photo session you played a while and then it was time for dinner.  You ate dinner (an okay dinnertime) and then we hung out until Daddy came home.  Daddy and I ate and offered you bits of what we were eating, but you weren't that interested.  No surprise there!  Afterwards we went on a family stroll around the neighborhood.  We talked again about how crazy it is that you're 1 and then about how it was around that time last year that you were quickly making your way into the world.  We got back inside in time for me to be holding you while we were taking a family picture at 7:07 pm, the time you were born.  Not necessarily planned but awesome that it worked out that way!  You never get to play with the TV remote so I let you play with it for a few minutes and then it was time for bath and bed.  I nursed you again and held onto you a little tighter before I put you down because you are growing up before my very eyes.  I want to cherish these sweet memories of your babyhood. 

A pretty good birthday if you ask me.  Nothing too exciting and out of the ordinary but I figure that you had what you needed, a family that is blessed beyond measure and loves you more than anything.

Birthday breakfast coming right up!

Lunch with Granny... and boy did you give her some good snuggles.

 Cute birthday feet!

Holding the TV remote.  A birthday present of sorts.

Our blessed family (minus Lily who was sitting below us).

Happy Birthday, once again, sweetheart!