Party Time!!

So after the intimate birthday celebration at our house, we had to have a BIG party for the little one. This is a very important party to have, because all children remember their first birthdays! Right?! Well all mommy's remember the first birthday party, so as to not disappoint myself, we had a big one! Madison loved all the attention, and of course all the presents, which have now taken over my house. On a side note, my house used to be a very grown up and nicely decorated home. Now it pretty much looks like a toy store threw up! But it makes Madison happy, so that is all that matters!

Everything was decorated in pink and purple, with lots of balloons! Madison LOVES balloons!

We displayed a picture from the first 11 months. It was amazing to see how much she has grown and changed!

AMAZING cupcakes made by my friend Emily. Strawberry, s'mores, boston creme pie and peanut butter and jelly! (All were delicious, I had to try them all to make sure they were suitable to serve)

The birthday girl in her special chair!

All of Maddy's friends!

She is never going to learn to do it on her own if people keep pushing her :)

Reading a card ...



Madison has also become an expert at opening presents

Not to worry, we got every moment documented in some fashion. Pictures, videos .... you name it, we captured it!

Cake Time!  



Daddy's favorite is strawberry, looks like he wanted her to share! 

After all the hooplah was over, someone was exhausted, ME! But it was totally worth every minute. Next birthday.... I am thinking Mexico! 

















1st Birthday!!

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated out daughters first birthday! How is it possible that an entire year has gone by?! I no longer have a "baby", I have a one year old. In a matter of minutes, I went from saying I have a daughter that is X number of months to I have a one year old. I think this is going to take some getting use too. We have celebrated all of her first holidays, her first tooth, first time to crawl, first time to say momma and dadda, and the list could go on and on ..... SO when it came time for her FIRST birthday, I knew there would have to be some major celebrating! Mommy and daddy both stayed home from work so we could spend the entire day with our little angel. It was a beautiful day, so we decided to take her to the zoo (for the first time). We had a blast! Madison enjoyed all of the different animals and being outside in general. One small problem, every animal was a duck-ey (pronounced duck-eeeeeeeeeee, in a very loud high pitched voice). Monkeys were duckies, squirrels were duckies, even the lion was a duck-ey. When we actually saw real duckies, she stated quacking at them. I will have to say it was pretty adorable!   

She was very excited to see the duckey (monkey)!

After the zoo, Madison took a nap while we prepared for her party. On her actual birthday, we had a small get together for dinner and of course, cake!

Getting ready to open some presents!

Madison LOVES music cards!

And she got a few cars ....

Why use your feet when someone is willing to push you ...

Cake time... Not so sure about this

Well maybe this tates pretty good!

She thought dad wanted some as well

By bedtime, this was one tired one year old! (mom and dad were pretty tired as well).

The day turned out to be better then I could have imagined and I can't wait to celebrate many more birthdays with this little angel!