This past week was my little girls birthday! I can not believe it has been a year. One of the best years of my life so far! She is such a fun outgoing crazy joy to have in mine and bastians life! We decided to throw 2 parties one in Syracuse and one in American Fork for each of our families. It was alot of work and fun but we will never throw 2 party's ever again! :) On Thursday the 29th we had a party at my moms backyard. It was super fun, her poppy (bastians dad) and his fiance and her kids came. As well as our neighbors and friends. My mom and markie were super helpful and so it went alot smoother. (side note markie had the homecoming parade that night so she had to leave early... but on Friday night she was announce Homecoming Queen!!! That's my amazing sister :)) I think I went a little overboard trying to make everything. It took alot of time to personalize everything, but in the end turned out great!
In American Fork we threw a little one for some close friends and bastians mom and dad's family because they are all located up there! It was fun to see my two favorite friends and there little kids. Brittney has 2 twins that are so adorable and getting so big I believe they are 18 months old. Shranda's little chunker ( who by the way is thinning out very nicely, but i loved his chunkyness) Kleyton is now 9 months old! They were all playing together and having a blast! It was so fun to see bastians aunts drive all the way up there to celebrate with our little girl! and my mother in law who is so loving and kind and giving of her place and time to help us with this shindig.
I decided to make cake pops, which I will never do again! They were delicous and fun but they took 4 hours to long of my life. If you have never tried making them I would not do it unless you have lots of time and patience. I also made a personalized birthday banner out of scrap paper. It turned out adorable! p.s. I will post pictures in the next few days so you can get a idea of what they look like.
One of our favorite presents kendelle gave us is on her birthday she decided it was the day to start standing on her own. She is a little behind on walking, but I am in no rush to hurry her along :) She will now bend down and stand up for mins at a time and it is so fun to watch. When she first started doing it bastian and I would clap and so now ever single time she stands up she looks at one of us claps for herself then moves on with what she wants to do. It is adorable :)
On Tuesday we had her one year old apt with her doctor; she is in the 11th percentile for her weight and the 24th for her height! all together around the 45 percentile. I made dad come to this apt as he had never done any with her yet, i just wanted him to understand what us moms have to sit and watch at these apts. At first she was reaching for me wanting me to comfort her then she turned and saw dad was holding her so she cuddled up to him and just cried! It was so fun to see her want her dad to comfort her. Everytime he walks in the door from work or school her face just lights up and she is so happy. They are definetly the best of buds.
