First Birthday!!!

Our sweet baby bird turned ONE!

 There was lots of pink, lots of sweets, lots of fun and lots of family & friends to help us celebrate!

Lots of Pink

Vanilla cupcakes w/chocolate cream cheese frosting

Our sweet Birthday Girl

LOVED the chocolate cream cheese frosting on her cupcake!

YUM!

Sugar Drunk

Let's just say we were all exhausted after the party! It took alot of planning, baking and decorating. The next one will probably be a little more low key...sorry G:)!

My sister also posted some pics from G's first birthday party here , her pictures are alot better than mine! My little camera doesn't take the best of pics....this may be the only thing pushing me towards an iphone....the great pictures they take and convenience of it!

One Year Past in Pictures

1.17.11 Our beautiful 10lb 10oz baby girl was born, she blessed and changed our lives forever.....

Newborn Pictures-about 5 days old

G's first Month

2nd Month

3 months old -Family Pictures we had Taken By Sara Crea

3rd Month-All smiles & Giggles

4th Month

5th month, first taste of solids

6th Month-4th of July Parade

7th Month-Friends Wedding

8th Month-Pumpkin Patch

9th month

10th Month

Almost 12 months Old!

Genesis had her 1 year check up ( a week past, since her actual appointment was canceled due to snow) today. Dr. said her growth is great and that everything is going wonderful! Always good to hear! Her 1 year stats are: 29 5/8th inches (75th percentile) 22lb 6oz (80th percentile) and her head size is still in the 90th percentile, haha, some day she will grow into that large head of hers!

She is walking more than crawling now and has 6 teeth! Quite the little toddler. Wow, I can't believe she is a toddler already. This past year has flown by. I thank God daily for this beautiful little girl that he has given us. She has changed and blessed our lives so much, I have to idea where to begin. Who knew that a 1 year old can teach you so much! Just when you think you are finally an "adult" a baby comes along and teaches you that you really don't know anything and are far away from your "adult" potential.  They also show you how selfish you are, you think that when you get married you learn a little bit about putting someone else first, wait till you have a baby.......there is no longer "my needs" those.......you learn to be completely selfless....but you must remember to treat yourself every now and then or you will go crazy!

Becoming a mom has been an amazing,scarey, unpredictable,fun, rewarding and again scarey experience, but most of all wonderful!

2012

Happy New Year!!

Christmas and New Years just swept by us in a whirlwind!  I am very behind on my blogging right now, I intend to get back into it soon. But I will say that we have already been blessed immensly in this new year! I look forward to what God has in store for our family in 2012!

I have been busy the last few days with a few projects....I won't be able to post about them until the end of the month though, the first project is planning my daughter's 1st birthday! This is so much fun! I have been pinning lots of fun ideas from Pintrest and making lots of trips to Ben Franklin's and Michael's for supplies and ideas, oh yes and Target! I bought balloons and matching stock paper from Target for alot cheaper than I could have gotten at either of the craft stores. I will do a post soley on all the projects for her big 1st birthday after I am finished and have all the pictures!

I am also working on a project for a friend's birthday, and I am loving the results! Will post pics of that later also! I can't give away the surprise now!

Our Sweet Baby Bird is Turning ONE!

Here is G's birthday outfit. More pics to come later, but the bird onesie is a hand-me-down from her cousin, Vivi, and the headband and tutu I ordered online from Ruffles and Cream. The tutu is very big and fluffy, love it!

Will be back on here soon after all the upcoming festivities! Hope you are all having a wonderful start to your New Year!

Holiday Festivities

G LOVED all the beautiful lights!

 As you can see I am a little behind on my posting, but in my defense, my mom took all these pics and she finally loaded them to the computer....these are pictures from before Christmas when we went with my parents, sister and her bf to the Garden D'Lights in Bellevue.

It was a very cold night, but we had a great time!

I have so much to catch up on this blog, so please bare with me! Hopefully I will get more posted soon! Right now my head is a jumble of pink, cake pops, birds, card stock, glue sticks, and more pink............yes I am in the process of making invitations for and planning my daughters first birthday party next month! AHhhhh :)

Your Not Santa.......

Genesis did so well with Santa Clause! I was very surprised, especially after seeing EVERYONE post pics of their cute kiddos on Santa's lap screaming.......I didn't have high hopes. I'm guessing next year may be that year with the screaming baby/santa pic.

You smell like beef and cheese.....

Sugary Sweetness

I made these White Chocolate Topped Gingerbread Cookies the other night for our mommy/baby group Christmas Party. They turned out AMAZING, love em! Soft and chewy and that bite of white chocolate really makes it! They would be delicious without also. I will definately keep these on my list of Christmas cookies every year!

I wanted to make these Caramel Topped Shortbread Bites but I chickened out when I saw that you have to use a candy thermometer and really watch the temp and all....yeah that scared me. I will try them at some point and make sure to have a back up. Don't they look delicious?

I'm really into salted chocolate caramels right now....and one little piece tastes so heavenly when you are counting calories.....I almost bought a tub of them at Costco tonight, found I really do have the strength to say No! Darn it....haha


So excited for Christmas right around the corner..........and really excited to celebrate it with G since it is her first Christmas!

Wish List

Black Glitter Toms

Kaitlyn Mittens

Fossil Key-Per Duffle

Fossil Key-Per Tote

Baby Name Pendant Necklace

Flat Iron

GlassyBaby Sowing the Fields Collection

 Annabelle Infinity Scarf


These are just a few items on my wish list, none of which I actually asked for for Christmas, because they are all pretty pricey, and because my husband and I are only doing stockings for each other this year since we had our little weekend in Seattle....but I may show it to my husband next year for my bday....though I'm sure the list will have changed by then.