One!

My baby turned one! I can't believe it. This was one of those super fast years, and I'm almost sad she's getting big already.

She was the sweetest baby ever!

Happy
Content
Snugly
Sweet
Happy
Curious
Happy
Calm
Happy

Did I mention happy? She's almost always happy. People I see regularly, like friends and the other parents dropping their kids off at Kindergarten always comment on how they've never seen her cry. That's because she doesn't unless she has a very good reason, like her sister just kicked her in the face...again.

Happy


And she has way more hair than my other two did at her age, so that's fun too.

She LOVED all her first birthday presents. We got her this cash register, my parents got her this awesome dog you can gook up to the computer and program to say her name and favorite things, and Nathan's parents gave her a camera that plays music and lights up. All three were a huge hit!



Happy First Birthday Baby Girl!

Ignore the Paint

So you have to imagine this against a background of fresh, clean and crisp paint, perhaps grayish in color, but not a dark cave-like gray, a light and airy gray, a gray that I hope to have on my wall this time next year so the full cuteness of my banner shows through.

I bought a gallon of a brownish-tan paint, but I think I've changed my mind.

It's a girls prerogative.

I heard that on t.v. when I was little and it's always stuck in my head.

And the "this" I was talking about...

Abby's birthday banner. She turned one, you know.

It's super cute if you ignore all the awful paint samples slathered on my wall, and the other paint that is actually suppose to be there but was a dirty looking off white to begin with that then became dirty in real life and poked through by many, many nails and screws that nobody bothered to patch when they pulled out. Poor wall...I'll take care of you...when I can actually decide on a paint color.

The white back circle is made of coffee filters.

The pink paper is, well, pink paper, cut in a circle and lined with a sparkly glitter.

The letters are brown paper cut with a Cricut, Fancy Pants font, then painted with glue that I then dumped loads of Martha Stewart glitter on. I LOVE Martha Stewart glitter. It's the best glitter in the universe!



Now I just need to make a banner that says Madie, and I can reuse the Happy Birthday for her birthday.

Jared, on the other hand, might get mad at me if I pull it out for his birthday and try and call it a "bubble gum" birthday or a "cotton candy" birthday. No, I should be brainstorming something in blue or green, or maybe camo...

You've got to have the right tools.

Jared got a kids tool set for Christmas and Madie has taken a liking to this...