Sunday, June 24, 2012

Maisy’s First Birthday!

What a fun day we had yesterday!  It was the perfect day for a First Birthday celebration.  The only downfall was that Maisy woke up with a runny nose and runny eye, but she’s such a trooper that it didn’t seem to keep her from enjoying her day at all.  For the theme I just went with colorful, polka dots, summer time, you know, all things that remind me of Maisy! 

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Of course Aunt B always comes through with the perfect cupcakes and treats to top everything off! 

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The bright beautiful Birthday Girl!  Love her!

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Nicki sent me this idea she found on Pinterest to make a Water Blob, it was such a great idea and the kids had a blast playing on it! 

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We had other sprinklers and water toys out for the kids to play with.

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The Daddy’s and their baby girls :)

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Lots of people came out to celebrate with us, I always say this but I can’t express enough how lucky we are to have such a great support system!  Life is so crazy and it’s hard to keep in touch but when life’s important milestones come along some people are just always there.

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This picture is funny to me…Ryder needed to have a time out and get a talkin’ to by Daddy AND Poppy!  Look how hard headed he is, you can almost see the words going in one ear and out the other!

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Daddy helping the Birthday girl eat her lunch.

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Big Brother was front and center singing Happy Birthday to his sister. 

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Her face cracked me up, she literally had her jaw dropped the whole time we sang.  Like “all this…for me????”

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First in line for the cupcakes!…

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I think her cake was finger lickin’ good!

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Practicing sharing cake…for their wedding day!

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Of course big brother wasn’t going to not help himself!

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It took 3 of us to get her not looking like a smurf anymore!

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Maisy and Jax toddling around together is SO cute to see.  They were up…

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and then they were down!

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She spotted this birthday present from across the garage, sat down and went into this “too much cake” trance.

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Leave it to Jen to buy one for Ryder too!

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Time for presents!

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Not just for Maisy, Jen had to sneak one in there for Ryder too!

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Maisy loooooves her babies :)

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After all that, and an outfit change, she worked up an appetite, of course Daddy gives her a cupcake, like she needed anymore sugar!

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My girl had a FABULOUS first birthday party!!  Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to celebrate with us :)

Today was her actual Birthday so Yaya came over with her favorite lunch (as you can see her eye is still swollen):

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And Birthday presents.  A lot of people have been asking how Ryder is handling Maisy getting all the presents.  I have one picture that answers that question.

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That picture has “It’s not fair!” written all over it!  Lucky for him his sister is pretty good at sharing (for now anyway) and she even lets him help open things.

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Look at her supervising with her hands on her hips!  That’s my girl!!

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We’ve had so much fun playing with all her new stuff today!  Up until now all of the toys in the house have belonged to Ryder and he “allows” Maisy to “borrow” them.  Now she has some bargaining power and is using it for leverage.  I love their dynamic, it’s hilarious to sit back and observe!

So now we officially have a one year old on our hands, I hope this next year goes a little slower!

3 comments:

Nicole said...

The party was great, we had so much fun! And I love the "practicing for their wedding cake" comment, haha...so funny! Glad she had a great birthday weekend!

The Steinhauser Fam{ily} said...

We had so much fun at Maisy's party and we're glad we could be a part of her special day! Happy Birthday sweet girl :)

The Vathes Family said...

What a perfect day it was for a party. We had a great time :) Happy birthday Maisy!!!