Leah's 1st Birthday

Our baby girl turned 1 last week! It's amazing how fast a year can fly by! We had so much fun celebrating with our little girl. On her birthday, she went all over with me running errands including a visit to her daddy at his work. It was the annual 6th graders versus teachers kickball game, so we got to watch Ross play for a bit.

That evening we had our parents over for a birthday dinner. Leah loved having her grandmas and especially her grandpa there for dinner. She was quite a ham for them. After dinner, she opened presents. She was pretty good at opening the bags, but I expected her to be much better since she LOVES to pull out and empty things.In classic Leah style, she made a mess of things.

Then we had cake and ice cream. I had practiced blowing out candles with her. She has blown a couple out, but that night she wouldn't blow until after the candle was already out. Oh well.

She was a little timid at first, only eating the candy flowers on top. Then she crumpled up the cupcake and dug in.

By the time she was done she was in a grand mood and kept squealing and laughing with delight. Since it was her birthday, we let her climb on the table while we were all still visiting and she had the time of her life walking back and forth to everyone at the table.

On Saturday, we had a little party for her at a local park with some other family members. She got some great presents but still wasn't all that into opening them.

Look at that loot! Thanks again everyone.

Here she is with a couple of her cute party goers...Kylie and Makynlee. These two girls are both almost 1 too!

Here's a picture I snapped of the two of us.

We went over to feed the ducks, but they wouldn't eat any of our bread...weird. They must have been too full already.

A cute picture of Baby J. Love this girl!

Here's Leah and her "favorite aunt MoMo" who took her over to play on the playground.

We were so grateful that the weather was so cooperative that day. We have had A LOT of rain and cold weather here lately. But during the party it was dry and wasn't windy. It wasn't very warm, but was comfortable and everyone seemed to have a good time.

For anyone interested, we did get a video of her eating her cake.

Here is a little video of her being silly after eating her cake. Most people think that she is so quite and reserved because that's just how she is when she's around people she doesn't know or remember very well yet. But this is how our little Leah really is nearly everyday at home...