Tess' 1st Birthday!

I know her birthday was a month ago, but I am finding that my time is slipping through my fingers faster and faster these days and it's becoming more of a struggle to get on my blog! I don't want to give it up because it is the best connection I have to family and friends. So here we are playing catch up once again. The biggest event that I have not posted about is my baby girls first birthday bash! It was awesome and totally different to decorate in pink. It was exciting this year to get her Christmas presents from other people and birthday presents because up until this point for the whole last year we still didn't have any girl toys in the house. Now her room is needing a book shelf of some sort to put all her new stuff on.

We had a birthday party at our house and invited all the daycare kids and families and my parents came and Tony's mom and husband came. Her party was a pink owl theme because I am dying to decorate her room with these really cool owl and bird and tree designs that I have seen. Plus I had a dress with the same type of design on it for her to wear.

I made BBQ pork sandwiches and then had a cake made for everyone else and a pale pink round smash cake with little white polka dots on it for her. She loved it. She started by picking off all the polka dots and eating them. She really was quite clean, to the disappointment to a group of kids anticipating a huge mess of cake everywhere. They got bored with it and wandered away one by one. None of my kids really were messy with their cakes - they were always too interested in actually eating it. :)

Then we proceeded to opening presents right before everyone left and she got a bunch of cute stuff. She was pretty into it too. Tess is NOT shy and she very much likes the attention. As she's sitting and eating her cake, surrounded by 20 plus people, she just ate calmly and waved every once in awhile to her adoring fans. She's too funny. I love everything about that girl (as I do the boys  of course!).

So here are her first birthday bash pics. I hope you enjoyed!!