JANE is 1

OH MY GOSH!!! Our baby girl is 1. We all know how time flies, Crazy! I had these pictures taken in her room and I'm soooo glad I did. It was hilarious! She was having a blast! She was devouring the cake, putting her feet in it, running around flinging cake everywhere. Quite the mess, but lots of fun! My awesome friend Shannon took these priceless pictures.

Ya know the phrase "You live and you learn"? That's how I describe Jane's first Birthday. We had it on HALLOWEEN (sunday night) and I should of know, it was quit the SCARY night. I put lots of time and effort in to planning this thing. I thought, she only gets her first Birthday once, so i need to make it special! So. . . I Made her Birthday sign and invitations, 8 decorative tissue balls, Printed out every picture of her and put them all in albums, went to four party stores to get all the right colors for the supplies, made almost a million cup cakes, did fondant (for the first time) on her cake (took about 4 hours) , I even bought a giant $10 turquoise polka dotted balloon "that i realized wouldn't fit in my car AFTER I bought it. So I had to drive home with it very slow hanging it out the window praying it wouldn't pop! I'm sure i looked like the biggest nerd, and The list goes on. . . So when the big day finally came I was so excited. About 15 min. into the party I sat Jane in a folding chair to open presents, the chair started to fold on her so I quickly put my hand on the front of the chair to re-open it and her poor little hand was in the side of the chair and it smashed her finger so bad! It was bleeding, she bawled so hard for about 45 min. we had to give her Motrin to calm her down. When we finally calmed her down, we decided to try again only with blowing out the candle on the cake, as we were singing she reached so fast for the flame. I grabbed her hand BARELY in time, but she still got some hot wax on her hand which sent her to tears AGAIN!!! (Mother of the year, right). We had a couple of family members sad and upset, which was surely adding to the mood, and to top it off. You know the $10 dollar balloon? Well I threatened Crew not to play with it until after the party. After all, the giant balloon stays inflated for a month. He minded well, eagerly waiting. As we walked from the club house back to our home after cleaning up, the balloon hit the side of our house and popped! Of course then Crew was bawling! What a way to end a party. The best thing about it is, she's too young to even know or care, or even remember this 1st Birthday. I guess that's a good thing, because it didn't turn out at ALL like I'd hoped. Yeeeeeeesh!!!!! P.S. She finally did cheer up towards the end of the party. Thank goodness!!

Do you see my tonsils?The after party was Jane's favorite part! She sat on the counter laughing and guzzling the Root Beer, lovin every minute of it.