Her little party:

I seriously have no idea how it has already been 1 year since our Olivia was born.
I'm a mom to a 1 year old!
I just can't think about it too much or I might just burst into tears.
I get a bit emotional thinking about how fast time has gone.
However, I am loving how much she is learning each day.
And being able to see more and more of her oh so cute personality.
It has been such an amazing year.
Definitely not always easy.
It can be stressful, and exhausting (to say the least) to have a baby.
But every second of it is worth it.
And I am so glad she is ours.

I put together a small party for her.
I'm not going to lie, I did kind of go all out.
But I couldn't help it, it was her very first birthday!
I spent days making her dress, banners and cake and cupcake toppers.
Sophia and I stayed up late one night making the tissue pom poms and then decorating.
And I spent the day before her birthday baking cupcakes, cookies and of course her cute little cake!
Let me just say that our other kids will not be so lucky on their first birthday or any other birthday for that matter.

Enjoy the lots and lots of pictures I took!

Her invitation.

I just love this picture because it shows just how small she is, still fitting perfectly right on my lap!

Surprisingly she did not really like the whole make a mess of your cake idea.
Especially when her dad put her face in it. (See video posted on facebook.)

I think Michael enjoyed opening her gifts a bit more than she did!

Being so nice and giving her new baby a kiss. (This one seems a bit vicious but I promise she gives cute ones.)

She loved her package from the Mickelsons. Especially since she got to pull everything out and play with the tissue paper.

Giving the fishy a kiss. (This one is nice)


Before stores stopped selling fireworks, I had this brilliant idea to have a little firework show on her birthday.
Mostly since I was a mean mom and didn't let her stay up late to watch the big ones.
But I think I made it up to her!
She loved them!
Oh ya and during the small show I found out that it's illegal or something to do fireworks after a certain date. Whatever that means. Whoops:)

Happy Birthday to our very sweet girl!