Ariannah's First Birthday

Well, Ariannah's first birthday was a tremendous success! Alaina worked really hard to make it super special, and Grandpa and Grandma came over for the day. I'm just warning you though, there were just so many cute pics I couldn't really decide what to post, so this is going to be a long one. You might want to go brew a cup of coffee, grab some leftover Thanksgiving treats and park it for awhile :-) It took Ariannah awhile to figure out the whole present opening thing, but once she did, you couldn't stop her; she loved it!

Alaina made (from scratch I might add) these adorable cakes. The littlest puppy was just for Ariannah :-)This is Ariannah patiently waiting for the cake to be brought to her. She has no idea what's happening, but she's excited!

Once Alaina put the frosting on her face, it didn't take her long to dig in and fully enjoy the whole experience.


Yeah, I'd be wondering what in the world I was supposed to do with that contraption too :-)

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So I know this is sideways, but I'm not patient enough to figure out how to turn it around before posting, hehe...but if you turn your head just right, you'll see how stinkin' cute my niece is :-)

Taking a break from the hard work and reading a story :-)

No first birthday is complete without a Veggie Tales; she seems to be pretty happy about it too :-)

Trying to get a peak in :-)

And now for what I gave her...now before everyone who knows me freaks out, yes, I bought her a doll, but I'm still not giving in to the whole girly girl stuff! I just knew she would love it and couldn't resist making her happy...

Yeah, she couldn't wait for Alaina to get it out of the packaging

But once she got her hands on it, what was the first thing she did?

Yeah, I'd say it was a hit :-)

It was definitely a birthday to remember. Lots of presents and lots of laughs. I just can't believe it's already been a year! Crazy. Anyway, it's a good thing we have a whole year to recover before the next one :-)