Happy 1st Birthday Lily!

Our little girl is turning one today! I can't believe it has already been 1 year since her birth! I feel bad, her birthday was a little forgotten. I knew it was coming up, but had never looked at the day until Saturday. Akoy's birthday last all month long with Disney World (another post) and his birthday party. I feel like we had Lily's party with it and then didn't do anything. The other day I ordered a $15 doller bed for her baby dolls. Figuring that we probably should get her something at least. My how things have changed with a second child (especially during law school). Luckily she doesn't care what she gets. She received a few baby dolls for her party and she LOVES them. She gives them so many hugs and kisses. Darling! We were in the store the other day and she saw the doll isle and just pointed and said "oohh!"

We go to the doctor Tuesday, so I'll update the post later with that.  I know that she is around 20 lbs and I think 28 in.. not positive though.

Lily at a year:
*Loves green smoothies. Freaks out when we don't share.
*Loves food. most all of it!
*Loves her blankets when she goes to sleep
*Loves baby dolls
*Loves Mickey and Minnie Mouse. toys.movie.anything
*She says lots of different 'Oh's" One for falling, oh no, oooh-i want that. She has said mom a couple times but i thinks its all accidents. She will say Dada. Since our disney trip in seeing family she has started to babble more.
*when we say "oh no" she puts her hands to her face
*Took her first steps in D-World and has gotten better. She is at about 10 steps. Slowly but surly she will walk. Stands all the time.
*She has a bear crawl when she is wearing a skirt or dress, it's adorable! Crawls on her hands and feet.
*2 naps
*All switched to milk! She likes it warm of course. Sometimes she will swat the bottle away and pull on my shirt. I really don't know what's left for her!
*Loves frozen gogurts
*favorite snack is yogurt melts.
*She really likes those baby meats. They stink, and I dont know how she eats them but loves them!
*She is still rear facing. We are going to try and go until 2... wish us luck!
*She loves watching Akoy play and pushes his buttons like crazy!
*Lily likes to be held by other girls. not guys. she is started to get afraid.
*in the middle of cutting her 1st molar/9th tooth.
*climbs all over things. Chairs are her favorite

Lily 1st Birthday Video!

Here is the video that I made Lily for her first birthday. I had to basically end it at 11 months so I could have it done in time for the party. 

A Mickey and Minnie Party!

 Yesterday we celebrated both the kids birthdays. While they are a month apart, we decided to do one big party. 

This all started a few months ago when I received a Cricut for my birthday. Being big disney fans I really wanted to get the Mickey Mouse cartridge. In order to justify my purchase, I decided to do both kids partys themed with Mickey or Minnie. Later on I decided it would be easier to just combine them. If we were living near family, we would have separated them. 

This past summer Bryson has be SOOO busy. Instead of watching TV or movies at night (like we sometimes do) Bryson read every night. A few of our friends also moved away for the summer. So I had a semi lonely summer ahead of me. SO I decided to play with my new cricut and plan the party! It would consume my time at night and plan the kids party. My kids will probably not have this nice of a party ever again. At least, I won't spend this much time on it. But I loved doing it and I LOVED how everything came together. I forgot a few things but they were minor and that was to be expected. 

The party itself went great! As good as it can get with 15 kids + babies. Super crazy and hectic! I convinced my mom to come out and was so grateful! She and a neighbor of ours helped set everything up. My neighbor took care of dishes and other things while the party was going on. This helped me so much because I was actually able to enjoy the party! Thanks to my friend Sarah, for taking the pictures! It was so nice to enjoy everything that I worked so hard on. 

After a couple months work, browsing pinterest and a few trips to buy paper, hours on the phone with cricut, I present the kids party. This took place at our apartment clubhouse.

Akoy is 3 and Lily is 1!

These cookies took forever but turned out so cute! My friends Sarah and Torrie helped. I don't know why I thought I could do it all myself! ha :) 

The table wasn't completely done but I was running out of time when we took pictures. 

Bryson sewed all of these! I love it!

I was so scared of our computer this high but I actually think it made it safer from the kids. Lily's birthday video will be put up next week or so. I love the tradition of birthday videos every year. It just got tricky when the clubhouse didn't have a tv. 

We took pictures of all the kids in front of these pictures.

Pin the ears on Akoy. I put the husband in charge of a blindfold.. 

Akoy was the only one to completely get it off the picture!

A boy hitting it vs.. 

A girl hitting vs.. 

an adult! ha. I love the comparison. It may look like it broke open, but it was not. Apparently I made it to strong. 

This table was my favorite because it was completely my own idea! No pinterest! :) 

Lets just say, Lily loves sugar... Why I made black frosting is beyond me.. Not the best for a 1 yr old. 

I love this picture! 

I had so much fun doing this party, it feels weird to have it over.