Birthday Parties!

Get ready for some pictures! Here are some pictures of Brinlee's birthday parties. First is the one with my family and friends. It is cup caked themed :) if you can't tell. And second is with Dave's family. That one is a double party because Brinlee's cousin Aiden is only 4 days younger than her.

Here are some pictures of her in her Birthday outfit. She was way to excited to hold still or look at the camera.

The cakes! They turned out really cute! I was quite proud of myself

The party favors!

Cake walk

Cute cousin Trace

Maggie and Noah playing pin the candle and the cupcake and bean bag toss

Present time! Brinlee did really good at opening them by herself. Thanks to everyone for all the fun gifts! She is very spoiled.

She ate her cake pretty good, but little did we know it was a warm up for the party next day!

The Gainer Party

Brinlee and Aiden

Wonder where she gets her smile from?

Cute cousins Shelby and Maia

I think she was so used to getting her picture taken by then she would smile cheesy on demand

She tore into this cake, as you can see! She loved it and pretty much ate it all!

Both parties turned out just as I imagined! They were wonderful, but I am defintley excited that I have a year to rest until the next one.

Happy Birthday Brinlee Lynn!

I cannot believe that my baby is 1 year old today. It seems like it was just yesterday when I held my tiny newborn in my arms and wondered where she had been my whole life. Now I hold my not so tiny toddler in my arms and think she has been here my whole life. Because my life truly began when I became a mother. This year has been the best year of my life because of the love and joy Brinlee has brought me. I feel truly blessed to be her mother. I love her more than she will ever know and I am so glad that I have her in my life. Happy Birthday Brinlee Lynn!

More fun birthday pictures to come!

My Little Cupcake

Halloween was wonderful this year! First of all I made Brinlee's costume all by myself (with a little help from Dave:)) And I didn't even have a pattern! I had to hand sew allot of it so it took a little longer than I had hoped but it turned out so cute that I didn't mind in the end. The only bad thing of the day was that Brinlee is getting all 4 molars at once so she was not very happy and didn't love to be in her costume but since it was her first Halloween and last first holiday I was a mean mom and made her wear it. My sisters and I took her to the mall trick or treating. She did good in it for the bottom floor of the mall but we ended up taking it off for the top floor :) It was funny at the mall because Brinlee already weighs 27 lbs and the costume I swear added at least 5 lbs and I could barley hold her so we had to pass her between the 3 of us about every 5 minutes. After the mall I made her wear it a little longer so I could get lots of pictures. After the mall we took her to Grandma Judy's to show her off and then we went to dinner with my family that night. It was a great day!

Dave was a wire whisk, I was a baker and Brinlee was the cupcake!

Ashlee and Josh were Sandy and Danny from GreaseCollette just announced that she is pregnant! So she had a bun in the oven and Tim was a baker. Noah was a storm trooper
Riding the rocking horse at Grandma Judy's