Reese Turns One!!

I can NOT believe that Reese is already one. If you want to you can go here and read about Reese's birth. This was one of the fastest years of my life! Yet this past year has been filled with so much love, laughter, and fun memories that I wouldn't trade it for anything!!! Having Reese join our family has added so much to the feeling in our home. Her hugs and smiles make us all feel so happy! Emi and Reese just light up when they see each other. It makes me feel so happy and so grateful to see them have so much fun together. I decided to have her party theme be based on the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I chose it because Reese LOVES to eat! Ok and because it would be simple, yet fun. Melissa came down early and helped me get things ready. We are truly so blessed in our family. We always have so many people support us whether they are there physically or in spirit.

Lucky for us Reese took a good nap before everyone arrived. We had roll sandwiches with some of the things that the caterpillar ate. Reese was full of smiles and her cute personality. My mom made the cake and it turned out AMAZING!!! I wanted her to make a watermelon cake. We looked online and we were kind of making fun of some of the watermelon cakes. She was worried that her cake might end up like the ones that we made fun of. Some people didn't even know it was the cake at first! Reese was so cute opening her presents! She loved them all! We just have to wait for it to warm up a little so that she can wear the cute clothes that she got:) The first gift she opened was a baby doll from her Wood cousins and she HAD to have it out of the box!! While we sang happy birthday she wanted the cake so bad, but when we set it in front of her she wasn't sure that she wanted it. After her first taste she liked it, but only ate a little bit before she was done. I guess my girls just don't like to have their hands dirty:) That's ok with me! Here are the pictures from the happy day!

 photo bomber Emi:)

 before the party watching a movie

 The cake! Amazing, huh?

 Look at AJ's face, ha ha!

Holding her baby tight! 

 right in the middle of opening presents she wanted on the chair

 She wanted to wear the hand band my grandma gave her

 "I want the cake Daddy!"

 "Ok...now what do I do?"

 "I touch it?"

 "I should put it in my mouth"

 "Mmmm...that's pretty good. Think I'll have some more"

 "Ok. I'm done"

"No, really guys, I'm done!!"