Happy 1st Birthday

Happy Birthday banners, balloons, presents, cupcakes, food, family, friends, and baby sitters filled our home this past weekend as we celebrated Jade's 1st birthday. I can't believe our little 7lb 14oz bundle of joy is now a crawling, "waking," babbling one year old! We couldn't be more in love with our little girl or more excited to see what the next year has in store for us. She truly has been the best addition to our lives. Things have certainly changed around our house in 1 year too.   Lazy nights/weekends of laying on our comfortable couches TV and movie watching no longer exists. We can't just randomly choose to go out with friends, we have plan and find a baby sitter.  If it wasn't for DVR, I would never see any of "my" TV shows. Our DVD's are no longer alphabetized, in fact we are lucky to have all of them in the DVD stand. All kitchen drawers at Jade's level are an unorganized mess. Our bathroom doors are kept closed so Jade can't "play" in the water or show us all the amazing things she finds in the garbage. Just in-case we forget to close the bathroom door, our garbage cans now sit on top of our toilets and the toilet lids are always shut.  Our blocks that we had in the basement that used to say UND SIOUX now say something along the lines of UN SI  X. Where are the missing blocks? Your guess is as good as ours. We've searched the house and they are no where to be found. There are little finger marks all over the bottom of the TV screen because Jade thinks it's cool that she can turn the TV on and off. We are lucky that she hasn't changed the language on our phone or ordered anything on the TV yet, as she LOVES electronics. The sliding door to the deck is full of drool, along with the full length mirror in our bedroom. Even when our house is "picked up" and clean, it still looks messy because of the explosion of baby paraphernalia. These are just a few examples of what has changed over the last 12 months. I'm sure the next 12 will bring even more change and we are excited to continue to watch Jade change and grow. Here are a few pictures of the birthday girl...enjoy!

The rocking chair Daddy got her. She gets into it all by herself!

Her baby sitter got her a drum set. So far she hasn't been too bad with the noise, but I'm sure that'll change!

"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to..."

I would like to take credit for her CUTE birthday outfit too! She had the skirt from the wedding she was in in September, I found the leggings online, and I made her shirt!