The First Birthday!

Here are the pictures you've been waiting for...Elly's First Birthday Party. It was a lot of fun with cousins, Tommy and Isabel, Uncle Erik, Mima, and friends Brooke, Mike and their baby, Eden. We ate pizza (including Elly), had cake, and opened presents. I made this little doggie cake for her to destroy:

Once she got a taste...

it was all over! She probably consumed about an eighth of that whole cake! She was double fisting it for most of the time. It was hilarious. But, she stayed surprisingly clean.


Then, it was time for the presents! She didn't know what was happening at first, but after only one present...

she was hooked and she was so excited to see what was in each one.


Here's Elly with her loot! Of course, we let her play with only one of the presents now, and hid the rest for later. She already has too many toys! We'll do a little rotation.