The birthday Girl

Cait did actually tear paper to open one of her birthday gifts on her birthday. It's a walking stroller from her Grandma and Great Aunt Martha!

Caitlin is perched upon the first birthday present given to her by the Cole's!

I think this face says it all!

Playing with Mommy's cell phone and Daddy's pen!

Happy Birthday to ME!!

Michelle and Gillian visit...whoo hoo!

Michelle and Gillian made the journey from Albuquerque to Waco, yet again! We were very excited to see them and spend some more much needed sister and Aunt time... Sean got his Uncle time in too! We were very happy that Mandy could come for Cait's birthday weekend and she stayed over so we got to visit more too! God bless my extended family, Dani is included except I don't have any pictures with her in it from the party so sorry! But that's about par! Here are some fun pictures from their stay!




Stir...stir...stir the soup!


The dueling naked babies just before bathtime!

Mandy trying to figure out how the "Cait"erpillar should look!

Michelle, well, being Michelle!

This is a picture from the party.. The adult is my coworker Liz and the two boys belong to her, Andrew (5) and Matthew (almost 2) and Cait (1) is at the table and Gillian (10mos) is behind her!

Cait's Cupcake Carnage

Caitlin turned ONE year old on December 7th! Can you believe it? I can't! We decided to have her party the following weekend! We later found out that Sean had Toys for Tots drill that weekend but the invites were already being given out so we kept it December 12th and had a family dinner with her the night before! My sister and Mandy came in to help bake the cupcakes! ( My mom and I were going to bake them together so since she wasn't going to be here it was great that they were!) We had a wonderful time. Michelle came up with the ideas, thank goodness, I was pretty out of it on the thought process! I knew we wanted cupcakes and my dad came up with the caterpillar idea but Michelle really took it from there so go Aunt Michelle! We love you! And thanks to everyone who came we love you all too!

Michelle made this Caterpillar with Caitlin's name on it, isn't it just adorable!

Michelle also made this Happy Birthday wall hanging! I think I'll add some bday pictures to it and hang it in her room!

Here is what Mandy and I decided her "Cait"erpillar should look like! I think it turned out really cute!

Here is the birthday girl in her cupcake bib from Great Aunt MaryAnn!

Yum! Can I have some Cait?

And into the cupcake she went! I'd say she ate over half of it and the other half ended up on her face!

Grandma wants some too!

The Birthday Girl!

On Monday, December 7th, little bitty turned ONE! We had a very busy day too! I had to go to work, we are being audited yay!, Sean had two finals that day and we were down to one car! We had a tire problem with the Saturn and needed to get a new one before it was safe to drive with Caitlin in it! So we took Cait to daycare, dropped me off at work and Sean went to his test! We had the Cole's come over for supper that night for a bday/send off meal (they're moving to Georgia at the end of the week, sad!) and had a great time visiting. Caitlin got to open her very first birthday present and found clothes inside but she was much more interested in the lid to the box they came in! We will be having her "party" on Saturday with some family and friends and cupcakes... so stay tuned, Cait's Cupcake Carnage is coming soon!! (Sean's words of course!).

I'll add a picture later too!!