Milan's 1st Birthday Celbrations

I should warn you that this is a long post.....our little girl just turns 1 once so we captured every second on film and I had a hard time limiting the pictures :)

On Milan's birthday we had a small family party and we were joined by Aunt Marie and soon-to-be Uncle Scott from Ontario, OR. We had a lot of fun and are so glad they could join our family celebration.

We opened some presents and Milan really enjoyed unwrapping everything.

She took off with Aunt Marie's present and still loves to "pop" all around the house.

After the gifts were opened, she was thrilled to sit in the middle of everything and sample all her new toys.

We knew Milan would love the birthday cake portion of the celbration, so we stripped her down. She was quite intrigued by the fire so I blew out the candle before we could get in too much trouble.

She devoured the cake and decided she'd had enough when it covered her face up to her eyebrows.

After such an exciting day, she was pooped and passed out in Scott's lap.


The birtday festivities continued on Saturday. We were so lucky to have Grandma Kat and Jack drive over from Salt Lake for the party. We were going to have a party at our house, but it turned out that we needed to add another zone to our sprinkler system so our backyard was in trenches.

Our good friends, the Sorensens are awesome and offered to host the party in their backyard. So instead of falling into the backyard trenches, Milan enjoyed playing on the swings.

Milan decided to join us for dinner and steal a Dorito from dad so she could lick the cheese off.

Then we had some birthday cake (from Costco, my favorite!). Milan was excited about the candle again, but there was too much going for her to spend time eating her cake. She ate a couple of bites with dad, climbed on the table for a bit, then the cake ended up on the ground so she was done.



We moved on to opening presents and we had her attention for the first couple of gifts. Then......the swings were calling her name so she left and I finished opening gifts. She did check back occasionally to check my status and enjoyed playing with her unwrapped toys.



Dave loves that Milan plays with her hair when she's sleepy and taking her bottle so he took this cute picture of Milan winding down.

After all that fun with her friends and a full tummy, she was a tired girl. Here is Milan cuddled up with Jack.

Thanks to all our friends and family who celebrated Milan's birthday with us!!! We had a great time playing with everyone and we will tell Milan about her fun 1st birthday later on :)