HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY ELYSA!!!!!!

On Saturday we celebrated Elly's first birthday. The day started with us running around decorating the house in anticipation of the PARTY. Elly was clueless and spent the morning crawling all over, following us around, and generally just looking at us as if to say "What ARE you two doing?"



The day started cloudy and cool, but finally cooperated, clearing up and getting very sunny and warm. We had a little pool set up in the backyard for the kids, and lots of relatives and friends in attendance.




After a whole lot of playtime, it was time for cake. We had two, a main one and a smaller one for Elly to dig into personally. And boy did she...



...Then it was time for presents. There were clothes, hair pretties, ruby/diamond necklace, solid 1 oz silver coin, lots of learning toys, handmade fuzzy bunny from Auntie Dawn and a handmade quilt from Grandma Taylor. Elysa also got more stuffed animal friends to add to her collection!!








At the end of the day after her bath....a very tired little girl signing off and saying A GREAT BIG THANKS TO ALL HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS FOR COMING AND MAKING A VERY HAPPY, FUN, MEMORABLE FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!