January 19, 2009

Actual First Birthday!

Had to celebrate with another cake (cupcake)

She did well at her birthday party with the cake. But now that she's had some practice, she has gotten the hang of this!

I helped her out a little bit. Bite for you, bite for me. :o)

Zach helped as well, although he didn't eat as much as I did!

Disgusting! But isn't that what 1st b-days are for?

Happy Birthday Audrina!

We have had a great year and cannot wait to see what this next year will bring.

1st Birthday Party

We cannot believe that 1 year has already passed! We are having so much fun with Audrina and are so excited to see what this next year will bring!
Thank you to all who attended the birthday party, we were all exhausted, but had a great time!

To those who could not make it, you're in our thoughts and here is a re-cap.

Noah's Ark Cake.

Stupid Sam's Club spelled her name wrong so we had to doctor it up, thankfully the cakes Michelle made for Audrina turned out perfect!

Audrina had a great time being passed from person to person. She loved the balloons and especially loved all of the cheese people kept feeding her!

1st birthday cake was a huge success! Zach and I didn't want to put any pressure on getting the 'perfect cake eating picture', but Audrina loves all food and did not hesitate to dig right in.

Her and James share a love for all balls. It was fun to watch them actually play together (not just smack at eachothers faces)!

Yummy Cake!

We decided to not over do it, and opened the gifts at home, whew!

Thank you everyone!

She loves riding her new princess car!

And playing with her helicopter and all her other new toys!

1st Christmas, part 1

1st off let me point out that this is the 3rd blog I've posted today... so don't miss out and keep scrolling down!

Today was the 1st of Audrina's 1st Christmas. We had a party with Zach mom's side of the family (always a lively crowd). Drina wasn't interested in the presents too much, she just likes to make sure the people are paying attention to her. As long as that is happening, she loves to party!

Family

Opening presents with PapaBear

These next pictures are all basically the same shot, but I could not just chose a couple.

Mom is SO FUNNY!
(actually I think she may have been screaming)

Relaxing with GramPa.

Happy Winter Solstice!

On Friday night we went to a winter solstice masquerade party hosted by The Museum of Outdoor Arts (we do a lot of work with them). It was a lot of fun to get dressed up and have an adult night.

All dressed up, many of you will recognize this dress!

Masquerade!

The event was held a Palazzo Verdi, this is where the chandelier we just finished is hanging!

The space is only $7000 if anyone wants to rent it for Drina's 1st b-day!

11 months!

I know, once again I'm late with the b-day monthly update, but blogspot and I have not been getting along lately, so here I try again...

All the puppies are getting more use to having Drina around, finally, but Bailey is the most patient with her.

And now that she throws cheerios out of her seat to them, Bailey really loves her!

Bean still keeps her distance.


Playing with the baby in the mirror while doing some Christmas shopping.


Playing in her toy box at work. I don't know what happened to her pants this day, but at least she has some stylish boots!

Happy Thanksgiving/Merry Christmas Tree!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry we didn't get any pictures of her with a plate of food, we'll have many more years to capture that.

Helping put up the Christmas tree.




Great ornaments mom! Can I keep the container?

I'll climb up there and help!

See I'm a good helper.

Almost done!

10 months! (I know, I'm behind...)

It has been awhile since I've blogged, so here's some pics from the last couple of weeks.

We have been having so much fun with Audrina, she is almost always happy and just loves to play!

She now has 3 teeth (2 bottom, 1 top) and is working on getting another one in on top.

She hasn't hit any new 'milestones' but continues to get stronger and stonger standing, and loves to babble ma ma, pa pa, ba ba, da da, and point to new objects around the room that she is discovering.

We have discovered she has a crush on Dean Martin... everytime she hears his 'Thats Amore' she smiles babbles and dances along, it's really cute!

Loves to help with laundry

Yes, she has curlers in her hair!

I think I might enter this one in a photo contest... worth a try for 20k scholarship!

Driving her car.