Thursday, April 7, 2011

batter, frosting, cake. in that order.

since dylan's birthday fell on a week night, we had just a small gathering of friends over to celebrate.  with all our family an hour away, we weren't going to request their presence on, what turned out to be, a rather snowy day.  my grandmother used to say that the birthday child gets to invite as many kids over as many years old as they are... i really like this idea!  but.  it's the first birthday.  i think no rules apply in this instance.  we did have a small group of friends over to help devour pizza, sing happy birthday and assist dylan in the present opening effort.  it was a very happy evening for such a happy little girl.            

smaller sprinkles for dylan and ali, who turns 1 on sunday
with sarah
kids!  gaige, mimi, jb, kyrsten, d, kaylynn, ali & kaylee 
mom, do you see what's clutched in her hand???
yummo.
onto THE CAKE.

tried to get jack to smooch her, 
but he wanted nothing to do with that
sammi & ali
babies, 12 days apart
completely overwhelmed by the gifts
dada had to force her hand in there
forget the dolly; i'll take the bottle!
love this card from the neighbor girls, so cute!
paper cupcakes for the party guests

"uncle" sean: face it, you love miss dylan (and she loves you!)

the best family shot we could get at 8 pm
jenkins:  jb really liked dylan's present...
but he REALLY liked his new bilibo!

3 comments:

  1. I mean.. but HOW CUTE is your 8pm family shot.. it's priceless! I love the group kid shot.. it's like a right of passage that the 1yr old b-day kiddo shoudl be naked :)

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  2. Cute, Cute, Cute!!! Cute birthday girl!! Cute cupcakes! Cute party favors!! I love everything about it. Well....except that we weren't there to help celebrate!!! There are so many pictures lately where I think she looks like you. Mainly in her "Big Cheese" smiling pictures. What a sweetie!!! Happy Birthday Sweet Bob! It looks like you had a wonderful day :)

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  3. yes, kayt. the family shot makes me giggle. both kids were fussing, ben and i are squirming... lovely. and naked. who doesn't love a naked baby?

    thanks, erica! we missed you guys obviously! renee and i keep saying one of these birthdays, we'll have to do a dual bday party for ellie and dilly since their bdays are a day apart. i think she has my eyes but ben's face, does that make sense? sweet bob is right!

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