Happy Birthday, Baby Girl!

Tonight we celebrated Emily's first birthday. We love her so much and she has brought unimaginable joy into our lives. We still find ourselves looking at each other and saying "I can't believe that we really have a little girl". Definitely a miracle for us.


What started out as a horrible day turned out to be a great time with our family, good food, snow cones, and party poppers for the kids. To make a very long and discouraging story short, I'll just tell you about the cake. I'll spare you all and leave the other awful stuff out. Anyway, let's just say that the cake was a total nightmare. On Wednesday, I went to Wal*Mart to pick it out. Big mistake. When I went to get it three hours before the party, it was not even close to what I had wanted. It was supposed to have lots of big pink roses on two of the corners with smaller lavender accent roses. Instead what I got looked like a cake for an old ladies tea party. Blue was not to be anywhere on my baby's cake, but the biggest and ugliest flower was sky blue! Grrrrrr.....
It was a chocolate cake and there were chocolate crumbs all throughout the white icing and the writing looked like a 87 year old epileptic did it. Wait, that's actually being rude to the epileptics out there.....they could have done a much better job.
Anyway, since no one can make a large enough girly cake in such a short amount of time, we had no option but to use the monstrosity Wal*Mart likes to call a cake. This picture of the cake doesn't show how bad it really was either.


I have always loved how Zack's family harmonizes the Happy Birthday song.



...and apparently, I should be in a Primatene Mist commercial.

Emily was given lots of girly presents - THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! All of our current toys are either all generic or all boyish. However, I came downstairs tonight to find her walking her new baby stroller and trying to drink from her doll's new baby bottles. I get teary eyed just thinking about it - sad, huh?
Her all time favorite gift was from her Daddy. It was a mirror. She loves looking at herself, and to be honest I think we might be in a little trouble for the future.


(I think someone is sending you all kisses in the background - just kidding!)

We have had so much fun having her in our family and we love her so much! We have been greatly blessed to say the least. Happy Birthday, Sweet Baby Girl!