Baby Girl's 1st Birthday

I can't believe my baby is 1! Where has the time gone?

The Saturday before her birthday we had a little party at the park for her. Lily's grandmas, grandpas, aunts, and uncles were all there (aside from Uncle Jamin who is in New Mexico on his mission) as well as some of her great-grandparents and Caleb's cousins. She LOVED being the center of attention and was definitely playing to the crowd with all of her silly faces. We were worried it was going to rain, but luckily the weather held out until after the party. Here are some pictures, mostly taken by Papa Don, of the fun day:

 Opening some of her presents

 She almost liked the ribbon more than her gifts!

 Some of her presents were bigger than her.

 Here is a picture of everyone. (Except for Grandpa Lynn, he was taking the picture.) We were so glad to have so many people there!

 Not sure about her cake.

 She decided it was pretty yummy.

 Especially when Daddy helped!

Caleb had to go out of town on a business trip the day after the party so he was gone for Lily's actual birthday, but Lily and I went down to Riverton to visit her grandparents while he was gone. We were able to go to lunch with my parents on her birthday as well as have dinner with all of Caleb's family that night. Lily is one very loved little girl and we're glad we got to spend her birthday with family.

A few days later we had her well baby visit. She is still just under 20 pounds and is 28 inches tall (we can say tall now instead of long because she can stand right?) So she's between the 25th and 30th percentile in her weight and height. Doctor says she's doing well, and there are no worries!

Lily still does not walk, but has started to cruise (walks while holding on to furniture or other things). But she says a lot of words and communicates with us better and better every day. She waves "hi" and "bye", shakes her head "no", plays patty-cake, as well as holds phones up to her head and says "hello". Unprompted she says: Daddy, Mom, hi, out, uh-oh, hot, ow, hey. There are many more words she can say when we ask her to.

We love this little girl so much and are so happy she's part of our small family. It's hard to remember what life was like without this ray of sunshine in it!