Birthday!!

Today was Addison's birthday party. It's hard to believe she'll be 1 year old in 2 days...

We had a lot of fun. The house felt very full inside and out but it was great! I wouldn't have wanted it any other way! Lots of family and friends that might as well be family! I'll give a shout out to Mark for coming early to help Christopher grill, what wonderful friends we have!

We had a flower party... not really a lot of flowers there, but it was how we decorated the cake and cup cakes. I was pretty excited about the cake and cupcakes. I have to give credit to Melissa, a few weeks ago when she was here she searched the Internet for cute cakes and after looking for a few hours we combined several different ideas into these! I thought that they turned out good!! The best part.. the flowers and dots are starbursts, yum!!
Addison and Blake decided to go for a ride in Blake's car... does that mean it was a date?

Maggie and Grayson thought that Blake needed to help getting around

You would think that one of the kids would have been the first to spill something. Oddly enough it was Drew... and I don't really think that any of the kids ever split anything.

My mom brought these bubbles that take forever to pop. They were everywhere, this was about 1:30 and there were still a few bubbles on the wall at 3:00.

Grayson stopped to pose for a picture with Addison.

Blake and Mallory enjoying what Nonna and Grandad (Chris's parents) got Addison for her birthday!
Kanyon decided to cheese it up for the camera!

Addison wanted to try some of Jaymie's Sunkist... It's her birthday party... why not!!!

There were football games on... this was where you could usually find boys... and Mary Beth.

Addison and her cake. She was very careful and was taking a while to eat it.

Kanyon got a little bored and decided to eat Kory's shorts!

She paused and decided to soak up being the center of attention!

I mean, what else would you do when you have this many people watching you eat...

Yay... then she decided to dig in. I'm really not even sure how much of the cake she ate. She LOVED the icing the best.

Afterward, Poppy decided to clean her off in the pool. Chutch enjoyed the cake and icing right off of Addison.

PRESENTS!
At first she was really into opening and seeing what everything was...

Kanyon decided to get her a basketball so she wouldn't take his anymore! And he thought it was time for her to star learning how to ball!

Gotta love the shoes from Aunt Melissa, she got Addison her first pair of Nike's before she was born, now she was ready for a new pair!

Grayson and Mallory thought that the vacuum Addison got was pretty cool!

Addison got a little bored opening presents so I asked the other kids if they wanted to come and help, obviously they jumped right in!!

Addison and Maggie enjoyed Melissa teaching them how to use the giant gumball like machine from my mom, Addison played with it a lot today!

Partying is hard work! Poppy and Addison were ready for a nap very soon after everyone left!