First Birthday Party

We had Ellie's first birthday party on December 31 since it was a Saturday instead of on her actual birthday, the 1st.

Long long ago, I decided to have this party be ALL pink, because who knows if I'm ever going to have another girl, right? I might as well pink it up all I can while she's little and doesn't have much of an opinion! :D

Ellie had been having a hard day all morning, and just wasn't up for much of anything. After having a good lunch and playing a bit, we finally got her to take a really good nap. She woke up just before her party started, at 2:00.

We got her dressed in this adorable outfit and guests started arriving. She got a cute little bus from her Grandma and Grandpa Grigsby, and she was obsessed with it, and wouldn't stop playing with it.

Ellie wasn't sure what to think when everyone was here, and she was being SO shy, which is really unlike her. We started opening gifts, and she still didn't know what to think, or even seem to care about what was going on.

She finally started getting into the presents a little more, but really didn't want to do much with them.

After presents were over, we grabbed her adorable little cake, made by Tabitha (her aunt) and lit the candle. We sang to her, but she didn't even know what to think!

Big cake for the guests.

We put her in the highchair, thinking she'd devour the cake, when instead she just daintily picked at the frosting, putting some in her mouth. She wasn't really interested in the cake part of the cake at all! She had already had ice cream before, and she just grabbed it and started eating that when we put it on her tray. After a while, though, she got really sad about how cold it was making her hands and was done with all the attention, cake, ice cream and everything else.

Inside of the big cake.

Luckily, she calmed down quickly and played with her cousins and all her new toys!

She had a great first birthday party, and we had a lot of fun having so many friends and family join us to celebrate her special day!