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!

Happy Birthday, David!

On Monday, David turned 26! We had him open a present before he left for school, since it was his birthday (and sadly, we all over-slept so we didn't get to make him a special breakfast because he had to be to school in less than 30 minutes after he woke up!).

The present he got to open was from me and it was Mary Kay High Intensity Cologne. David's been out of cologne for quite some time, and the cologne he had was from a Mary Kay type company in Brazil, and it was like triple the cost to get it shipped to the US, so we had to settle for something that was easily obtained. Luckily, he likes the way it smells (and so do I!)


Later that day, I took Ellie to the doctor because she was just not feeling/acting well. Turns out she has ear infection in BOTH ears! YUCK! While I was at the doctor with Ellie, David text me to say he was coming home because HE was feeling yucky! Not a great day to get sick!!

So we decided to have David open the rest of his presents and he let Ellie tear off the wrapping paper! She LOVED helping him, and it was so cute to watch her get excited about the paper. It's just fun to think how Christmas will go this year!

This present had 2 pairs of jeans from my Parents


Havainnas Flip Flops (Made in Brazil) from Ellie

He also got a card from Grandma Holman, and a card from his parents with a birthday check inside!

David says Thank You to both sets of parents and Grandma for cards and presents!!!

Since David wasn't feeling well, I didn't make the dinner I planned for that night, and I didn't frost his cake (luckily I froze each layer so I didn't have a wasted cake!) and we decided that Wednesday would be a better time to have cake and ice cream.

Well, I kind of made a huge mistake, got distracted, interrupted while frosting his beautiful home-made Red Velvet cake, and long story short--it toppled to the floor!

We rushed to the store to pick out a substitute since we were expecting guests for a little party, and all was well. A handful of our friends made it to have cake and ice cream and it was fun to have people over to sing Happy Birthday to David and just hang out, talk and have fun!

Store bought cake (wasn't even close to as tasty as my Red Velvet cake disaster was!) with my cute little cake banner!
Picture of the cute birthday banner I made David!

Thanks to those who came! We had a ton of fun celebrating David turning the lovely age of 26!

p.s. Someday I'll maybe try to make another cake and frost it myself. We'll see. It's just too bad it was wasted, because it was DANG good!