Anna's Birthday Celebration

Last week, Anna's Grandma and Grandpa visited to help celebrate her first birthday! Grandpa took some great pictures throughout the week:

Grandpa's Photos

We had a lovely cook-out birthday party (it was over 80 degrees!) with our friends, jointly celebrating with Ray, who turned one the day after Anna. Anna had a great deal of help opening her presents and blowing out her candles. Notice the AMAZING doggie cake that Anna's mommy made for her! These pictures are fun because they capture the many moods of Anna -- when she was younger, we often commented on her "serious face," which she still shows occasionally. But more and more, it's just big smiles and goofiness.

The photos of James pushing her on the swing is something we've come to call "baby scrambles." I'll leave the details up to your imagination, but say that Anna absolutely loves it.

Anna's First Birthday!

It's hard to believe, but our little girl celebrated her first birthday this past week! We've had some summer-like weather roll through and were able to enjoy her day at the park and on the porch and tomorrow we'll have a cookout party to celebrate. Anna got to wear her very cute horsey birthday dress, enjoy some chocolate cake that her brother helped make, and do something James invented on the swing that we call "baby scrambles" (fortunately, before the cake).

There are some photos of our fun this week and more to come posted here:

Anna's First Birthday

And some video of a new toy from Uncle Billy & Auntie Shay:

From Anna's Birthday Videos

And some help opening presents:

From Anna's Birthday Videos

And a girl with her birthday cake:

From Anna's Birthday Videos

And, of course, baby scrambles:

From Anna's Birthday Videos

We noticed that James took great joy in this same swing on his first birthday, which seems like forever ago:

From Anna's Birthday Videos