1st Birthday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY McKENZIE!

As most of you know McKenzie tuned 1 on November 19th. I can not believe it has been a whole year since she was born. WOW!! It is amazing to watch how much a child accomplishes in just a short year. She has gone from just laying there to rolling over, sitting up, crawling and now walking!! She has gone from only nursing to now eating her food by herself and drinking milk from a sippy cup. She has gone from only being able to cry to saying actual words. She can say Mama, Dada, TT (This is how she says Taylor), Gama, hi, bye, and if asked what a doggy says she will give her own rendition of "woof woof". She loves to wave to people and her new big accomplishment is being able do dance. When music comes on and she is in her car seat in the car she starts moving from side to side and dancing. In the house when Barney comes on or when you sing to her she will start dancing. It is very cute!

We had a party for her a few days after her birthday and I wanted to share those pictures with everyone. It was an afternoon of fun, good friends, and LOTS of chocolate cake....EVERYWHERE!!

The Theme of the party was first birthday Princess. She had her own Crown that was only on her head long enough for a couple pictures before it became something to throw on the floor.

My friend Carmel made the cakes for the party. They were WONDERFUL. Very pink and princess like.


The little cake in the middle of the table with the 1 on it was McKenzie's personal cake for the day. You will see the pictures below that this cake looks a lot different at the end of the party.

Here she is showing everyone how she not only can walk now, but she is a huge Oregon Ducks fan. GO DUCKS!!
McKenzie made her rounds throughout the party making sure she thanked everyone for coming. Here she is hanging out with Deanna and thanking her. :)


Oh man it is cake time. We have sang Happy Birthday to her and now it is time to eat cake. As you can see the clothes have come off for this little adventure. The pictures below show just how this cake adventure transformed.

Here is the final product of eating her own cake. I do not think she actually made it to the cake part...just the frosting....but she was having a blast! Grandma showed her how to put her hands in it and then Taylor showed her how to put her face in it. She enjoyed every last lick of frosting though.

After the cake this was the ONLY way to get McKenzie clean. And if you could have seen the path on the way to the bathroom you would have loved all the frosting on the walls and bathroom door. After the bath though came the time for opening gifts. This was not as fun to her as the cake, but she did enjoy ripping the paper off of things and then she was off to the next. Finally as the party was coming to the end you could find McKenzie sitting in her new Elmo chair and looking at her birthday cards. It was a GREAT party and appreciate all the help I got from everyone. It was nice to see so many people come and celebrate McKenzie's first birthday. Can't wait to do it all again next year. :)