birthday party pics....finally!

So maybe the reason why I took so long to post these pictures is that I had 173 to choose from. I kept trying to narrow down, but this is as far as I could go. So, I realize there are way to many, but she is just way too cute to cut any more out.

On her birthday morning, we decided to start a tradition and kidnap her and take her out to breakfast. You know, how we use to do in junior high, and make your friends go to school in their pajamas. So anyway, the three of us went to Magleby's Fresh for breakfast and she had some yummy french toast.

I tried to get everything done the day before so I wasn't stressing out the day of the party. It was at 7 so I was scared that if Kate didn't take her afternoon nap, she would be too tired. But she was a perfect angel all day. She took both of her naps and was in a great mood for the party. With all of my family, Paul's family, and a few friends we had about 50 people, but it was so much fun. This little girl gets plenty of love.

Eating dinner. We had 5 different yummy homemade soups and homemade bread and breadsticks.

Playing games with the kids.

Lots of friends and family.

Kate with grandma and grandpa.

Kate had so much fun opening all of her presents. She got so much fun stuff, we won't need to get her anything for Christmas...

She loves the little people barn we gave her.

reading her card...

So I wanted to make her a tutu a little while ago, but I wanted it to have a purpose. So I decided when we stripped her down to eat her cake, rather than just being in her diaper, she would get to wear her tutu.



Here is a darling cake. I am quite proud of it, but I can't take all of the credit, Mindy and Amanda helped.


Blowing out her candle...


I was pretty shocked that she didn't dig into her cake. She didn't really know what to do with it. She pulled out the doll, but wouldn't touch the cake. I gave her some and she liked it, but she wouldn't get it herself.

Everyone else got cupcakes. I went a little overboard, because I didn't want to run out so I made like 80 cupcakes, and yes I had quite a few left over.

We attempted putting her in her chair to eat it, but she still wasn't very interested.

After the party with our tiny girl, she was so worn out from her day of fun!

Here's a little clip of her and her cake.

She got lots of bath toys for her birthday. This pic makes me laugh, she is so modest.

Kate loves to reorganize our dvd's, multiple times a day. On the day after her birthday, we went to the Dr. for her 1 year check up. She weighs 20 lb 12 oz. and is 29 3/4 inches. She is now in the 50th percentile for weight and 75th for height. It looks likes she is finally started to slim down. (I am already missing her knee rolls)

So that's it! Now on to the next project, getting packed for our our big Disneyland trip next week.....

Oh ya, here is her invitation I made. So I can't figure out what is wrong with it, but every time I try to upload it, the words look all blurry, so I give up. You get the idea. If you click to enlarge, it doesn't look like this, very weird.

birthday girl...

Well, Kate turned 1 on Monday and we had such a good day. I haven't had time to post all of her birthday party pictures yet, but hopefully I will get to it in the next couple of days. So here are a few other pics for now.

Here she is going for a ride in her new big girl car seat from my parents. She loves to get to face forward. I love this smile, but her sock is falling off and it's about to kill me.

Kate in her new shirt that I made for her. Cute, huh?

We are all quite excited about the big news......

kate's favorite song....

So this is definitely not to show off my singing skills, so please try to ignore me. Kate just loves when we sing this song, she gets so excited and claps her hands in the right spot. It is so much fun to see her learning so much. I can't believe she is going to be 1 on Monday!

Trick or treat...

Halloween is so much more fun with Kate around. We have had some great costumes in the past, but we didn't dress up this year and let her have all the glory. She looked so stinking cute as little red riding hood!

I love these pics of her knocking on grandma's door, then crawling in.


Trying to get a good picture of Little Red Riding Hood was a little difficult. She loves to ignore the camera.

Again, ignoring me and trying to eat dirt of the back of the pumpkin.

Kate with her cousins. Garret was making very funny faces in every one, this was definitely the best.

Trick or treating with momma and papa.

She really liked this huge pumpkin at our neighbor's house.

After trick or treating, and dinner at my parents, we went to see Paul's fam. Kate sat on the deck playing in the candy bowl for like 45 minutes, while we all watched and laughed. She loved taking the candy out and putting it all back in, over and over again. So cute!

pumpkin party...

On Sunday we had a birthday party for Mindy and our annual pumpkin carving party. It was so much fun, with caramel apples and all.

When Kate pulled out the insides of her pumpkin, she tried to eat it, of course.

little pumpkin with her pumpkin

These are supposedly our scary faces. Don't mind Paul's creepy mustache, he's growing it out for halloween just in case he needs it for a costume.

I'm not very creative, so I left the carving to Paul. I was quite impressed with his glasses.

The whole gang (except for dad, he was taking the picture. oh and kate, she went to bed)

fall fun...

The other day, Kate and I went to Gardner's Village with Mindy and her kids to see the witches. Here are a few pics from the fun day.
She was very interested in the fall leaves.

Hali and Garret left their little masks on the whole time and could harldy see where they were going. It was pretty funny...

Little witch Kate. We worked really hard for these pics. She kept trying to rip the hat off. Well worth it though....

Kate and momma

She was really freaked out by the witches, as you can see.

Growing up...

We just can't get enough of this little girl. She is really growing up too fast. She is starting to understand a lot of stuff lately. When she is crawling up the stairs, I can tell her to come down, and she starts sliding down. She is so good at waving bye bye or night night, we don't even have to wave first to show her how. The other night when someone was leaving, we didn't say goodbye and she saw them walking out the door, so she started waving. It is so much fun to see her learning so much. Here are a few cute pics from today. We had to get out in the sun while it is still around....

This is here favorite place in the house. She loves to stand and hang out by this trunk for some reason...

11 months old...

So Kate turned 11 months old yesterday. She has been sick now for almost two weeks (a cold, and now croup), so Paul picked her out a new toy today try to make her feel better. It is this little stroller, and she pushes it and walks behind it. It is so cute! We are working on her walking.

(she's trying to make it by the 1 year mark) So anyway, the whole time she has been sick, she has still been a little angel, she sleeps perfect and is still so sweet. Funny story... We took her to the dr. last night, because she had a fever again and her cough was pretty bad. I was worried she wouldn't cough for him, but she did and he said it was defiantly croup. He told us that he would just give her the shot with the medicine, because most babies are not very good medicine takers, and this one is really bitter. I told him to give it a try, because she has liked everything that she has ever tasted. The dr. was kind of shocked but said we could try it. He brought in the syringe and she guzzled it down, and acted like she wanted more. Needless to say, he was very impressed. That is one very nice thing about Kate, she likes any food that we put in her mouth. Lets just hope she stays like that...

I couldn't get her to look at me, but she looks so grown up. And of course she is holding her socks. I tried to take them away for the picture, but she got really mad at me.

Her favorite place. She loves to sit in her little chair and eat snacks. I can't figure out how to get her to only eat one at a time, though. If I put some Cheerios down, she tries to shove them all in her mouth at the same time.

I couple weeks ago, we went on a little getaway to Mesquite and St. George. We stayed with Tammy one night, and Kate and Hazel got in the tub together and rode the horsey together in their matching jammies. It was very cute!