Emersyn's Birthday Party!!

We had a family birthday party for our sweet Emersyn! She turned the BIG ONE year old on Friday! How this moment is such a bittersweet time for me. It is so fun to see her grow each and every day with her words, her personality, walking and climbing! On the other hand, sad because she is not a baby anymore! She still loves to be held and rocked, but has her "big girl" time!

On Saturday we had both Brent and I's family in to celebrate our sweet girl. It was so fun to have the family over and just have a relaxing, fun party. As most of you know, with my family, it's only about a handful of people, however, Brent's family is a big family! I love it!! So, we had a good amount of people at the house for the party. Emersyn really enjoyed herself and LOVED her cupcake. She was stained pink from the icing for the rest of the day. You just know it's a great party when after you eat you cupcake, you are stained PINK from it and you crash in your crib for a 3 hour nap!!

Cupcakes

Some decorations

wagon rides

Master Griller

making homemade ice cream with Mimi

singing Happy Birthday

not sure what to do yet

first clean bite

decided it was delicious and to GO for it

wouldn't let anyone touch it, kept it against her chest the whole time

two peas in a pod (lincoln and ezra)

opening gifts

After the party all the girls from my side of the family went and got a pedicure for Mother's Day while the men watched the kids. That was such a treat to do with my family. I feel like we never really get to do fun bonding things like this because every time we get together, it is during a holiday rush. It was my grandma's FIRST TIME to get a pedicure! That was a treat, and I think we have her hooked! When the girls got back from pedicures, Emersyn was up from her nap so we opened gifts. I am not sure she really cared about the gifts, except maybe for her new rocking chair that she kept climbing into!( Thank you Aunt Ashley and Uncle Hunter. ) However, Ezra had a field day with her new toys.

The crew before we went out

That evening was an even bigger treat! My mom, her husband and my grandma decided to watch the kids while me and my siblings went out on the town with our significant others! We decided to live it up, well, as much as you can when you are older, married and want to go to bed around 10 or 1l!! HA! We went to Boudro's on the Riverwalk for some guacamole and drinks! We were there for about an hour and then had to load up and head to our movie at Alamo Draft House where we got some dinner and maybe one or two more drinks. We saw Iron Man 2. It was such a good night. We laughed and talked and laughed some more. I think we really needed that.
Sunday morning, we had a relaxing morning of getting everyone's stuff together and eating breakfast. The crew headed out around 11:30 and everyone made it back safely! It was such a good weekend!

Thank You Family for celebrating Emersyn with us! We love you guys so much.