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It's Party Time!

We had Olivia's birthday party on Saturday. It was small-- we only invited family and our closest friends, which is just the way we wanted it for her first party. She was so tired by the end of it anyway. She was pretty fussy towards the end, and before everyone was even out the door, she was snoring on my shoulder. If only it were always so easy!

The food was yummy, if I don't say so myself. I put most of it together on Friday night: ranch pinwheels, a veggie tray, fruit tray with vanilla yogurt dip, spinach dip, and my grandma made deviled eggs. Then, on Saturday, I made peach mango punch and James picked up the cake.

Notice her sleeping in the last pic in the corner? She was so tired! The sweetie on the bottom is MF's son Robbie. He was sitting in Olivia's carseat to eat his cake since we only had one highchair here. :-)

I think my favorite pictures that day were the ones I took of my little sleepyhead waking up at 11:00 am the day of her party! Then, because she woke up so late, she didn't nap at all and was so tired by the end of the party. Those who read my regularly know we co-sleep, so here she is waking up.

The she decided she was too tired to sit up.

I decided to take another when she started to really wake up because I couldn't stand the cuteness! She was tired, but so happy, as if she knew we were having a party just for her.

I think the flash was bothering her, so she let me know she'd had enough!

You've gotta love the hair in that last one!

Oh, and she has learned to put up one finger when we ask her how old she is. We worked on it one afternoon and she got it! The other night at dinner, her Uncle Ben and Uncle Joey asked her how old she was and she held up one finger! Clever girl! And she's done it several more times! So cute!

Olivia has been so happy with her new toys. I don't really think she got that all this was for her, but it filled my heart with joy to see her so excited over her new toys, and over eating her cake. She wasn't too sure about the cupcake on her actual bithday, but she made short work of her cake at the party!

More food pics:

The smaller cake was the personal cake that came free when we ordered her bigger "Little Mermaid" cake. The babies shared that one. The other pictures are of the ranch pinwheels (so good if you ever need a part food idea!), and the fruit tray, before my mom dumped the dip into a crystal bowl to make it fancier! :-) The other pic is the deviled eggs and veggies. We kept it simple, but it turned out very nicely.

Ok, off to bed. It's v. late!

Posted by Hannah at April 15, 2007 10:27 PM