Jadeyn's first birthday!

For Jadeyn's birthday party, we invited family and a few close friends to a nearby park where we served lunch and had cupcakes to celebrate Jadeyn's first year of life. It was a lot of fun and she was AWESOME at eating the cupcake! She received many gifts and did a good job pulling the tissue out of each bag. Probably typical, but was more excited about tearing the paper than seeing what the actual gift was. That changed once we got home and got to open up the presents and put them together. Although the party was at the end of April, it was SO COLD! So we sorta rushed through the whole party, afraid of the rain, and then family gathered back at our house and celebrated some more. For Jadeyn's big gift, us and both sets of families chipped in and we basically "redid" our backyard into a toddler wonderland. Ha! We bought a playhouse, water table, sandbox, slide and swing. She had lots of fun over the last year playing with all her new toys outside.

Check out the cupcake progression...

daddy made her a special birthday breakfast

first time forward-facing! car rides are SO much easier now!

Happy Birthday Jadeyn! We love you more than we ever thought possible!