A few hours after Madeline's party it was time for Emma's! How lucky are we that we have so many great friends and awesome things to celebrate.

I had to get a picture of this. Looks like a huge present, right? WRONG. It's a cooler! Nicole, in her infinite creativity actually wrapped a cooler to make it look like a present. Griffin called her a "tricker" (trickster?) the rest of the night



After playing outside for a while it was time to decorate cookies!



Emma didn't care much for decorating ;)



I caught Brycie loading up on cookies. I don't know what she was going to do with them but she was a girl on a mission with those things! I think she had 6 or 7 in her arms and hands!



Sweet Collins



Next it was time to make reindeer food. The kids all really got into this. After all was said and done the porch actually sparkled from all the glitter.





Present and cake time!





Just some fun candids:





Could they look anymore mischievous?



We had such a good time at the party (and afterparty) guys, thanks for having us!

I'm so behind on blogging! Last Saturday was a very busy (but fun!) day for us. We started the day off with sweet baby Madeline's 1st birthday!! Deanna's camera broke so I tried to step in and take as many pictures as I could. I hope these are good Sarah! (You'll have your CD soon!)

There's so many pictures of the beautiful gathering that I'm going to let most of them speak for themselves!









To run off some of their (constant!) excess energy Kate, Griffin, and Walker played outside. I promise Walker was with us throughout the party he just didn't feel like having any pictures taken.





These two are so sweet together!



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Happy Birthday sweet girl!!

Up next? Emma's birthday!

Baby Gabe no more!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY GABE!!

It's hard to believe we met you when you were just 3 weeks old, my how time flies! You are truly the happiest, smiliest (is that a word?) little one I've ever known and I feel incredibly lucky to have been a part of your birthday celebration.

Before the celebration began we had family pictures taken on the beach by Jenny Tidman. She showed us several pictures on the camera and I am so excited to see them full size, we can't wait!

Griffin was pretty patient and sat still even when he was dying to go in the water and pick up seashells. We were getting the last few shots of him at the shoreline solo when WHOOPS! He lost his balance and into the very shallow water he went. It was worth getting soaked to the bone to get those last great shots though. I can't wait to get them and share them with everyone. (Thanks for the change of clothes Phoebe!)

After the pictures was the birthday dinner at Sliders. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful night to celebrate Gabe's birthday. The kids had fun on the playground while the adults talked and watched the children. I'm pretty sure this will be the first of many visits to Sliders with Griffin, as he LOVED playing in the sand and on the playground.

Then it was time for dinner.

Griffin and Walker were excited about the smiley face fries.

After dinner was cookie cake and more fun but we don't have any pictures for that. We were just having too good a time to stop and take anymore! Thank you Jon & Deanna for inviting us to such a special occasion, we all had a blast!