Happy Birthday and One Day!!

Wow, I can not believe that I fell asleep last night without writing a blog wishing my babies a Happy Birthday!! I can't believe their first birthday and their first birthday party has come and gone! It went by so quickly.

Yesterday on their Birthday we gave them a new Breakfast. We gave them french toast, powdered sugar, and syrup (not much of the later two). They devoured it. We had their portraits taken at Picture Innovations, we finally used that gift card that Dane's lovely co-workers got us for our Baby shower present! We have been saving it all this time to use it for their one year old pics! Kera hated having her pictures taken in a studio :(. That is probably our fault for never going to one, except once when they were 4 months old. Drake was really scared at first also, but he warmed up after a little bit. We did get great shots of them, so it all turned out ok. I was hoping for a little more of them together, but all in all I am very pleased with the amount of pictures we got and the poses. We then came home, and baked... and baked.... and baked.... and baked... and baked... Ok I could go on for a couple of hours, with these "and baked.." statements, but you get my drift. I was baking all day :). Then my wonderful Sister in Law A came over to help me put the finishing touches on my cupcake pop favors for the kids party today. :) Thank you A so much, that was such a great help. Without you I probably couldn't have gone to bed at 1am, I probably would have still been up at 4am dipping those cakes! So thank you.

I was originally going to go to the party hall at 7am and start frosting the smash cakes and the cupcakes. However my lovely husband told me to wait on him. So Grandpa and DeDe came to watch the kids at 8:30, while Dane and I went to the party hall... it took some time to unload the van. Then I had to help Dane unload all the tables. Then I started getting the cupcake stuff out and on the move. I was freaking out, I had like 30 mins to ice all of the cupcakes and the smash cakes!! I was a bit nervous. Thank God for my Mom and Ned who came and helped. My sister also came and helped! So everything was done in the nick of time. Dane ran home to get the kids and to get my outfit, and right as the first guest was showing up, Dane got me my outfit. Thank goodness :D. We thought we were going to have a Pizza dilema, but everything turned out perfect. Sure I got WAY more food than what was needed, but some people got some free dinner for the night :). The party was great!! Kera officially does NOT like cake. My weird child I know. She had it two days in a row, both times she didn't like it. Drake was not a fan yesterday of the cake, but today was a different story. He was chowin' down. They also got Pizza for the very first time today, TWICE actuallly... at the party, and then again for dinner. They LOVE it!!

They love all their new toys! They ate their afternoon snack on their picnic table from Grandpa &DeDe. They LOVE their Activity block that D & A got them! Drake especially LOVES the ATV Grandma & PeePaw got him, and Kera loves hers as well! They love all their new toys, seriously, they haven't played with any of their old toys so far. They go to the new ones! Thank you everyone who came, and who made our memory of Drake and Kera's first birthday a special one! Love you all.