Two: Happy 1st Birthday!

Our baby girl is 1! 1 year already, it really did fly by. It's in all those moments, big and small, that made up this first year that Fiona has brought us such joy. She has made us all complete and we had a lot of fun celebrating her on her special day!
On her actual birthday we woke up to snow, a big change from the sunny day last year when she was born, but that's Colorado for you! It was also President's day so Logan had the day off of school. We played and had our usual morning, with the addition of some balloons in her crib for her to play with. Then when daddy got home from work we went out to dinner at 95A. Fiona devoured some tater tots, pesto pasta and a little from everyone's plate. Then we went next door to Indulge bakery to pick out a special treat for the kids to eat for her birthday. We got Fiona a sprinkle cookie and Logan chose a cookie in the shape of lips (since it was just Valentine's day ;) and we took them home to eat. We sang Fiona happy birthday and let her and Logan devour their cookies. Fiona wasn't shy, it practically never left her mouth, she just shoveled it down. I understand, cookies are my favorite too! It was a nice day with just the family to celebrate together. Then the rest of the week was spent prepping for her birthday party Saturday.

Saturday the 21st we threw Fiona a "sprinkles" birthday party in the morning. We had Uncle Erick, Jenny and Bo, the Valania's, Tobin's and Christian's over with all their kids and Granny Mo flew into town that morning too! We had lots of breakfasty desserty foods covered in sprinkles and some morning drinks too :) Fiona loved looking at the pictures of herself Dom had taped to the wall in the shape of a "1" and watching the slideshow of our pictures from her first year on the tv too. She was talking to them and pointing. She enjoyed eating pancake muffins, fruit and yogurt. The big kids helped entertain her with some bubbles from the bubble machine and she had fun watching all of them play. We let her open a few presents, which really was Logan opening them and Fiona inspecting the gifts, before we let her dig into her cake. Once again she got a lovely birthday song from everybody then we handed over the cake. She was reaching for it before it even landed on her high chair but once it was there she was very lady like in her approach. She needed a little help getting started and once she did she had fun with the frosting and sprinkles. She was sad to see it go when she was all done. She had fun and so did we! She got a lot of cute clothes to wear in the coming months and some good new books too which she is enjoying. She got a stroller walker and babydoll from Granny Mo which she had fun pushing around her baby on walks around the living room. Mommy made her a tie blanket with hot air balloons on it and we got her a Belle baby doll, Logan picked out a purple squishy ball that lights up for her. Among all her lovely gifts, she carried around the Doc McStuffins fork and spoon from the Valania's the entire rest of her party. She would not let you take them away haha she was attached ;) And a few hours after her party she was gifted another snow storm from good ol Colorado, this one lasted a few days, we say it was because Granny Mo came into town. We will have to wait and see if this is a Fiona birthday yearly event of snowfall or not ;) We had a great party and lots of fun celebrating this special little girl of ours. Happy birthday to our "baby chocolate sprinkles" (what Logan wanted to name her ;) We are excited for all the new fun moments we get to share together in your second year and all the rest to come! We Love you!!

sprinkeled cones with fruit inside, pancake muffins with sprinkles and yogurt granola parfaits with sprinkles on top