We celebrated Lillian’s first birthday with family and friends at our house.  I did a butterfly and flower theme with bright colors.

Here is a picture of the cake table.  We didn’t get enough close up pictures but I was able to get butterfly and flower picture holders that we put around the edge of the table.  Toward the back of the table I cut out a sign that said Happy Birthday.  You can see part of it in the picture of the cake and the picture of the smash cake.  I also cut out the blue Happy Birthday sign and we put that above the gift table.  The pictures on the sign are of Lillian’s monthly growth with her bear.

Here is Lillian in her birthday dress before everyone arrived.  In the picture on the right she is pointing at the balloon that she was swinging around and then dropped.

Lillian enjoyed playing with Great Grandma Baylor’s jewelry.  The weather ended up being nice so a lot of people enjoyed their time outside.  Phil and Sue were kind enough to bring their bags game so that was a hit as usual. 

Lillian enjoys her blue chair from Great Grandma Baylor.  Even now she stands up to it and plays and is starting to attempt to walk around it. 

She enjoyed helping open the presents and especially liked the tissue paper from the bags.

She also liked the ribbon.

Grandpa, Grandma, and Sharon put together her ball popper that she got from Aunt Ashley.  She seemed to want to help, but then decided that she would just show off the orange and red balls that came with it.

I think the best part for her in regards to the cake was when everyone was singing Happy Birthday to her.

After that, she didn’t really want to have too much to do with the cake.  But Grandpa was able to get her to take a bite.

Here is the video of the cake eating (or lack thereof):

After all of her gifts were opened and put together she went for a ride on her new car.  She then felt the need for a snack of Cheerios.

We also played with the balloon a little more.  Below is a video of her going crazy over the balloon:

Here are all of the pictures.

Sue had a small surprise 60th birthday dinner for Phil at Cliffbreakers in Rockford.  I think Phil was surprised but did think that something was going on.  The picture on the right is of the table, you can see almost everyone.

On the left are Linda and Dave, and the right is Hans and Cathy. 

The left is Ken and Sue, and the right is Sharon and Wayne.

Ada is ONE today!!  Go to Jeff and Laura’s website to wish her a Happy Birthday!!

Mark’s birthday was on Sunday.  We met Phil and Sue at Houlihan’s to celebrate both Mark and Phil’s birthday.  After our delicious meal we walked through Brookfield Square Mall and then went to Babies ‘R Us. It probably wasn’t the most exciting birthday but at least we were still able to do our tradition of eating out at a nice restaurant with Phil and Sue.

I decided that along with Jeff, I was going to get Mark a camera flash.  I went to order it and it was out of stock, so needless to say it arrived late, but only by three days!  I ordered it from B&H Photo Video and was very happy with them once again.  I also ordered his tripod from there a few years ago for Christmas.  He is still learning how to use and so hopefully he will show off  his work soon.

Here are all of the birthday present pictures.

Jeff's birthday was last week so we celebrated while we were in La Crosse.  He decided that he wanted to go to Red Lobster for dinner.  We had bought a cake for after dinner but since everyone was stuffed we had it the next morning. 

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