Birthday Celebrations

Hannah's 1st birthday was full of family, friends, traveling and parties. We spent Thanksgiving in California with my family (More about Thanksgiving will come in a later post). Since Thanksgiving was 1 week before her birthday we decided to celebrate it early with my family. We went out to dinner for Hannah's birthday at Olive Garden (yum) with my parent's and my brother Justin and his family. Hannah enjoyed eating spaghetti and some of my Minestrone soup. We sang Happy Birthday to her and placed a huge round cake in front of her to go to town on. Unfortunately she ate too much spaghetti and was content just poking the cake. Which was fine because I knew she would get a second chance. She also opened some presents. The sad thing is that we lost the birthday presents that were given to her in California. We took them on the plane as a carry on and in our rush to get off we left them in the upper storage compartment. We've been hoping to hear back from the airline, but still have yet to hear anything. Even if they don't get returned, we are grateful for the time we had to spend with family and the fact that Hannah won't remember the missing gifts :-) Here are some pictures from her first 1st birthday party:


Mommy and HannahDaddy and Hannah (like father like daughter) :-)
Hannah with her cousin's Emma and Elissa.
Our sweet little birthday girl.
I think she was taken a back by our "awesome" singing voices.
Proof that she simply poked her cake.

Our second celebration was at our house a couple of days after her birthday. Mimi and Papa were able to drive here from Idaho to celebrate it with us. On Friday night we met them in Salt Lake City to go out to dinner and see the lights at Temple Square.

Hannah, Jake and I in front of the reflection pond.
Hannah all bundled up. She was a good sport considering how cold it was.
The beautiful Salt Lake temple and nativity.
Hannah and her baby.
The whole fam in front of the lights at the temple.
Here are some pictures from her birthday party:

Mommy decorating the birthday cake. My talented sister-in-law Rashell helped me decorate the cake. And by "help" I mean she did most of it :-)

We were very happy with the finished product. It turned out perfect.

Last Saturday was her official birthday party. Here are her friend's that made it to the party.
Mommy and daddy with the birthday girl.
Mimi and Papa with the birthday girl.
Hannah enjoying her cake.
Opening her presents.

What a wonderful 1st Birthday for an amazing little girl. :-)