Happy Birthday Leilah!!!

I can hardly believe that our little Leilah is already one year old!! Looking over the past year and all of the changes she has had and how she has grown it does seem almost possible....but still! ONE YEAR!

We started the fun with going to a splash pad! She LOVES water! Baths, pools, and splashing are some of her favorite things so of course we had to all suit up and head over to do some splashing!



Then we headed home and spent a couple of minutes in our pool before lunch and naps :) during naps I did the finishing touches to getting our dinner, desserts, and decorations ready for the party that evening. I tried to do as many homemade decorations as possible and ended up having a lot of fun with it :)

Closer shot...(sorry, I just loved making this dessert table!)





Leilah's hat



After naps we took Leilah's one year pictures in her new adorable outfit! Thanks to a fabulous birthday gift (thanks so much Cherie!) and shopping trip on a sale day (hooray for treasure tuesday!) we got 2 outfits that I just couldn't pass up!

love this face!
I just love these! Can't they make them in my size?!

We had Sam, Alice, Jake, Jim, and Lorrelle over and later Sammy and Katie came over! It was SO fun to have family there to help celebrate Leilah's big day! I don't think I've seen a happier one year old! She adored everyone and every present was met with sweet little "ooo's" and "aaahhh's." One of the best parts was when she dug into her cake...lol She literally dug in and just kept going! What can I say she loves a mess!!





The finished (or rather after I finally took it from her...) product...ta da!


Throughout the day I couldn't help but think back to one year ago...in the hospital seeing this sweet angel's first moments of life. The spirit definitely touched my heart and filled it with joy, love and peace that this little girl was meant for our family. I love my little Leilah with all of my heart and I couldn't be more grateful to the amazing young woman who made the selfless choice of love to place her in our home and hearts. We love her and have so much respect for her. There isn't a greater blessing I could have received than to be a mother! I feel truly honored to care for these sweet little angels!