Lucy's Sweet Shoppe

We celebrated our sweet baby girl's first birthday with a sweet shoppe birthday party! We celebrated with close friends and family

 

We decorated the house with pictures, pennants and candy necklaces and definitely had our fair share of sweets :).

 

 

 

We made this sign for Lucy using Sixlets of white and pink.  Yes, it took forever, but it was worth it in the end :).

 



 

We had a few details on our mantle of her past year.  We printed her footprints on a canvas every three months and took a picture of her every month to see her growth.  All the other awesome portraits were taken by Jeremy Maz.  All of those pictures can be seen here .

 

 

Her Aunt Krystal made her this sign with Lucy's stats at her birth. 

 

And mommy got to make Lucy's cake :).

 

 

 

And you can't have a sweet shoppe without sweets!!  We definitely had enough to choose from thanks to helping hands from family and friends.

 

These cookies have always been mommy's favorite that Baba makes :).

 

 

 

 

 

These French macarons that Nana made were a hit!

 

 

 

The favors were cupcake cake pops.  These seemed appropriate for our little cupcake :).

 

 

 

To keep the kiddos busy some of them made their own candy necklaces out of cereal and other candies.

At last it was time for the birthday girl to get some cake!

We sang happy birthday and she definitely wasn't so sure about what was going on :).

 



We had to get things started and encourage her a little bit, but once we did...

 



there were no issues with digging in, grabbing the cake and stuffing it in her mouth :).

 



By the time she finished she had eaten half of that little cake!!

 

 

 

 

A quick family picture with that messy face and she was cleaned up...in the bathtub of course.

 



Thank you to all who helped and made this birthday a very sweet one for our little one! 

We love you Lucy girl!!  Happy 1st birthday!!!

 

*And a big thank you to Lyndsay for helping me take pictures and document this eventful day!!  This helped me out so much!! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lucy Turns One!!!

Lucy girl!!  How did a year pass already?!  So many changes in your first year of life and we could not be more in love with you :).

 

 

We love holding you and cuddling with you.  You are still so tiny and so fun to squeeze and hold.  We love your sweet, slobbery kisses.

 

We love each little expression you have to show us.

 

You have blessed us so much with your quirks and personality.  We love how you love to play hide and seek, how you always put a stethoscope around your neck when you're playing, use your acrobatic skills as you climb under and over the dining room chairs and how you love to stand on your head.  We love how you lay down on the floor or wherever when your tired, how you crawl around with a blanket draped over your head and body, how you crawl so quickly when you've been caught getting into mischief, and we LOVE your cheesy smile and your laughter. 

 

  We love how you wave "hi" and "bye" to others by waving to yourself.  We love how you are so independent and yet we love those times when you just need us :).  We love how happy, content and easy going you have become.  We love hearing your jibber jabber in the morning over the monitor and we absolutely love getting you from your crib every morning to see a very happy, excited little girl who seems to have so much to say and explain to us.

 

 

We love your interactions with your sister and how you two love each other so much.  We love those blue eyes and your almost bald head :).  Who knows how many kisses we've given that little head of yours.

 

 

 

We love how proud you get when we cheer for you after you've stood up by yourself.  Your smirk makes us smile every time.

 

Your dancing to any music you hear brightens our day and those excited moves make us want to put yet another song on each time.

 

 Every day for the past year we have been so thankful for you in our lives. Now that a year has gone by we know it's only a glimpse of what your little life has in store and we can not wait to get a front row seat at it. 

 

 

 

 

We pray that you will always be confident in who you are and who you are complete in.  We pray you'll grow healthy and strong and that you would love others.  We pray that you would be surrounded by people and friends who love, encourage and support you and that God would give us wisdom to be the best parents for you.

 





 

(with a little tear) We love you Lucy girl!!  Happy first birthday sweet one!!

 

Love, Mommy and Daddy

 

*All pictures taken by our awesome brother Jeremy Maz :)

 

* You can read about Lucy's birth story here.