First Birthday

So on Saturday Aurora celebrated her first birthday. It was so busy and hectic, but very worth it. John and i got up with aurora, finished her birth to a year slide show. Then after a while put her down for a nap, then we had my father sit at the house while we ran here there and everywhere. lol. We started out by picking up the cakes and taking another load of bday presents to my moms house (we had taken a load there the day before..stuff from us and from my dad..it consisted of a bunch of big boxes). So after that was done we headed off to get johns hair cut (which was badly needed) then to the party store to pick up all her balloons. Then home to dress her up for the party. All the balloons took up so much space in the car that we didnt have room for her..luckily dad lives right next door so he took her on over to her party, while john and i grabbed the computer so we could show the slide show. And also picked up the pizza on the way over to moms.

We get to the party and there are already people there, my mom and my best friend had already set up the decor. Well people kept on coming and i was pretty busy trying to play hostess. I handed out pink lemonade, tried to greet people. After a while of telling everyone there was pizza and no one going to get it, i started handing it out. Then my aunt took over that while we rushed to find more chairs! We were running out of places for people to sit. There ended up being like 30 people there, including ourselves. We hadnt planned on so many. People chatted and some watched the slide show, there were about four other kids there, so aurora played with them. John had to run back home to get a missing piece of her high chair. My mother had taken her high chair over the night before, but accidentally forgot to grab the table part of it. Anyways.. John ran off to get that..seemed like he was gone forever. I gave the little kids their goodie bags. After awhile Aurora started getting really upset with all the people (and i learned after the fact that some little girl was getting into auroras face). Apparently this little girl was trying to be all over Aurora, who was excited to have a bigger kid play with her, but after while i guess she got sick of being touched and picked up and prodded. So apparently she started trying to push the little girl away. John and my father told me of this since i spent most of my time running about getting food together and such.

So Aurora was taken outside by my father and John and fed some cantaloupe. She was happy to get away from all the people and noise. We brought her back in and attempted to open presents, but there were sooo many of them. And the other little kids were all around trying to play with stuff as we opened it. The little girl that had annoyed aurora prior (and at this point i had no clue that she had been all over aurora) was over asking me things.. and Playing with toys as we opened this and trying to help open things. Well Aurora was already a bit fussy, so when the little girl accidentally hit her in the face with a balloon, aurora just got soo upset. I handed her to john who took her outside again. He told me to stay behind and finish the gifts because like i said there was just so many to get through. So we did that. Then we decided to do cake, brought her back inside, some people had left by this time..other things to get to. And so it wasnt so crowded anymore.

Before we did the cake we changed her out of her cute dress and into a onesie that said first birthday princess on it..so she wouldnt ruin the dress with cake. Aurora sat in her high chair as we sang happy birthday to her and then she ate her little princess cake. As she was eating cake my aunt cut and handed out ice cream and cake to the other guests. Im very thankful she did that because it finally gave me a chance to get some pictures taken of aurora eating her cake. After that was over there were even less guests.. and Aurora was covered in cake, but very happy. lol

We took her off to have a bath and by the time we got out most people had already left. Aurora played around the living room a bit, while my dad and others loaded up two separate cars with gifts.. Then John switched Auroras car seat forward facing and we brought her out to the car. I put her birthday princess crown on her. I had meant to do it during the cake but i completely forgot.

Then we headed home. Where we put aurora down for a nap. She napped for hours.. and our friends nikki and jason came over to drop off auroras gifts and hang out with us for awhile.. Dad also came by to unload his car too. Aurora woke up and we started opening up and putting together some toys.. She loves them all.. : )

All in all it seemed to go well. We had some glitches, but got through them. The whole thing had me sooo stressed though..lol. I was running here there and everywhere. I really didnt think so many people would be there.

But anyways. That was how it all went, a very eventful day : )