Happy 1st Birthday Joy!

We celebrated Joy's first birthday today. What a fun morning celebrating with friends. Her birthday was a rainbow themed party, so there were rainbow cupcakes, red salsa, yellow tortilla chips, green spinach puffs and rainbow fruit skewers.

 Joy had a fun time playing with her little friends.

We packed in 10 adults and 5 kids (all under the age of 3) into our little living room.

We sang Joy "Happy Birthday" once everyone arrived. She wanted to touch the candle....fire is very exciting.


Joy wasn't sure about eating the cupcake. Playing with the frosting was fun...but she wouldn't really eat it.
 

 "The frosting feels great between my fingers....but I'm not sure I like how it tastes..."

 "I don't want to eat the cupcake mom!"

Joy, the boys will show you how to eat a cupcake!

 

 A photo with all the cute kids...quick while they are all sitting still and looking at the camera......

 And....they it all fell apart (except Mathis and Elena who must have been bribed with more cupcakes to sit still!)

Oops we forgot to get a family picture or a good picture of just Joy and the cupcake. As soon as she woke up from her nap, the dress went back on and so did her hair clip. Thankfully I had extra cupcakes and a candle...perfect!

 "Hmm this second cupcake tastes pretty good!" Joy actually ate a lot of the frosting and even a few bites of the cupcake.

 We also opened presents once she woke up from her nap (which by the way was 2 hours long, twice as long as usual....I guess she was tired from all the partying). It would have been a little hard to open presents when everyone was there. She also only lasted through opening one present, the dolly from Grandma and Grandpa Condie. Then she only wanted to play with the dolly box and all the paper.  Thanks for all the new toys friends and family!

We love you Joy and are so happy you are our daughter. We can't wait to celebrate more birthdays with you.