Lily & Emma's Pad: Happy Birthday Lily!!!!!! We love you!!!!!!

Today is Lily's 1st Birthday! I can barely believe that it has been a year already. Yesterday evening Jim and I were thinking back to the day before she was born, when I started having labor pains at the house and we were getting so excited because we couldn't wait to meet our little girl whom we had been talking to for the last 9 months. Then when we went to the hospital and everything that happened afterwards. It was a very exciting and emotional time. We just feel so thankful and blessed to have Lily in our lives. She makes everyday brighter than the last and she brings smiles to everyone she sees!

Saturday, August 22nd is when we had her party. It was a fun day! Lily took her nap that morning and woke up just as people were starting to arrive, it worked out perfectly. She enjoyed everyone being here and loved all the attention. She particularly liked it when we all sang Happy Birthday to her. She enjoyed opening her presents w/ my help and seeing all her new toys and clothes and books! Then she got to have her little cake...it was funny, at first she wasn't so sure what she was supposed to do with it. Then she put her finger in it and got some icing on it and held it up to me like she wanted me to wipe it off. :) It was cute. Afterwards when I was wiping her off I realized that she was all broken out on her face and her arms where the icing had gotten. She was all itchy to....so there was something in the icing that she was allergic to. We went ahead and gave her a bath so we could make sure we got it all off of her and after a couple of hours she looked a lot better. She stills has a couple of red places on her face. We are going to call the bakery tomorrow to see what all the ingredients are.

We took hundreds of pictures on Saturday, I have tried to pick out some of our favorites to post..... Thank you to everyone for helping us make this a special day for Lily!