Avery's First Birthday

(Warning, picture overload)

As I have mentioned before, I have been looking forward to Avery's first birthday for quite awhile. I can't believe she is one. Here are some pictures from her special day.

First, the decor.

I made this picture banner and hung it in the kitchen. I digi scrapped 5 x7 mini pages of Avery's first year. I spray painted clothespins pink to match and hung them on ribbon. I also embellished each clothes pin.

I can't believe how much she has grown.

This is just one of the pages I did for the banner. I will probably make all of the pages into a mini scrapbook.

I got this tissue puff ball tutorial from Martha Stewart. What

a pain! I kept ripping the tissue paper. It was my idea to add

the ribbon. Then I made Bakerella's cupcake pops for a party

favor/thank you. The picture on the basket is the one of her

holding up 1 finger.

I have been wanting to make a birthday banner for awhile. I just digi scrapped each letter and glued it to white card stock, and cut the edges with scalloped scissors. Most of my decor was made using Dani Mogsteads Sweet Cupcake from SSD.

Since the theme was cupcakes, I had to serve cupcakes :) But I wanted to do something a little different then the usual. I made Banana with cream cheese frosting, peanut butter with chocolate frosting and Chocolate with White chocolate raspberry frosting. I get these ideas in my head of things that I want to do, forgetting that I am not a good baker/dessert maker. I spent all day Saturday baking. But it was worth it.

Here is the Birthday Girls cake. I used the wilton cake mold. The cake is completely dairy and egg free.

Here is part of the birthday ensemble. I made the party hat. I just measured Avery's head, decided on the size that I wanted and cut triangles of fabric. After sewing them together, I ironed on interfacing for some strength and sew on the trip. I topped the hat with Cork screw and straight ribbon and a glitter pink A for Avery. I did the cupcake applique shirt for her to wear with her party skirt. The other is an old onsie that I applied the number 1 on front and added some ruffles on the bum. (I love bum ruffles!) That was for her to wear while she eats her cake.

Now for some fun pictures.

Avery givin some lovin to Aunt McCall.

Avery and Daddy
Tired Avery resting on Grandma Waddoup's shoulder

I really though she would dig into the cake more. She always makes a mess of her food. I am forever trying to clean squish food out of her hair. But she only took a couple of bites of cake, most of which we fed to her. But it was still fun, and I think she liked the cake. These cute pictures are courtesy of Aunt Kami. Thanks Kami!
Avery and Mommy.

Thanks to everyone that could make it. We appreciate all of your love and support (and the yummy food brought). We were so happy that you could all spend this special day with us. We missed those of you unable to attend. We love Avery so much! She is such a blessing and and a joy! It was a great day! Avery received many fun gifts that she will thoroughly enjoy. It was a very happy day full of very happy memories. Thanks for reading through all of this. Have a good night.

Chelsea

So Exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Avery had her year appointment with the allergist today. I was anxious because getting her blood drawn was so traumatic (for both of us). She did great though. The Doctor even commented that she wrote "adorable" in her report. (I know I am biased, but I agree) Anyways she had a RAST blood test last Friday and they did the skin test today. She is not allergic to soy (yeah for birthday cake) and she also has no allergies to peanuts or nuts. But we will still avoid them for now to prevent any new allergy development. The best news is that her reactions to dairy and egg whites were minimal. I mean very minimal. Her blood levels where right on the cut off of normal!!!!!! Plus they had just changed the ranges so a couple of months ago she would have been considered negative. This is a huge improvement from 8 months ago. The Doctor is confident that she will outgrow her allergies soon. In fact, they usually don't even consider retesting until age 2, but since she is so close, they are going to retest in 6 months. I am so excited for Avery, she might be enjoying milk and eggs by the end of the summer. YEAH! I feel so blessed. I am so grateful to Our loving Heavenly Father who answers prayers. I just wanted to share our exciting news.

Some Scrappin

Here is the page with Avery on Santa's lap. I can't take any credit for it though, it was a free quick page that my friend Leslie was giving away. Cute huh?

I took some pictures (again) of Avery on saturday in her birthday outfit. They were harder this time because I didn't have any help with entertaining her. But I thought some of them turned out really cute. Here is her 1 year page that I did. I still have more Christmas to scrapbook, but I was in the mood to do this. Almost everything is from Dani's Sweet cupcake kit at SSD. Have a good night.