Every good and perfect gift comes from the Father...

So, Anna is 1 year and almost a month! We survived the first year, to the praise of His grace! Anna is still alive and well :)

Many people ask if we can believe she's a year old...I feel silly, because I guess most people can't, but we can! She seems to have changed so much to us - even in the past month! Anyways, here are some pics from her first birthday party which was an ABSOLUTE blast. We can't believe what great friends and families we have and we got so many cool gifts we haven't even brought all of them out for her to play with yet (mwa ha ha). Now she'll think we buy her cool toys every month! Haha!

The beautiful birthday girl

The festive room (thanks Kadie, Mom and Jarod for the decoration help!)


The fun games!
(This was a "fishing game". The kids would cast a line over the "water" and catch a cool prize!)

Anna and her sweet cousin Georgia from Texas...
Anna absolutely adores her and still kisses her picture!

The awesome presents!

The goody boxes

The Blaney Family (ever expanding)

It was such a fun celebration for many reasons, and absolutely crazy, too! Can you believe we forgot to give Anna a piece of cake?!?!!!!!! WHAT? That's like the mandatory first birthday thing, I think.

So, on her actual birthday we tried again...

Perhaps they can sing Happy Birthday to me everyday? I love this!


Trying it out.

Not a success :)

Oh, well. We love her and hope for many more wonderful years with her!