We've had birthdays

Since Hanna and Hunter's birthdays are so close (4 days apart) we decided to have one big party.  Hanna really wanted to have a princess party and invite some friends over, but I just never got around to getting it all put together.  Besides, when I asked her who she wanted to come she said, "just Kennedy" (a cousin).  So having a family party was an easy choice.  We had my family over, and who could come of Trent's family, as well as a friend or two.  It was a fun evening filled with pizza, cake, ice cream, presents, and fun. (all squashed into our house that wasn't made for hosting parties...sorry, it was squishy)

Hanna was just a little excited as people started showing up! 

I love the tradition of giving baby their own cake on their first birthday, so I may have taken a few too many pictures of him...and he didn't even like it! 

It actually took him a long time to really get into his cake, he really doesn't like messy hands, he doesn't like wet things (feeding this kid is a real challenge, but that is a whole other post that I'll get too, sometime:)  And after only a few minutes he realized how messy his hands were and started to freak out.  He was screaming, wiping his hands on his tray and flinging his hands in the air trying to get the goop off, he didn't care how good it tasted, he was messy.  My sister started to feed him some ice cream and he long forgot about his messy hands.  He even signed more when she wasn't fast enough getting it into his mouth.

Present time!

They both were spoiled rotten, but then, shouldn't you be on your birthday!  Thank you for all the wonderful gifts, the are truly loved by the two of them. (and some even by an older brother too:)

This one we shall call "the silly faces of Hanna"  and "Aunt Karina gives the best gifts"

Hunter got two boxes of tissues as a gift, cuz he loves to pull them out.  Best gift ever!  We just scoop the tissues up and put them in a gift bag and he has hours of fun with the tissues (as seen in the bottom pictures)

Picture Time!

I love love love having pictures taken of my kids. (Trent, not so much)  I like having yearly pictures done around their birthdays.  Since Hanna just turned 4 and Hunter just turned 1 I figured this is as good a time as any to get their pictures done.  (And since I rock at being a mom, I totally spaced out Carter's school pictures, so we did his too.)  

Now to get family pictures done...

Suprise! Hunter's been in here too.

If someone could please invent a toy that resembled a Kleenex box with tissues a baby could pull out one at a time,but can't ingest, and then mom could easily reload just for baby to do it all again, I'd buy it. 

Temple Square

I don't recommend going to Temple Square two days after Thanksgiving, it was very busy!

This is what happens when he isn't yelling at me

One piece at a time, he threw the cereal all over the place, he didn't eat it, just tossed it out of the bag.  He was very proud of his mess, and I was happy he wasn't screaming. He is getting too big!  I wish he would stay my little baby forever. I love this stage of life.  Happy and content (okay, most babies, not so much him most of the time) to crawl around the floor and explore. Kinda self feeding and usually sleeping well through the night.  Oh, and occasionally will fall asleep while being held, there is nothing better than holding a sleeping baby.

Baby Bed Head

If only I looked that cute with bed head hair! (please ignore his messy face, apparently it didn't get cleaned very well after he ate)  We just cut this cute little guys hair so it doesn't stick up everywhere as much.  It's a good thing he's cute!!

Next time, no blue raspberry

It's true, I may be desperate for 5 non-baby-screaming minutes.  I may have seen the trick-or-treat candy and had a genius idea; give the kid a sucker (in the high chair of course:)  And poof! a happy baby, for 5 minutes.  I actually got dishes done without the screaming baby.  You can still see the tears in his eyes through the smile on the top picture (as well as that first little tooth in there).  Yes he was messy, but I got something done.  Magic!  I shall keep those little suckers around, but next time, really no blue raspberry, he was blue for two days.  ooops.