Ashley Turns One

Our little girl turned one on Saturday and we can't believe it has been a year. We tried to celebrate by taking her and Alyssa to Chuck E Cheese. We changed our mind when we got there and the line was out the door and the parking lot had at least 100 cars in it. We then headed to another place that is similar to Chuck E Cheese's and it also had a super long line. Then we went to a McDonalds with an indoor play place and the girls were just as happy. We keep forgetting that there are a lot more people around here. Here is Ashley enjoying the toddler slide.

After dinner and some playtime for the girls, we went home and let Ashley open her presents. She, of course, didn't do much opening with her big sister around, but she had fun playing with some of the presents after they were opened. Her she is with the pile of presents.

And here is the one picture we got of her almost showing interest in the wrapping paper.

One of her gifts was this little chair, so we got a picture of the two girls in their chairs.

I've seen a lot of people do fun cake's for their one year olds lately, so I got brave and tried it out. It helped that I had some time to kill that day since Danny was working all day. Here is the finished product.

Alyssa was so excited about the Elmo cake that she wanted to dig right in as soon as I showed it to her. So to avoid a fit from her, we gave her a piece of this cake before we put the whole thing in front of Ashley to let her dig in. She mostly just picked at the frosting and made a mess of her face and eyes.
We are so blessed to have our little Ashley girl in our lives and we look forward to many more years of fun with her. We love you Ashley.