Pre birthday party

We had Mantey's first birthday party yesterday...I cannot believe I just had to type that. It is crazy to realize that she is such a big girl! We tried to keep it simple and small so we just had our family and a couple close friends over. These are pictures from before the party.



Matney and Daddy


Mom and I made party favors for the adults and kiddos. The adults got chocolate dipped pretzels with a thank you note from Matney.



These next pictures are in a funny order as usual. Sorry! We tried to take a picture of M with her cake and she quickly went for the frosting. Can you see it on her finger. She is quick! We tried to explain she just needed to wait a couple hours and she'd get her own little cake.

The kiddos got bags of fun party favors. Sorry to the parents. We hoped it would be pretty outside so the older kids had sidewalk chalk and bubbles. It was nasty out so you'll have to use them at home! The younger kids had books and bubbles.


More cake pictures. We got M's invitation, took the top sheet off and put it in this shadow box that said "I'm 1!" but you can't see it well.

After we took these pictures we took Matney upstairs for an afternoon nap hopeful that she would wake up in a great mood. It worked and she got up just a couple minutes after people started arriving. What a good girl!