Birthdays

     I know the first thing people tell you as you enter the ranks of new mommyhood is to "enjoy every moment, even the hard ones, because it goes so fast." So cliche and overused, but at times the truth of that statement stops me short. Too often as new parents Dustin and I continued to function as a couple, just with a few attachments or adaptable charges whom we chartered to and from various adventures. A baby and small child can be hauled from place to place to place with little or no representation in the planning or execution of weekend or vacation plans :) My house is quickly becoming home to real people with individual quirks and deliberate personalities. It is delightful. 

    Our girls have birthdays 3 days apart--we are now the happy parents of a 3 year old and a 1 year old. 

    Luckily, Sara's birthday was celebrated with a lot of freebies. (Cake #1) Macey's bakery in Provo gives you a free cake for your first birthday! Free. You choose the colors and flavors and everything. So cool. Then we went to a neighbor's birthday party where they had rented a train! My girls rode it for almost an hour and still talk about the crazy train that drove down the road and through fields. Awesomeness. 

  We had a family celebration with grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, the works in between actual birth days. That meant Sara had her official dig-into-it cake (Cake #2) and Rosie had her cake-of-choice: bright blue velvet, hot pink frosting, topped with a big monster-face (Cake #3).

      On Rosie's actual birthday we had a little party for friends at the park. Cupcakes (Cake #4) were precluded by a bumblebee pinata that had been Rosie and my daily project for the previous 2 weeks. It was really fun to make and the kids had a fun (but veeeery long...whew, that homemade paper-mache!) time beating it open. 

 We love celebrating at our house! And I can't imagine two more fantastic human beings worth celebrating.