Scarlett's First Birthday!

If you come from a big family, you know that the oldest child has 100 times as many pictures as the youngest child, the poor youngest gets all the hand-me-downs, the youngest never has anything special...blah, blah, blah.   No, seriously - it is very difficult to maintain the same energy with your fourth that you had with your first...that being said, I'm definitely trying to make Scarlett's life as eventful and special as the others.


Scarlett's first red vines!  Love at first bite.



We had a family birthday party for her.  Darin's sister, Janell, and brother-in-law, Chris, and their adorable Aidan were able to come in town for the weekend...we love having them so close!!!  Aside from them it was just our little crew.  BUT...we decorated as if there were a host of friends coming too.  It was so fun to see how excited the bigger kids were for Scarlett's birthday.  They ooohhhed and aahhhhhed over every detail...well mostly over the red vines.  Haha, you remember Scarlett's first taste??

We decorated while she napped.  Kate got the honor of waking her up.  She was too cute and excited over everything....



I made this "S" for her room...her bday gift I and I thought I'd decorate with it too.  It turned out really cute but took like 6 hours to make!



I have NO idea what's going on but I like it!

Fer rilz...like I just dig right in and eat this by myself?!

Yay for cake!

yum, yum, yum.

Yes, she did this to herself.  Luckily she didn't get it in her eye.

Someone needs a bath!

CUTEST VIDEO EVER!

Scarlett opening her gifts.

What a fun party!

We love our Scarlett....she loves...

1. Mom (it's my blog I can say that.)

2. Her dad and siblings (she'll only kiss Roman though)

3. Red vines

4. The "Balls" over her bed...pics of her room coming soon.

5. Jesus - she SERIOUSLY points to pictures of Jesus and says His name..just ask my SIL Janell. It's the sweetest!

6. All balls...always wants to kick a ball.

7. Baby dolls - she gives them sweet kisses.

8. Spaghetti, grapes, and cheese

9. Playing "Where's Scarlett" - hide-n-seek

10. Playing "Sweet Baby"..she lays her head on something soft and pretends to go to sleep while we say, "Ohhhh...Scarlett's a sweet baby."  guess you had to be there, but trust me it's cute!

Ummm, Allie where's your sweater?! Oh well, I guess our party got too hot and crazy ;-)

We had to say goodbye to Janell, Chris, and Aidan but they promise to visit soon. Scarlett was on cloud 9 the rest of the night!