A "TICKLED PINK" 1st birthday

I've been dying to post these pictures of Bee's 1st birthday, but long story short I couldn't get them off of my camera. So (a week and a half later) here they are. 

These were her cute little invites we sent out. 

We decorated everything in pink boas for the theme "TICKLED PINK". We had a pink ice cream bar where all the candies were pink, pink strawberry cheesecake cupcakes, pink lemonade cookies, pink velvet cake pops, pink oreo truffles, and pink lemonade to drink. Thank you pinterest.... 

Trev and I ended up making 50 cupcakes, 30 cake pops, and 25 cookies.... we came home with 6 cupcakes, 5 cake pops and some cake was all.  

 My mom made her cakes. They were soooo cute!! we had a baby bear and a mama bear. 

I came across this idea last second and decided it was such a cute way to remember her party and also have something that she can read back on when she gets older. I am going to do the same thing each year on her birthday just as a little memory book. 

The poem says:

WAIT!

Stop here you see

and write a very special message to me.

Make a prediction of where I might go

or share a birthday wish for me to always know.

Write your note on any page.

This something I'll treasure at any age. 

It was pretty cute to read through what everyone wrote after the party. 

She was a bit confused on what to do with presents.
Once we opened them and she realized there were toys under the wrapping then she would run around and play with them, but until we unwrapped them she wasn't quite sure what to do. After she would open a gift about 90% of people would say "oh, by the way, I searched for the most obnoxious, loud, annoying toy that the batteries are really hard to take out of."

They are too kind to us...

She destroyed her cake.

One little candle, One little cake, One first year to celebrate.

Brecklyn, 

It's hard to believe a year has gone by already. You have turned into a such a spunky little girl. You can definitely steal the show and entertain any crowd. I never thought a little girl could completely change my perspective on life and better yet, teach me patience that I never thought I had. You're such a blessing to us and mean the world to your dad and I. 

11 months

As much as I hate that this little lady is getting so big I absolutely love her  personality she's developing. 

She's a crazy girl with no fear. 

She stands up on chairs, toys, you name it.... 

We recently moved and the first thing she did was crawl right up the stairs (surprised us that she knew how to do them since we never had stairs at our old house) BUT then once she got to the top she thought it was funny to get a running start and dive down them...... Ohhhh heaven help us....

Thank goodness for the invention of gates. 

I love that she can tell us exactly what she wants now. 

She will point to something and say "This"

She can answer (for the most part correctly) Yes and No questions. 

I started teaching her sign a few weeks ago because for some reason she wasn't catching on to saying the word "more" and that did the trick. She now signs and tells us "more." She also signs all done, please, and thank you. We have started teaching her spanish as well. We found these cute spanish/english first word books that she seems to really like. They are teaching me some spanish as well since Trev has only taught me how to cuss someone out real good in spanish. Thanks honey, I'm sure it will come in handy someday. 

Her new words are buh-bye and class, even though sometimes she forgets to emphasize the CL on class and just walks around saying "ass." We always have to explain ourselves on that one. 

When you ask her to fold her arms and be reverent she actually does... for about .2 seconds. Church with this little one is a CHALLENGE!!! 

She's definitely not the type of kid that is quiet and sits still. Luckily she gets to go to nursery in our ward when she turns 1 (which is in 2 weeks) that I'm sure she is going to love. 

I'm excited for her one year check up to see where she's at. 

According to our scale she is 19 lbs.

I finally got rid of some of her 0-3 clothes, more for the fact that they were nasty cause she has worn them for 11 months. She still wears all of her 3-6 months up through 9 month clothes. 

I wish time would freeze and keep her little forever. She's my side kick and free entertainment everyday. I seriously don't know what I would do without this little girl. 

Here's a little sneak peek of her 1 year old photo session. 

I can't believe I'm about to have a 1 year old, even though I've been planning her 1st birthday for months now. :)