Taylor's birthday celebration with my side of the family was this past weekend. We stayed in Battle Creek for a couple of days, and had lots of festivities, fun and food! The sun was out the whole day, too, which made for a beautiful day on Saturday to celebrate!
We got the table all set up with our monkey theme for her birthday lunch...
Taylor and Grandma mem checking out the decorations
Yum....munching on apples and red pepper - tasty!
Daddy and the birthday girl with her special shirt on "This little monkey is ONE"
The four generations! Love it when we are all together!
Getting ready to open gifts (dad is all set up in the recliner - recovering from shoulder surgery just two days prior)
Checking out her gift from Uncle Jeff and Aunt Jen - loves the bows and ribbons :o)
First set of blocks!!
Digging into her baby Gap gift from Great Uncle Scott - LOVE Gap!
Here is a picture of her wearing part of her gift today - too cute, love this sweatshirt!
The last gift she opened was from my parents - a bead maze/activity block from B. toys. She was SO excited about this gift, and kept dancing and bouncing up and down while standing next to it - we all got some good laughs out of her response :-)
Taylor also got a few more contributions to her college fund, which we set up after Christmas, and even though it is not something that she can play with now, 18 years from now it will be a wonderful investment!!
Of course, no birthday celebration is complete without cake!
Love how this one turned out - especially with the swinging monkeys on the side. The bakery did such a nice job with both of her monkey cakes!
She ate almost her entire "cupcake" - yum!
It was a fun weekend!! It is rare to be able to have such a big family gathering on my side, other than big holidays, because we are all so spread out, so it was extra special to celebrate Taylor's first birthday with so many people!
It was a busy week with celebrations, but a LOT of fun! :o)
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