The Big Birthday!

It's only 4 more days until my baby turns 1! I can't believe we're about to celebrate our last first birthdays around our household. I have three friends who also had March baby girls so we decided to have a group party. The event has grown and should prove to be quite an extravaganza, but I figure it's the last time we're going to do "1" so we'll do it big!
This post got me trying to recall our other three 1st birthday parties...Baileigh turned 1 while Brad was deployed in New Jersey and I had about 12 of my girlfriends from church come over for a party with their kids. Mommy needed a party more then Baileigh considering Daddy had been deployed over 200+ days the first year of her life...it was to celebrate that I had survived!

Mckenna turned 1 in Oklahoma in an apartment we were living in for 4 months while Brad trained for the C-17. We didn't know anybody so her party consisted of 5 guys from Brad's class coming over for a home cooked meal and having Elmo birthday cake. They were all Daddy's themselves who were missing their own kids and they were very sweet and brought her presents...not your traditional 1st birthday.

Brooke celebrated 1 with a few family friends at a McDonald's play area in Puyallup, WA. It was low key but fun.

And now Morgan...celebrating 1 for the fourth time in four different states. This time, with Virgina church friends and with much fanfare. She is the baby, just living up to being spoiled!