We have spent the week getting ready for a certain little girl’s first birthday party tomorrow and confession time, I am a bawling mess over here.

HOW is she about to turn ONE?!

We are having her party about two weeks before her actual birthday because we are going to go see Jon’s family in California right before her birthday and this was the only weekend that really worked and didn’t interfere with holiday plans. Bless her heart. She is going to HATE her birthday someday. I told Jon we just need to set the precedent now that we will always have a non-Christmas themed party and we will always do ONLY birthday stuff and never Christmas stuff on her actual birthday. So, we are doing our very best to start that right from the beginning!

Checking out her birthday party cake in the oven. 🙂 Oh, how I love this tiny girl. She has just become my little shadow and tries to be such a “helper” lately. She wants to watch everything I do in the kitchen, everything I do in the laundry room and she will sit by the bathroom counter and just watch me put on makeup or curl my hair. It’s so cute. 🙂

While Eisley and I were working on her cake and getting the house ready, the boys were outside in the freezing cold constructing a beaver dam (because beavers are VERY common around these parts of the middle of the city, just so you know). 😉 Nathan came in and asked for a “trough of water” for the beaver and I definitely said no, because I could just imagine that scene, and he immediately says, “Well, then there is just going to be a DEAD BEAVER here tomorrow because beavers need water to SURVIVE.”

I guess this is my official apology to all the dead beavers out there. Sorry, guys. I chose dry children and a non-ice-skating-rink backyard over your lives. RIP.