First Birthday!!

Today was Miss Madison's first birthday.  I can't believe that a year has already flown by.  We have been through a lot as a family in this short year, and her Daddy and I can't imagine our lives without her.  I seriously don't know what we did before she came along.  We love her very, very much!

Grammy and Grampy came in on Friday, and Joby came on Wednesday night.  Joby actually left this morning, so she missed out on all the fun!!  We decorated the breakfast nook last night.  I made cupcakes yesterday, and we put them out right before we had her party.

I thought the little decorations turned out great, and I LOVED her cupcake tree.  I wanted a cupcake tree at our wedding reception, but I didn't get it.  I think they are so cute, and I love cupcakes!!

Grampy played with Miss Madison while we got everything set up.  They had a lot of fun, and she's slowly becoming a Grampy's Girl!

We brought all her presents into the living room and set them up in front of the TV.  She had a lot of loot for not very many people being here!!  She's a very loved little girl.

Then we opened up presents.  She had a lot of fun, but it got to be a little too much.  By the end, she was way overstimulated.  Plus, it didn't help that every time she would unwrap something, Daddy would take it away to get it out of the packaging.  We've learned our lesson on that one.  I'm even thinking about redoing her gifts that are wrapped.  It would have been much better had we taken the gifts out of the packaging and just wrapped them.

Here are a few of her opening presents.

This was by far her favorite gift.  We gave her a cabbage patch kid newborn.  I wanted to give her her first doll, and it was very hard to find just a doll that didn't do anything.  Everyone I would find, would cry, wet, etc.  I just wanted a plain doll.  I'm so glad that she liked it so much!

We were a little worried about Joby's present because it was all about farm animals, and Miss Madison is terrified of cows!  However, she didn't seem to either see or mind the cow, but she loved to chew on Old MacDonald!

And, this was her second favorite gift...chicken dance elmo!

Here's what Daddy did the entire time!

After the gifts, we did her cupcakes.  She had a ton of fun!!  Of course, she crashed later on.  

About halfway through, my Mom reminded me that we totally forgot her party hat!!  So, we got a couple of cute ones with her in it before it was in the cupcake too!

This is all her gifts that she got!

We had a lot of fun today.  She was really into ripping off the wrapping paper, and she loved her cupcake.  She wasn't in a very good mood after she woke up from her nap.  We really thought it was from the sugar, but now she's running a slight fever (~100).  However, she was really chomping on her paci and tugging at her ears.  So, we really think it is her just teething.  We gave her some motrin and rocked her for a little bit.  She's finally asleep now.  Hopefully, she will be all better tomorrow.  We go to the peditrician on Tuesday for her one year checkup.  So, if it is still lingering, I will definitely bring it up.

Happy Birthday Madison!!  Mommy and Daddy love you very much!!