Molly's First Birthday!

It's still hard to believe that we celebrated Molly's first birthday on July 15th! We decided to kick the party off early and had a bbq the weekend before. Molly had been walking for a few weeks at this point and loved being on the move. She got all dressed up and looked beautiful for her big day.

Absolutely love this dress!

Thanks to The Brights who gave Molly this fun play structure for the back yard that she loves!

She looks like a sumo wrestler swinging back and forth before the pounce!

Pointing is still Molly's number one activity.

Such a sweet baby ... don't let her fool you!

Molly had a great time playing, eating and walking at her party.

A pretty impressive cake if I do say so myself. The inside is a healthy carrot cake recipe and the icing is all cream cheese and sugar! I figured Molly had to splurge for the special occasion. I also thought my cake decorating was pretty good. Apparently, Molly agreed.

Of course her hand was in the cake before anybody noticed so John had to hold her arms back.

Undeterred, she decided to try to get a foot in it, but alas was unsuccessful and not happy about it.

Finally, she just made a wish and blew out the candle (with some help from Dad).

I think it's safe to say she enjoyed her cake. She took an enormous hunk and proceeded to eat it in its entirety.

Then she had a great time opening gifts with some help from Delaney and Dylan.

Thanks to everyone who helped celebrate the day including Patty, Albert, Audrey, Ed, Alyssa, Carl, Rose (in spirit), Joey, Tony, Amy, Dylan, Kelin, Michael, Chris, Johnny, Laura and hopefully I'm not forgetting anyone!