Terra's One!

My little princess is 1! We started the morning with a few presents from us, then headed out to the doctor for her year checkup. She's 29 inches tall and 23 pounds. She loves music, her brother, jewlry and anything girly or pink.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 After her doctor visit she took a short nap, then we went to JCP for pictures. She did a great job and the photographer was amazing with her! Then it was off to lunch with Daddy, then home for another nap. This time when she woke up she got to open the presents from Grammy. Then she Skyped with Grandma and Grandpa while opening their gifts.

 

 

 Dinner was at Chuck E Cheese. Terra loved watching the animatronics and listening to the music, but didn't care too much for the arcade games.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lee and Ty had fun playing games together and earning tickets.

 

 

 Mary had a lot of fun dancing and singing.

 I'm so glad that Terra's first birthday cake turned out better than Ty's.

 

 Terra needed a little help blowing out her candle and Ty was happy to help. Luckily, Terra didn't cry when we sang to her.

 

 

 Like Ty, Terra just kind of poked her cake then licked her fingers.

 

 

 Terra dug into her cake more once she got utensils.

 

 

 She got her first taste of cow's milk to help wash down the cake.

 The aftermath

 After cake she opened her last present which was from Mary Ann. I think it may have been one of her favorites. She gets a huge smile and starts laughing whenever she sees it.

 

 

Terra has been such a ray of sunshine and I'm so grateful to have her in our family. It has been wonderful to watch her grow and to see the love between her and Ty. I can already tell that they're going to be the best of friends.

Easter!

This year is Terra's first Easter, as well as our first Easter in a house with our own yard! I was so excited to be able to have an outside Easter Egg hunt! We started our day being woken up by Ty who had noticed eggs down the stairs and was excitedly telling us about how the Easter Bunny had put eggs on the couches. Each kid had their own colors to collect so that I knew Terra would be able to get some without worrying about Ty taking them all. Terra got the purple and pink eggs while Ty collected the rest. Terra did a great job heading straight for the first egg she saw and loved shaking them. At one point she had a purple egg and a pink egg in her hands and wanted to pick up another egg. After thinking a while, she set down the purple egg and picked up the new egg so she could hold two pink eggs and shake them.

 

 

 Terra's first egg

 

 

 

 

 

 

  After a breakfast of donuts and candy, we watched a session of General Conference, then got dressed up for the outside egg hunt and family pictures. Somehow in the short time of me hiding the eggs and us going outside one of Terra's purple eggs mysteriously vanished without a trace. She still had enough eggs to find though. Ty had fun helping Terra find her eggs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were too many cute pictures of Terra!

 I love holidays and making them special. This Easter was especially great because we got to watch General Conference and be spiritually fed. It was a great way to really remember the reason for celebrating Easter.