Eden Turns One!

We celebrated Eden's first birthday with a small party the weekend before and then presents from Mommy and Daddy on her actual birthday. She was quite overwhelmed by the party, but really got into opening presents when it was just the three of us. I agonized for a good month or two before about the theme of the party, but finally found a cute jungle themed kit online to have a lion party. And....I think it was a success.

I spent the day before the party making two lion cakes. One for the guests and a small one for Eden.

The guest cake.

Eden's Cake

Uncle Caleb, Aunt Holly, Jack, Aunt Rachel, Uncle Kenneth, and my friend Keera and her boys were in attendance at the party. Eden was a bit overwhelmed...maybe it was all those boys!



After the presents we ate some cake. And after a moment of hesitation.....


Eden figured out just what she should do:



And so she went straight to the bath after her fun:


And after a good scrub she was exhausted and took like a three hour nap!


A few days later we opened presents from Mommy and Daddy and she was overwhelmed in a different way....she didn't know what new toy to play with!

Playing with her new purse. She eventually let Daddy get it out of the box.

A couple new stories to read!

She was awesome at opening the presents once we showed her a place to pull.

She LOVED her new teapot from Aunt Sissy....and I love it's English accent!

And finally, what could be better than a dinosaur with balls to play? Especially for $8 off of KSL!