Birthdays, Mother's Day and more :)

So many people have asked me about being sad that Blakes is a year old, and too be honest, I'm not and I think it's because we had such a great time celebrating her first year of life!! :)

According to Ross we packed her birthday weekend with too many events, but I think looking back on it...we planned just enough! ;) Ross took Friday, B's official birthday, off and, let me just tell y'all...She loved it! He says he's going to make it a tradition now to take all birthdays off. :)

Friday consisted of family pics with our favorite photographer ever, Susan, down at the Art Center. Then we headed to Blakely's 1 year doctors appointment...I know who's mother schedules a doctors appointment on a birthday?!? But B did great after receiving 4 shots and heading back to my parents' house for the prep of her 1st birthday party!!

We were so blessed to have family and friends come and celebrate her birthday! After a long day and eating her first cake with icing, we all went to bed to get some rest before heading to Pella on Saturday for Tulip Time! We met some of our friends and even though it was hot and we didn't do all that much, it was a great time! :)

THEN! The best surprise of the week happened when Uncle Cole showed up mid week from Ames! We were so excited to see him that we didn't even notice that when he came through the front door there was someone else behind him...YES! UNCLE TAY!!! It was sooo great having all of our family together for our birthdays and Mother's Day!

Ross did an amazing job of planning a super fun day for my birthday! We headed to Winterset to drop B off at Frama and Papa's with her Aunt Kare and cousins so that we could sign all of the papers for our new house (!!!!) and to enjoy take out from our fav Mexican restaurant and picnicking at the park. :) Then we headed back to Waukee for a complete Owens family pic with, again, our fav photographer and concluded the day with Jimmy John's at the house. :)


Of course, I do not have any pics to show for all of this because our camera is still in storage and using our video camera to take motionless pics was too difficult... BUT as of this past weekend, I was totally blessed by receiving a new Nikon camera from my wonderful husband and both sides of the family! So here are some of the 91 pics I took just in the first day ;)

Pic with lens #1

pic taken by same lens :)

new fav thing...slides!

playin with granddaddy :)

baby robins in my parents' tree in the back yard

walkin with just one hand help from granddaddy :)

yeah that's right...i just got the Diet Dr. Pepper :)

Try and stop me from enjoyin the best drink ever!

No milk (of any kind) for this girl...just water and  DDP! :)

Love being with Uncle Presty :)

Happy Mother's Day Mom! 

Oops...forgot to ask dad what he got her before buying the kids' gift for her :) 

Lovin' bath time!

so pretty  :)

Uncle Love!

I just love her :)

Owens Fam :) 

The banner I made for B...thanks Susan for getting a pic :)