I'm sure a lot of people would think we were crazy for making a big deal of a baby's first birthday. Some would argue that no one remembers their first birthday, (or is even aware of the concept of a birthday in the first place) and it is really just about the parents anyway. Some cultures however have grand scale celebrations of their child's first year: perhaps dating back to a time when many babies didn't survive that long, so a year was really a reason to celebrate. For our little family, we have reached many major milestones: getting pregnant successfully was one thing to celebrate, making it through a healthy and relatively uneventful pregnancy was a major reason to celebrate, birthing and meeting our babe one year ago was a huge reason to celebrate, and now here we are one year later with a little human living among us, who is becoming more and more of her own little person every day. From our perspective, we have a lot of reasons to celebrate; so much to be grateful for...And let's face it: I'm on Maternity Leave, I love little projects, and we love parties...Hence: THE FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY!!
Both Dave and I have Winter birthdays, which tends to mean indoor parties. We were so excited to have a June baby: thoughts of barbeques, pool parties, and bonfires. Sadly, June in Calgary tends to be pretty unpredictable, and pretty rainy, so our "summer" party looked very similar to our November and December parties: indoors. Luckily our house accomodates large groups pretty easily with our large open basement, and Dave was still able to BBQ in the rain. It was a great day: Elise is a party girl, and loved having friends over to share her day. Here are a few of the highlights:
Elise enjoys her birthday balloon (June 5th)
Getting ready for her party
It is so amazing to see our little girl growing up. For those of you who were able to join us for Elise's special day, thank you so much for making it so great! For those of you we missed--hope you enjoyed sharing "virtually"
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