Bailee Turned One ! ! !

Getting ready for the big party!!! Aunt Daleen came early to help mom and she got the assignment to do the hair.
Bailee isn't sure about all the primping.
I had to buy the sign. After all she will only be "1" once.
Porter getting ready to eat. He grabbed him a nice cold Sprite.
Bailee enjoying a hot dog and some Cheetos
Her dad at the grill. We had a BBQ for part of the party. We had hamburgers, hot dogs, pink salad, green salad, chips, cantaloupe & watermelon. And to drink we had soda, Gatorade, & water.
Bailee---digging in.
Opening presents.
Her Grandma Benson gave her a rocking horse.
More toys. She got about 1/2 toys and 1/2 clothes. This is a Little People Animal sounds farm. She really likes it and puts the animals in and out of the barn and in the silo, etc.

Aunt Angie gave her a Leap Frog Number Buddy.
Tearing into the toys.
Her Cake---I was a bit disappointed with the way Smith's decorated it, but it tasted really good. It didn't turn out at all like the one I picked out of their picture book.
Smith's gave her a cake of her own since it was her first birthday!!
Sharing the cake with her cousins. She dove right in with her hands. Squishing it between her fingers, etc and then started sharing it with everyone. This is a picture of her sharing with her cousin McKenzie. She would give them a bite and the grab some more and offer it to someone else.

Squishy, Squishy!!!
Porter stealing a little bit of the frosting while Jonah watches Bailee dig in with her hands.
Lizzy wanting to steel a bit, but not sure if she wants to eat it off of Bailee's hands like the rest of us did.
Cake EVERYWHERE!!!!
Stopping to take a drink. Of Powerade of course.

Jonah with a party favor.
Maddison having fun.
This is just cause I don't have one of the 4 generations. This is of me and my parents and my mom's parents and Bailee.
Four generations of girls.

Yup---We had a pinata also. We also had those firecrackers that you pull the string and out pops confetti.
We didn't let them hit it because there was too many little kids so they just did the pull string on the pinata. We also didn't have a tree and no-one wanted to hold it if the kids had a bat. We were going to have the party at the park, but there was a family reunion there and Andy didn't want to bond with any of the people at the reunion so we had it in our back yard.
Maddison with some of the toys from the pinata.
Porter with some candy and watching all the kids scramble for more candy.
Lizzy & Paige enjoying the rewards.

Paige blowing up a balloon. We also had balloons. I bought a Helium tank, but Paige and McKenzie couldn't wait so they started blowing them up.
McKenzie working on her balloon.
Bailee in the thick of things.
Bailee & Lizzy picking up candy.

We had lots of fun. We just had a family party with both sides of the family. It was fun and Bailee got a lot of good gifts. Andy and I gave her 2 new pairs of pajamas, a bounce and spin zebra, a jewlery box, a webkinz stuffed horse that looks like our horse, and a little turtle that counts and says shapes. She also got ----early a play yard swing set--she loves to swing, but we had to buy the infant swing separately. My mom gave her a little lion that she can walk behind or sit and ride, she got her first baby doll from Scott & his family and clothes (really cute ones) from Ashley & Jason & Lizzy, Scott & fam, Grandpa Benson, Joe, Crystal & Bell, and Grandma Benson and more stuff I just can't remember it all. It was a bit windy so I didn't get to decorate like I wanted, but it turned out well. As you can tell I spoil her----but then again why not!!!---what else do I have to do that is more fun---NOTHING!!!

Liberty Land (Lehi, UT) July 28, 2008

Nicole, Justin & Hagen on the roller coaster.
Haze mad that his mom left him with me while she went on the race cars the first time.
Justin & Haze
Haze & Hagen. Haze wasn't sure about the boat that swings back and forth.
Bailee wasn't too sure about the boat either. Justin took her for a ride on it thought.
Hagen riding solo on the race cars. He thought this was pretty neat.
Bailee giving kisses.
Haze loving on his favorite baby girl cousin.

Bailee wasn't much for miniature golf---but she liked the ball.
I had Nicole take Bailee on the race cars. She liked it.
Bailee stealing a bit of Hazes bottle when he wasn't looking. I guess she wanted to save hers for later---funny thing is they had the same Powerade in them.
Bailee taking the animals for a ride.
Justin---Loving the race car.

Bailee on the Merry-Go-Round
Haze, Nicole, & Hagen on the bumper boats.
Hagen driving his own. Bailee and I were on our own bumper boat, but I don't have a picture of us since I was taking the pictures---I will have to get it from Nicole and put it in later.
Justin on the bumper boats.
Hagen again driving his own race car.

Nicole & I took the kids to Liberty Land for Hagen's birthday because he wasn't going to have his party for a few weeks. The kids had fun. It wasn't as big an amuzement park as we thought, but oh well they had fun anyways.