One!!!

She made it a whole year!  Its been a mighty rough year and this year will be tough too...though not as nearly as tough as last year but Hallelujah she made it!  Does every mommy tear up when "Happy Birthday" is sung to their baby or is that just me?

Her actual birthday was a very low key evening for us.  She had had a rough morning and afternoon with her lasering so we decided to just celebrate at home, the three of us, and we got her a giant piece of cake from the grocery store.  Lite the candle, sang her happy birthday and let her dig in!  Her first real piece of sweetness ever and she LOVED it!!! I think she's gonna be a sweets girl like her daddy!!

Thank goodness by that night she had started to feel a little better and was in a much better mood.  I didn't get weepy when we sang to her home but I did at her party!


Her party was this past weekend and we celebrated down at my mom and dad's place in Wilmington.  I wanted to invite some of her NICU nurses and I knew they were not probably going to be able to make it if we did her party at home so we had it down there.  And all but one were able to come.  And of course did I get a picture of K with her nurses???!!!  Of course not! Because I had ten thousand things on my mind and totally forgot.  Just like I had made her a photo book of pictures of her first year that I wanted to give her and let other people see and did I forget to give that to her as well.  Yep, sure did!  Oh my brain...

But we had such a good time and I'm pretty sure she did as well and my mom and dad did such a great job of getting everything together and for hosting.  They are the best!

                                                                               Here was the cake for everyone else      

                                                                             The Birthday girls cake!

She is such a stitch!!!  She figured out she could get to the cake faster by just skipping her hands and putting her mouth right down to the cake.  Most hilarious thing I have ever seen!!

I think it is safe to say she enjoyed herself some cake!

Then it was presents time!

Among other fabulous gifts she received this monkey chair!  I think I'm in love with it more right now then she is.  Once she figures out how to get herself in and out of it then I'm sure she'll love it more than me!  This was a gift from her Nurse Amanda and Nurse Rachelle.


Overall it was a great weekend!  To be surrounded by so many people that love this little girl just makes my heart swell!  I'm not entirely sure every single person knows exactly what they mean to Jim and I.   To have them travel through such a hard time in our lives and be there every step of the way to offer any type of help they could offer means the world to us.  We love all of our friends and family so much and will be forever grateful for the emotional, physical, spiritual help they have given us, without us even needing to ask this past year.  And the fact that they love our Kenley girl so much and are so happy to see her so healthy and doing so well is the kicker for me.  I know there are quite a few out there that love our K like she is their own and I am so grateful.

This little girl is so blessed...and so are we!