Journey with Julia

Party Pictures

We celebrated Julia's 1st Birthday with a big cookout on Sunday July 30th. Which also happened to be my friend Candy's birthday too, so of course we had a little surprise planned for her as well. Julia's b-day is actually August 1st, so we did her family presents that night. I load those on a separate post as long as the blogger lets me. It's been very tempermental lately on letting me load photos, that's why there have been so few.

Her party was a big success and even though we asked for no gifts of course a few people just couldn't resist. So she has a new friend "Bambi" from Ms. Michelle and her family that she just loves to hug and give kisses to, and a tiara and wand from Ms. Jessica that was so perfect for her birthday, and a ladybug memo board for her room that is just adorable from Ms. Candy...thank you ladies, between family, and our Air Force family this child wants for nothing and she is just the happiest exploring new things and yet doesn't forget her favorites either. She's so funny.

She would not touch her cake with her hands, no messes with this child. When we tried to show her that she could, she looked at me like I had lost my mind. She did enjoy some cake but only when Kylee would feed her with the spoon. How funny. Kylee and Chris came down for her birthday and are having a great time spoiling her and just watching her play, and of course Julia is enjoying that!

Julia is growing and changing so quickly! She had her one year appointment on her birthday and weighed 20.4lbs and was 31 3/4" tall!! She barely cried even through the shots, only when they were actually sticking her and then stopped immediately and went on with life as usual. It's almost scary sometimes how good she is. She plays more on her own now that she's crawling and is happy as long as Mama doesn't go too far away.

I'll post some pics from her party and then do a separate post of her actual birthday with pics of her opening her presents from the Ohio grands and Uncle Joel and Aunt Kim. Thank you to everyone for being such a support to us and for being as excited as we are to have this little person in our lives.