Party Like a Rockstar

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Riley, Happy Birthday to you! Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated with us, we really appreciate you taking time out of your busy weekend to celebrate with Riley. She had such a blast...walking up and down the kitchen pumping her arms (aka her happy dance).

Some of Riley's friends: Casey, Arianna, Siena

Present Time! The Cardinal's cheerleader costume was her second dress change for the party...Nate Opel got it for her (too cute and she loved wearing it!).

Cupcake Time! (Riley didn't like it...she threw it to the dogs!)
Cupcakes from the Wicked Bakery on Cave Creek...strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, lemon berry, carrot cake and red velvet. Riley got to try a strawberry one.

Play Time!

Riley 's 12 Month Pictures

Riley has had an amazing first year...she has grown into this little person and it is amazing to look back and see how quickly it all happened.

One year ago today, we were waking at odd hours of the night, trying to keep the dogs from eating the oh so precious green "binkies" from the hospital, eating only "white/brown" foods to prevent crying episodes from gas, boiling bottles to keep them "sanitized" and reading every book known to man about how to raise a baby. Today we are finally sleeping through the night (still waking quite early- 6am), tying to keep the dogs from sticking their tounge in Riley's mouth, learning how different foods change the texture, color and stank of human poop (its so gross!), using the 10 second rule for anything that hits the ground to avoid cleaning, cleaning and re-cleaning baby items that are ending up in hands that have been touching the ground all day long and using sign language as our secondary language so Riley can start telling us what she wants and needs.

Riley is such a beautiful child and we are very blessed to have her as ours...she is pretty stinkin amazing!

Here we go...standing, walking, stumbling, crying...it is quite a learning process. Each and every day she gets better and better!

Halloween

Riley was...of course...a monkey for Halloween! We got this great costume at Old Navy...it was already 50% off two weeks before Halloween...mom can never pass up a great bargain! Cody was working so Riley and I joined Prince, Stephanie and Arianna (aka Fancy Nancy for the night) and walked the neighborhood. It was a beautiful night...a bit warm...there were TONS of kids out. Riley fell asleep within 10 minutes of the walk :)



The first time we put Riley in the monkey costume she was cracking up...she loved it...especially the banana in her pocket!