Can you believe it's been a year?!?!

Sydney is 1!!  Can you believe it??  I can't believe it's already been a year since my sweet little baby girl was born.  She's such a joy to be with and a little stinker all at the same time.  It's so fun to watch her grow up and learn.  I can't imagine life without her and I'm so glad that I get to be a part of her life everyday.

We had a birthday party for her on her birthday (Sunday the 22nd).  We had a few of our closest friends over just to keep it simple.  I decided to go with an Abby Cadabby theme.  If you don't know, Abby Cadabby is one of the characters from Sesame Street.  She's a cute little fairy that carries around a magic wand and turns things into pumpkins.  When Sydney was really little, we went to a birthday party where one of the moms gave me a book that had Sesame Street characters in it.  We carried it around everywhere because every time Sydney would see Abby in the book she would smile.  It was my only way to get her calm when she was having a melt down.  So, ever since then, she's had a thing for Abby Cadabby.  She always smiles and gives her Abby doll a hug (and says "aww" for extra emphasis).  :)

Sydney was so excited to see all the Abby stuff when I started putting her party things out.  I got her a giant Abby balloon and she absolutely loves it.  She'll point at it and smile.  She'll just stare at her.  I'm not sure what it is about Abby, but she's got a magical touch! (No pun intended.)  Ha ha!!

Once again my amazing friend Megan stepped up and offered to take pictures for me.  I'm so glad she was there and am so thankful for such a thoughtful and amazing friend.  I was able to enjoy my daughter's birthday because of her.  Thank you so much Megan!!!  Here are some of her wonderful pictures:

Sydney's very own cake to eat!  More on that further down the page... :)

Strawberry birthday cake with vanilla icing...Delish!

Ham, cheese, and cucumber sandwiches

Fairy fruit wands

The amazingly huge Abby balloon that Sydney loves!

Cute little birthday girl

Sydney and Beth (Sydney's boyfriend's mom) 

Landon building towers to knock down with Aaron.  Poor Aaron.  He was so patient with Landon.

Ms. Heidi and Sydney

Cute little Hunter (Ms. Heidi's little man)

Sydney playing with Mason (her boyfriend) :)

Mason and his mommy, Beth

"Mason, come here, I have to tell you a secret!"

Pointing out Abby on her birthday cake

Cute little Roslyn...this girl likes her fruit!

Opening the present that brother got Sydney.  Landon was very excited to give it to her...cause he wanted to play with it.  He was asking all morning about it. 

Hunter wanted to give Sydney a hug during present time. :)

Giving Abby a squeeze

We're all a little shocked by how fun this present is. :)

Cute Landon bug

Our updated family picture...Landon didn't want to take one.  So we tried again...

Yeah, nevermind.  Sydney was wiggling and grabbing Landon, Landon was trying to get her off of him and me and Braydon are laughing to keep from crying.  Better luck next time I guess.

First glimpse of the cake...

She was mesmerized by the flame.  She didn't move the whole time we sang happy birthday to her.

Starting her off with some icing...

And off she goes!!

Hmmm...I think I need some ice cream

"Brother, do you want some?"

"This partying thing is exhausting!"

We had so much fun at the party and were so happy that people came to help us celebrate one year with our little Sydney bug!