Leah is the first baby we have had that we were away from family for her first birthday. So, we knew that we still wanted to make it special for her. We invited 5 family's from our neighborhood to our house for her party. I did a lady bug theme. We had a pasta dinner and some cake. The kids mostly hung out in the basement. I also made a banner of a picture of her from her whole first year and I think it turned out pretty great. I couldn't get a good picture of it though. Dennis wanted to take a break from making cakes, so we got a bakery to make her a cake and a matching smash cake.
I thought Leah would be overwhelmed by all the people, but she was great. She was even calm when we were all surrounding her watching her eat cake. She loved it!
She got lots of nice gifts from our neighbors, they were very generous! She is enjoying all of it, but I have to admit her favorite toy is still just holding a Lego piece or especially the Lego people.
Today, the first graders at church had their retreat. I volunteered to help and ended up the leader for Evan's group. I got to lead them to each of their stations. They were putting together snack bags for kids at a shelter and made a few crafts to go in it. Evan really enjoyed the retreat.
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