Emme's 1st Birthday!

One year ago today, my baby girl was born at 9:45am after a little more than 12 hours of labor (not intense labor, but labor nonetheless). We could not be more thankful for our precious angel! This has been our best year so far! She brings an energy to our little family that we just adore! Saturday we celebrated our baby's 1st birthday with a watermelon picnic themed party. It was so much fun celebrating with all our sweet friends & family!

After our cake lady bailed last minute, Aaron's coworker, Gabriel stepped up to the plate and made this absolutely perfect cake for Emme FREE.OF.CHARGE! Love him! He is forever our cake guy now! If anyone in Houston is interested in using him, let me know.

The kids played in the backyard. Jackson loved having his buddies over!
We missed Hailey though! ;( Hope she's better!


This is my friend, Brianna's little man, Sam. Sam is 3 hours older than Emme and Bri & I were next door neighbors in the hospital when they were born. We only discovered this after a mutual friend came to visit both of us. Small world!

Sweet Abigail's first bouncy house experience!

My dad, one arm BBQing 3 weeks out of shoulder surgery! What a Pops!

The Birthday Girl!

From the front you could not tell how much of the smash cake she had eaten, but from the back...

Emme LOVES her marachas! Thanks Yaya & Pops!

Ami, Ashley & Me

Emme trying to put the baby's papi back in so it will stop crying.

Ashley & J-man

Today, Emme's actual birthday was spent swimming and later followed by dinner at Lupe Tortilla's! I didn't get any swim pictures though but I took her chair pics and some from dinner.

12 Month chair pic

(Stay tuned for A Year in Pictures post)

Yea! It's my birthday!

Nana & Jackson

My dad & my aunt, Christie

La nina en el sombrero!

Notice the stuffed mouth!

4 Generations

Nana, Clay & Emme (again, full mouth)

Happy Birthday, sweet Emme Kate! We love you SO SO much!