Allison's Birthday Weekend!!!

WARNING: Extreme amount of pictures follow this post!! 

Alli's Birthday was on Friday and I really can not believe that a full year has gone by!!  I guess that's why the saying is "time flies when you are having fun"!!!  We have had so much fun with her over this past year!!  This past weekend we had a ton of fun celebrating her 1st birthday!!!  On Friday morning, both Scott and I went to get her out of bed singing Happy Birthday, of course!!!  I swear she knew that it was a special day!!  She was all smiles!  Then her and Scott scratched off a lottery ticket before Scott had to go to work! (isn't that what all one year olds do?) Then for breakfast she had a cupcake!!!  (I know pure sugar in the morning is not the best but it was her birthday!!) Then we ran a couple errands and went to see Cousin Callie and Grammy at gym class!  Alli loves to play with the big kids at gym!  She thinks that anything Callie does, she can do!!  Then later that night Grammy, Grampy and Uncle Jimmy came over to help celebrate her birthday. We opened some presents and sang happy birthday with yet another cupcake!!! (Yes, right before bed...Again, I know not the best idea)

Saturday was Party Day!  It was a normal morning but in the afrternoon we had a ton of family and friends come over to help celebrate her big day!  She even had a special visitor...Dora! (Aka Aunt Sarah) Alli loved dancing, hugging and high-fiving Dora!  I think all the other kids liked her too!  Then, we had cake and opened presents!!! She got so many presents!!! (Thank you all so much!!) She is one lucky girl!!!  I think we now have every Dora toy they make!!!  She loves them all!!!   The rest of the afternoon we played with all of her new toys!!!

Thank you to everyone that came to her party and to all our family and friends that sent special birthday wishes from far away!!  It really made her birthday special!!! 

This is a picture form Thurday.  Her last day as a non-one year old!!!

Look at that smile!!!

Not a winner but they had fun!!

She was excited to have a cupcake for breakfast!!

Yummy!

Cousin Callie giving Alli a big birthday hug!!

Alli showing off her skills on the parallel bars!!

Opening some presents!

She got a Dora snuggie!!!

I think we heard Map about a thousand times over the weekend!!  (that's what she calls Dora)

Hugging her Elmo (Melmo) toy!!

Kicking back with Grampy and a bottle!!

Reading a book to Uncle Jimmy!

Enjoying her second cupcake for the day!!

Ready for her party!! She had just woken up from a nap!! 

Dora (AKA Aunt Sarah) ready for the party!

The kids loved dancing with Dora!

I think this is the "We Did It" dance!!

High-five Dora!

Even Tommy gave Dora a high five!

Yay! Dora!

Giving Dora a kiss goodbye!

Nina with our youngest party goer! This is baby Bristol - she is almost 3 weeks old!

Excited for some cake!!!!

Yum!!!  I love cake!!

Opening presents!! 

She got a Dora mic that she was pretty excited about!!

Some of my good girlfriends!!  Meredith (5 months preggo), Katy with her 2 yr old Brawley, Nina with Katy's 3 week old Bristol and Me with Alli and Sweet Pea! (Yes, I know I'm huge!)

Nina and Alli!

Callie knew that Dora was a costume so we let her wear the mask!!  Cute Huh?!!

Uncle Brad, Aunt Mackenzie and Cousin Lucy!!! (I told them this was a glimpse into their future!)

Cousin David reading to Alli and Callie!

Alli playing with her strollers! She would go back and fourth between them both!

Playing in her Dora house!

Crawling through her tunnel!

It was a long day! This one was ready for bed!