Goooooooaaaaaaaaaal!!!!

Birthday Princess!

Our Birthday Princess celebrated her 1st birthday with a great party at our house a few weeks ago. She was all decked out in her St Patrick's Day green and greeted everyone with big smiles.

Nana brought some cool personalized M&M's. They didn't last very long. I won't say who ate most of them, but it definitely wasn't Claire :)


Reed was excited to wish Claire a Happy Birthday.
Maybe a bit too excited!

Eeeeew! Boy germs!

We had to get a Care Bear cake for our little Claire Bear!

The Birthday Princess seemed a bit apprehensive at first. Princesses do not allow themselves to get messy.

The first dainty dip into the icing...

To heck with this dainty princess stuff - icing is GOOD!

I'd rather be covered in icing than be a clean, proper princess!

To work off the cake we ate, we went outside to take some whacks at the pinata. My Princess Tiana gown really helped my form.

Next up - Jimmy "Drewbie" Rollins

Nick "Avery" Swisher takes a crack at it.

Even mighty Derek "Evan" Jeter can't bring it down!

Chase "Jed" Utley manages to put a dent in it.

Only Alex "J Dix" Rodriguez can release the candy!

The birthday girl doesn't have enough teeth to chew on this candy, so the rest of us went to work gathering it.

Finally! It was time for Claire to open her presents!

She was VERY excited about the farm animal magnet toy.

Avery loved hanging out with her "favorite baby."

After a yummy lunch, cake, a stubborn pinata, some Wii and gifts, it was naptime for the birthday girl. She had a wonderful time at her party and loved sharing her special day with everyone. Thank you all for coming!!

We'll be back soon with posts about Easter and my recent trip to Disney on Ice with my friends Ally and Noelle. Stay tuned!!