Birthday Princess!!

I cannot believe that my little girl is already a year old! It seems like just yesterday that I looked like "Shamu" and I couldn't wait to be done being pregnant, and now she has already been here for a year!
The day before Ella's actual birthday we had a party with family and a few of our close friends. As you can imagine Ella was absolutely spoiled by everyone!! She was the princess for the day (not that she isn't always the princess) and she even had a little dress and tiara! Nick's parents were able to be here for her birthday which was so nice because they live in Chicago and we don't get to see them nearly as often as we would like to. I like to blame this inconvenience on my father in law (just kidding George!) It was nice for them to come and spend time with the kids. When it was time for Ella to play in her cake, she wasn't quite sure what to do, she kept looking at all of us like "guys are you sure I should be doing this?" after a few minutes she put one of her fingers in the cake and then grinned! But she still didn't dive in. Finally big brother decided that he needed to help sister with this. Jax had NO problem leaning down and taking a HUGE bite out of the cake! He thought this was quite hilarious. Ella still didn't dive into the cake and make a huge mess like most kids do, but Ella likes to be quite dainty and diving into a birthday cake is apparently not her cup of tea. We finally gave her a spoon with some cake on it, and she licked it clean!! All of the kids at the party got a chance to take a bite out of Ella's cake to show her how it's done!

Happy Birthday Princess!! We love you so much!