Sophia's First Birthday!

Today, we celebrated our sweet daughter's very first birthday with our close family and friends!  It was a wonderful party, that started with a wonderful invitation . . .

Yep, I made it.  I got the idea from a friend's invite, but the handiwork is all mine!

As you can see, we had a birthday bug celebration.  With real bugs . . .

Mud bugs that is . . . crawfish, for those of you who are not skilled in the art of identifying bugs.  And a few other bugs were in attendance as well -

Sophia's personal cake - a ladybug!

Very pretty butterfly cake - strawberry flavor!

And a big ladybug - chocolate - for all to enjoy!

Many thanks to Mike's awesome mom - one of these days she should start her own cakery (aka cake bakery), but in the meantime, my kids sure are reaping the benefits of her cake baking and decorating skills.  She always impresses us beyond our imaginations!  One of my friends at the party even tried to hire her for their child's upcoming birthday!

The kids made a wonderful craft that I adapted from this bumblebee idea.  Rather than reining in their imaginations, each child painted their bug how they saw fit.  Then we added googly eyes and punched holes for the children to add 2 antennae and 6 legs to each bug. 

And all in all, I think everyone had a wonderful time.  Especially our birthday princess!

Although I think she enjoyed having cake all over her most of all!

And Mommy, Daddy and Sammy are so proud of her!

Happy Birthday to our precious Angel . . . we love you and we always will!