Happy 1st Birthday Alexya!

It's been a very busy week! Happy belated Thanksgiving to everyone and I'm so happy we got to see alot of the family at Therese and Scott's house for the holiday. Lexy was the only baby there and ran around socializing with everyone as best she could. She was very excited and wouldn't take a nap (as usual) and so she got very tired and fussy by the end of the day. But, at least everyone got to see her in person (alot of you for the first time!). It was so much fun!

We also had guests fly in from LA (Gerric and Jolene) to stay with us Friday through Monday. We had such a good time and really miss them now that they are gone :(... For those of you that don't know, Gerric is Robert's BFF and Jolene is his wife and a "regular" visiter to this Blog ;) always leaving very nice comments :)! They came to Lexy's b-day party Saturday and then we hung out Sunday and spent some "quality time" together. Lexy wasn't used to people staying in her house and was so tired from all the activities (thanksgiving and her b-day) and so she was really grumpy for most of the time, but she had fun playing and showing off to Gerric and Jolene.

Robert and I were really happy they came and finally had a chance to meet Alexya. They were suprised at how different Robert was compared to how he used to be growing up in LA. They said he was such a great dad and I agree! Now, we are wondering if the visit has inspired them to have kids.....hehehe...or inspired them to wait and take their time! :) Anyway, they were the best houseguests ever and we would love to have them back anytime! We also plan on visiting them/staying with them when we take Lexy to Disneyland for the 1st time! :)

Here are some Birthday pictures. The top one is of Lexy on her actual B-day (yesterday) and the bottom is of her at her party on Saturday. We should get some better pics from Gerric and Jolene and Robert's parents to put up later.



Thank you to everyone that came to Lexy's birthday party and for all of the wonderful gifts! She got a ton of peek-a-boo books, a singing Eeyore w/moving ears, a stuffed bowling pin set w/shoes, a keyboard, really really cute clothes, a cute kids chair to sit in, a director's chair and blocks to play with, more books, and I'm probably forgetting stuff but you get the idea. She also had fun climbing into the bags and pulling out the tissue paper and grabbing the peices of wrapping paper I would start for her and yanking them off to open her gifts.

We played a quiz questions about Lexy game and Candice, Amy and Lauryn all tied! So we had a tie breaker question that Candice won based on the most details of Lexy's outfit. We had cake with a big yellow duck on it and all sang to Lexy, but after sticking her finger in it, she didn't want to eat the frosting at all! Overall it was very fun and she had a great time (but again was tired from no nap and got cranky towards the end).

Now that all the festivities are over she is relaxed and happy and back to normal happy chica status....Sorry, but she's gonna have to get used to it: her b-day is always going to be right around thanksgiving and a busy time full of activies (and no naps!). :)

Here is Gerric, Jolene and Alexya! Thanks again for visiting us!