Celebrating Jena a Little More...

The girls decided to spend the morning of Jena's Birthday at the beach. Jena loved the water. Her favorite thing was to run towards the water and then change directions as the wave came towards her. Such sweet simple joys.

Our Water Baby!

Taylor preferred to stay a little farther away from the water. Her favorite thing was to stomp on the castle that Aunt Jennifer kept trying to make. She would see it forming, pick up her little leg, aim and smash the sand. The funniest thing was the pause right before the strike.

Our Beach Bum!

Jena got quite a few books for her Birthday and would sweetly ask Jennifer to read to her over and over again.

Daddy with the Birthday Girl! We love our little Jena and can't believe how big she is getting already.

Jena's First Friend Birthday Party...

This was the first year we invited some friends to help celebrate Jena's birthday. Neither of us had thrown a kids party so I searched the web for all sorts of ideas. We finally decided on a Garden Theme. There were flowers and butterflies all over. We painted flower pots, decorated gift bags, played games, ate lunch and cupcakes, searched for toy lizards and frogs, planted seeds and lastly gave out live lady bugs to put in a bug container... Needless to say Mom, Dad and Aunt Jennifer were completely worn out and we now know a lot more about how to plan and throw a Birthday Party!

With all that said the one thing we lacked doing was taking enough pictures. Next time we might have to plan a little less and enjoy the time a little more because that was one crazy party!