Ashlyn's ONE!

 Happy Birthday, Sweet Lil' Pixie!     Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The "candles" on the cakes were all made of white chocolate decorated with edible glitter.  This one burned longer.  Well, actually the chocolate 1's did not have candles.  But they were cute.

Birthday balloons for the adorable birthday girl.

Ok, so she knew what was coming.   In preparation, you just gotta take out that bow!   Oh, and see all those cute number "ones" on the cupcakes?  Stephanie and her mother made them out of white chocolate.  They were adorable!

One minute here, the next was gone!  Yay! for killing the cupcake!  And she clapped! ...

Oh how she clapped!

Lots of help opening up that big pile of gifts!

Finally, to the bottom of the pile - now that's worth clapping for ... FOR SURE!

Time to play!

'n play,

'n play some more!

Our fun friend Leslie.

And Stephanie's crazy brother and normal father.  I asked them to smile, and this is what I get?

And Tavi, the boy next door.

And Eric who is the next oldest cousin locally in Ashlyn's life (can't wait for them all to meet Sean Jr. who is between Ashlyn and Eric). 

And Luke, who is the next youngest cousin in her life, with Leslie - loving "aunt."   And with pix of both those boys, you know Tonya and Brian were there, too, but you know, the camera just follows the babies.

We had Cub Scouts this same night, so we missed out on the big birthday bash dinner, but they waited for us to open gifts and sing happy birthday.  We love all our wonderful family!