Brynn’s First Birthday!

Yeah, so that baby we had and posted pictures of a year ago, and haven’t posted hardly anything since… well she’s almost one now.  Her actual birthday is on Wednesday, but we did her party yesterday for friends and family.  The theme was Oh, the places you’ll go!  We had fun decorating with lots of bright colors and brightly colored food to match (we did leave the hot dogs and hamburgers their “natural” color).  And lots of presents of course!  My fav was the smash cake- she didn’t really want to eat it but she didn’t mind making a mess of it 🙂 I think there should be some adult birthday milestone marked with a smash cake because then you’d really know what to do with it and it does look like fun!  Of course, some photos…

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Getting ready for the party! streamers with brynn’s month pics, balloons, flowers, dr seuss books and more!

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the smash cake waiting to be smashed…

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the cake for the rest of us- globe cupcakes (yes, they are from pinterest…)

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getting in to her presents!

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figuring out what to do with this…

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I think she got the idea

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the damage done

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balloons!

I’d say it was a success!  Hopefully Brynn’s first birthday week is a good one- although she’ll have no idea what the deal is of course.  Will be exciting to have future when birthdays when she knows what is going on, but the first birthday is always one to cherish and see how far your child has come in a year- it is really amazing.  Can’t wait to see what the next year brings and for Brynn to be a big sister!

Welcome Brynn Averie Miller!

Now the pressure is really on to be a good blogger.  Inquiring grandparents (and maybe some other people) will want to know what we all (OK, really just our new baby girl) are up to.  So, without further ado, I introduce you to our beautiful, precious, adorable, tiny bundle of love and joy: Brynn Averie Miller!

Minutes old!

Hello world!

My delivery went really smoothly.  I’ll spare you all the details but I’ll just say my water broke at 2:30 am on Sept 4, eventually got to the pushing part- did that for 45 minutes and here she was!  All in all I’d say it feels like it went really fast and wasn’t nearly as bad as I dreaded.  I’m sure the epidural had a LOT to do with that!  Highly recommend them 🙂

After Brynn got cleaned, weighed (6lbs 1oz) and measured (19 in) she got to come back and meet us!

hi daddy

first kisses from mommy

There have been a ton of pictures of Brynn already- many can be found here: Snapfish link.  Here are just two more for now…

everything is so tiny!

already spent our first lounging football weekend- good times