TuTu & 'Stache Bash!

(Get ready for a picture bonanza...)

Last summer, when Jamie was born, she came in a trio of Hinckley cousins:

Jamie: June 24, 2011

Megan: July 9, 2011

Grant: September 24, 2011

So when Kendy and her kids came to visit right in the middle of all these first birthdays we decided to have a big joint birthday party for all three babies.

All the girls the night before making tutus for party favors, while all the boys went to a Ranger's game.

All our guests with their respective accessories:

Mustached boys

Tyler took his mustache-wearing very serious.

Tutu'd girls

Pretty Birthday Girl!

Each birthday baby had a cake: the girls got initial cakes with pink icing tutus, and Grant got his very own mustache cake :)

Some party decorations! (That didn't actually get printed out in time, but I thought they were so fun)

We played Pin The Mustache On The Grant and Pin The Tutu On The Jamie and Megan.

Birthday girls in their tutus watching the older kids playing party games

Tyler was SOO excited about playing the games

Oh well, Grant's armpit is just as good...

Birthday girls bored with the games and trying to break into the forbidden upstairs.

Water balloon toss outside!

Tyler was horrified that we were breaking the water balloons, and held onto this red one for twenty minutes, scowling at everyone who threw theirs.

Jamie did not join the water balloon toss, but she was so happy to be outside. She hadn't been feeling great that morning, and she was so happy to get to crawl around on the deck.

Cake time! The lineup...

And they're off!

I regret to report that Jamie is no stranger to cake. She knew just what to do with this slice. Megan watched her cousin in awe. Or disgust, I can't tell :)

The babies weren't shy about their cakes:

Grant developed an interesting technique. He dipped a pretzel stick into the icing over and over before diving in with his hands.

Jamie and Megan kept showing each other their fist fulls of cake and then looking under their plates for more.

The rest of the kids liked the cake too, although they were pretty adamant that the girls should only eat the girls' cakes, and the boys should only eat Grant's cake. Any deviation was quickly ridiculed.

A birthday-suit bath was mandatory after all that cake!

Thanks for coming everyone! We had a great time, and we are all are ready to sleep until their second birthdays next year.

Birthday Girl

We started the special day off with a birthday banner, of course:

Tyler helped me write the letters, and Jamie unrolled half a mile of ribbon around the living room, and I let her, because, you know, it was her birthday.

We had a lovely morning at Sprouts, picking up THREE pints of blueberries for our freshly turned one-year-old girl, and sampling all the bulk yummies.

Birthday Lunch! (Diapers following this feast were unusual.)

After naps, and after daddy came home, we started a new birthday tradition (thanks, NieNie)

Balloons!

We wrote birthday wishes on all the balloons:

and then let them go.

Our wonderful friends had us over for dinner, cake and games. We brought (what else?) a blueberry topped cake for Jamie:

Tyler couldn't help himself, and he helped Jamie blow out her candle.

Jamie picked off and ate each blueberry very meticulously

before diving into the cake-y goodness and demolishing it.

Happy Birthday Jamerson, we love you!

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Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby girl:

Our family would be lonely without you. (I'd say less crazy too, but who are we kidding, Tyler is the crazy king)

What a Week!

This is a little late in posting, but man, when you see everything we did, you'll know why! Be prepared for a zoo of pictures and videos. First off, and most importantly, it was Tyler's first birthday on the 19th! He got tons of presents (thank you so much everyone!) and too much cake, of course. We had Uncle Patrick and soon-to-be Aunt Michelle over to make it a party!

Wearing his new pajamas and checking out his walker. Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa Eatough!

This cat is one of the winners from Tyler's presents so far, and the reason why is that it makes a loud, obnoxious meowing sound, and Tyler loves it. Thanks, Kendy.

Helping Daddy build his walker.

Uncle Patrick and Michelle. Isn't she cute? We love her already.

Then, on Friday, we went to our ward's Halloween party, and Tyler dressed up as a monkey. He didn't mind it too much, but I think he wanted to carry it around more than he wanted to wear it. I dressed up as a mouse, and Tyler was quite enamoured of the tail.

All our friends in costume.

Tyler got a hold of someone's light saber at the party, and it was pretty much amazing. McKay thinks he looks like an Ewok in this picture.


Saturday was my birthday, and McKay took me to Tucano's, an amazing Brazilian restaurant, and then he had the waiters sing to me in Portugese. I smile a lot and cover my mouth when I'm embarrassed, so see if you can tell in this movie.

That's all for now. Whew!