Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!!!

Can you believe our little Aimee is ONE, because I can't. The poor girl has had ear infections that wont go away for the entire month of April. Three antibiotics later, I think its finally getting rid of them. Today's the first day I can get something done without holding her. YAY! for this mom and little girl! On her birthday she seemed to feeling fairly decent, so we'll take that over some of her harder days. With her being so miserable, we didn't invite anyone over but did our own little family party.

We started with a birthday photo shoot in the yard. Look at me, I love to wave! When she gets tired she'll wave at me trying to tell me to put her in the bed.

 As sisters...

 we have a...

 

 Love/Hate relationship. ;) 

 I'm one tall, skinny Minnie. Just like my dad!

 I'm starting to get a little hair. I have a blonder version than my sister.

 Now its nap time at 5:00 pm.

 Mom decided to decorate the cake.

 No judging... I'm a beginner. Like the first one ever all by myself.

 Decorations were hung :)

 The big moment!

 Eating chocolate cake... Aimee's favorite food is anything chocolate.

 Her favorite gift was the Birthday Card made by MaKatie.

 Did I get spoiled or what?

 Enjoying her presents from extended family. 

 Oh, I suck on this toy better than I've ever sucked on a binkie. Silly girl!

Because my nap didn't start until 5:00, I got to stay up and watch a movie with my mom and dad for their stay at home date. It must be my birthday or something? Or am I just spoiled? 

My Dancing Queen

Last fall I put MaKatie in a dance class. She was born two weeks too late to go to school with the other kids her age, so I thought dance since she can't go to preschool. It was just a little social outing for her in the beginning. Well, I have become a full blown dance mom now... competition and all. Would I have ever guessed that I would enjoy being a dance mom... NO! But I do. I love seeing my little big girl do something she loves and progress. When we started... I thought, "What am I wasting my money on! She is so uncoordinated like her mama."  But with an awesome dance teacher, she has improved tons! They preformed at football and basketball half times to practice in front of a crowd. The first time she wouldn't even dance. Then basketball season hit and they would dance for two games in a night. She would look around for the first and dance away for the second game. Now she dances for them all. Competition was held at the USU basketball stadium, and the size of it or amount of people there never bothered her.

Ready for first day of dance

Here's a collection of pictures from the dance season...

Waiting for half time so the team can dance 

Dancing at half time

Waiting for Drill Review to start. Her team was invited by the high school drill team to come to their drill review.

Dancing at the Drill Review to "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" off of Frozen

Drill Review- Mashed Potato Dance (Land of a 1000 Dances) 

Waiting for our turn to dance. Randolph Cheer and Dance Co. was given the bathrooms above the stadium for their dressing room. MaKatie was always running off to watch the other dances. I had wondered about not doing dance next year, but "we have us a dancer!" (as her dad says) She loves to dance! So we will let her continue to dance. It has been so fun to watch her grow and develop over the year.

Mashed potato dance at competition

Shake those hips girl!

Waiting to go on for  their "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" dance

Headed out to perform! Yay!!!