Somebody is One!

We had Claire's very 1st birthday party in the church cultural hall - too cold outside and my house is too small. It was fun and we are so grateful to everyone who could come and celebrate with us!

The cake - and yes, I am proud of it. Especially the red color of the barn. You had to be here, but red is a HARD color to make out of icing. Two and a half tubes of gel icing color it was the perfect shade of barn red. And if you ate some...so were your teeth

The food. Too much. I was so full

The birthday throne

The guests - the best part

Dad and Claire

Mom and Claire - please excuse the planet on the side of my face. Apparently I am 13 all over again.

What's that?

Hmmm - pretty good

Isnt someone going to take this away from me?

I love you mom - but I love cake more

The final product - I didnt think past the chair part. We ended up bathing her in the church sink....with no towel. Such a great mom I know

Happy birthday Claire Bear. We love you so much.

Zermatt

About once every2 months, we get to go up to Midway to the Zermatt Resort and Spa for Nu Skin Ruby Trips. Recent events in my life (aka birth of a child) allowed me to take a year off, but now that I am back at work, we went again and I took Claire up with her Grama Crowther. While I worked, she got to go to the pool with the family. I am so glad she loves water. I grew up in the water and so I am so happy that she will get to enjoy that as well

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If any one needs date ideas, the Zermatt has some pretty cool ice castles. Some guy made these crazy contraptions from PVC piping and water. If you are in the area adn get a chance to go, you should. They are incredible...but go soon because once it warms up, these beauties will be gone.

California

We got to go to California for the 2010 Kick Off Meetings. Marcy came and watched Claire and got a few hours in as well. It was a blast.

She got to lounge by the pool with Miss Marcy, learned to play a Grand piano and made sassy faces at every one we passed

Lounging by the pool

We got to see my cousin Crystal as well. We've been great friends since we were little girls and Im so glad we got to play!  

Thanks for watching Claire, Marcy. She sure is lucky to have you

Claire was a gem. She travels really well. We love her to pieces and cant wait to take her to the REAL Disneyland when she is old enough to remember.