Claire's 1st Birthday Party

We had Claire's first birthday party on January 3rd.  We had a fun time with family celebrating our girl's first year!!  

Smash cake...

We also had yummy pizza from Papa John's!  

This isn't the best picture, but we printed out and hung up her monthly pictures from her first year.  We actually left these up for about 2 weeks because I liked looking at them so much!  

Present time!  

She was very interested in the paper.  :)

I just loved her expression in the picture below.  Don't you just want to eat her up?!

Her big sisters and cousin Jacob were very big helpers in opening her presents.  

They also loved pushing her all over the house in her new car!  The new car has been a big hit (for all the kiddos)!  

Watts family photo!  

Carrie snapped the picture below when we weren't looking but I liked it because Bert and I were just looking at our babies.  These three bring us so much joy and we are so thankful to be their parents.  

Claire really enjoyed her first time eating cake!  At first, she just stuck a finger in the cake and then inspected the icing.  She was pretty serious through out the entire process.:)  

And then she grabbed a handful and inspected that...

At this point she had destroyed half the cake and still hadn't put one bit of it even close to her mouth. 

So I decided I would help her out....

She was a fan!  Look at her eye brows in the picture below....she had that mouth opened WIDE!  Trying to get a big bite!!:)  

After an outfit change, she got to have some real food (healthier food) and some play time with her Daddy!  

Group photo of Claire's party!  

Claire, we all love you so much!!  We had so much fun celebrating the gift that you are to our family!!