Hannah's 1st Birthday/Housewarming Party

With Hannah's birthday just days after we moved into our new home and anticipating a house-warming party in the foreseeable future, we decided to combine the two by postponing Hannah's 1st birthday bash by a month.

After scrambling to get the house all unpacked but no attempt made to fill all the empty room, the party was held on Saturday, October 4. 

Of course no party is complete without the Miller/Morrow clan. The Minnesota gang came in two days prior to help get things ready (and do some pre-party partying). So here are some pics from the few days prior.

Helping open your gifts is what cousins are for, right?

Hannah loves her Papa.

Party Day!

Special thanks to Maria and Dana!

Learned Paint.NET and the difference a chalkboard pen can make.  

I steal all my ideas from Pinterest.

Babies and babies and more babies! Keep em' coming!

Ofalia Rose and Hannah Rose with their mommies.

Grill master on his new grill.

Three gens

Sisters

With my Ignite girls!

Grammy & grandpa with the three grandchildren for the first time!

Let's really get this party started.

You'll get it on your own next time.

Always so good at sharing.

Hannah couldn't decide who she loved more, Steve or Jonny.

Hannah's very own classic Radio Flyer (for now)!

Rides with Hunter

The new parents!

What are you kids getting into? Oh, it's just root beer.

BFF's

Christmas Card Photo Option #1

Christmas Card Photo Option #2

We had such a great time celebrating Hannah and sharing our new home. And the rain held off just long enough for most to finish their meal inside or out! Seth and I decided however, we never want do this again. Never want and never will though, are two different things.

Happy 1st Hannah!

Happy 1st birthday Hannah Rose! I can't believe it's been a year since your birth last Labor Day. To celebrate, I took the day off to hang out together just us.

We had a morning photo shoot.

I let you play with screw drivers.

We took a nice walk and another photo shoot. (There was play in between too.)

And when Daddy got home to assist , we had a final month-by-month photo shoot.

After dinner, we headed over to Downtown Naperville to enjoy frozen yogurt and presents.

At one, you have taken your first steps and are quite the talker. Your (English) vocab includes hi, bye-bye, ball, dog, duck, dada, mama, and baby. 

We love you so much and look forward another year!

Goodbye to Nanny Gladys

Since we are moving from our "home" at Seth's parents into our new home in Lisle today, we had to say goodbye to our sweet nanny, Gladys.

Over the last six months, Gladys has been watching Hannah along with Emma, four months younger than Hannah and the daughter of some friends of ours. She has been such a sweet blessing to us. Not only has she cared for Hannah in our home most of the time, she has cared for Hannah as if she were her own.

Vamos a echar de menos!

11 Months

Each month, taking these pictures just gets harder and harder. Cue toy.

Eleven days of Hannah's eleventh month I was traveling for work in Germany. I hated being away, but was thankful for the ability to see/talk to my baby over Skype. Another eight days of this month was spent in South Carolina. See previous post for more on that!