Birthday Pictures

My friend Amy took these photos of Izzy's birthday party...

Izzy turns 1!

Now that the craziness of school is done and Izzy's first birthday party has come and gone, I feel like I can get back to the world of blogging!

Izzy turned one on June 24th. I still can't believe my baby girl is turning into a toddler...where is the pause button? She is full of life! Her personality is shining more and more. Most times she is happy, giggly and always shaking her booty (video coming soon)! Occasionally, we see this two headed monster come out of her. She will have a split personality...one minute happy, the next being sassy. Oh boy, are we in trouble! Izzy has eight teeth now! Four up top and four below. Her weight is in the 50% (20 lbs. 12 oz.), 75% in height (30in). No walking yet for our boo girl. She will occasionally take 2-4 steps and then figure crawling is faster. She is in NO RUSH to walk! I'm okay with that too, although it would be nice to go to a park and have her explore by walking instead of being toted around by mom.

For Izzy's birthday, the boys, Justin and I went to the Old Spaghetti Factory. Izzy got her own plate of spaghetti and went to town. Surprisingly she wasn't as messy as I anticipated. She also had her first taste of spumoni and loved it!

Here is the video of Izzy's Spaghetti Feed.

For her big 1st celebration, we had her party at our house. Her first experience with the cake was awesome! I really can't describe it, you have to see the video. I'll post the cake video and pictures of her party soon.

For now, here are pictures of her first year...

Grandma Donna's Birthday

We had the family over to celebrate Justin's mom's birthday yesterday. The weather couldn't have been better. All of the Donna's children were present and all but one grandchild was also there to celebrate. Happy Birthday Donna! Grandma Donna, Gianna (4), Izzy (10mo.), Tyson (13), Isaiah (9)Family hanging out in the front lawn.Daddy and his little girl.Izzy LOVED the "airplane" ride!Mouth full of teeth...

Gianna, Tyson, and Isaiah had so much fun chasing each other and of course tackling one another! I love Sundays like this!

Winter/Spring in pictures...

Izzy meet her Great Grandpa Larson a couple of weeks ago. Grandpa and Margaret travel a ton and spend 6months of the year in Ireland, so it was a real treat to spend some time with them. Of course Izzy captured both great grandparents. I loved seeing my grandpa interact with Izzy. There's little glimpse of my dad there. I wish he was here to see Izzy. He would have been so in love with her. I bet my dad is her guardian angel. XO dad.

My dad's sister, Aunt Michele and Izzy.

Izzy, Chloe and the mommas.

Carter loves Isaiah! It is so cute. He kept going up to Isaiah and Isaiah would carry him around. Little buddies!

Auntie Megs and Chopper

Cousin Trey with Uncle Justin at Tyson's game.

First time at the pool.


Naked time...
Greenlake

First time at the Aquarium on Valentine's day.

Izzy, Westyn, and Makena during the Super Bowl game.

Buddy Makena! Makena is one day older than Izzy.

First flowers from a boy! Harper was so sweet to bring these over for Izzy. Of course the went right into the mouth!

Easter...

Easter was pretty quiet for us this year. The boys were with their mom. When we woke up, Izzy found her Easter basket and we coaxed her into pulling everything out of it. Of course she liked the tags on everything the best. Later in the afternoon Justin, Izzy, and I went to our friend's parent's house in Sammamish. Every year they have all of their family over for a huge Easter Event. There was tons of delicious food. All the men hid the Easter eggs for the hunt. The children ranged from 7 months to 12 years. Of course we did the hunt with Izzy. We helped her find three eggs...then tossed them back for the other children after our photo op! After that, we came home and had a quiet night. The Jacobsen'sIt was so cold! Glad we had our little fuzzy zippy to wear for the hunt!