Time to Par-tay!

 Today was Miriam's FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY!  It was, in a word, Amazing.  Beautiful day, fantastic friends, bubbles, barbecue, cake, sangria...amazing. To say Miriam enjoyed herself is an understatement. She didn't understand they were there for her, although when it came time to sing "Happy Birthday" she noticed everyone was looking at her and gave a face as if to say.."ummm what's going on here?".  By the end of the party she was covered in baked beans, frosting, dirt, and lord knows what else...definitely a 2 bath kinda day.

Just an amazing day.

Beyond blessed and thankful to our Flagstaff family for sharing today with us.  Miriam is surrounded by love, friendship, and protection from all of her adopted Flagstaff grammies, mommies, and cousins.  Truly blessed.

Oh, and this is just the beginning.  Her actual birthday is Tuesday.  We are planning a blueberry breakfast, pool, park, & family dinner and presents.  Looking forward to a week of celebrating our baby girl's major milestone.  We all survived, I may even say we thrived, in our first year of life, motherhood, fatherhood, parenthood.  We are forever changed by our little Miriam Rose, and would not have it any other way.