Baby Charlee turns 1!!

Last weekend we went up north to visit my cousin's to celebrate the birth of an upcoming baby into the world and our beautiful God daughter's 1st birthday. We awoke bright and early Saturday morning, loaded up the car and piled in for the 3 hour drive up past Fresno. We stopped for breakfast and continued on. With a little black and white trouble for other members of the party, we made it in one piece. Organized our gift for the baby shower and got cleaned up for party #1 of the weekend. My aunt and uncle had invited all of their friends over to their house for tacos, margaritas, and family. My all time favorite past time. We got caught up with all the cousins, made some new memories and celebrated the upcoming birth of my newest cousin, slated to arrive in spring Maggie Rose.

Sunday, we all awoke and got ready for the birthday party. 5 people, 1 bathroom. That was an interesting adventure. Poor Darin was cast to my grandparents room so he could get ready in peace. We ate breakfast and then made our way over to help with the party. 20 years ago, my cousins Nick, Anthony, Matt, Brianne and I all took a photo on a rock in their backyard. Considering that all of our cousin's were not in attendance I still felt like we needed to retake the photo anyways and then take another photo with the new cousins as well, Darin, Amy and Auburn. We ate great spaghetti and then present time! While the guest of honor had absolutely no interest in anything but eating, my cousin took the honor of opening the gifts. He insisted in reading every poem in every card out loud. Charlee got an amazing amount of stuff, which will happen when over 50 people show up! After it was cake smashing time! Charlee got her very own Belle cake and smushed it to smithereens.

It was a wonderful weekend full of family and fun! My favorite kind of weekend. Please enjoy the photos! :-)