Hanna's 1 year pictures

For any interested, Steph Stewart did Hanna's 1 year pictures last weekend. I was really fortunate to get her to do them again as she now lives in SK!

Here is the link to her blog. Just click on the link.

http://smurkxphotos.blogspot.ca/2012/09/hanna-is-one.html

I have my first Usborne Books trade show tomorrow so it's off to bed I go. Not to mention...Shawn's first full day with Hanna.

Night all!

Hanna's bday party #2

So I just couldn't go without having a bday party for Hanna without having her little friends over. There are so many wonderful families here in town and Hanna is so fortunate to have so many around her. We had so much fun. Ready for photo overload again....?

Nutella, peanut butter, or almond butter option...with a bit of granola and banana in a wrap

 Lots of fresh veggies and fruit...with Keaston and Annette Kneesh. Keaston calls Hanna...Hanna Banana. Goes well with the monkey theme. :)

 Kai Larson (Dave and Tanis Larson)...he just turned one at the end of July.

Munro Pearman

 and his sister and mom. Molly and Isley Pearman

 Front entrance goodies (take home pencil and stamp)

 Bella Quigley...climbing (might I add she is a couple months younger than Hanna)

 Ok kids, lets all get a picture...jump in the pool

 I have way more pictures of this event because I love seeing the succession of what the kid end up doing.

 Cupcake time...why on earth didn't I get the bib on her before I gave her the cupcake?

 Ummm...yah.

 Messy but yummy.

 Opening the presents.

 with a little help from our friends.

Sock monkey from our friend Jessica and a doll stroller from our friend Keaston.

Hanna is ready to ride...except for one thing

We are so excited to try out our new bike seat that Aunty and Uncle bought for Hanna for her birthday. I attached it tonight with a wee bit of help from my husband. We put Hanna in it and Shawn went up the block and back with her. Lo and behold....she loved it. Apparently she giggled when Shawn sped up.

But...we don't have a bike helmet. Of course with it being the end of season, the places I have looked are sold out. So alas...I went online and shopped good ol' Amazon. But now we have to wait...because it would really suck if we tipped and poor Hanna banged her noggin'

Night all!

Sigh...

Some videos to entertain you...

Hanna's favourite toy...the phone. The real one. I totally get why 9-1-1 calls get sent in by babies.

Hanna entertains us after her bath.

Babbling Hanna.

Hanna's Birthday - Yay!

 The birthday cake in the making. The first step was making sure it all came out of the pan in one piece and baked to perfection. Step 1 complete.

 I made up the icing the night before. I cheated and bought 1 can of cream buttercream icing so I didn't have to make so much home made. I also bought the black "candy pen" to do the outline of the eyes and face as well as the eye balls.  I needed so little that it wasn't worth trying to add food colouring to get black. As you can see I started with the face (following the instructions step by step)

 Once I got on a roll, it was easy to do all the little brown rose bud thingy's on the top. I added a little orange to make it more feminine.

 Last, I filled in the feet and hands with rosebuds.

 For the finishing touches, I did a vine around the cake with pink rose buds and added some pink roses buds on the collar of the monkey.

 And last I decided to outline the rest of the face in black.

 Hanna did so good while I was decorating. First she had a big nap and then she had her lunch and played all over the kitchen floor while I finished.

 Goofy girl. She figured out how to climb under and over the dining room chairs.

 My last project of the day was to decorate the cookies. I used mom's brown sugar roll out cookie recipe  that is so tasty. I figured out its the brown sugar combined with almond flavouring that makes these cookies so tasty and different from other sugar cookies. I made the brown icing. I bought pink cookie icing but was very disappointed in that because I didn't know you had to warm up the icing. So the pink didn't set and it was runny.

 The morning of Hanna's party...bath with Daddy.

 Hanna wakes up to SURPRISE! A house full of people.

 Hanna's 2 uncles looking intelligent. Along with her Daddy.

 Table is set...just waiting for the sausages off the bbq.

 Sarah and Hanna.

 It was a perfect day...it threatened to shower at lunch time but it waited until we were done.

 The dessert.

 My favourite course.

Hanna shows some love to her bday monkey.

 Hanna tentatively dips her fingers in the icing.

 Am I going to get in trouble for this mom?

 "Happy Birthday to you!..."

 How about we take our dirty fingers and wipe it on the white tablecloth?

 A little help from a cousin to blow out the candle.

 Yum yum!

 Robyn points out the monkey cookies.

 The kids are ready for their cake.

 Mmmm...more.

 Uncle Graham comes after a service call.

 Hanna REALLY enjoys the cake.

 Teija shows off her Lega tower that is supposed to have a resemblance to Hanna....hmmm..

 Robyn dives into her cake.

 Hanna and her cousin Jaimen.

 My brothers lying around.

 ....while Mom in law works.

 Gpa Pihrag comes Saturday night and leaves Sunday evening. Farmers can't be away from the harvest for very long.

But we are very thankful that they could come for a little bit.

Hanna shows off all her funny faces. What's up top? 2 teeth coming in.

Hello? Hello??? Blah blah blah...

Last but not least, we enjoy a bit of shopping at Cross Iron Mills on Monday. Hanna gets ecstatic every time she sees my wallet. So here she is digging through it.

Thanks everyone for coming and for gifts and cards that were sent. We sure appreciate it. We had a fun time.