Riley's 1st Birthday Party

Riley's 1st Birthday Party was quite the event!

Lots of friends and family gathered at Jeff & Melissa's to celebrate

on Saturday April 11th.

Though it is technically spring, it was still really cold

so we enjoyed the festivities inside.

Here's Riley in her 1st birthday dress that Grammy bought her, though you can't see the detail on the dress here because her custom bib is on top. It has Riley's name and the date of her first birthday on there. Doesn't she look beautiful?!

Grammy & Pepere with the Birthday Girl
Grammy's Girl

Auntie Jen

Mom & Dad

This was a special present from Grammy, a charm bracelet she had especially made that can be added onto each year. This year's charm was a cupcake with a "1."

Riley is one sweet girl, but her smile is most aptly described as illusive! It was so hard to capture the great mood she was in, but here are a few that show how much fun she was having being the center of attention.

There you can see the dress :)

And the cutest party hat ever!

These two crack me up. Melissa was blowing bubbles for the "kids" on the mat.

This is the "Riley Face" right now. I swear she was having fun, but ever since her Daddy taught her this face it seems to keep reappearing.

This is great! All the kids having a ball {yes, even Jeff, as you can tell}

Though I think Oisin might be the most mature of the bunch because he seems to think they're all looking pretty darn foolish ;)
Riley & Oisin ----Sharing

This is just one of MANY MANY kisses between the kids on Saturday.

It was quite the kissing-fest, to be honest. Almost all of which was open-mouthed and sloppy.

Not sure Willy was quite expecting so much saliva, but I think he got used to it.

Then there was an interesting dynamic when Willy and Oisin would alternatively get jealous when Riley was after the other. This could get dramatic in another 16 years or so...

Willy & Riley



Then it was time for presents. Riley got so many nice gifts, and had quite a good time opening them. This is a picture of her opening her gift from me.

Reading one of her new books.

And what's a birthday without a cake? Or two!

Happy Birthday TO YOU!

We even got Grammy (Riley's Great-Grammy) on speakerphone (while she was at the pool in Florida) to sing with us!!

What IS this thing?!

Hmm.. guess I'll try it.

I don't think she really enjoyed the cake at all... but that's ok. Daddy will eat anything...

And Oisin was at the ready to catch ANYTHING Riley might drop.

He did manage a few bites.

And then the day started winding down... Riley and Willy sat with Auntie Krissy and Auntie Megg to read some of Riley's new books.

After an afternoon of fun and games, I headed out with Krissy and Willy (sending Dan home to recuperate from all the fun) and helped them run some errands before we hit the second party of the day, this one in honor of birthday boy Dave Dauphinee! We had a great time hanging out with friends and watching BU win the hockey championship before stumbling home exhausted around 11p :)

Thanks for a great weekend everyone!