Clayton giving Aurora a Lift

Clayton loves giving Aurora rides on his tricycle.  Aurora will climb up all by herself. They have a lot of fun! (Please excuse the fact that my children are in diapers and basically nothing else.)

Aurora's First Birthday

 We can't believe that our baby girl is one! This year has gone by so quickly and she is already growing up too fast. 

Aurora already has throwing a tantrum down!

 For Aurora's birthday cake Tia decided to try her hand at piping chocolate. She made butterflies! They turned out wonderfully! We could not have been happier with the results.

She even made an A for the birthday girls cupcake.

The children had fun posing in front of the gifts. 

Mom and dad with our BIG girl...

Our friends Marji, Auntie (Grandma to my kids), Mayra and her husband joined us for the festivities! The big kids all loved playing with the party hats.

Clayton helped Aurora open her presents. She loves her baby dolls, stroller and... especially the bottles. Thank you Mayra, Marji and Auntie for the gifts. Tia also made Aurora the FIRST afghan that she has ever made for Aurora's baby doll and the SECOND one she ever made for Aurora. Aurora loves them.

She did not really attack her cake. She ate very little of it. But we still think she had fun.

Tia worked hard on making decorations for Aurora's party. She made green and pink poof balls and made a custom Happy Birthday sign.

Clayton and Aurora walking her new baby dolls.

Aurora playing with her afghans that Tia made.

Happy Birthday Aurora!
We look forward to spending so many more with you!
We love you!

Elmo Visits Okinawa

Elmo came to Okinawa! Clayton was ecstatic to meet Elmo and see him!

We went with our friends Amber and Thomas! It was such a nice day and the children had a blast!

Clayton and Thomas enjoyed jumping off of the rocks while we were waiting to go inside to see Elmo.

These next pictures are a few favorites. Clayton was making a wish... He found it on his own and we were lucky enough to get the pictures.

Clayton was excited for the Elmo show to start! They gave each child one of these light up spinning Elmo toys.