Pre-Christmas Celebration
One of the final destinations on our recent road trip was easily the most enjoyable as we attended a family celebration, which was also a milestone for one young lady.
Last December, we spent a couple of weeks before Christmas in Lancaster, PA, anticipating the arrival of the newest family member. This year, we were happy to return and reunite for her 1st birthday.
We visited with heron her actual mid-December birthday, a day ahead of the big celebration. Like any doting self-respecting grandparents, we brought gifts. But, like most young children she happily played with the wrapping paper and boxes first.
She happily greeted everyone and, while she's not yet mobile, she had lots of help from family and friends.
Balloons and cake are "must-haves" at a birthday party. At this one, there were two cakes: one for guests and a small one just for granddaugther who soon dug into her cake with much encouragement from the birthday guests, especially the younger ones. We were told this is called a "smash" cake and created especially for this purpose.
She may not actually have eaten much, she wore it quite well and all over too. This was a first for us. Did any of your family members celebrate with a first cake this way? Her face, hands, nose and even her chair didn't escape a coating of the pink and white frosting.
After a clean-up and change of clothes, it was time for gift opening with lots of help from mom.
Grandpa Grenville modeled a Christmas gift from Lilliana who seemed to enjoy seeing it or maybe she was laughing at grandpa?
We're finally back home in NH as of this week and have spent the past few days putting up a small tree and other holiday decorations to celebrate at home for the first time in several years. There's a lot more catching up to do over the next few days. THANKS to everyone for your blog friendship (and comments).
Best Wishes to you & yours for a blessed and very Merry 🎄Christmas from us and our special friend. (We put in a lot of good words for all of you.)
11 comments:
It seems to be a wonderful celebration of birthday and Christmas. Merry Christmas to all of you.
Merry Christmas!!
Totally enjoyed all the pictures of your little sweetheart. Love the selfie too :)
i am so happy that the first birthday of this adorable angle made the pleasures of christmas double .
most CUTEST post of the year :)
I loved her smiles and moves particularly her blending with cake lol, so lovely , thank you for sharing the delightful glimpse of your celebrations dear
wishing you and your precious family a happy and wonderful christmas my friend!
you and your hubby's smiling sweet faces show the love of family so far
Your granddaughter is adorable and I loved the photographs of her. I bet her first year has flown by. I am probably a bit late in wishing you a Merry Christmas, but better late than never.
Many precious adorable photos here, i think my favorite is the wearing of the cake and those big beautiful eyes she has
What a fabulous birthday party. Love the photos, they make me giggle. Hope you had a nice Christmas and have a Happy New Year.
That is so wonderful that you got to see that granddaughter. We were about a year before we saw our second grandson. We couldn't get out to see them and our son's wife wasn't so keen in making a visit. At Thanksgiving the finally did come for a couple of days. He is one and a half and really would not know us at all. We made up on some time with him and even though we could have been just the old people who visit daycare, he did warm up to us and made his grandparents happy. You Granddaughter is so sweet.
This is the sweetest post ever. What a doll baby your granddaughter is. I never heard of smash cakes until about 5 years ago. They seem to be quite the thing these days. Hoping you have the best new year ever.
Big bright blue eyes.
She has such wonderful expressions! At that age they don't really know what's going on at Christmas.
Adorable photos of Lilliana--so cute.
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