our first birthday!

well, we managed to have their birthday party in the middle of all the madness of the holidays! and i've come up with a couple of reasons why it's a great day to be born:  they'll always be on break, the celebration goes on for twice as long, and everyone will hopefully be around because they'll be on break, too!!  it was a great time, i got a lot of help from bryan's family (life-savers!), and the boys had a great time.  i have to get used to calling them boys, and not babies... :(

i didn't want to necessarily do a theme, but i didn't want it to be like, hey everyone, come over for cheese and crackers...  bryan had the great idea of doing pairs of things, in honor of our two babes: so we did apples/oranges, cheese/crackers, chips/salsa, peas/carrots, peanut butter/jelly, and chocolate/milk.  it turned out so great, and i made two cakes for all to enjoy: a chocolate with buttercream, and a yellow cake with chocolate frosting.  yummy.  somehow, we didn't get any pictures of those.  probably because we were too busy watching the babies boys devour their cupcakes.  they loved them, showing everyone in a matter of two seconds their personalities: liam dove in hands first and loved every bit, finn was a little more cautious, but once he tasted the chocolate, he was hooked.

it was such a great day, yummy food, good people - enjoy the pictures!

my worker bees, lisa and michelle

the spread

tissue paper poms, handmade martha stewart style

liam, digging in

finn eventually loved the heck out of his cupcake

opening a lot of great gifts

so many fun things

giant yoda dolls from uncle sean :)

and i'm happy to say that i didn't get emotional once, i didn't feel sorry for myself, and i didn't feel guilty.  i think i was too busy celebrating these great boys to think about it. yay for letting go.