Happy Birthday...Happy Halloween!

Lorelai had her 1st birthday on Halloween! The weekend before we were able to go visit the family in Arizona and celebrate her birthday with them. Most of our immediate family was able to be there and we were so happy to be able to spend this time with them.

We had her favorite dinner at the party: Spaghetti and Meatballs along with lasagna, salad and breadsticks. Thanks to both of our wonderful mothers for all their help on this!

Lorelai's favorite part was definitely opening presents!

With the help of my mom and my sister we constructed a princess castle cake for Lorelai's princess party, it turned out a little bigger than I expected, but it was exactly what I had imagined for her! It looked great!

She never really dug into the cake, she had a little help on that, mostly she was pretty dainty about it, but she enjoyed it!



Grandpa House didn't make it to her party, but had a surprise waiting for her at his house when we went to see him!

Since Lorelai's birthday is also Halloween we dressed her up as a birthday cake, Preston went as a slice of pizza. We went to our ward's trunk or treat and Lorelai had fun walking around collecting candy and showing off her costume, she didn't want to stop!

After the trunk or treat we went home and opened up a few more presents she had waiting for her and then let her dig into another little cake.

She had a little more fun with it this time and made a way bigger mess!

It's hard to believe our little Lorelai is already 1, she had been such a blessing in our home! She always has a smile and brings joy to everyone she meets, thanks again to everyone who helped make her birthday special!