Marta's 1st Birthday

Marta turned one last Tuesday, but since Royce and I were sick we didn't get a chance to celebrate her birthday until today. It was pretty low-key. She kind of opened presents, and then we sang her happy birthday, Emmaline blew out the candle and we had cake. Pretty easy and fun! 

 This is the only picture I got with one of her presents, but she was really excited when she saw this book from Aunty Lea and Uncle Mike. 

Yeah, she was not interested in eating cake at all. I thought we had gotten her all excited about cake, and she would even kind of repeat the word cake back to us, but when the time came I don't think she even had one bite. She's definitely Royce's child.   

Here's her finished cake. I thought I was choosing a simple design when I made it so it would be easy, but it was still more time consuming than I was planning. 

Have I mentioned lately how much I love my Cricut Cake? And fondant. This is Emmaline's 2nd birthday cake, before I got into fondant. I really don't have any kind of talent with buttercream. We have fought and it has won. (Look at her chubby, cute little face.)

What's the point of going out? We're just going to wind up back here anyway.

 Emmaline decided she wanted to make a "hot air balloon." There's a boy and girl squinky on the platform. (She wanted to make one after we told her the story about Royce's roomate proposing from a hot air balloon.)

 Blackberries! (Marta loves them by the way.)

 Emmaline making Valentines' Day cookies. She did most of it by herself.

 Marta brings us a cup when she wants a drink of water. I think that means we don't give her water often enough.

Few Updates

 Marta with Daddy's portable hard drive. He left it on the table a little too close to her crib. I went to get her from her nap and found her like this,

 Emmaline and Daddy having "creative play time" (cough...Dungeons and Dragons...cough cough) with Daddy's toys. (For the record, Royce doesn't play D&D)

 Marta loves this elephant!!

 ...and chicken noodle soup.

 Emmaline wanted to make a cake by herself, so we got her a cake mix and she did! I helped her take the pan in and out of the oven, and put the bowl on the mixing stand, and she did the rest.

 Daddy coming home from a late night meeting at Church, getting mauled by the girls.

At the Houston Temple.