We had a great time celebrating Elanors 1st birthday this past weekend. Her actual bday was the day after Thanksgiving, which we enjoyed by getting our Christmas tree and decorating the house. We had a simple party at our house that Sunday with family. A few people ended up not getting to make it, so we had lots of leftover food and dessert. We all had a fun afternoon celebrating our sweet girl turning 1. She and Sarah both loved having their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and a cousin come over for a visit.
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We 4 Ringls with our birthday girl

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I love this sweet girl!

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Showing off her skills

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Food was simple. We grilled and had chips, apple slices and cheerios. For dessert I decided to try something new.
I love the taste and texture of cupcakes, but the liners drive me crazy bc I feel like they’re so messy & crumbly. Thank you pinterest for solving my ridiculous avoidance of delicious cupcake goodness. Enter the cake-filled cone. Conecake?! Cupconecake?! I don’t know, all that is certain is they were delicious! Although Stephen mentioned they would have been even better with chocolate in the bottom.

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Elanors Cupcake

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I made a special plate for all our birthdays

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Love them!
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I also made a gallery/kids art wall in the kitchen. I look forward to Elanor having her pieces hanging on the wall with Sarah’s :)

(thank you for the encouragement card Aunt Vicci, it meant SO much)
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Sarah & Aunt Kelley

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Little Addison had fun too!

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Uncle Stephen loves holding cute babies

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pre-cupcake snaking on cheerios

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Sisters: We think so alike we both braided our hair.

That, or we are both too tired and busy with kiddos to blow dry our hair most mornings
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Stephen cried and it made Addison upset, so she joined in too ;)

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Sarah made this face after she discovered that I ate her lunch (which I thought she was done with).
(In case you didn’t know mom lunches are usually their kids leftovers)

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Sarah was more than willing to teach/help Elanor open her birthday gifts

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Cupcake Time!

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One of Sarah’s MANY desserts. I found 3 or 4 cones with just the icing licked off. Silly kid.

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Sisters

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The chocolate icing was a HUGE hit!

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She was the ideal 1st birthday cake eater. Made a delicious mess in her hair, ears, nose and all through her fingers.

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Gooey sprinkled fingers

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the remains

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Uncle Jason

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Ri & Jeff

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with Papaw & Nana

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Ringl Fam

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Aunt Ri

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Why play with the toy when you can play IN it?!

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Sarah telling Grandma an important story

Grandma & Grandpa came later that day after mom got back in town

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the girls have not stopped playing in the ball pit they brought

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We had a wonderful day with our sweet girls. In another 3 months we will be celebrating Sarah turning 3 and then I know I’ll blink and Ella will be 2!
We live a crazy beautiful life.
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