Bella Marie Turns 1!

It's hard being the center of attention!  I'm sure we will capture a picture of the opposite at Ellie's birthday in a week.  Happy Birthday Bella.

Our dear friends Aline and Colin welcomed their baby girl Bella into the world on 9/23/11.  When we met her a few days after, she stole our hearts.  A couple weeks later Ellie arrived to play.  Those two girls are so darn cute together and have shared lots of fun times like baby yoga, holidays, birthdays, and hitting a bunch of milestones. Ellie was always trying to catch up to her "older" BFF Bella :)

Last week we drove up to Cape Cod to celebrate Bella's first birthday!  We left around 5:45 am to get through the City traffic before it got too bad.  With two quick pit stops I think we made itto the Cape in 6.5 hours...not too bad really. While we were there we were able to spend a couple days with the Pieroways, which is always a good time.  We took the kids to the Capron Zoo and Chucky Cheese (which I didn't know was still around), had lots of laughs and got to catch up with everyone.

Ellie hanging with the boys: William and Owen

Riding like a big girl!

Looking at the kangaroos

These two are birthday buddies.   I think Ellie loves him....look at that face!

On Friday night we stayed with our friends Dave and Lisa and went out for our favorite....Sushi!  It had been a while since we had good sushi so that was a must.  Then we spent the rest of the weekend at the Cape Wind Resort and at Bella's house for the party.  Everything was perfect.  The decorations were beautiful, food was fantastic, and the girls were just so cute.  I mean, really, how adorable is that tu-tu?!?!

Thank you Ryans for having us up.  Of course we'd never miss Bella's first birthday.  Love that sweet girl!!!!