All the goodies 
Balloons from Aunt Rebecca
This is her cake that I made - chocolate cake with vanilla icing in the middle and strawberry icing on top. I made 2 round cakes and layered them and then cut out the flower shape.
Natali kept wanting me to wipe her fingers off after she got icing on them. : ) So funny. Needless to say, she didn't just dive into her "Smash cake". But I cut her a piece and then she got a little more interested.
She even tried some and liked it!
It was a lot of fun. The smash cake was bought by Aunt Becky.
Aunt Barbara (my dad's sister) got Natali some fairy wings and so we tried them on Natali. Unfortunately she started crying so we had to take them off pretty quick.
First things first...... Natali took her first step today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After some of the people left, I had her walking with me but towards Rebecca and she got really excited and on the way let go of my hands and kept going to Rebecca! It happened so fast we were like.. "Did she just take a step?" So we tried it again and sure enough, she did the same thing. We all cheered and clapped for her. Then she got happy and started laughing too. I have a video of her another time so I will try to get that on here tomorrow. So much to write about and so many pictures and things to share.
I might have more pictures later because some were taken on other people's cameras. We had 17 people here including our family!! It was maybe a little much for Natali at first, but she had fun and we did too. We started with cake and ice cream, then presents, and having some fun. Natali got lots of cool gifts! Some clothes, sandals, toys, and a really cool car thing from Aunt Jenny and Uncle Christian (I will have to put a picture up on here - it is so cool!) Natali got pretty sleepy but did okay and was a trooper through it all.
It has been a crazy first year of parenthood and we have learned and experienced many things since Natali was born (including the birth). : 0 ) Won't ever forget that. But anyways. We had a wonderful day today and look forward to what the next year will bring to our family.
