My very talented cousin Sarah is doing a giveway for her watches. So go to her blog and look at her wonderful watches and how you could win one (but I hope you don't and I do!)

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Look at that cake, the longer the night went on the less and less frosting was on it, the cake wasn't eaten it was just the frosting, and we finally figured out what was happening.

Can you tell which one is really asleep and which one is faking it?

Nessa is no longer eating baby food. She is a big girl and feeds herself, even her cereal in the morning.

Look at those blue eyes! You have to love them!

At Nessa's party she was so lucky to have so many of her Grandma's there.

Grandma and Grandpa Arnell playing with her and giving her lots of kisses.

Grandma Atkinson letting her do whatever she wanted (which is wonderful and a Grandma's right)!

Here is our 4 generation picture. It is not the best, but we are proud of it!

And would a 1st birthday party be complete without a bath in the sink to get all the cake off!

This is what happens when you get Rhett and Taylor together. You see they have a very special relationship, they love to pick on each other and the older Taylor gets the more Rhett wins instead of letting her win. And then these pictures are what happens when you give Rhett the camera and say take pictures of everything that is going on at Nessa's birthday party.

If you can't tell this is Grandpa trying to push Logan's face in Nessa's cake since he was getting frosting off of it.

It's Birthday Cake time! We had the traditional 2 cakes for Nessa and they both here chocolate. Rhett and my Dad got out voted on the big cake. I make and decorated both of them. Grandma Atkinson also made homemade ice cream for her. We had the ladybug cake and it wasn't suppose to be that color but it was the only color I had that wasn't rock hard. It has been a long time since I decorated any cakes.

Nessa's was of course a CAT. For those of you that don't know everything and I mean everything to Nessa is a cat. Why just today she called me a cat, usually I am Mom and Rhett is Cat-Dad, but we are working on it.

Grandpa Atkinson tells everyone that if you want to become Nessa's friend all you have to do is give her chocolate. I think he might be on to something there.

I think she did pretty good all by herself!

Right after we had our family pictures taken we decided to have a birthday party for Nessa. That way there would be more family members there and less that would have to travel. I made her the shirt with the big 1 on it and I also made her the tutu and she didn't like it too much but it sure was cute!

She got lots of great toys and some great clothes too. She was set we didn't need to have Christmas for her, but we did.

While we were all in Evanston we decided since we had promised my Mom family pictures almost 2 years ago that we would do it for her. Kristi Lester came with her girls and they did a wonderful job. Taylor and Tanessa

We tried to get one of the entire family on the front porch but the sun was to bright and all Kristi could do was get us.

The 7 grandkids

Grandma and Tanessa

The grandkids and grandparents

The boys

All of us

The girls.