They Say It's Your Birthday...

Well, in true Tom and Heidi fashion we have misplaced our camera and therefore cannot upload Amelia's birthday pictures. However, our friend Alli came over and took some great pictures SO we can share those!

Someone was pretty excited about birthday balloons.

With her two favorite people (other than Mommy :)): Aunt Becky & Grammie

She got a new bike... and clearly loves it...

More pictures to come!

Coconut Macaroons for Tom...

Tuesday was Tom's birthday and I decided to for the first time ever try to make his favorite cookies - coconut macaroons - that his grandmother used to make for him and that his sister now makes for him.

As you can see it took some work and I never really got it just right...but I'm working on it...

Attempt one. Macaroon Blobs.

Attempt 2 - much better.

The final product. He tells me they tasted great.... I think he was just being nice :)

The food

For Zoë's party I pulled out all the stops and did some fun and fantastic cooking. Here are the highlights:

Table #1

Salad on a stick - very yummy. Tomato, mozzarella, basil from our garden, and french bread.

Table #2

Close up of my bruschetta - reminds me of my days in Rome!

Check out that cake!!!!! Amelia picked it out and has decided she wants the same one for her birthday next year.

Mommy - Baby pictures

Our Mommy - baby picture tradition continues with Zoe!

July 14, 2010

July 14, 2011

It has been a wonderful year with our Zoe-bear and we love her so much and can't imagine our family without her.

A birthday sampling

I will post more, but Zoë had a fun birthday and so did we!


Who doesn't love birthday cake?!

Daddy and his girls

Our beautiful girls.

Sidenote: I woke up on Z's b-day and our camera had broken. I knew we couldn't miss her first birthday pictures, so I treated myself to a Canon Power Shot - aren't these pictures beautiful? I think so! :)

They say it's your birthday...

It's hard to believe, but a year ago today we were getting ready to meet our Zoë-bear...

...we drove Amelia & Yoda to Grammie's house. It seemed that every time I had a contraction Tom took a fast and wide turn and I groaned at him :)

I smiled while Tom took this picture...I started having a contraction while he took it and it felt like it took him FOREVER..

But it was all worth it in the end! :)

More pictures to come!

Birthday Traditions

When Amelia turned 1 I thought it would be fun to come up with some traditions that we as a family did on birthdays... it was the coming up with ideas that was tough. I asked around - not many people had many ideas except that they liked my idea; I googled "birthday traditions" and got some interesting hits...not appropriate for a child's birthday... So, over time I've come up with a few and think that this year I've hit on some that will actually work.

Tradition One is to have a picture of Mommy with her baby on every birthday. This has been fun and I'm glad we started it...

Tradition Two is for the birthday girl to open a new outfit in the morning that she can wear to school that day. In this case, the birthday girl's sister got a matching outfit - I think that could be a fun tradition for the sister, too, to have something to open...but it probably won't be matching as they get older :)



Tradition Three: I came up with this one in the car and I really don't know how but I am pretty excited about it. The idea is that on their birthdays, each girl will need to do something nice to honor someone who is important to them in their life. Obviously right now I do the picking - so this year I picked Amelia's teachers. My friend Jill taught me how to make these cute and easy bags and I baked some goodies and stuck them inside and included a nice card.

Amelia "helped" me and was pretty excited about it. She picked which teacher got which color and was pretty indignant about it...




I worked hard with my sewing machine...only needed to rip seams 4-5 times...


The finished product -- each had their own "issues" but overall it was fun and the thought that counts, right?