The Pictures You Have All Been Waiting For........

A wonderful friend of ours came over to take some family pictures of us since my brother was going to be visiting and we have not had a family picture all together since the oldest grandkid was born.. He than stayed for the whole party, snapping away to document Cora's first birthday...

Thank You *** for everything you did.

Now on with the pictures :D
Me and my Sis - aka: Mimi
Aunt Bethie, Me, Cora, Brit (auntie brit) and Mimi
Papa Heter, Gabe, Uncle Bret, Papa Gray and Uncle Bill
Georgia, Seth, Kenna, Cora, Elijah and Emma

Cora's brother and cousins helped her out by opening her gifts with her (for her:D). She had fun watching their excitment

No idea what we are looking at
Yea, a water baby

Since my family has started celebrating birthdays once a month Cora got to share her birthday with Uncle Bret. They were both very excited.... As you can see Uncle Bret got a gun. Yup, only in Idaho :D

I couldnt pass on the perfect photo op. Again, only in Idaho.

Aunt Bethie definitely got her talent for cake making from her mother (Nana). She made this perfect doll cake for Cora - Thanks Aunt Bethie, you are incredible and we love you.

All of us singing "Happy Birthday" to Cora the Heter Way!!!! That's right... The Heter Way - Loud And Incredibly Off Key. I thought she was going to loose it there for a minute (oh great she's just like her mother.... lets get off track for a minute - for the first, let's say 6 birthdays everytime my family/friends would sing happy birthday to me i started crying... i'm not sure why my parents continued to do this to me year after year, but they did) anyways, she didnt loose it , she started to "sing" right along with us - good for you girl...

Cora trying to figure out what to do... if you look closely you can tell the doll is missing an arm, and if you look even closer you can tell that the arm is in Cora's mouth... More pictures of that coming up in another post :D

As if a choclate cake with fondant frosting wasent messy enough, lets give her a piece of the choclate cake with the fabulous cream cheese frosting - oh and add a tierra.Yup, that's what you get

I think the doll got messier than the birthday girlAfter a good clean up in the sink (which no one got a picture of :( ) It was time to play with the baby and the cute cradle from Mimi

Out cold from all the excitment of friends, family, food, gifts and yummy cake (s).

Thank you all who were apart of Cora's first birthday, and to all of you who wished our sweet girl a happy birthday. We love you all ♥