Happy Birthday Mabel Jane!

I can't believe our little Mabel is 1 year old already. I know it is so cliche, but it does seem like yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital; she has brought and continues to bring so much love and joy to our family. This first picture is really blurry, but it shows Mabel's personality so much. She loves to love! She gives the best hugs and kisses ever, and her favorite person to give them to is her big sister! She also has the most beautiful smile, although it doesn't show up in pictures very often, getting her to smile for the camera is tricky.
(The pics are not in order, but you get the idea.)
We celebrated Mabel's birthday on Saturday and she loved it.

Birthday Princess on her thrown.

Mmmm. . . chocolate.

Mabel loves baby dolls!

Rora helped me make Mabel's cake. Rora loved that it had purple and pink polka dots and that it was chocolate, I think Mabel liked it too.

We love Mabel so much!!!

Catch up. . .

Mabel's first Popsicle; she loved it.

Here are a few somewhat random pictures, in no particular order, to finish up Christmas 2010 and New Years.

Rora taking a picture of herself.

Mabel snuggling up to uncle Tim.

The girls in their Christmas dresses in Oregon.

We thought we would set up the camera on auto and try to take a family photo. It only took about 97 tries to get everyone looking at the camera and happy.
These first few are of when Aurora found out that her dress was ripped; she was very upset about it.

Mabel is so sweet, always concerned about her sister's emotions.

We finally got a pretty good one.