Ivan's 1st Birthday

WOW! Ivan is already 1 year old!!!! This past year flew by, I can't believe it! Ivan's 1st birthday was spent at home with the 4 of us. He's not really big into lots of noise or groups of people, I thought he would be happier having his party like this. We had fun & I believe he did too, he didn't know exactly what was going on but went along with it anyway.

1 Year Old!


1st taste of the cake.



It may look like he had more than one bite, but don't be fooled, that's just the 1st bite that he spit out all over his mouth! However, he did end up being fed chocolate icecream by Juliana, we know he likes that.


Ivan, & plenty of help, opening his gifts.


Ivan's b-day morning started out early, at 6:30am, for big sister Juliana's soccer game. (Just what he was hoping for, loud cheering fans & cold temperatures outside. LOL!)

Trick-Or-Treat

This year for Halloween Juliana was a (very cute) witch & Ivan wore a Halloween themed orange outfit. We went trick-or-treating with MiMi in her neighborhood and had lots of fun. There was a lot of people home to hand out candy & there was quite a few "haunted" garages, which Juliana was a little freightened to enter. I believe it was MiMi's 1st time trick-or-treating in many years, since we were kids. Juliana loaded up on candy & Ivan enjoyed the stroll.



Juliana posing at the "Haunted Graveyard" after leaving the "Haunted Garage", can you tell she's a bit shaken up???


Juliana & Kendall's yearly tradition of carving a pumpkin a few nights before Halloween. It's more like Juliana picks out the design & waits for Kendall to finish the hard work.



Kendall & Juliana's finished pumpkin.



Juliana allowed me to carve a pumpkin with her this year. She got a big kick about me being grossed out when I had to pull out all the slimy stuff from the inside of the pumpkin! (She had told me ahead of time that I was going to have to do that b/c she knew that was why I never wanted to get in on carving w/them. Lol)