Happy Birthday Sweet Pierson Layne!!!!

My oh my, how time has flown by! Our precious little Pierson is one today. As all other mom's know, this day brings both joy and sadness. I am so happy to see what she has become in just one short year and all that she will be in the future, but sadnened that my baby is officially not a baby anymore. What an amazing and truly blessed year this has been! SO many things have changed in just one short year, it is so hard to remember what our life was like before our precious daughter arrived. Over the past year, she has gone from the newborn sleep to 4 naps then 3 then 2 and now almost to 1. She has gone from waking every 2-3 hours to nurse to sleeping a full 11.5 hours every night, from only taking short 30 minute naps to 1.5-2 hour naps. She has gone from lying there completely helpless to feeding herself and walking around on her own, from just being able to cry to "talking" non-stop, saying mama and dada, amongst other baby words :), from a tiny 6lbs. 11oz. to a whopping 24 lbs, from a cute gummy grin to a mouth full of 8 teeth and  from a sweet little cuddly baby to my now wonderful, amazing, sweet little, all over the place toddler. Just writing the word toddler makes me tear up. God gave Ryan and I one of our most treasured blessings a year ago today and we are so grateful that He has given us the honor of being Pierson's mommy and daddy. Here are a few pictures from when our little baby made her debut!

Hard to believe these were taken a year ago!

To celebrate today, she started her day off with a trip to Starbucks (she loves to people watch there), ran a quick errand with mom, took a nice morning nap, had some of her favorite foods for lunch (berries, cheese, bananas and milk), went for a long jog/walk with mom, played with her birthday toys and took a really short afternoon nap. She happily greeted her daddy when he came home and we headed out for our family outing to celebrate! She got to ride in her new car seat facing the FRONT!

She didn't know what was going on! We went to one of her (mom) favorite dinner places, Ninfa's.

She chowed down on some tortillas, avocados and beans.

Finished it off with the perfect dessert for a birthday girl with a little mesican in her :) She was quite tired though since she didn't take a good nap, so we will have to really try to sopapilla another time. She got to celebrate with mom's side of the family this past weekend  and she is looking forward to celebrating with her friends this weekend! Party pictures are to follow very soon!!!