Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Avery's 1st Birthday Weekend

We had a busy weekend celebrating Avery's 1st birthday and hosting family who came to take part in the festivities...Avery's Grandma Woods (Colleen's mom) flew in from New Hampshire.  Avery's Grandma Ball (Jim's mom), Grandpa Ball (Jim's stepdad), and Uncle Adam (Jim's brother) flew in from Missouri.

Avery's actual birthday was Saturday May 14th.  The party was on Sunday so we could do a 1-year photo shoot on UNC's campus on Saturday mid-day.  Once we get photos back from the photographer we will post them online.  We had some great shots of Avery; some great family shots with Jim, Colleen, and Avery; and some great ones of Avery, Colleen, and Colleen's mom (3 generations of ladies).

After we did the photography session, we walked along Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill to get lunch

We ate at our favorite place there, Carolina Coffee House.
Despite the name, it is a neat pub-style restaurant with a good beer selection!

Later that night we went to Goodberry's, a local chain of ice cream stands that sells frozen custard.  Turns out we went the next 3 nights in a row too, Jim's mom loves Goodberry's!

Avery really enjoyed her Grandma Woods feeding her some too, it probably helped numb her teething gums..

The next day of the party we started the day by setting up decorations






Then Avery looked out the window seeing how would be the first to arrive!

Including us, we had 29 people for the party.

We grilled up 4 types of burgers (Beef, burgers, turkey burgers, veggie burgers, and mahi burgers).  We went through all 28 of them!  We also had homemade pesto pasta (Colleen made the pesto from the basil in our herb garden), homemade white-bean salad, and veggies.  We made cup-cakes for dessert.

After we all ate, Avery sat down in her high chair for singing of Happy Birthday.

She clapped when we were all done!

Then she ate the whole cupcake by herself:


Afterwards she opened presents, all the kids there helped her open them up!  She loved all the attention






We can't believe our little girl is now over 1 year old.  The first year has gone so fast!!!

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