Ezra's Birthday Party and Vollmer Farm

Saturday we went to Avery's friend Ezra's first birthday party!

Ezra's mom Jessica is good friends with Colleen.  Jessica did a good job decorating and creating a neat theme for the party.  They used the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle for the theme.

When we arrived Ezra had just woken up from a nap and was a little groggy, but was dressed up very handsomely and looked really cute!

Avery enjoyed looking through Ezra's first-year photo books with Colleen before we ate and opened presents.  She calls Ezra "Rah-Rah" and kept pointing at each picture and saying "Rah-Rah, Rah-Rah, Rah-Rah!"

 After we ate they let the kids open a pinata.  Well, not a real pinata but one where the kids pull the strings to open it up

 And instead of candy they used crackers, goldfish, etc:

Jessica made the whole thing herself, good job!

Ezra liked digging into the cake

And Avery liked digging into her cupcake!

Immediately after the party we drove out to Vollmer Farm for their "Christmas at Vollmer Farm" outing.  We've went to Vollmer Farm in the summer to pick blackberries and blueberries, and in the fall went to their big Halloween/autumn festival.

This was the first year they had this before Christmas.  They had horse-drawn carriage rides

And we rode a train around the farm

Avery loved playing in the corn box

And of course she got to meet Santa!  She was really excited in line, pointing out his hat, boots, etc.  But when it was time to sit on his lap, you can see she really wanted to stay with mommy!

With her Binky in she calmed enough to get a quick photo (with a tear in her eye still!)

We all pretended to be Frosty:

She was all dressed up for the holidays and looked really pretty out on the farm!