Paige's first birthday!

After work on Thursday, I picked up Piper from her grandparent's. There have been some suspicions lately that she may be in heat and I was planning on taking her to the vet Friday to be spayed and micro-chipped. Isn't she cute?

On Saturday morning, we picked up our pooch from the vet. She was definitely more chill than her usual hyper self! After dropping her back off at Esther and Perry's we were on our way to Newnan. There we met up with Aileen, Ryan, and Blake to carpool up to Marietta for Paige's first BIRTHDAY!

We had so much to be thankful for and celebrate on 11/5/11! Paige is such a blessing to all of us, and it thrills me to know that we'll be able to celebrate many more birthdays with her thanks to a very special organ donor family!

The Birthday Girl and her dad, goofing around:

Kellye is a master at scrap-booking, and she made all this adorable timeline of Paige's eventful year!

The cake was lovely, and of course decorated in LSU colors!

Time for cake!

Paige got a little scared when her mom tried to protect her hands from the candle's flame while they waited on me to snap pictures. Unfortunately, she wasn't in the mood for cake after that!

Eventually she became a little more interested.

Aileen (with Baby Swartz #3 due in 6 days), Blake, and Ryan:

Harrison and Ryan having way too much fun:

Cousin buddies:

This photo makes me laugh every time: