Sadie's first birthday party.

I thought I should probably start blogging about her first party before I have to start planning her second one. Growing up my mom always threw such great birthday parties for us and I thought it would be a lot of fun to throw one for my own little one. It was a lot of fun. We went with a mexican/duck theme. We had mexican music that you might find in an authentic mexican restraunt, horchata (not sure anyone appreciated it as much as us), pin the mustache on the mexican duck, duck pinata, and nachos.

waiting for our guests to arrive Sadie and all her buds. I told Mark I wanted a pinata for the party, so Mark made this duck pinata all by himself, from scratch. Sadie's first word besides mama and dada was duck. She loves ducks, so it was only appropriate that he made her a duck pinata. Well, she became quite attached to the duck. in the morning she would come downstairs and right away would want to go see her duck that daddy made her. This is what happened...Sadie wondering why we are tying a rope around her duck's neck. Not quite sure why mommy is making her hit her friend duck with a baseball bat. wanting poor duck to come back down to her where it is safe. ...and then the mayhem begins: brutal beatings of poor duck and then his poor guts splatter all over the floor. Sadie was shocked that her friends would kill her duck whom she had grown so fond of, shocked that they would laugh and smile in excitement of seeing her guts spewn across the floor, shocked that her parents would allow such cruelty. The result... A fragile, heartbroken Sadie. Truly have we never seen her this upset. She would scream and then look at me and then scream and so on and so on. What a tender heart she has. R.I.P Duck Present time! Sadie loves babies and was very excited about her new baby stroller. What a little mamma. Not quite sure how to go about eating this cake.