september 20... eleanor turns one

a year... an entire year.wow, it seems so strange that our eleanor is one! she was so cute on her birthday! john took both thursday and friday off to celebrate eleanor's "birthday week". i've never been one for just "birthdays" in my opion it needs to be "birthday week". right when she woke up john and i sang happy birthday to her and she thought she was SOO cool. (i'd been singing happy birthday to her all week prepping her for her big debut). right after her birthday we jumped in the car and headed down to magleby's fresh for some breakfast, or should i say suryp (i go there just for the suryp). after breakfast we took eleanor to the photobooth to get her photos done. i'm a HUGE fan of photobooth photos and have been trying to get her to one at least once a month. i was a little disappointed in the quality, but they were still cute. i plan on taking all my kids photobooth photos on their birthdays.

after the photobooth we headed to old navy to pick up an outfit for eleanor's birthday party and to let her see that dang dog in the store. for some reason eleanor is a HUGE animal fan. john and i wonder where she got it from because we both don't care too much for animals. after old navy john had to take her to petsmart to go see the animals. i know, its kind of lame, but it made her day. we looked at every animal and ALMOST bought a bird. we are still thinking about it.

the rest of the day john and eleanor hung out together and i headed up to school. i wanted to stay home, but i had my first critique and could not miss it. i felt a little guilty not being with eleanor, but she and john and a good time playing. after school i went to the airport to pick up sara. she came into town to shoot some bridals and we were lucky to have her for eleanor's birthday party. my next post will include many great photos sara took of our trip to the zoo and eleanor's birthday party. she did an amazing job!!