Junia's strawberry party

In June, we finally got to celebrate Junia's 1st birthday with a strawberry party in our backyard. 🍓🍓 It was the kids' first time playing with their cousins since January, and everyone was overjoyed! We piled our plates high with hot dogs, barbecue chips, and strawberries, then later vanilla bean cake and ice cream. Junia was over the moon to have people over, lick the dairy-free frosting off her cake, and unwrap a few gifts. Oh, pretty girl, you are loved. 💕

Strawberry lemonade, and fresh strawberries that we picked the day before!

There went the cake to the ground!

She opened up a sweet board book, a baby doll, and a ball - perfect gifts for a one-year-old!

xo

Rachel

Junia is ONE!

Our sweet girl turned ONE on May 4th!

Happy 1st Birthday to our sweet Junia!! 🌻 This past year with her has been nothing short of a treasure. Though I've shed some tears over this milestone, we had a great quarantine celebration, and I'm so happy to spend my days with her. 🎉🎉

She ended this cake celebration
with marshmallow cream in her hair,
and red raspberries smashed on her romper.
More than the cake,
I think she enjoyed the attention,
and "singing" along to her own
happy birthday song
underneath her birthday tree -
a young crabapple 
that blooms with tiny white flowers

just in time for May fourth. 🌼🌼

12 month photos

I made a collage with Junia's month photos, and it's so fun to look back on all of her looks throughout this first year! I think one of the biggest changes is how much her hair lightened from the dark brown to blonde!

I said to Steve today, "Can you believe we've taken 48 month photos?" It hasn't been easy (getting babies to pose!) - but I will definitely treasure them!

xo

Rachel