New Year’s Baby

Our baby turned one which I cannot believe, the past year went so fast! We are so thankful William is in our family, he is such a sweet little thing.

I have to be honest though, a New Year’s Eve birthday is hard. If William had given us a chance, we would never have chosen this time of year for a birthday but since he didn’t, we have to find some way to make it special.

We failed this year, William’s birthday was an unmitigated disaster. Both Brandon and I were exhausted from the holidays by the time New Year’s Eve rolled around. We had a series of unfortunate circumstances that occurred including a cake failure.

The cake was supposed to look like this:

But ended up looking like this:

By the time this happened I was done and declared a do-over and that we would be celebrating William’s birthday on New Year’s day instead. Luckily he’s one and doesn’t know the difference.

We did have a sweet end to the day, a tender mercy. We have a couple missionary in our ward who dropped off a cupcake for William’s birthday that allowed us to light a candle, sing Happy Birthday and let our prescious little boy stuff his face with chocolate cake.

New Year’s Day was much better and we were able to celebrate in a much better way. After we got home from church we opened Baby William’s birthday presents.

William loved opening presents!

He had an interesting technique, though.

We ended the day by eating my disastrous cake. It might of looked disgusting but the combination of chocolate and salted caramel was delicious!

And William loved it!

So maybe William’s 1st birthday didn’t go exactly as planned but it ended okay. And luckily we have a couple of years to figure our how to balance the holidays with his birthday.

My William continues to be a surprise and delight! It is hard for me to see him grow up and become a toddler because he is my baby. But I know that as he grows he will continue to surprise me, make me laugh and bring joy to my life and that is a future I very much look forward to.

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