On the day you turned one. . .

For your first birthday, we decided to do a little family vacation, just the three of us.  So far in your life we've had to share you for every holiday or milestone or special event so we decided that we wanted you all to ourselves for your 1st birthday!  Daddy has been wanting to go see the dinosaur stuff in Vernal (3 hours away) for a while so we decided to go there for an overnighter.   We left the day before your birthday.

We stayed in a little Bed & Breakfast.  Any time we came back to the room, you would go sit by the door wanting to go play in the hallway!

We spent a lot of time outside in the shade playing on the lawn.



We went to a play place with inflatable houses and slides because I thought you would have fun there.  I was wrong!  You didn't want to have anything to do with it!  We did get a couple smiles out of you on the big slide.

You spent most of the trip with your tongue sticking out like this because your second bottom tooth was coming through.

Bedtime bath.  Such a different swaddle of blankets than the one we brought home from the hospital a year ago!

The next morning, on your birthday, we decided to go walk around the grounds of the Vernal Temple.

Sitting in an arch outside the doorway.  After this we went to a "history of Vernal" museum but unfortunately I don't have any pictures from that.

Morning nap - since you can't sleep when other people are in the room, we had to put your bassinet in the closet to give you the illusion of privacy.  It BARELY fit, but you slept great!

After your nap we went to the Dinosaur Museum!  This is you sitting on a sauropod femur.

Checking out the allosaurus.

Woolly mammoth!

Standing under the long-neck!

Run away!

It was SO HOT outside so we didn't look at the outside dinosaurs for long.

After the museum we went to Norma's diner for lunch.  As usual, you refused to just sit nicely in your seat.

You liked the french fries, and you liked sharing.

After that we drove home and went out to get you a vanilla ice cream cone as a birthday treat - your first taste of ice cream.  This was your reaction!  So Mommy ate it instead.

It finally occurred to us to take a family pic on your birthday.  This was the best we could do on the spur-of-the-moment while waiting at the restaurant for dinner.

Maybe your favorite part of your birthday - bath time!  You escaped the bathroom all nakie while Daddy was draining the tub!