memories of "firsts" on the first....part 5

a few weeks ago, we celebrated our niece blakeley's FIRST birthday.

i can't believe she is already a year old!  i still remember the FIRST time i held her on the night she was born.

blakeley's birthday party was the FIRST in a laundry list of june parties.

when we FIRST arrived, libbi was a little shy....

but she soon warmed up.

laney was thrilled to be at her FIRST party - she's obviously the social butterfly of the family ;-)

laney got to meet mawmaw for the FIRST time....

and was not the FIRST person to wonder if she was actually angela landsbury. ;)

we attempted to take the FIRST (of many) picture of the girls together....

when it was time for blakeley to open her presents, at FIRST libbi wasn't all that interested... until she saw that there was more involved than just clothes.

Then she was the FIRST to volunteer to "help" blakeley open the rest.

libbi was thrilled to see blakeley get the same chair she received for her FIRST birthday last year.

 i know blakeley's mom and dad were thrilled that libbi was the FIRST one to show blakeley how to use it. :)

when it was time for cake, libbi was the FIRST one in line.

cake is definitely one of the major food groups as far as she is concerned.

there's nothing like hearing friends and family sing, "happy birthday" for the FIRST time to a sweet one year old that we all love dearly!

Happy FIRST birthday blakeley grace.  we hope you're the FIRST of many little johnson babies (*hint*hint* justin and mandie - haha!) ;-)

To see more memories of firsts on the first, click HERE.

Happy July 1st, friends!