Ella's First Birthday Party!

We had a great little party for Ella last week.  I never had time during residency to plan fun parties or to do anything creative, for that matter, so it was a lot of fun to do this.  Thanks so much to my mom and dad who helped so much in putting things together in the weeks before, and to Larry and Nancy who helped set up and clean up!  Oh, and a word about the bounce house--I had gotten a deal on a small one, which I figured would be great for the 7 older kids (ages 3-7).  The lady from the rental company called me the night before to ask if she could upgrade us for free, as they needed the small one for another function.  Of course, I had no problem with that...until they unloaded this ginormous Disney Princess 5-in-1 bounce house into our yard!  It actually turned out that the kids had a blast on it, though.