Nylah's 1st Birthday

January brought with it Nylah's first birthday celebration. I still can't believe that she is already a year old...especially when I look down at my belly and see baby #2 quickly making her mark. Life is speeding by these days.

In order to honour our little girl's first milestone we decided to invite many of our friends and local family to a nice little park near our place. With a jungle gym, public toilets, picnic tables and plenty of shade, we figured it the perfect venue to host our 70 some odd guests (yes, Nylah had more people come to her birthday party than Doug and mine combined). Our only concern was the weather. Typically Melbourne in January is very hot with little rain (it can sometimes hit 40+ degrees here in the summer.) As the day of the party approached however, it seemed that the first bit of rain in 10 days was going to be right smack in the middle of Nylah's party. In fact up until an hour before the party was due to start we were debating calling everyone to transfer the event to our place instead.

We took the leap however, and our faith was rewarded with a gorgeous, breezy and dry afternoon which everyone enjoyed. The afternoon was perfect, and the first drops of rain didn't start until we were loading the cars and heading home !! All in all a wonderful first birthday for Nylah Grace.

A very special thank you goes out to Pip who came in from Sydney to share Nylah's special day.

Here is a little photo slideshow from Nylah's big day....