The Merriman Tales: Birthday Week (Part 1 of 2)!

We celebrated Mallory's birthday last week and had the family over for the festivities. For the most part, everything went well. First off, the weather could not have been better....it was sunny, warm, and not a cloud in the sky. For the first half of the party, we had a little trouble getting Mallory to warm up to the crowd :) To give you a little history, last year she woke up right from her nap with everyone already at the house so it was a little overwhelming for her but she got over it pretty quick. This time around, we decided to wake her up before people showed up so she was more awake and it didn't go quite as well as we expected. After several attempts to get her outside, she asked us if she could take a nap upstairs (even though she had already slept for 2 hours earlier)....so we went up to her room, put her down, and she slept for about an hour. During the nap, everyone was enjoying the food and hanging out in the yard. Once we brought her back downstairs, it took a little bit of coaxing but she eventually came out and joined the party. We had a great time and Mallory received some wonderful gifts from everyone!