The house is still a complete disaster from the tower of presents, plastic cups, chairs all over the house, etc etc etc. But, I at least got the dishes (mostly) done today! And I did get the presents sorted into an Essie pile and an Ivy pile…although, all three of them sort of ran over the piles after I was finished, so now they’re more like scattered blobs. T. is away on a job for a few days, and I have three jewelry shows this weekend, so my goal is definitely to have the mess cleaned up in the next couple of days. We’ll see.

On a side note, I got a lot of my brand new jewelry samples today from the 2010-11 collection!! It was like Christmas!

Here are a few more pictures from the big birthday party. I have a video of my dear, 30-year-old husband going on the slip and slide, but the darn thing is taking forever to upload.You may see it in the future, however, if I can figure out how to get it here. Suffice it to say, he is bigger than your average 5-year-old slip and slider, but enjoyed it just as much (until the next day, when he could barely move).

This is the tower of presents. I know it’s just material, but it seems as if my girls are loved!

My three with Grandma Funk

It was chaos! Pure chaos.

The cakes!

Baby especially loved the sprinkles.

And she somehow got frosting from her head to her toes.

My little princess.

First birthday cake bath! Before the frosting was washed off of baby’s face…

And after. She’s clean!