July is forever birthday month over in our neck of the woods. We have Isla and Lester's on the 18th, and then Bear's on the 31st. Then, when you add in the extended family you also have Hillary and Eli's, who also happened to be here this month for a huge family reunion we had happening. To say that it has been fun [as well as a healthy dose of chaotic-something we specialise in with our family haha!] would be an understatement. Still, I personally feel like its important to make each and every child feel special and valued individually-and what better day way to focus on that then celebrating their bdays, even if its small?

For months, Isla has been saying she wanted a 'Coco' bday. She loves with her whole heart, and when she saw that movie, she decided once and for all that it spoke to her. She endlessly sings in the most heartfelt off key amazingly beautiful little voice of hers all the songs from the movie, and every night after I kiss her goodnight or we read scriptures she tells me she has 'a proud corazon.' So, even though they don't exactly have party ware for that and we had a million other things going on, we made do and did our best to give her what she wanted.

I picked up some papel picado to hang in the back yard, made her a chocolate strawberry layer cake just like she wanted [I soaked each later to make it a little play on tres leches too haha-but it had to be chocolate, bc she is a die hard 'team chocolate' forever.], got her a tiny pinata to go along with her presents, and played the soundtrack. All the family who was here helped it feel like a little fiesta, and she was in heaven. Typically, she struggles when she is on the spot, but this time, she loved being the centre of attention and I loved every second of seeing her beaming. Then a few days later we got spoiled with hair cuts and mani pedis and lunch w Lolo and Lola.

All in all, it was adorable and she gave me the proudest corazon in the whole world, just like she has every day since she was born.






And as far as my bday boy/man goes, we went out for dim sum and some shopping with his family, which is exactly what he wanted so he didn't have to be the centre of attention haha. To each their own I suppose. I feel like every day is our birthday bc of how lucky we are to call him our guy.

And with that, I will end this post, with the promise of a post about said reunion and the related visits, and of course, about our Bear boy's 1st birthday. Life is grand!