Happy Birthday to India!!

I can hardly believe that it has been a year since this little girl made her way into our lives. I can't imagine life without her. I have been so sad these past couple of days realizing that she is not a baby anymore and this ends a very precious chapter in my life. And yet I have so much to be thankful for this past year. I have loved every aspect of it. I hope that as we move into the toddler years with India, that we will be able to say the same. Good luck with that, right?! So far she is already climbing the stairs every chance she gets. I took her to the doctors today. She is officially 20 pounds so no more infant seat. So sad.

We had planned her party for months. We decided to have a birthday benefit for the orphanage in Bangalore India that our friend started 10 years ago. WE are hoping to go visit in a year. We had indian food, decorated indian and dressed indian. We also had a slide show of our India what was so sweet. I will post it if I figure out how. Does anyone know how to post a power point link?


Here is my dad holding India. She stayed awake the entire time and loved all the food. She ate an entire plate of sag paneer!!




We had a table set up for people to write letters/draw pictures for India at different ages. Thanks Brix's for the idea. If anyone wants to do this, let me know because we have a few ages left.

Some of our friends tried Indian food for the first time and I also made elephant sandwiches for the less daring.



The cake was so amazing. Jahaira made it all. Even the elephant and little girls are edible. It was tasty too. Thanks Jahaira!







My aunt connie came up for the event. We all loved having her here. We hope she visits again:)


We had a craft table for everyone to make paper mache/collage type things to take home. Not sure what to call it, but there were some really beautiful projects that people did.
All in all, it was a good turn out other than a few people getting lost trying to get to camden NJ (sorry ya'll), and a good friend being in the hospital during the whole thing:( But we raised some money and even a few people are planning to "adopt" (sponsor) a child from the orphanage. We sponsor a girl Alexa's age and it has blessed us so much. I hope more people will catch the vision for it. They are such amazing children. If anyone is interested in hearing more, let me know.