Tuff's 1st Birthday

           At the end of two years ago, in November, our little brother Tuffy was born! He has been growing a lot, and he just recently turned one!

 When Mama was pregnant with Tuff, we called him Baby Bear. So for his 1st birthday, we threw him a bear party!

This is the Tuffy kissing picture. We take a kissing picture of each of us on our birthdays. 

 He really liked it, especially the cake. He ate more of it then the rest of us did when we turned one (He actually got past the frosting!). Above is before... below is after.

Tuff also liked his presents, although I don't think that he payed attention to the gifts themselves, as much as how they were wrapped! He liked the concept of ripping tissue paper and wrapping paper apart. After a while though, the opening of presents got just a tad bit boring.

The game that we played was kind of like a scavenger hunt! First you had to choose a partner and decide who was Mama bear and who was Papa bear. The game was, you had lost your babies (gummy bears) and had to find them, but first you needed to find a plastic bug and a bag of Knot's berry farm cookies for food and then carry them to an adult. Jasper and Gracie won.

This is Chuggy carrying her cookies in her mouth, and below is the great migration of bears.

This is our group photo, and below are some cute pictures of Tuffin Muffin before his birthday.

We love our Tuffy, and hope that his next year of living on this world is as good as his first one!

Moving

This year, unlike any other year that I have been alive, we moved. Moving is a complicated process where you move to a different house. We moved because our old house only had two bedrooms and there are eight (soon to be nine) people in our family! We still miss our old house, though the new house is awesome! It is on the lake, like the other house, but it has five bedrooms and a basement! I did not like the process of moving, we had to spend a few nights in sleeping bags, but it was worth it.  I like the new house except for the fact that I can no longer say that '' I was born right here'', like I could say in the old house, where I was born on the kitchen floor in the hallway. We all love it and it will continue to be our home for hopefully a very long time.