Uxue's First Birthday!

Happy Birthday Uxue!
Zorionak Uxue!
Felicidades Uxue!

After lots of back and forth, and almost backing out entirely because I was sick, I made a Chocolate Buttermilk Cake with Vanilla Cream Frosting! Warning (this is for you Betsy...) it was a 'granola' cake. Not a lot of sugar, butter, etc and it had whole grain flour and other healthy things in it! But no fear, it was actually really tasty!

Gorka and I requested no gifts since she's only a year old and doesn't really get it anyway. She did, however, get some gifts when we arrived to Vitoria since Gorka's family doesn't see her everyday. Maybe it was they're way of getting around the no birthday presents thing.

Ft Wayne/Thanksgiving

Uxue and I went to Fort Wayne for Thanksgiving and had a great trip. The flights went surprisingly uneventful! Going she crawled up and down the aisles and coming back she slept the entire flight! Chicago is a good airport to have a long layover with kids as they have a great play area. We spent 2 hours there! Jet-lag on the way back to Belgium was definitely the hardest part... although I always struggle with that.