A Very Olivia Birthday Party!

Since Ty and Bailey’s birth­days are about a month apart (March 14 and April 18) this year we just decided to do one joint fam­ily party some­where in between the two of them.  So, the first week­end in April, we had our “fam­ily” party.  Since Tyson was going to be hav­ing a sep­a­rate kid party closer to his birth­day, I decided to have a more girly theme to this one for Bai­ley.  Since we still have a major Olivia the Pig obses­sion in our house, and Bai­ley had a per­fect white and black polka dot dress I bought back in August for this event, I fig­ured that would be the per­fect choice!

Inspired by this blog post, I got rolling!  My first project was of course the feather boa wreath for the light in the kitchen.  It was SUPER easy to make.  You can find the instruc­tions here.  Mine didn’t turn out as fancy, but still cute nonetheless!

Now it was onto the food.  The party was at 1 pm, so I just wanted to have a bunch of apps and fin­ger foods.  I’ve been look­ing for a rea­son to make Bakerella’s Cake Pops for some time now and since Olivia is all about all things red, decided that red vel­vet cake pops would be the per­fect addi­tion to the party.  They were so.yummy!!  I also made these super easy Oreo Cookie Suck­ers.  These were a HUGE hit too!

We also had Olivia’s “Rules of Life’ on lit­tle cards around the house.  That’s one of my favorite parts of the show and her books!

The kids had SO much fun and of course got spoiled rot­ten!  And mommy had fun too going over­board once again with a party.  I’m always stressed out at the last minute about these things, but I know that there are only a few more years left that I’ll have to be able to have ANY opin­ions about the par­ties.  So, I need to take advan­tage while I can!
Happy Birth­day Bai­ley & Tyson!
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Bailey’s 2nd Birthday!

I am so behind!  Things have been so busy, but I’m going to really try and get caught up at least on the birth­day posts!  We had a ton of fun on on Bailey’s 2nd birth­day.  She had a cou­ple of small gifts to open and we had some cake too!  Oh yeah, and crown me mother of the year for not hav­ing any can­dles on hand.  Ooops!  Thank God she’s only 2 and didn’t really know any bet­ter.  She was too con­cerned about the cake!

She got an adorable jew­elry box, you know the kind where the bal­le­rina spins inside?  L.o.v.e.! And for her “big” gift we got her a new trike.  At first I thought that long han­dle thing would be totally tacky to have, but you know, for once Tony was right and I have been SO happy to have that thing there since she can’t pedal yet!  My back is thank­ing me every time we got to the park with it!

Happy Birth­day, Bailey!

(you can click on each of these col­lages to see them larger!)

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TWO!!

Today our baby girl turned two! I still can­not believe it’s been two years already.  It’s SO bit­ter­sweet as she gets older because we are done hav­ing babies and so all of these mile­stones we hit are just that much more special.

So, it’s time for my annual trip down mem­ory lane!

Fresh baby!  All 7 lbs 1 oz of her! LOL

I love these two pic­tures so much

Bap­tism day

Par­don my hor­rid pho­tog­ra­phy skills in some of these!

@2 Months

3 Months

Around 6 months

9 months

One Year!!

18 months

Almost two!!

Bai­ley, we love you SO MUCH and enjoy your spunky and hilar­i­ous lit­tle per­son­al­ity!  You con­stantly keep us on our toes, but laugh­ing all the while!  Your sweet smile and belly laugh always give us such great joy.  You love your brother so much and you are his best friend too.  We are so blessed to have been given you as our daugh­ter!  We LOVE YOU!!

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One Week

I’ve offi­cially sur­vived my first whole week as a stay at home mom and full time pho­tog­ra­pher.  Of course we haven’t been sick all win­ter and Tues­day B came down with a cold, then Wednes­day Ty got it, and of course, Thurs­day was the lucky day for me!  But, despite that minor set­back, I man­aged to get in all 3 days of train­ing in the Couch to 5K Week 1 and it went much bet­ter than I anticipated!

I also started an Herbal Cleanse last Mon­day too and we’ve really been work­ing hard to clean up our eat­ing habits.  Not only for our own health, but to set a bet­ter exam­ple of the kids.  So, I thought this would be a great way for me to start it off, rid my body of all the bad stuff and start with a clean slate, literally!

A co-worker of mine from TR had told me about this line of prod­ucts and said most peo­ple lose between 5–10 lbs on just this cleanse.  So, I decided to give it a go, as I really had noth­ing to lose.  Well, so far I’ve lost 7 lbs and still have 2 more days to go!  And the best part?  I feel SO much bet­ter, health­ier, and am sleep­ing bet­ter at night too!  I’m sure it’s a com­bi­na­tion of eat­ing bet­ter, exer­cis­ing and the cleanse, but I must say, if you’re in need for a kick start, def­i­nitely give this a shot!

I also signed up as a dis­trib­u­tor so I could get all of their prod­ucts for 20% off because I can def­i­nitely see us using these more long term, the energy drinks have been fan­tas­tic before work­outs and the Oasis, wow, that stuff is sim­ply amaz­ing!  So, if you’d like to give any of their stuff a try, you can shop right through my Shop here!

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And here we are…

I’m on Day #2 of my new chap­ter of my life.  It’s been going about how I antic­i­pated it would.  Very busy morn­ings while we get Tyson off to school, then B and I head to the gym for her to play at “the babies” and for me to get my butt in gear.  :-)  I signed up for a 5K at the end of April, so it’s time to start train­ing (did I men­tion I’ve always hated running?!)

It’s so bizarre not hear­ing the alarm go off every morn­ing, but rather hear­ing Ty come into the bed­room ask­ing when I’m going to get up.  Just a dif­fer­ent kind of alarm now!  And lately, they’ve been wak­ing up before 7, hope­fully when day­light sav­ings time ends in a cou­ple of weeks, that will adjust to an hour later. :-)

When we’re home and Ty’s at school, we spend a lot of time in our fam­ily room, just play­ing and hang­ing out.  I think one of B’s favorite gifts she got for Christ­mas was this fan­tas­tic toy!  She lit­er­ally plays with this every day.  She is always busy draw­ing “hor­sies” and lots of cir­cles which she tells us are of us all.  It’s so cute!  I love watch­ing her lit­tle hands draw.

She’s so focused sometimes

Until this one has to inter­rupt her :-P

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