Fun stuff!

Saturday, Lanna had her first bridal shower! Their wedding is only 8 weeks away and I'm so excited to have a sister in law. I've never had one of those before :) Love you Lanna! a few of the goods...
Yummy cake :)

Tuesday was a BEAUTIFUL day!!!!! It was in the mid 70's and so pretty! Colt and I met Roxanne and precious Avery at the Arboretum and it could not have been more perfect.

Roxanne and I have mutual friends and I have only gotten to know her through her blog and vise versa...so this was our first official face to face meeting/playdate! It was a blast and I hope to do it often! Her 1o month old daughter, Avery, is the most precious thing EVER! She has the most beautiful blue eyes and is so sweet! She waved "hi" to everybody and loved hugging on Colt :)

The kids loved loved the petting zoo, strolling around, reading and having lunch on the lawn and Rox and I even got a little sun :) (or alot, my shoulders are burned but I'm not complaining...lets face it, I needed it!)

Here's the goat about to eat Colt's head! He kept saying "baaaaaaaaa"

And Colt and the goat butt...

Avery made herself at home in the midst of the goats...it was presh!

Taking a break after lunch for a quick "self timer" photo op :) Is the lake not to die for?!

Avery was so cute! She kept running down the hill and falling...she would just lie there for a few seconds as if she was saying "hurry, quick, take my picture I'm so cute! how could we resist?

Colt had another milestone...he gave his first kiss ever!!! to AVERY!! Normally if you ask him to give you a kiss he'll give you his cheek. I asked him to kiss Avery and he puckered up and went in for the kill. It was soooooo cute!!

What is better than eating a few sticks?

Where's spot?

Precious precious new friends! I LOVE this picture!

Me and my baby boy

******This weekend, I'm headed to Austin for my BFF, since JH's, bach party!...I've NEVER been there before. Let me repeat, NEVER have I been to Austin. I'm super excited and can't wait to spend the weekend with my precious friends from highschool!!

Wishful Wednesday: I wish this was my handbag

What girl does not love a good luxurious handbag?!! From Louis Vuitton, Prada, Marc Jacobs, Gucci, Fendi, Burberry the list goes on and on and on...But have you ever wondered what the MOST expensive bag was? Well, I have found it. I did a little digging and this is what I came up with:

If you've ever watched "the fabulous life of..." you'd know that Victoria Beckham has a FEW of these...

The coveted Hermes Birkin Bag

This puppy is made with brown ostrich leather and it could all be yours for a measly $5, 995

Not quite my style and especially not at that price! You thought the above bag was expensive? Well check this one out...This is a Hermes Birkin bag as well, but this one is made with matte crocodile leather and the gold clasps are made with 10 carats of diamonds. This could also be yours for the price of...wait for it...wait for it...$120,000!!!!!!!!
...But the bag on my wish list is a little more practical...it is the beautiful roxbury drive clutch in black cherry made by the fabulous Louis Vuitton...Happy birthday to me??! (in a few months...)OR...one of these precious clutches made by Christian Louboutin adorning the precious high heels with red soul clasp to match my shoes...either one will do :)

What bags are on your wish list??!

14 months!

My little sugar plum is 14 months old today! Getting ready to go on a shopping trip with mommy!
In the past 2 months he has really turned into a little boy
(Enjoying our first lunch with Yaya since she got back from Africa. We hadn't seen her in 10 days!)
Sharing our wagon ride with Dixie
Trying out his Motorcycle for when he turns 3. Its matches Daddy's, but will come with training wheels. (You can always tell when Daddy's in charge because Colt never gets changed out of his jammies)
Colt, lets see what you have been up to...

You love love love and are obsessed with motorcycles and fourwheelers. We go on a fourwheeler ride everyday at your request. Saying "udin udin...DOE" which translates to the sound of the motorcycle/fourwheeler and GO! so off we go...

You talk like ALOT and say anything and everything. You can tell us what you want, when you want it followed with an imitated "pees" (please) and "ta-doo" (thank you) because we make you say it :)

You say "HOMEY" "HOMEY" (hold me) ALL the time! and of course, we hold you :)

You know all your animals and the sounds they make. I haven't really kept up with what you say because you really do say anything and everything. The newest things you say are "alllllll done" when you've finished eating...you say "Yaya" as we turn down the street to go to their house.

You started taking more than 10 steps when you were 13 months old and now you are walking like crazy. It's about time!

You lift up your foot, smell it and say "ewwww tinty" (ewwwwww stinky!) It makes me laugh EVERY time!

You sign milk sometimes, but you usually just say it when you want it...you furrow your eyebrows and say "mio mio."

You sign "more" sometimes, but if you want more food you just say "bite please"

I love when you say I love you. You say "Ina"

You love when people read to you. Most of the time you flip through the books by yourself and name things on the pages.

I've never been a big fan of just putting you in front of the TV...but I do DVR Dora the Explorer for you and you LOVE it. You say "back pack" "map" "boots" "doduh" (dora).

You are the craziest sleeper EVER. For the past few weeks you have been waking up between 10:30 and 11am!! So you are now down to one nap a day because thats all we have time for! I can never say I wasn't a well rested mom :)

You spend the night with Yaya and Doodad every Saturday night because they take you to Sunday school class. We come later for worship.

You are a great eater. You eat anything and everything we eat EXCEPT veggies. You are not a fan.

Poppy taught you a new trick 2 weeks ago. He asks you "who's the pretty boy?" and you raise your hand saying "I" ...for I am.

You say "poo boo" when you are doing a big job :)

You love water. Taking a bath is one of your favorite things. When I tell you "lets go take a bath" you go into the bathroom, turn on the bath water and say "ba" (bath) and "wawwer" (water). You know that you are suppose to sit on your bottom in chairs, in the bath and when you brush your teeth. You act like you are going to stand up, sit down real quick and say "baba" (bottom). You are so smart and such a good boy. *insert me taking a bow here* HA!

You are NOT a snuggler. You DO NOT like to be held while sitting down. It makes me sad. I so badly wish you would let me hold you while lying on the couch. NOT SO MUCH. The only time you let me hold you is right before bedtime. I hold you like a baby while sitting in the rocker. I sing a few songs and we say our night night prayers. You are always so quiet and still while we pray and say "AHMEN" right after me when I'm done.

Your Yaya, Doodad, Gertie and Poppy are the best grandparents ever. You are so lucky. You spend the night with one or both of them at least 2 nights a week. I'm so glad you get to do that and form relationships with each one. You are so blessed as are your daddy and I that we get time away so we can be better parents in the long run. You need a break as much as we do and for this I am incredibly grateful.

Before each meal, we pray for our food. We fold our hands and bow our heads to show you a good example. I watch you staring at us and its always when the prayer is over you fold your hands and imitate "ahmen." It always makes everybody laugh.

You wear size 4 diapers

You wear 12-18month size clothes

You are about 22-23lbs

You are 29-20in long

You wear a size 4 shoe

You have 8 teeth and a few more coming in as we speak

Thats all I can think of for now. You are just a sleeping, eating, talking, fourwheeler riding, bundle of joy! You are so fun and I love being with you each and every day.

Happy 14 months buddy! I'm looking foward to watching you be the ring bearer in Jake and Lanna's wedding, taking you to the lakehouse every weekend, swimming with you everyday this summer, swimming lessons in June, taking you to the beach and Sea World in July. Yay summer fun!!!!!!

Mo Mo Mo Motorcycle!!!

Blake used to race motorcycles 6 years ago and since then gave it up and picked it back up again. I pray pray pray that he does not get hurt like he did when we were in college. After 5 hours spent in the ER and 30 stitches later accompanied by crutches, I DO NOT want to do that again!

Colt and I ventured out to the motorcross track this afternoon to watch daddy do his thang and take a few pics...

Colt kept screaming "Daaaaaaaddddddeeeeeeeee"

Going to the chapel with Amy & Tim

Krista and I threw a couple's shower for our dear friends Amy and Tim. After 4 hours of cooking all appetizers and meals, setting up, cleaning and sampling...we were ready!

A party is never complete without the ever so yummy chocolate fountain. It was a beach themed party...their wedding is in Destin, FL.

Yummy cake

Drink and dessert station. Yummy champagne with fruit and Margaritas on the rocks. We used this super easy recipe. I'm not a margarita fan, but these were GOOD. Find the recipe HERE

I will definitely be making these again!

Some of the food. We set up a taco bar with tortillas, shredded chicken, shredded pork, beef and chunky guacamole,..homemade by Krista. She's an amazing cook.
Please notice the crock pot trio service on the right. I wish I had a better picture. It is AMAZING. I will have one...soon! Find it HERE

They are $99.99 at Target, but I hear they are only $75 at Sams! We had three dips going. Queso blanco, bean dip, and corn dip. Once again, all homemade by the famous chef Krista!
My partner in crime. If I do say so myself, we throw quite a shindig!

Amy & Tim will be cutting their wedding cake soon enough so what better way to practice than to blind fold them (we only had one blind fold so we found some goggles and put napkins in them so he couldn't see. Perfect!) make them cut and feed eachother cake without being able to see. It was hilarious!

They actually succeeded in cutting two pieces of cake...one for each of them, but it was a tad messy :)

Amy, gripping Tim's hand for dear life, guiding it to her mouth to insure he didn't smash it in her beautifully made up face.

The "guess which leg is Tim's" game. We got through about 3 different legs until we got to Tim's. She guessed right, but come to find out, she could see under her blind fold! Cheater!

Opening lots of fun presents

We sung Tim happy birthday and Krista made a special cake just for him.

At the end of the party it was chaos. We were cleaning, Blake and Kara had dish washer duty and we got it all picked up in a matter of 30 minutes. Awesome considering it took us 4 hours to put it out!

Super fun! I can't wait until the wedding...Love you Aims!