Macy Kate's church shower

The girls that I work with threw us a sweet little shower for Macy Kate. We got so many sweet gifts and lots of perfect necessities....diapers and wipes! :)

Here's a picture of the snack table!! Yum!

Ms. Ana, Ashlee, Laura, Tana and Katy!

Pam, Shelly Karla, Ms. Lois, Joy, Ms. Robbie & Elaine!


Ms. Judy is in the center of this picture. She was one of the ones that did most of the planning/decorating. So sweet!

Jennifer, Cheryl and Karen!

These girls were so sweet to love on me at the shower. I'm so blessed to have a wonderful job that I love and precious women that I work with.

Macy Kate's First Baby Shower!!

Jessica and Liz threw me a baby shower for our sweet Macy Kate. It was so sweet to be able to be with my closest friends and family and oohh and ahhh over all the precious little girl stuff. :)

Here's a quick family picture before we headed to the shower.

My little Abby was so good at the shower. I think she knew that she looked cute so she knew she needed to act cute too.

Who took this picture? Was the goal to cut our heads off and just get the food? One good thing about this picture is you can't see all my pregnancy chins.


Here were the preggo's at the shower. My friend Liz is due this Thanksgiving. Me! My cousin Leslie is due at the beginning of December. And my BFF Jessica is due in March.

Most all of the pictures turned out blurry for some reason. My camera is crazy. But here are a few of me opening gifts that were okay.

The outfits just seemed so small. Hard to imagine the baby being that small.

Erika, me, Liz, and Joann. We took a girls trip to Miami like 7-8 years ago. I love sweet friendships that last forever.

We were blessed tremendously at the shower. Thanks to all our friends and family who were able to join in with us. These are all the pictures that were on my camera. I may do another post when I get the pictures that Jessica (the professional) took with her camera! stay tuned for that post :)

Happy Birthday Boys!!

Drew and Caden had their 2010 Birthday Parties last month. Caden turned 7 on Aug 25th and Drew turned 10 on Sept 25th. It's so hard to believe how fast they are growing up. The party started off at Andrea and David's house with pizza, presents and cake. Then we all loaded up and went bowling. Well, not me, I chased Abby around the bowling alley the whole time. :)

Here they are opening presents!

Yes, that's Abby sneaking in the living room to get what she wants as they open it. First, it was the balloon.

Next, it was another balloon. She didn't even care that the balloons were giving her static electricity in her hair. :)

Then it was a package of balls, that she insisted on someone opening for her even though they were NOT hers.

Mama and I gave them these Kung Fu Panda ZuZu pets. I think that's what they were called.

Baby Drew is 10!!! :(

Oh Caden. LOL! Andrea said that he likes to wear the white tanks underneath all of his shirts now. But all that he does is take the outer shirt off and just wear the white tank. His cheesy smile and shirt make this picture a keeper forever!! LOL!!

Abby is trying to convince her Daddy to open something else that she found in the boys presents that she can't live without.

They look so thrilled. LOL!!

Happy Birthday Boys!

Your favorite Aunt in the whole wide world loves you both so much!!

She'll only be 23 months for 12 more days.....

so I thought I better get this one posted.

She really does love this bear. Although you couldn't tell that from last months photo shoot.

This is Abby's favorite seat in our house. On top of the pillow! She sits there all the time and watches her shows.

This is the fake smile I kept getting. And notice she would turn her face towards me, but her eyes were still on Minnie Mouse.


Daddy came over and tried to help me get her to look at the camera. She said, "hmmmmm, let me think about it."

And her answer was no. That's okay though. I can't complain. She's healthy, happy, sweet and 23 months old!!!

She once was 22 months!!

She turned 22 months on me and I told her it was time to take her picture with Mr. Bear. Only two more months I said, then we'll give it a rest. She immediately ran from me and into her room to hide. I should have just left her alone for a bit because I knew that she didn't want to pose for me in that moment. But, the stubbornness in me set in and I was determined to take her pictures right then.

I went into her room and look what I found.....she had climbed into her toy box with Mr. Bear! This my friends is the only half-way good shot I got of her that day. Sweet girl. She's definitely getting tired of these monthly photo shoots.

I took one picture and out she goes!

"No No NOT".....this means "Don't!!" in Abby language.

22 months old and already knows what she wants and doesn't want.

I think she thought here if she doesn't look at me then maybe I'll put the camera up. wrong.

Again, I keep taking pictures....hopeful for a great shot!

She learned this pose this month. If you don't want to go or do something, just throw yourself down on the floor and wait. While she waited, I took her picture.

"Seriously, Momma, STOP it!"

Mr. Bear definitely wins the photo shoot award. He never complained and always had a smile on his face.

She turned 22 months in August....

Rainbows and Diapers

PaPa came down last month to visit us for a night before him and Stan took off on their Father/Son Bucket list trip. We decided to take him out to our favorite restaurant, Manny's. It was kinda a muggy day and had been raining earlier. We we all unloaded out of the cars and we looked up to the sky to see a beautiful RAINBOW. The kind that made you smile just by looking at it and even better, it was huge!! There was no missing it. So so pretty. Abby knew right away what it was.

We got out the camera and started taking pictures. You can kinda tell from this photo how big it was. We thought we could surely find gold at the end because we were able to see it from end to end. Therefore, gold couldn't have been far away. ;)

As we kept looking at it and taking pictures, we noticed that it was a DOUBLE Rainbow. Even better!! So pretty! Look hard, can you see it?

Our double rainbow. Looks towards the right of the picture and you'll see it too!

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I started noticing one week last month that I was missing diapers. I just knew I had bought some, but if you know our little Abby, she goes through diapers like they are completely 100% Free!! She goes all the time. So off to the store I went after more.

When I got home with the new pack, I started putting them in her diaper hanger. That's when I noticed that she had conveniently threw about 10 diapers or so in the TRASH. Yes, the trash! I couldn't believe it. Then as I kept cleaning her room, look what else I found.....

Yes, you guessed it....Diapers in the Clothes Hamper. I forgot now how many it was exactly, but I did count them that day and called my mom to "tell" on her. It was about 27 or so diapers. That little rascal. At least the missing diaper mystery had been solved.

Now, if I have to refill her diapers in her diaper hanger, I make sure she is no where to be found. Because as soon as I leave, she starts to disperse them around her room.

Why am I blogging??

I'm not sure I am still blogging? I'm MONTHS behind in my posts! And, I keep on convincing people that they need to blog. It's great, easy, they will love it. And then look at me, I'm a horrible example. Ugh.....oh well, maybe I'll catch up one of these days. I'm sure when the baby comes, I'll have some time in the middle of the night to get caught up. I currently have 15 posts that I need to get started on!

Update on little Macy Kate.....we are dilated to 3 centimeters and am 30% effaced. I've been told now for 2 weeks that it could be anyday. I'm not sure that I believe my dr anymore. I'm getting pretty anxious for her to get here......and Stan be in town during the arrival. He has so many trips coming up I'm a little nervous he won't be here.

Okay, I'm gonna start working on some posts.....stay tuned. Don't give up on me!