Halfway

My little baby is halfway through with her first year, halfway to her first birthday. She's growing up so quickly! She's so funny, laughing and smiling, getting so happy when she sees her big sister. I just love her so much!

Contentment

Katie received an award today at school. Every child gets a chance at Student of the Month at her school, for different reasons. Last year, Katie was noticed for Excitement. This year, Contentment- being happy with what she has. I love my beautiful girl so much, and I'm so thankful for her and her warm heart everyday. She's the best thing that has happened to me. I'm proud of you Katie, everyday. I love watching you grow into a wonderful girl.

Blake's 19th Birthday

We celebrated Blake's 19th birthday at my Grandma's house. Just a simple night together. The kids played, we ate, had cake. It was a nice time. I like hanging out and chatting with everyone.

 Emma loves the swing in the backyard.

 Katie just loves playing with her cousins =)

Happy Birthday Blake! Hope you have an awesome year, whether you end up going to the Navy, or working in Palmdale. I wish you the best!

Girl Scout's St. Patrick's Party

Our leader didn't realize we had another week before St. Patrick's Day, so she scheduled our party a week early :p We all brought something for the kids to eat and they made a cute rainbow craft.

 The hats were cute =)

Happy 28th!!

Lynn was nice enough to host David's birthday for me. I have a horrible complex with having tons of people over at the same time, or any people really, but especially a lot of people! Haha. Drives me looney just thinking about  the mess. Katie played nicely with Travis, and the girls made wallets and bracelets and things and charged everyone for them. I think they made a good profit.

 Katie bought this one.

 I made David's birthday cake this year, and I was super nervous about it, because how embarrassing if no one likes it, right? Haha. But they all said they liked it, so hopefully they weren't just trying to be nice :p I liked it though! Homemade cake is yummy!

 Karli and Annabelle made David a bow-tie out of duct tape for his birthday. One of their many talents. His brother also gave him some Coldcock Whiskey stuff, from his band's sponsor.

I hope David had a nice birthday! Love this man so very much, it's nice being able to grow up together and be there for all the big moments. 30 will be somethin'! I do not like getting old!

Girl Scout Cookie Booth

 We were signed up to sell Girl Scout Cookies at the booth they had inside the mall. I was thankful it couldn't rain on us, or get hot or windy or anything! We were hoping to get a lot of sales in the mall, but instead we only sold a few boxes, maybe 15 each =/ Still a cool experience, the costumes were cute. Every bit helps Katie get to her 500 goal!

Amazing Bubble Show

I saw tickets for a bubble show on Groupon, for only $12 in Santa Monica, and I thought to myself, how cool! Katie would love this! So I paid the $36 and we went together =) It was a lot smaller than I thought it would be, but super cute. My only regret is that we had to sit in the middle so they didn't pick Katie as a volunteer and she was pretty bummed about that. We all had a great time though.

 We stopped for ice cream after, and not just to get my parking validated ;) hahaha.

Mary and Desiree got these cute shirts for the girls for Christmas. Love them!