Baby Mullet

Yes, I do realize our daughter's hair is growing out like a mullet... I refuse to cut it. If a mullet can look cute on anyone it is her!!! K

Happy 29th to me!!!

Well I have to say, this has probably been the best birthday I have had in years. It was just a genuinely great time... I broke my glasses and really needed a new pair... they are a bit spendy, so my mom & dad paid for half of them for me... that was a great gift for my b-day! The picture below shows my new glasses... I'm typically quite a plain jane... I had to step WAY outside my box for these!! My sister and her hubby are giving me a subscription to US Weekly (I think) which is great, cause when you buy them for $3.49 every week that adds up quickly! And from G and E I got to go and pick out the bag I've been wanting at Target... love this diaper bag... but I'm using it as a purse :) I also got a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble from my mother-in-law, some great Arbonne products from T and a super cute flip-flop martini glass from J. Thanks guys!!!

Here's my cute new bag...

and my cute flip-flop martini glass, which I used for the first time last night... mmm... appletinis!

On Thursday my parents took K & S and G & I to this awesome new resteraunt called Vino in the Valley. I highly recommend it to everyone! It was excellent. It is at this man's home... he owns acres of land that he has turned into a vinyard. He has created this outdoor patio w/ a roof (no sides) so you eat outside looking over these vinyards in the valley. He has great wine and a limited menu, only 4 options for dinner, 2 salads and 2 pasta choices. He has had to fight for this place to open... apparently neighboring property owners wanted nothing to do w/ this... they didn't want the traffic, loud music, etc. Which is crazy cuz there seriously isn't a home in sight. He has so many limitations such as not being allowed to amplify any music and not being allowed to post any signs along the highway. So anyways we waited for a table, while drinking wine and eating homemade bread at the bar. Finally we got a nice table and I enjoyed the most delicious pasta w/ white sauce and asparagus. It was YUMMY. So, I really recommend visiting Vino in the Valley... this guy had to fight hard to get this place open and I suggest we all support him, you won't be disapointed! Here we are at dinner...
On friday night G had a BBQ for me. It was really laid back and relaxing... He asked everyone to be there between 5 & 6... well at 6:30 I was getting a bit sad, no one had showed... happy birthday to me, huh. Well, finally my parents came... we started the grill, then B & T got there w/ the girls, then T & H came and finally Teeg & Ter came w/ another friend of their's... what a mish mash of people but we ended up having a really good time! Enjoyed dinner, drinks and a bonfire. Finally got to bed around 12:30... and was woken up at 4 by my wonderful daughter who wanted to play... yes at 4 a.m. Was up until about 4:45, then finally got to go back to bed and she slept til 8! I think that is the latest she has EVER slept... ususally she's up between 6-6:30. If any readers are considering becoming parents... be prepared for huge changes in your sleeping patterns!!!

And just one more reminder of how freakin cute our little girl is!

K

Another month...

Already another month has flown by... we've been busy, busy... we've celebrated father's day, gone to the pool almost every day we have off, clebrated the 4th and my 29th! It has been a busy and fun-filled summer so far. E is getting very comfortable being in the water... we go to the pool almost every weekend and she just loves it...

She is starting to walk, slowly but surely... she is up to taking about 10 steps on her own. She is pretty proud of herself to... it's quiet funny. Her vocabulary is growing every day. She is now saying hello (sounds like hewwow, which cracks us up every time), bowl, ball, daddy, momma, uh oh, hi, bu by, nigh nigh... to name a few. She is coming into the age where she will copy everything we do... she has lately started putting her fingers up her nose... must be taking after daddy there :)

We enjoyed a nice relaxing 4th of July... G had to work that day so E and I were going to go to the pool w/ my parents then have a BBQ at the park w/ my cousin, his wife and their kids (E's daycare). It was SUPER hot out... the pool was refreshing! And to make the day even better G got sent to the Dr. from work, cause they thought he had pink eye (which he did) so he ended up getting to spend the day w/ us. The Dr. said he could return to work, but his Sgt said nope, can't be around all these people w/ pink eye. We didn't stay for fireworks... that is a couple hours past E's bedtime (and ours!) but we enjoyed the day.

Hope you all had a great 4th... a day off from work is always a treat!! K

Play Date...

My friend T watched E the other day so daddy could go golfing... T has a little girl who is 4 months younger than E... look at how CUTE they are together!! We've started the "mini crew"!!!

I'm excited for them to grow up to be great friends like their mommas are :)

Memorial Day Picnic

Here are some pics from our Memorial Day Picnic

(old yes, but I thought I'd still share)

E

The boys playing Bocce (look at that form!)...

...and the boys goofing off! (sorry dad, the face is to funny to not share!)

Night. K

Coolin Off!

Oh my, it was SOOOOOOOO very hot and humid out on Sunday... we had a birthday party to attend for my 4 year old goddaughter at the park... fun, but it was so warm!! That morning my mom called and asked if we'd wanna go to the pool. Well, it worked out perfect that the birthday party was at the park where the pool is! So we went to the party... appropriately we gave Ash a fun hook-up-to-the-hose Backyardigans sprinkler and a cute flip flop beach towel. After the festivities we went to the pool. I wasn't sure how E would like it. She loves taking a bath, but this was different. They don't have a kiddie pool, so there are lots of big kids running and splashing... but she absolutely LOVED it! Every hour they have to take a 5 minute break... and during those breaks we'd have to hold on to her because she'd keep trying to crawl back to the water! It was great... we had a lot of fun and stayed cool on such a muggy day. Here's a few pics...







Hope you all had as nice of a weekend as we did... and I'm already looking forward to the next!!!! K

My long lost blog

OK, I am SORRY! We are still here... I haven't been able to blog in a while, since we got satelite TV and we don't want to pay tons of $$ for their internet... so once in a while I can catch a wireless signal from one of our neighbors... this happens to be a good night. But I am so tired, my eyes are blood shot and I have a headache... so I am going to bed, but just wanted you all to know that we are here, just VERY busy and I will be back to blogging soon... I know some of you were worried and wondering where we had gone... and thanks to Stud Muffinette for calling my parents to make sure everything was ok, I did get your messages and did call you at the farm that night, but got no answer... my lovely hubby didn't write down your cell # so I didn't have that one, just looked up the farm's # in the phone book! Sorry we didn't connect, but we are here and doing fine! A few new pics:

Well, since I have such a good connection I am just going to keep going. Since my last entry we have celebrated E's 1st birthday at the zoo... lets see if I can get a few more pics up from that day...

I bought her her own little pink fuzzy hat that said I'm One! And she hated it.

Her own little cake!

She received a TMX Elmo from my sister... this is the face she gave when she saw him giggling. She HATES him. He's in a box, in the closet until she is older.

Grandma and Grandpa with E!

WHEW... what a hard day of partying... time for a little snooze!

G has been working tons, I have a job now where I work Mon-Fri which is different than my last job and I'm not sure I like it as much... I really enjoyed working more part time... but what can you do. I now know what it is like to have weekends off and LIVE for them. Thank god tomorrow is Friday. My job has pretty much been HELL lately... I'm not even going to go there... I'll just get more annoyed and stressed. I'm sure most of you understand.

Then we celebrated Mother's Day. This picture is at the nursing home where my grandma lives.

It has been a really busy month and we are now going into an even busier one. This weekend we have a BBQ on Sat afternoon and a birthday party and a graduation party on Sun afternoon... I'm just not sure we are going to make it to all of them... it is like working 7 days a week when you've got so many plans... sometimes I just wanna stay home and relax.

E isn't quite walking yet... she will take about 3 steps and then fall. But what she doesn't do in walking she makes up in talking! She says: ditty (kitty), baba (bottle), numa numa (means she's hungry), nigh nigh (she seriously tells us when its nap and bedtime!), bowl, mama, dada, what's that (and points to whatever it is she wants to know about)... it is so funny and I am enjoying every single minute of this mommyhood thing.

Oh, I can't resist, here are a few more pics... this is going to be the longest entry! T I hope it is ok to post pics of H on the blog, if not call me tomorrow and leave a message and I will remove them right away. So E and her little buddy H had a fun playdate one day. As you can see they enjoyed pounding on the foot stool!

This has to be one of my favorite pictures of her... she love to pull herself up to the window and look out... she is finally almost tall enough to look out... it is so cute.


I do really need to get to bed now, I am super tired and it is now 10:15... seriously an hour past my bedtime! Night everyone. Be back soon. Promise. K

The flu sucks...

I feel like crappy, crappy, crap today. I have been sick since Thursday on and off... yucky you know what running to the toilet... nausea in my tummy... tired eyes... headache... achey back... sounds like the flu, huh... the kids at E's daycare were home sick w/ it today... urghhhhh... I almost went home sick from work today, but pushed through... I have to much work to do to miss an entire day. I am exhausted right now... have a garage sale tomorrow a.m. and have to be there to open by 7, and I live a half hour away... urghhhhh again, it is going to be an early a.m. Especially if I feel like this again tomorrow.



We have been super busy... hence the no blogging in the last 2 weeks. Getting ready for a garage sale, planning E's first birthday party, getting the house, garage and shed cleaned out for the spring, making plans for some landscaping around our house... urghhhhhhhhhhhh again. I am ready for a weekend of relaxing. I'll get it in two weeks, can't wait!



E has started to pull herself up onto furniture... and walks around it while holding on... she gets frustrated when she wants to get back down though.... she can't quite figure out how to do it yet... let me look in the picture folder here quick and see if G has taken any new pics...

Seriously, she doesn't quit w/ the tongue thing either! It is always out to the side like this!!!! So funny.

Ok, my body is telling me it is time to lay down and rest... take care and enjoy your weekend. ;) K