Hard at work on Sunday!

We started Sunday morning, with delicous espresso drinks, french toast, hashbrowns, bacon... sooo delicous.. compliments of the loving hubby!!


Goal: Finish the birthday invites, put the picture and last minute touches one them, address envelopes and send them out on Monday!!!

So its sunday, and mom and coley decided to stay one more day, and leave early monday, as my sister had to work later that day!.. Good thing we are only 3 hours away! Although i never feel like doin anything the same day i travel.. Its just so exhausting. Anyways, I put my mom and sister to work for me, coley glued and did the finishing touches on the invites, and mom stuffed envelopes, i did the rest!!... We spent a good few hours doin this... but they all got done. And they are addressed and stamped and goin out in the mail on monday!!... Im so excited and it feels so good to get those out and about!!... Now i just wait for RSVPS and focus on the rest of the party. I must say everything is comin together quite smoothly this time around. I've got everything pretty much complete, of course i will have last minute stuff to do in the same week even the same day as her birthday! Basically all i have left to do is the food!!

Anyways without coleys help it would have taken me alot longer to get them all done myself... but here they are, they were alot of hard work, but so worth it in the end... they were alot of fun. And i know my friends and family will appreciate them =).



And we spent the rest of sunday playing wii!!... =) Our last night with mom and coley, and brian cant stay up too late he has to work in the morning...

Best Weekend Ever!!!... sunshine, family & great food.

Taybugz and I had an awesome Saturday together!!.. We got up and got ready, made a yummy strawberry cheesecake, and spent the rest of the day outside.

She's a big helper =)

Mommy and Taybugz makin a cheesecake =)I think her favorite part is licking the spoon afterwards...lol.

The sun felt so good, and it was so warm. Taylor ran around and played, and I sat on the blanket and enjoyed the sunshine!!




We fixed ourselves a lil picnic. made sandwhiches, grabbed some chips, grapes, and fruit snacks... =) so much fun. Just excites me for more sunshine filled days!



To our surprise Brian got home early, which is always great when he has to work on saturdays... He changed out of uniform, and came to spend the rest of the day with us outside. We were awaiting Mom and coley's arrival. I was hopin they were goin to make it in time for our picnic, but i was gettin so hungry i just couldn't wait. Besides Taylor got to spend some good quality time with her daddy. =) I love those two together they are just too cute, and they always bring the biggest smile to my face!!


After playing long and hard, Taylor and Daddy sat down and chilled out with a swirly popsicle... she really enjoyed that!






Mom and coley finally arrived and we all sat out side and chatted a bit, caught up, Taylor got to play with coley for a little while.



Brian was gettin the BBQ ready.. he makes the best BBQ bacon cheeseburgers... mmmm... im not even kidding.. they are so yummy!!... lookin forward to more of that when the warm weather is here to stay!

It wasn't until after we came inside the house, that i realized i got a really bad sunburn from my knees down to my ankles... lol. I was wearing capris.. and man was i burnt. I didn't realize we were out in the sun for as long as we were, and I really didn't realize that i was baking my shines..and calves. Thats goin to stay awhile!..

And this today would be my 24 weeks... Gettin closer to meet our lil studd muffin! I still can't believe we are having a baby boy! =)

this is me at 24 weeks... don't mind all my scrapbooking stuff behind me, I've been hard at work on taybugz invites =)

Could it be... is it Spring??

I had the stupid stomach flu the last few days..which always gets in the way of things.. Taylor is feeling much much better. What a beautiful week have been having, the sun is shining and its warm out, im starting to think that spring is coming!! I've just been cleaning house, gettin ready for company, we got to spend alot of time outside! Mom and coley came into town on the 16th, but they went straight to my aunt debs. Im so jealous that I don't get to go. One of the funniest things ever is gettin all of us together up at my aunt debs =) Sometimes i feel left out when they go without me, and I know i have my own family now days, so it just gets crowded if i was to go when they went... and my family just keeps on growing.. =) Anyways.. I took taylor outside pretty much all day on Thursday we snapped a couple of pictures of her playing and being herself. My goal was to get her dressed up in her tinkerbell costume and try to take pictures myself for her invites.. the only thing holding me up on sending out her birthday invites are those dang pictures!!.. but of course she really didn't want to put on the costume, she just wanted to go outside and play, so i didn't make her. But i did get some pretty cute pictures.. and they really do capture her personality...lol. Besides she is wearing tinkerbell sunglasses, couldn't get her to take them off. lol.

She has so much fun outside.

Havin a Ball...My sweet lil Taybugz.I can hardly believe this is my almost 2 year old!! yikes!

Mommy and Taybugz

Well mom and coley are suppose to be comin to stay with us on Saturday! Bummer we only get them for one day, but oh well. Even though I go to idaho all the time, and stay a week here and there at my moms, its just different from when they come to visit us here!!.. So Im excited to see them Saturday, Brian is goin to BBQ! Yum!!.. and taylor and I are goin to make a yummy strawberry cheesecake!!

Happy Easter Taybugz!

Happy EAster!!

So we are leaving today, goin home, yippy!! something i always look forward too, besides the trip there...

Taylor's Easter went well, we didn't really do to much. i really wanted to take her to an easter egg hunt at a park or something, but had no clue when one was goin on, and by the time i found out, it was too late, they were all over hopefully I will be able to plan ahead next year. Easter kind of snuck up on me this time. The weather wasn't great, so we had a lil egg hunt in the house, and i didn't even have to tell her what to do, she was sittin in her highchair eating breakfast, and spotted one... when she was done, she found them one right after another, i had to keep tellin her that there was more, and she got a special easter basket left at the door from the easter bunny =), she was pretty stoked about that. But that is all that we really did. it was still fun!!


I tried to snap a picture of it before she got to it...lol.


Look mommy what I found..

she had fun hunting for eggs... mouth full of gummies. lol. she was trying to show me what she had in her bucket.. but she was too close. lol

Taylor's 2 year old pix! Taken in March!

this top one is one of my faves

and i love this one where it shows all of her, she looks like such a big girl!!

I "Nose" how much i love you.

This one is my absolute favorite, it looks like she should be in preschool or kindergarten.

Puppy love.

What a Thursday!

I had scheduled Pictures for taylor at penneys for 3:10pm today. I got her all dressed up in her tinkerbell costume, and she was so dang adorable, and so ready to go. We got to penneys early ... the photographer got us all ready to go. Taylor wasn't very cooperative at all, it was pretty frustrating for me, as I was really counting on these pictures for her birthday invitations. The photographer wasn't very good, she promised me that she had some good ones, i think we were in there for about 10 minutes, not at all like my first experience at penneys. So she said she needed some time to get them ready..so taylor and I browsed the store, lookin for stuff to buy, didn't really find anything. Went back to the photography studio, anxious to see the pictures, she scrolled through them and said let me know which ones are your favorites.. i went through them all, they were not great. I would maybe buy one of them, and even then it wasn't like i had to have it. When i get taylors pix done, I have such a hard time choosing, which results into spending alot of money. but this time i was so disappointed in them. and it wasn't just the photographer's fault, taylor in these pictures, didn't look like she felt good at all, but her mood could have fooled me, so I took us home, and made a trip to walmart to get some stuff for taylor... the poor girl was for sure not feeling her best, I could tell by her eyes in the picture... Im pretty sure she was comin down with something. So I didn't buy any pictures, and i never rescheduled her shoot, I was pretty much runnin out of time, so i figured when taylor got better and once we got home, then I could take her outside and take my own pictures. So wish me luck =) This is the only thing holding me back on sending out birthday invitations....

And since we are goin home on sunday, which as we all know is Easter. We will be celebrating Taylor's Easter on Saturday =)... oh and i will be 23 weeks with our baby boy!!

Lunch Date w/ the Mays!

Taybugz holding Baby Kystin... look how tiny he is =)

Oh my word so much fun. I wish we were able to get together more often. Kyla came over, and I finally got to hold baby Kystin, he's so tiny. I want a tiny lil boy!.. He's so cute and lovable, and it just excites me to know I get to feel that here soon!.. I can't wait for our baby!.. Anyways Kyla picked Taybugz and I up, we grabbed lunch from Blimpee and headed to the park, it was so nice to sit in the sun on a nice day, and just catch up!! Taylor had a blast playin on the toys! She would go down the big slide, and then race over to me for a high five and go again. lol. silly girl. Anyways I was really enjoying myself, until this extremely annoying girl came and bugged us, at first it didn't bother me, but then she just wouldn't leave. Kyla had way more patience than I did, and it could be due to pregnancy hormones, but man alive that girl was annoying. But overall lunch was a blast, taylor had so much fun, and I got to see kystin for the first time, and I got to have an adult conversation with another adult. =) that doesn't happen very often!.. I love gettin together with the girls when Im in town, wish i could do it all the time. Keri was missing, so it would have been great to have her and Ryker there too. =) She was working.
Taylor held Kystin, and it was so cute. I got really cute pictures of her holding him. she even gave him a kiss. And seeing her excited about new babys just really excites me about our lil guy.

Her face was red from runnin around =)Awwwww so sweet... givin him kisses.She didn't want Kyla to take him away... yet.Awwwww so sweet.

I think she will be great with him. I know she is very helpful already, so i just need to remember to include her in everything. so she never feels neglected. I would never want that for her. Two kids is goin to be tricky, but we can do it =)

Anyways, Kyla read my mind when she asked if i was ready to go. I don't mind the park with a few kids, but when you have a van unloading of kids, its time to go. Too many kids, and taylor will be pushed around like a ping pong ball. Plus Im not very good at takin my eyes off of her, i watch her like a hawk, has to be in my vision at all times. =) Love her to much to let anything happen to her!!... Kyla took us back home, Taylor and I spent the evening with Grandma, and Kyla went on her merry way. I believe she went shopping! I was goin to go shopping myself, but got to tired. Besides Coley has tomorro off and she said she would go shopping with us. And I really do like spending time with my sister. Its alot of fun, but she's always such a busy girl. so whatever time i get of hers is great!