Tutu much fun

Growing up I wasn't a super girly girl. I loved to play sports, didn't wear skirts or dresses (except for on Sunday), and I would spend a lot of time "hanging out" with the guys. So in my mind, when I thought of my future family,  it just made sense to me that I would have sons. When I found out I was having a daughter I was really happy and excited, but I wasn't sure I knew what to do with a little girl. You can imagine my surprise when I found myself buying this little outfit for Morgan.

Isn't is cute? I found it on THIS website. They have all sorts of tutus, dresses, onesies, and shoes that are a little more funky.

 Now that I am older my interests and style is changing (of course) and I LOVE having a little girl to dress up. I think she makes a pretty good model too. Don't you?

Balloons

Morgan's Grandma gave her a fun bouquet of balloons at her birthday party. We took them home with us and have had several days of enjoyment.This girl loves balloons. She will actually sit and play with them for quite a while.

Well I guess it is all fun and games until someone becomes a tangled mess :)

One year old

WOW! I can't believe it. My little girl is now a year old. 2010 has surprisingly gone by really fast considering it was one of the most stressful years Kevin and I have experienced as a married couple. Through it all Morgan was our joy and kept us smiling.

To celebrate this special occasion we had a small family party for her at Kevin's parents house. It was fun to get together and watch her open presents and stare at the GIANT cupcake I made her.

Morgan isn't walking on her own just yet, but she decided after she had opened her presents that she was going to stand up on her own for a long time.

Morgan loves Kevin's parents dog, Sophie. She will chase her all over the place, but so far they get along really well. Sophie doesn't seem to mind. :)

Morgan doesn't get so see her cousins, Justin and Parker often so she had so much fun playing with them.

Here is Morgan's cake. There is a little bit of drama behind the making of this cake, but in the end it all came together great. Morgan wasn't too into eating it though. I wasn't expecting her to eat much of it, but she didn't really demolish it either. Oh well, I guess she is a proper little girl.

Happy Birthday Morgan! We love you so much and we are so blessed to have you in our lives. We can't wait to see how much you will learn and grow this up coming year.

Birthday banner

My little girl is about to have her first birthday (where did this past year go?) and I thought it would be fun to have a birthday banner to take her picture in front of. Ya know, maybe do it every year and make a little tradition out of it. At first, I was gonna just buy one, but when I went to Etsy I saw that they were kind of on the expensive side. So, I thought I would try and  make one myself. I know I have mentioned on other posts that I don't really have much knowledge or experience sewing, but that doesn't seem to stop me from trying :)

Going to the fabric store can be a little intimidating for me. It is kind of like trying to shop at Marshall's or T J Maxx. Just racks and racks of clothing (or fabric) that you have to search through to find one item you might like. I am more of boutique shopper. A smaller selection with two or three of each item grouped together. MUCH less stressful for me :). So...after I walked up and down a few aisles I came across a section that had this

A pre-cut bundle of fabric! I decided that was the best way for me to go because I probably would have been in the store for 5 hours trying to decide which fabrics went best together.

When I was looking for banners to buy I saw that one woman had cut her letters out of felt so I decided I was gonna do that too. Felt is pretty cheap. It was only like .25 per sheet and I only needed 6 sheets and the fabric bundle was $6. MUCH better than the $45 it would have cost me to buy online.

OH and another thing...I don't have any letter stencils. I looked into buying some at JoAnn's, but they were 15 dollars. My friend that I was with recommended that I just open a word document, pick a font I like, blow it up and trace it onto white paper off of my computer screen (Thanks Kim!). So that is what I did and it cost me nothing. I felt like a dork not thinking of that myself.

Here is the finished product. There are some definite flaws here and there, but overall I think it turned out pretty good.

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Thanksgiving weekend

We stayed in California this year for Thanksgiving and we celebrated at Kevin's sister, Kirsten's house. It was nice to get together as a family and eat such yummy food :)

The Saturday after Thanksgiving I went with my friend Pamela to see WEEZER! It was a unique concert because after they played a few of their most popular songs they had an intermission and then played the entire Pinkerton Album start to finish. Pam and I both really love that album and had a great time. Thanks again, Pam!

Number 4

November 4th was our wedding anniversary, but Kevin was out of town for work so we couldn't celebrate on the actual date. Instead, we decided to celebrate this past Saturday.

I started the day off by donating blood at our church.

Kevin's parents offered to watch Morgan for us so we could go out and on our way to their house we saw this.

 

It's not a very good picture because it was so dark out, but we saw two complete rainbows. 

(speaking of rainbows if you haven't seen this video you should really check it out :)

After we dropped Morgan off with Kerry and Linda (thanks so much guys we really had a good time) we headed over to the movie theater to watch this.

I was so excited to watch it! While I was pregnant I read all of the books and this is the first movie in the series that I saw AFTER I read the book. I thought it was great. Kevin having not read the books wasn't as into it as I was, but we both had a good time.

 I can't believe we have been married for four years. Some days it feels like 10 and some days it feels like just yesterday.  Happy Anniversary, Kevin. I love you and I look forward to seeing where life takes us in the many years to come.

Us now

 

And then

Spaghetti

A good friend of mine is pregnant with her first child. She is really great with children and babies and is totally excited to become a mother. The only part she is not looking forward to is how "sticky" babies can get. I thought about her when I was taking these pictures.

Here is a glimpse of your future P. :) and it's worth all of the stickiness it brings!