Happy 1st Birthday

Happy birthday little one. We love you so much. You are a beam of sunshine on our lives. You are such a good sister, and friend to your brother. I love every square inch of your cute little baby-ness. I can't believe it has already been a year since you entered this world. I want to keep you little and bottle-up all your cuteness. I love you from the deepest place in my heart!

Here are some things you are doing lately:

Walking all around the house
hysterically laughing
playing with dolls and brother's trucks
eating tons and tons
going on stroller rides
not liking baths or shopping carts
shaking your head "no"
sleeping in your own bed
...and you have four teeth!

Love you,

Mommy

Blue Sky Pumpkin Patch

Tour d'Pumpkin Patch, Lily's mommy and me class met at the pumpkin patch today. This pumpkin patch is a smaller scale than Avila Barn, it has a petting zoo area and a hunted house, nice family that operates it. It's a working ranch, so it is less touristy and more rugged. Of course I had to dress the little ones up!

p.s. made this fabric flowers for Lily's hair, to die for, more to post on these cute things!

Katelynn Joyce

Here is a pic from a quick photo shoot I did for a friends new baby girl. She is so beautiful, I just love babies. I think I'll keep her, isn't she cute. Love, love the big ole' flower representin', you just can not go over board with little girls. They are too much fun!

Super Saturday

Last weekend I helped coordinate a Super Saturday (i.e., big craft day). We had great food and crafts, tons of people showed up so that made it even more fun. It was so tired after the festivities, but it was well worth it to see all the cute crafts we got to accomplish, well, at least start. I did the tile pendent class and loved how they turned out, gave one to mom and one to grandma for watching the kids for only 6 HOURS...whoa, they deserve more than just a necklace let me tell you.

I hosted the family tree project, which I got the instructions from my friends website, just click on the family tree link below for full instructions.

I made one of the aprons, and didn't get to finish it, so I sent it home with mom. No kids=more time to craft.

I also did the fabric pumpkins, but instead I used apple fabric and make into an apple not a pumpkin for Christmas presents for the kids teachers.

Crafts included:

-tile pendent necklaces
-family trees
-aprons
-bulletin boards
-I Spy bags
-fabric pumpkinsor apples, using the short version
-Fabric beaded necklaces and brackets

Avila Valley Barn

All dressed up for the pumpkin patch!

Last week when my grandparents and mom came into town, I wanted to share with them my favorite fall activity The Avila Valley Barn. It was so much fun taking Garrett on a hay ride, collecting fresh apples and picking up so many pumpkins I thought the stroller would bust (thanks to Garrett, Garrett, pumpkin picker). The corn maze was there this year, that was really fun for Garrett, he is still taking about how much fun we had!

Kern County Fair

Garrett and his cousin Peyton at Disney on Ice

Papa and Garrett on the elephant (disclaimer: I told Garrett that I thought elephants should be free in Africa, and not at a fair. Garrett replied "Mommy the elephant wants to be at the fair and I'm gonna ride it"...he is just like his daddy!) *I was just informed by some knowledgeable, "unanimous", viewer of my blog that it is not an African elephant, just an Asian elephant)

Loving the horse ride, he kept on saying "blast off horsey"

The fair crew, minus Kandi and Chris

I love me a good fair. While Aaron was gone, the kids and I packed up and headed over to visit the Smith Family. We had a fun filled weekend with taking the kids to the fair, and to Disney Princess on Ice. Disney on Ice was awesome! I think Mandi and I enjoyed even better than the kids.

There is something about the fair that I love. Sometimes when I step back I think "wow, this place is really cheesy, but I love it!" Fair food, winning a big stuffed animal, riding the giant slide, elephant rides, and a bunch of kids running around having crazy fun, how can you not say that is cool!

Thanks for the great weekend!

WY Resident

Ok, if you have talked to Sarah recently you would know that I have been gone for the past 2+ weeks. I recently gained my residency in WY after spending two weeks hunting in Glenrock. This is an annual trip that was a little long the normal due to a management antelope hunt that we sponsored along with Zeiss optics and Barnes bullets. I spent most of my time freezing to death with average tempuratures in the teen's.

It was allot of fun though, not that I enjoy being away from my family but we had a great time and was able to take some excellent animals. It will be nice to get back home and enjoy my little ones as well as spend some quality time with Sarah.

Talk to ya'll soon!

Lily Walking

Kessler Canyon

Although I am not excited about leaving tomorrow for another business trip, we had a great time in CO at Kessler Canyon. Pictures don't even do this place justice! See you in a few!