Mamma's Shoes

I wish I could just photoshop these pics together, but you'll get the jist...

Swimming!

While Joey was at golf on Saturday, Juliette and I headed over to Amy's house to enjoy the pool. I snapped a quick pic of her in her cute Minnie coverup before we headed down to the pool :-)

Teddy Bear Park

We had a little playdate yesterday after swimming with our friends Laney and Lucy :-) We went to the Teddy Bear Park in Stillwater. We had never been there before and it was really cute! Juliette was REALLY into following Laney around and Laney was nice enough to enjoy it! I love when I get the chance to watch Juliette "play" with other kids. She looks like she has so much fun!

playing in the sand

working hard

all three of them...this lasted about as long as it took me to take the pic ;-)

the girls and Nolan (Andrea's friend Amanda's little boy) on one of the big teddy bears

so studious

She wanted to read her Toy Story book before she got out of her crib in the morning...

Donuts!!

Meghan thinks my family's obsession with donuts is a little over the top. I say, "what's wrong with you for not loving donuts?!?!" hehe! We stayed at my parents on Tuesday night, so Wednesday morning Juliette and I headed to the bakery, which was actually a fun little trip! We got Papa a donut too!

bringing the bag in herself

hurray for donuts! note to self...always get her 2 donuts :-)

Anna's getting married!

Oh how I love Anna...she just goes with the flow with all the wedding stuff! I am a crazy list maker/time tabler/excel spreadsheet person and she's MUCH more mellow. I am sure I have told her more about my opinions on weddings than she cares to know (I also pretty much invited myself to be her personal attendant). The cool thing is that she is doing what she wants...and like she said, a wedding at 30 is different than at 23! As soon as she told me she was engaged I wanted to throw her a shower...I love a good party! So, as I do with most parties, I held it at my parents house.

The Details.

I wish I had pictures of the food...guess I forgot that! Anna's fav foods are pizza, pasta, and chocolate (is this why we're friends?). So for apps we had mini pizzas, some spin dip and some veggies. For the main course, we had a pasta bar...I had never done one before and now it's all I want to do, it was so cool! We also had salad and bread. For the dessert we had cake pops...my current rage! Anna has a little bluebird on her invite and so I made little bluebirds :-) We also had some yummy chocolate cake! The party favor was pretzels dipped in the blue and white colors from the bluebird...looks kinda like a babyshower...hehe. The other detail I don't have pictured is the "brown bag" theme. When Anna and I first went to the paper store she thought the paper bag style paper was cool...I said, yes, but not for your wedding. So I used it for her shower...and had everyone warp their presents in paper bags! Funny...

favors

cake popsanna enjoying her bluebird

The Games.

If you know me, you know I am not good with games...too competitive (that said, I do win a lot at showers). So for Anna's day we did an activity and a game. The activity was everyone got a card and drew a number 1-10. Whatever their number was, they had to write a card to Anna (and Chad) for that anniversary (I did this with a baby shower before, but it works for weddings too!). The game was one I stole from Brenna's shower...it doesn't involve any real skill, so it's hard to get mad. You get a marker and a piece of paper and you have to draw a picture of the bride in her dress. But wait, there is a catch :-) You have to draw the picture with the piece of paper on your head...it's pretty funny. Bride picks her favorite!

the "masterpieces" hanging on the mantle

Anna and her mom, who won :-) I'd say it's pretty close...

Also, for her gift, I had everyone submit a picture and a recipe and I made her a book...it will be helpful as Anna is going to need to practice with all of her cool new stuff!

The People.

anna and me anna and her mamma

maid of honor (sis, Kira), Anna, bridesmaid (Autumn) The whole group of fun ladies...

purple flower!

Juliette and I had to stop in at work on Saturday and Lois gave Juliette a purple flower- she thought she was pretty cool!

i wish you could hear her sniffing...i love her sniff!

Don't you wish you worked in my office?

This was what my boss brought me on Friday at about 3...can't complain...

Cookies

Just a nice little Monday night...after dinner Joey was enjoying some cookies and Juliette wanted in...she is currently REALLY in to sitting the the "adult" chairs...

cookie?

dip dip dip

ahhhhh!

Random Pics from my phone...part II

Each picture doesn't need it's own blog entry, but they are all fun...so here are some pics from my phone...

enjoying some sweet potato fries at green mill

seats at the twins game with Brent
onion rings we had at hrbek's before the game..

sleepy girl

NKOTBSB

As you may or may not know, NKOTBSB was in town...and it was fabulous! I was a little nervous because I was going with some seasoned professionals who were VERY excited, but I previewed the set list and felt good (I am more of a NKOTB fan and wasn't a die hard BSB fan so I wasn't sure how it would go). But the concert kept me dancing and singing and having a great time :-)

Noelle practicing her crying...

after dinner at 508...where a nice worker brought us shots. twice.
noelle stole a poster off the door they opened the men's bathrooms for the girls...
literally 10 minutes after asking kristine, "who would buy cotton candy", here is elizabeth:
opening act: mr. schu in our seats reaction when they saw them...reaction when they actually SANG... nkotb

the right stuff



step by step

cute girl, cute outfit...

I seriously got out my camera just because I loved this outfit and she was beig super fun!

Cute shirt, shorts, and shoes...what a doll :-)hey!
hurray!

this is how much i love my daughter...i look HORRIBLE here, but she was so cute i had to post it

a little better :-)

Bedtime

One night Juliette and I stayed at my parents house. I put her down around 8 and mom and I went to get Creamy Cone. When we came back my dad was in his bed and I asked if she was asleep and he had a big grin on his face (translation: he went in when we were gone and got hugs). Anyway, she started yapping so I went in to get her and thought I would bring her into their room. I put her down between my parents and she sat there for about 20 minutes watching tv with them...it was pretty adorable :-)

dun-dun

So apparently Juliette would make a great guest star on Law & Order :-)

my sweet 16?? nope....just some sweet wheels!

Juliette has a great second birthday...she also got some new wheels! Two to be exact...fitting, I suppose!

On her new bike from mommy and daddyyay! i like it!

testing out her new wheels from unkie B and antie K (unkie B was nice enought to assemble this, which is even better considering it's a pain and took a few hours! thanks B!)beep! beep!guess she needed a tow?