Wordless Wednesday- My Birthday

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Since we have had these pictures in our camera for a few weeks now I thought I would share! These are from my birthday celebration with my family.

We’re Home!

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Just a quick post to say that we made it home safely from Orlando. I have lots to do to catch up here. Balance checkbook, sort Avon, grocery shop, laundry, etc. Of course I hope to be able to pop on the computer a few times here and there

I have a ton of pictures I am going to post from our trip over the next few days or so. I can’t believe how many we took. we had an amazing time. I missed Bailey, but it wasn’t horrible. We were so busy most of the time, and then we’d see a kid her age and talk about her for a minute. The last day I started getting REALLY excited to get home and see her. She met us at the airport with my parents, holding a birthday balloon for me! I turned 28 while we were on vacation. I’m old.

Here’s a shot of Cinderella’s Castle. I haven’t even had a chance to go through all the pictures yet… More later!

My Dad’s 63rd Birthday

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My dad’s birthday was actually like two weeks ago and I am just now getting around to posting pictures. I can’t believe my daddy is 63. I know that’s not old but sometimes when I look at him I really notice how much older his face looks than it used to. And for me, an only child and daddy’s girl, it’s hard to see your hero getting older. We had our crazy fights when I was in junior high/high school but he is still a great dad and just a good person all around. I can’t imagine life without him and now birthdays are not only a celebration of life but also a reminder that we won’t be here forever.

Enough of that. It’s late and I’m sentimental and I just wanted to post some birthday pictures! We had a fun celebration for him at our house. It was just family and we opened a few presents (Bailey helped) and we ate cake (she still doesn’t really like it). He got some golf stuff and Cardinals stuff, which is the usual for him. Bailey is really starting to understand bringing presents to someone and then helping them to open. She is also figuring out that cards are boring and the presents are the good stuff! Now, I appreciate cards. As a kid? The boring thing you had to get through before you got your toy/clothes/cd/etc.

Here are a few pics from that day. You can click to enlarge them. I trimmed Bailey’s bangs the day before, so if you look closely you can kind of tell that they are less scraggly.

Happy (late) Birthday, Ella!

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Bailey’s little friend Ella turned one last week. We went to a party for her on Saturday. It was a luau theme and Emily and Christopher did a great job decorating! They also had live music and lots of food.

Daddy and Bailey in the hot sun- It was pretty hot at first-

After an hour or so we found a cooler corner of the yard to hang out in and it was nice and relaxing after that.

Bailey with friends Kaitlynn and Valletta

Emily and Ella

Here is Ella eating her birthday cupcake- at first she wasn’t interested at all and got upset when the icing got on her hands. Once everybody stopped watching, she ate it.

Playing ball

Moving Tubes

And at this party we discovered that Bailey loves being sprayed in the face with squirt bottles!

Thank you Ella for inviting us to your party! We had a great time! Happy birthday, big one year old

Andrew’s Birthday Party

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This past weekend, Bailey went to her first birthday party ever. (Well, other than for someone in our family). It was her friend Andrew’s first birthday. The party was supposed to be last weekend but he had the flu, so it got postponed. It was fun to be able to celebrate with him and hang out with his mom and some other friends for a while. They did a Cars theme for his party. There were two cakes, one for him and one for everyone else! They were so cute- I wish I had taken pictures of them! This makes me think more about planning Bailey’s first birthday. She might be having a butterfly party (surprise, huh).

When we arrived at the party, Sarah had a bunch of toys out for the kids to play with. Bailey really liked the busy box. I think that’s what it’s called. The thing where there are five pop-ups… you have to press a button/turn a dial/etc to get them to open… We might have to get her one of those for her birthday.


Andrew trying his birthday cake- at first he wasn’t really into it but then he ended up eating a lot of it. I just don’t have any pictures after the first few minutes because I was chasing Bailey around.



Busy playing amongst her friends and a giant pile of toys



This is what happens when you try to take the pictures of a bunch of little kids/babies. There is Bailey crawling away at the bottom right. Mackenzie seems to be the only one paying attention. AJ is holding a plate over his face, and Andrew is looking the other way. LOL

Bailey decided to go back and investigate the toy we gave Andrew.

Great Grandma’s 82nd Birthday

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I have some pictures from my grandma’s birthday a few weeks ago that I wanted to post. They aren’t the greatest pictures of anyone, but it was a fun night and so they represent great memories

Great Grandpa with Bailey- he just gets such a kick out of her. I haven’t seen him that happy in a long time. I need to make an effort to stop by more often with her so that they can play with her.

Bailey is crazy in love with Mylar balloons. We had a Care Bear one at our house for like two months that she would play with all the time. She likes to pull the string and watch it float up and down, or pat/slap it with her little hands.


Gram with her cake- I don’t know if I have mentioned this before, but her nickname is Babe. In fact, most people don’t even know her real name. It’s always funny to introduce my grandma and say, “And this is Babe…”

Four generations of women in our family- my grandma, my mom, me, and Bailey… of course we finally take the “four generations” picture and we are all a mess that day!

Jonathon’s Birthday- pictures

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These first few pictures aren’t from Jonathon’s birthday. They were the other day when Bailey had on a Happy Heinys diaper and I wanted to get a picture of it. I’m not sure that I like the diaper. It seems to absort/hold okay, but it is HUGE (it’s a large) and the material is really, really stiff. I am kind of glad I only got one.




Blowing out the candles on his ice cream cake… see how three plus two equals 32?? Aren’t I clever. Actually I forgot to get candles…. Oops

I love this picture of Bailey with her Grammy and Grandpa. I couldn’t get a really good “posed” picture of the three of them, but I just love this one!

Mommy and Baby

I told Jonathon to “look cute” before I took this picture. So this is what he did.

Bailey standing up with her new toy- I’ve posted pictures of it before but lately it’s like the ONLY thing she will play with. It’s about her shoulder height and has tracks/tubes that you can drop balls through. It lights up and does some other stuff, but she’s fairly sure that it only exists for her to pull up on and walk around

Now this afternoon Jonathon is ditching out on me to go see I Am Legend with some guys. I am sooo glad I don’t have to see it with him. Isn’t that awful? I would rather sit through a business performance management course than a movie without dialogue.

My Sweetie’s Birthday

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Jonathon turned 32 this week. I can’t believe it… where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday that we met and he was like 26 and I was 22 and had just graduated from college. I feel like he always gets shortchanged on his birthday, since it’s in December. I have usually already started my Christmas shopping and tend to just use one of the things I bought for Christmas, for his birthday. I’m sure his brother gets it even worse, as his birthday is December 31st.

Anyway, this year I decided I was going to make a point of doing something special for his birthday. We had his birthday dessert over at our house (I did not want to try to cook an entire meal, we’ve just been too busy lately) and I even put up streamers I will have to post pictures of that later when I get a minute.

I also made an effort to do my shopping in advance for him. He got two big gifts. The first was a wine of the month package. Like from one of those wine clubs. It turned out to be cooler than I thought it would be. At first, I couldn’t figure out why we were getting a FedEx shipment that an adult over 21 had to be home and sign for in person. Duh… I have just been doing too much online shopping lately and forgetting what is coming when!

Our neighbor ended up signing for it so I went over there to pick it up. It included a newsletter and a little score sheet for judging wine. There are two bottles, one red and one white. It also said on the package that a gift card was included, but apparently it was just a “greeting card” and not an actual gift card Anyway one of these nights we will have to do a date night and try our wine.

His other gift was a pocket knife. Not like a high tech Swiss Army one or anything, but a cool personalized one with his initials engraved on it. I tried to take a picture to include, but it wasn’t turning out well because the flash was reflecting off the shiny silver. I think he was pretty excited about the pocket knife. My dad and my grandpa both have one and they are always busting theirs out when something needs to be opened or cut or whatever. My grandpa was commenting last night that his was dull, so I might order him a new one for his birthday. I think it’s too late now to get it for Christmas, unless I pay for super mega fast shipping!

Oh, and we went to Outback on Jonathon’s actual birthday night, while my parents watched Bailey. We sat at the bar after dinner and had a few drinks. It was so great not to have to try to entertain her while we ate. We haven’t gone out alone in a few weeks, at least.

You Say It’s Your Birthday

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Today was my birthday. I am 27. We had a very fun day- Jonathon took the day off work to hang out with me and Bailey. We went to IHOP for breakfast and he gave me my gift- details later- then we went to the mall to pick up a diaper bag I wanted but it had been sold… so I’m on “the list” for it now

Tonight we had dinner with some friends at a Mexican restaurant and then we went to Ted Drewes so I could get The Great Pumpkin again. IT’s soooo good- if you like pumpkin pie and ice cream, you have to try it! It’s seasonal so I have to get my fill now! And my parents watched Bailey, so it was a nice, relaxing night!

Tomorrow we are having a garage sale at my friend Jen’s house. I hope we get rid of a lot of junk! Jonathon wants to use some of the money we make to invest in outdoor lighting. I just want to clear out some stuff from our house and I don’t care what happens after that