Hello Everyone......

I have not been able to blog this week:(. Hubby had picked up the newest operating system for my computer so it has been down this week. Although he has had my computer tied up in the evenings I have to say I am glad he did. He cleaned it all up and got alot of junk off of it so it is like a new computer again. When I say he cleaned it up - I of course mean all the files, etc but my whole computer looks new again!!!

Below are the two collages we did for the Princesses birthday party. Hubby printed these for us and they were 55" longs and 35" tall...I just loved them! I did collages for Hubby's birthday to - although I had those printed and they were not as big...they are 20x30 I think.

Last night we went to dinner with friends - our friend Amy's birthday was this month also, so our families went out last night to celebrate Amy's birthday and the Princess birthday.

We have not done much this week. The princess has been taking a few more steps.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

Random....

So it is Saturday, this is a very random post!

Today the Princess slept until 10AM!! I heard her waking up around 8:45 and then she went back to sleep because she did not cry out until almost 10AM!! It was strange getting her out of bed around the same time I am putting her down for a nap some days. Needless to say, we skipped our morning nap this morning.

After we got up and ready this morning we had a few errands to run. We did that then I stopped by McD's and got the two of us chicken nuggets to share and then she went down for her afternoon nap which was about 2 1/2 hours long. A friend came over this evening so we could start getting prepared for our next Bible Study. She had dinner with us and played with the Princess.

As most of you probably know I LOVE couponing. So yesterday I noticed one of the grocery stores had Hubby's toothpaste on sale. He is pretty brand loyal to his toothpaste. So I ended up getting three tubes of toothpaste and two toothbrushes for $1.35!!! I thought that was really great!!!

Well, I have a million and one things I need to get done before I go to bed tonight although I can barely hold my eyes open right now...so I am signing off for the night!

Hope you all had a great Saturday to!

July 6th

We were traveling back to our house on the Princess actual birthday this past year so she got to spend a good bit of time in the car that day. I figured out it is best to travel with her at night (for now anyway) because she has her eating schedule down and when it is time to eat she wants to eat. We had to stop twice to feed her along with a snack in there to!!

So the pictures I took of her on her actual birthday this year aren't so great...they are straight from my iPhone.  No, hubby was NOT letting her drive.  This is one of the times we had stopped and we were just sitting in a grocery store parking lot letting her have a break from her carseat!!

July 6, 2010 - 20 pounds 2 ounces

 July 6, 2009 - 5 pounds 11 ounces.

I can not believe how much she has changed in a year!
 

Part 2 - Birthday Party Here

If there is one thing I have learned in the past year, it is to have someone in charge of the camera rather than myself if I am throwing a party. At Hubby's birthday party I mentioned in the post that my friend Jen took the pictures and she took the pictures at the Princess birthday party to! I think she took close to 200 pictures.  THANK YOU SO MUCH, JEN!!!  You know how much each one of the pictures means to me!!! There is no way I can post them all on here...well, it is my blog so I guess I could. Ok, there is no way I can post them all on here right now!! Alot of the pictures include friends kids so before I post those I want to make sure none of our friends mind me doing so. So, I am guessing I will do some random birthday picture post in the future!

We had so much fun at her party. Hubby told me a while back that summer birthday parties are hard to have because so many people are out of town during the summer! Well, alot of our friends were out of town - actually quite a few were even out of the country but there were still around 33 people here.

Be warned!  There are quite a few pictures of the Princess eating her cake!  Her smash cake looked almost just like the big cake.  I did change her name on the cake to "the princess" just for the blog.  Her cake really did have her real name on it:)!

The Princess Birthday Party Here! Part 1

This past Saturday we had the Princess party here. When we talked about having her party in LA I had told hubby I still wanted a party here because this is where she is from:) and for the past year it has been so hard to have many people over at the same time and I really do like entertaining. It is getting a little easier to do things like that again now that the Princess is a little older and we are on a better schedule.

Here is a picture of her invite that I made. I do have to give credit to my sweet hubby who "tweaked" this after I finished it!! Again, I have changed some of the personal info on the invite for the blog!

I will post pictures of the party tomorrow! I still have to go in and edit them and convert them over to jpeg files so hopefully I will get that done quickly:)!

Hope you all have a great Thursday!!

Part 2 - Party Over The 4th of July in LA

Here are a few pictures from the LA party. Make sure you check out the very last one. Some people ask me if the Princess is always smiling and I usually say most of the time unless she is hungry, tired or needs her diaper changed. I think this picture has tired written all over it. Hubby and the Princess left when the party was over and headed back to my inlaws while I helped clean up. Hubby called me and said she was asleep in probably less than 2 minutes of leaving the party...she was one tired little girl but such a happy little girl until the end of the night.

Tomorrow I will begin posting about her party here this past Saturday! I did a totally different invitation for that party and I really liked the way it turned out!

Hope you all have a great Wednesday!!

Party Over the 4th of July in LA - Part 1

So we traveled back home for the 4th of July. A while back it had been mentioned to us to have a birthday party for the Princess while we were there. We thought about it and decided to because it would be a great way for friends and family to get to see the little Princess. One thing that is so hard when we go back home is trying to fit in getting to see everyone we want to see. It would be great if we could just have everyone over to one location (it would make it easier on us anyway) but that does not seem to happen. But this time it did. I have a cousin and several friends that would probably always make sure it would happen if they thought that would make us make it back home more often:)!! The party was so much fun and watching the Princess made it even more fun!

Correction to my previous post - I said the party was on July 3rd - it was on July 2nd.

I will have a post with a few pictures from the party tomorrow!  Here is the invitation from the party and the Thank You card from the party.  The invitation is a 4x9 card and the thank you card was made like a note card that you can open up and write on the inside, it was 4.25x5.5.  I made both of these.  My friend knew how much I was wanting to learn how to do these invitations and cards so she got me in touch with her SIL who was so kind to talk me through it over the phone.  Thank you both SO MUCH!!  I was so hooked after I got off the phone with her and stayed up for hours playing around on the computer.  Now I am just looking for things to make invitations/cards for:)!  The picture in the thank you card is the Princess eating her cake!

Here is the invitation that I made for this party.  I did change out some of the personal info for the blog. 

And here is the thank you!

I used  the digital package Sweet Cupcake by Dani Mogstad from Sweet Shoppe Designs


Hope you all have a great Tuesday!!

Forever!

Saying it has been forever since I have blogged is an understatement!! We have had so much going on that by the time evening comes around and the Princess goes to bed I am exhausted! I can't believe I did not even blog on her birthday but we were actually traveling that day. We had gone back home for the 4th of July weekend and while we were there the Princess had party 1 of 2 for her birthday. We did a party there on July 3rd and then we did a party here yesterday (July 17th). Both parties were SOOO much fun. I will be posting pictures and blogging about each one. She did great at both of them I might add!! We did the same theme at both of them and she wore the same little birthday outfit to both of them. I made the invitations for both parties and I did do those differently. I will post a picture of those to. I have also made her thank you cards for the party back home and will be making the ones for the party yesterday in the next couple of days. I will post those to. So see, I have ALOT to post about, it is just time I do not have these days.

Oh, the Princess took 4 steps on Thursday (July 15th). She has taken a couple of more over the weekend and then took probably about 5 more today....I think she will be walking all around here before I know it!!

The picture above is of her and hubby. He was actually clipping her nails in this picture. He still is the only one that clips her nails!!