It's Official - She's a Year Old!

Y'all...how did this happen? How did my sweet little baby turn into a big girl? She's one years old and I can not believe it. I knew it was going to happen but now that she's officially 1 and the
party has passed I am in disbelief. She's all big and stuff.

Her birthday was one for the books. Seriously, it was awesome if I do say so myself. I was so happy with how everything turned out!!! Here are some pictures from that special day...

The decorations and beautiful cake...






Favors!


The Princess in her new princess chair from KK and Pa Tim


Momma puting on her birthday hat


She didn't really like it...


...at all


MacKenzie wanting her FuFu


My Princess


Nicky and MacKenzie


Cake Time!!




YUM!!












NOT THE HAIR!!


This is soooo good!!!


Nana and Kenzie-Girl


Clean up time!


Nana kissing Kenzie


KK and Kenzie


Princess Gets to Open her Presents!

Crunch Time

Dang...what's with the lack in blogging?! Maybe it's all the party planning...or sewing...or both?! Yowza! I have been busy.

Last weekend I got to leave town. I went to the beautiful ATX with some of the mom's in my playgroup. They are some seriously great ladies and it was a much needed trip. I left Friday evening and returned home Sunday afternoon. It was fun y'all. We relaxed, shopped, soaked up some rays, ate, drank, and danced! It was a serious good time. I have been completely blessed to meet some wonderful ladies through this playgroup and I had so much fun relaxing and being women, not moms, together!!

I returned home Sunday and picked MacKenzie up from my moms. Jimmy went to the Texans game and the kids went to the parentals. My mom took MacKenzie for a few hours and JD went with FuFu and Aylie's family to the Renissance festival. He had a great time from what I can tell. He got a wooden sword and his face painted. Would you like to guess what he chose for his face? A butterfly. Daddy was really thrilled to see this. The professional face painter did try to make it as manly as possible - it was more of a moth than a butterfly. Awesome.

We are now in crunch time. We have a very busy week this week! Tomorrow Jimmy and I have a counseling appt with my mom (insert need of prayers here). Wednesday night we are eating at Jimmy's sisters house. Thursday JD has school, then he's going bowling with daddy for a bit, and then Nana and PawPaw will be in town. Friday I am hosting a home birthday playdate for MacKenzie. Friday night we will enjoy Nana and PawPaw being in town. Saturday we have our company picnic. Sunday is the BIG day - MacKenzie's 1st birthday party. Somewhere during this time I have 3 outfits to finish, food to buy, and breaths to take. Sounds fun I know.

On a very good note - I had a housekeeper come today. She rocked. I can't wait to see her again in 2 weeks!!

Peace...mama needs some sleep!

Bible Reading and Sweet Praying

So, I thought I'd share a few segments from our story and prayer time tonight...

I started reading JD the Bible tonight. He got a rhyme Bible for his first birthday and it's been in the top of his closet for some time. It has paper-pages and JD went through a big page-tearing phase. So...it was up there for safe keeping. Anyways. Tonight was the night. JD had a bookfair at his school a couple weeks ago and I was looking for a good kids Bible there. I couldn't find one so we just went with the rhyme Bible.

I was so surprised, pleasantly surprised to read it while he thoroughly enjoyed it. He loved it and was so upset when we stopped for the night. I am constantly surprised with how much he is really learning and picking up on. The Bible itself has the catchy rhymes and pretty good children terms, while still staying very consistent with the Word. Anyways, he was glued to it and was really following everything. I would stop every once in a while to ask him questions and he knew all the answers.

We were making our way through Genisis and had gotten to the story on Noah. I knew he would love it because it was about a boat. And animals. He did indeed. I was explaining the whole "people being bad and brothers making their sisters cry (y'all, it really did say that)" and how it made God sad. To which he replied...

"Mama, I am kinda like God."
"Oh, yeah?"
He said, "Yes. Because I said, 'Don't eat that fruit people!"

Oh my...what do you even say to that? I laughed and then hugged him because he's getting it. Afterall, he was create after His own image.

We finished the reading of the Bible and started our prayers. I did my usual praying while he repeated or agreed. When I finished I asked if he wanted to say anything to God? He said "Yes, I want to tell him happy birthday. I want to get a microphone so I can sing God happy birthday." Ok, sounds good to me.

Pure preciousness.

I can't believe a year has almost passed!

I am totally slacking in my blogging. Goodness....

So what's new? Well, in 2-1/2 weeks my baby girl will be 1. I just can't get over it. The beginning months were so hard with her. Then between months 5 and 8, things got a lot better. She became a lot easier. We really started to like one another. Then 10 months hit. And I really fell in love. I mean, I loved her before. I really did. But 10 months hit, and oh my word. I think we really fell in love with one another. She always loved me and preferred me over anyone else. But I think it was a new found love. She no longer loved me in hopes I would heal that hurting belly or whatever pain colic causes. She no longer loved me because I had milk. She no longer loved me because I carried her so I didn't have to hear her yell. She loved me for other reasons now. She loved me because I was her mommy. And because she was my daughter I loved her. And I do. I don't know how many times a day I look at her and ourselves in the mirror and pinch myself because I can not believe she's mine. I am not sure if I went throught this whole realization with JD. I think because with him, it was complete "love at first sight." It was from day one that I loved that sweet boy. He was IT for me from birth. MacKenzie was IT from 10 months all. Oh my, I am just smitten with her. She smiles and my heart melts. We are pretty much CRAZY about eachother. I am so blessed and so eternally grateful for both of my sweet babies sleeping soundly upstairs. Thank you sweet Jesus.

Ok, enough mush. Seriously. Did I bore y'all yet?!

I have also been a sewing machine. I can't stop. It's like a bad habit, except not so bad. Actually really good. I have made a few things here in the last week...

An outfit I made for Little Miss Reagan!


Is she not the cutest thing??


You should see MacKenzie and Reagan and JD and Ayden together. They are so cute. Seriously cute.

I just made this one for another friend's daughter, Claire.


And Miss MacKenzie's little Halloween outfit. CUTE!


So, yes. It's a serious addiction. I have 4 more outfits to finish next week and then I am working on a new design for a friend's daughter.

Fun stuff.

While we are sharing pictures. I have a few to share of my girl. I would share some of JD but he doesn't really like to take pictures. At all. MacKenzie doesn't really either but she doesn't have much of a say so yet!

















I love this one of daddy holding his baby girl's feet

Love Me Some Bling

I have blogged about my girl over at Baby Wears Prada before but if you still haven't checked her out - SHAME ON YOU! I forgive you though - now's the time!!! She's having an awesome giveaway right now - a JuJuBe Diaper Bag and a Sweet Dreams Tee!!! I *heart* these tee's. They are precious. I want one for myself!! Go check it out...leave a comment...and enter to win! GO NOW!!

Busy

Again...I am slacking on my blogging. This is partly why. Oh my word, Monica has outdone herself on this photo shoot. Seriously precious. I am sure it's a combo of the photo skills and the precious little thing being photographed. Then again, I am a little biased.

Anyways, I am a teensy-weensy bit busy at the moment. We are about to head out the door. JD has class at The Little Gym and I need to stop by JoAnne's. I am all out of elastic thread and I have some sewing to do. PLUS, I hear a few fall prints calling my name - girl needs some fall clothes. She has none. Not one to wear...poor naked baby. HAH!


Hope all had a great weekend. We did but I am really tired from it.

LATER!

Home from the river

The lack of blogging has been due to the increase in sewing, traveling, and unpacking.

We enjoyed our last (tear) camping trip of the summer. We spent the past weekend in Frio Country. We stayed at our most favortie cabins (actually we tried out the new Riverbelle house and LOVED it) on the Frio and had the BEST trip ever. It's so nice now that the boys are getting bigger and MacKenzie is a little older. The boys played their hearts out and had so much fun. MacKenzie was in the middle of all of it and was sooo wonderful. She loves to be outside so she was in heaven the entire trip. She also LOVES the water and floated that river like you have never seen. It was sooo precious...

We stay at the Frio River Cabins and y'all, it's seriously the greatest place ever. The owners, Don and Lisa Yaklin are wonderful people. They are so sweet to our family and not only let us come and stay in their wonderful little cabins but they open up their home and land to the kids. They let them hunt for chicken eggs, play with the dogs, and feed the horses. JD and Nicky think it's the best thing ever. These city boys love hunting their chicken eggs. Of course if you ask JD, he'll tell you that the last eggs (from our May) trip hatched and we had 2 baby ducks. Odd...chicken eggs having baby ducks. Nicky will tell you that he's not going to cook them because he wants a baby chicken. Luckily, neither remember in the morning and had no problem chowing down on their breakfast tacos!!!

Here are some pictures from the trip. I hope to post some more in a few days when I get our water camera developed. Those are going to be great! For now, enjoy...


MacKenzie tasting her cousin's popsicle


MacKenzie enjoying her first smore. Poor JD didn't enjoy one of these until he was way past a year. Second child...


WHAT?!


Nicky and JD wearing their matching PJ's I made


The girls and their matching PJ's


Happy girl. I don't know if she was clapping or blowing kisses, but she's happy!


Cousins


Sleepy Boys.


Uncle Nick getting in some serious bow practice.


Nicky loves his Kenzie-Girl.


JD and Chief.


Best Buds!


JD and Nicky with the eggs they found.


The view from our cabins huge front porch. Seriously...


I think she's mad I won't let her eat the small rocks.


Handsome boy actually smiling.


Pretty girl sitting in the water.




Our cabin.

We are glad to be home and back to the norm. We went to the zoo yesterday and had a blast. I will post about that tomorrow. I have some more cute pictures.

Off to catch up on shows and work on the girl's party. Yes. She will be 1 years old in less than a month. How is that possible...