Happy First Birthday Audrey Sophia!!

This past weekend Justin and I went to College Station to celebrate Audrey's 1st Birthday. It's hard to believe she is already a year old! There was lots of food, friends, and fun! The birthday girl had a blast and it was so much fun getting to see her light up at the little things from balloons...to cake...to seeing all of the people that love her so much. It's just so fun to watch babies and their curiosity and pure genuine happiness. Rachel (Audrey's mom) handmande all of the decorations. She got a lot of the ideas off of pinterest and man did she do a fabulous job!! Everything came together perfectly. I LOVED the pinwheels - still can't believe she made them! Audrey's cupcakes were absolutely delicious...one of the best cupcakes I've ever had! When it came time for presents, Audrey was more interested in her cards and showing them to everyone - it was so cute. Her presents with books were saved for last because she loves to read so much that it would have halted the present opening if they were mixed in and not at the end. Pretty amazing that a one year old already loves books this much. So here's some of my favorite pictures...they were hard to choose because Audrey is so dang cute...and out of 150 pictures - almost all of them are of her!

Audrey's own cake!

Happy Birthday Banner



Homeade pinwheels...so cute!



Soda Bucket



Pretty Pom Poms



Perfect day for an outside party



Beautiful (and super yummy) Cupcakes!!

 

Gorgeous Birthday Girl



Little Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 2033! A!!



Pretty little birthday dress

Sitting with all of her presents

So happy  :)

Helping open her presents

Boy does this girl LOVE Mickey Mouse!

Mom & Dad with the Birthday Girl

She's showing me her cake!

Now she's getting serious!

Little tricycle or drums??

Look at that smile!

Check out my new books!!

 **Just a side note...Audrey's Dad (Cliff) is a chef and opened up his new restaurant in College Station on Audrey's actual Birthday (March 2nd)...how cool is that?? I can't wait to check out Grub next time we are in CS...YUM!**

Parties, Presents, and Pictures

I can't believe it's only 6 days until Christmas!! This past weekend we were busy busy with all kinds of different festivities. Thursday night we had Justin's HotSchedules Christmas Party at Cool River. They had a nice buffet, free drinks and games. Justin won a $100 gift card to Ruth's Chris! Whoop! He has so much better luck than me but I'm not complaining :)

The only picture from the party - @ least it's a keeper :)

Friday night we headed to College Station to spend the evening with Sandie, Rachel, Neil, Audrey, and Laura. We had a great dinner and then had fun watching Audrey open her presents. It was good practice for Christmas morning because they realized to have Audrey open her books last. She opened the book first and didn't want to open anymore presents! What 9 month old do you know that loves books that much?! She's just so precious!

"Hey mom look what I've got"

The tag was more of a hit than the clothes

My FAV picture!! So sweet

After a great breakfast at Madden's on Saturday morning, and a stop at Grandma's house, Justin and I were off to Huntsville for Kristin's graduation. After graduation we took some pictures and then headed over to Margarita's Mexican Restaurant for Kristin's party. We had some great food and fun but then it was time to head back to Austin.

Congrats Kristin!! (boo for the dark picture)

Sunday was the first time in 6 weeks that I woke up at home on a Sunday. It was SO nice to relax and enjoy the morning with Justin and the dogs. After some down time it was time to run errands and clean the house. But inbetween my dad and I took the dogs to get their pictures taken with Santa. I've been so busy this month that I almost forgot about this! We've done it every year since Hunter was a little puppy and I wasn't about to let my busy schedule stop me this year!

Love!

Look at those sweet faces!

We ended our weekend last night with our Neighbor Christmas gift exchange...It was the perfect end to a perfect weekend! I am super exicted about Christmas next weekend!! Not only is it Christmas but it will be my first full weekend at home in 7 weeks (that's almost 2 months). This has been a crazy busy year but an extremely crazy busy last couple of months. I am looking forward to spending the holidays with family and just relaxing. I have 10 days off for Christmas and am looking forward to relaxing :)

Spring Time Fun

This spring has been so busy but so fun. Justin and I threw a surprise 25th Anniversary party for my parents and it was a BLAST! They were indeed surprised and everyone had a great time. The pictures below are all taken by the wonderful Rachel Barde!



My photographer & amazing cook :)





The Delish cake!



SURPRISE!



The Party Animals

 On Saturday Justin and I went to Steiner Ranch Steakhouse to celebrate our 6th month anniversary...can't believe it's already been 6 months!

**Note - I found this blog posts in my drafts and decided I might as well post it - better late than never**