A Birthday Night

Happy Birthday to the best mom ever, yesterday! We had a fun birthday party night! We ate dinner at Zuppas {tortilla chilli + honey bacon club - the bacon}. While we were eating Sophie was busy doing tricks with her plastic spoon. After dinner we went home ate cupcakes and did presents! My mom got just what she wanted, music books and gallison notebooks. Of course Sophie was very helpful unwrapping presents, and even sat in the gift bag! We followed up the presents with a few cards games and peanut butter m&m's. What a wonderful birthday night!

:: In other news.... Key Lime got a little makeover - to wordpress! I still have a lot to learn about wordpress but I'm loving it so far! I will be posting at Key Lime's blog page now, instead of just having a static "shop". Go check it out! And if you find broken links, or things that need fixing let me know! My current post talks about why I switched to wordpress!

a birthday girl {added party pictures}

dear birthday girl,

your birthday is soon and we are celebrating!

I can't believe my eyes. To think that you used to be a 6lb 4oz bundle of wiggle free love. Now your a 20lb jabbering, walking, smarty pants, bundle of joy. Where did the time go?

People warned me this would happen. That one day you would be one. They said that the  long nights, rocking you to sleep, snuggling wiggle free, and non mobile days would end quickly. They did.

This year has been full of new experiences for both of us. Good and Bad. But none that I would ever change. I have loved every minute of your first year. Watching you peacefully sleep. Having you wave "hi" to me when I walk in the door. Watching you laugh so hard you fall over.  Holding you on my lap for the first five minutes your awake and watching mickey mouse. Then setting you down and watching your personality come to life as you play, find puffs in the toy box, hide things in the bookcase, and play dare devil on the stairs.

Little Miss, I am the luckiest mom alive. You are my one, my little love. Or my little peanut, as I am sure great-grandma would call you.

You are getting so big and growing up fast. I have plans to cherish each day with you.

I hope to see you scrunch up your nose and smile everyday. I love you Sophie Laree.

Happy 1st Birthday!

:: These Days We.... are eating gingersnap cookies and couting the hours til santa comes!

***** added 12/27 *****

After having Sophie's party I had to add some pictures :)

the 3 december birthday girls :)

birthday week.

Today is the beginning of B's birthday week. I am to blame for the "birthday  week"

tradition. What can I say other than I like to take advantage of my birthday.

 I love my husband and he knows that, but his birthday is a perfect time to show him in a million ways! To kick off his birthday week I made a "26 reasons I love you garland"

{inspired by inchmark}

Punched out 26 little shapes and wrote reasons I love him on the back.

Then I strung the shapes on the ribbon. I started the garland on the front door, with brian's picture and a happy birthday week message. The garland goes around the family room, onto the entertainment center.

26 love notes + a container of pineapple sherbet = the start of birthdy week

happy birthday week brian!

Birthday!

My birthday cake! Brian always makes sure to make me some kind of special birthday cake! I love it!

Last Sunday we had a birthday party with my family and had a delicious birthday dinner! My family gave me a B Makowsky purse! I was so excited I didn't even know what to say! I LOVE IT!

Today Brian took me to the Gateway and we walked around and shopped for a while {til it started snowing to bad} and took me to lunch! I wanted to go to Do-Do's but we found out when we got there it was out of business! So we happen to run in to a place called Biaggi's. One of our friends from work used to work at Biaggi's and always talks about how good it is! So we decided to try it out! It was SO good! We had Crab & Lobster Dip, Farfella Pasta, and Brian had some kind of shrimp pasta! YUM! Thanks Brian! What a great 21st Birthday!!!

happy birthday brian!

Brian is 25! I can't believe it! We had such a fun day on his birthday! Brian slept in while I went to school and took a Chemistry test. Then I got home and gave him his presents. Then we met my family for lunch at Cutlers! {yum!!} and my family gave Brian an ipod! He was so excited! .... I knew they were giving him an ipod so I had my camera ready for a reaction picture. Of course, my camera died just as he opening it. :( Guess that will just have to be a memory! After lunch we went to a corn maze out in Syracuse. They had all kinds of fun things to do besides the maze! There was slides, and duck races! Then we went home and watched the BYU game! They won!!! Then Brian's family came over for cake & ice cream! What a great day!

Brian & Kendra

Guess even if your 25 you can go down the slide on your stomach! :)

Dad & Carson playing the duck race! It was really fun! Brian ended up really wet!

20?

Thanks everyone for making my birthday great!! Brian is now the official cake baker! He made me the best cake ever!!! It's in the shape of a violin! I can't even tell you how impressed I was! My mom made me a great Birthday dinner too! And like my mom said, "the birthday elf" visited me! I can't believe I'm 20!! :) Doesn't the number 20 seem so different than 19????

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday Mom! Yesterday was my moms birthday! We had a lot of fun celebrating with her! We went to the Olive Garden for dinner and then went home and played Canasta (Hand & Foot) After Brian and I won the first round my mom decided to make a birthday request that she could win the next round, but she didn't get her wish! Sorry! : )

Thanks for Being the best mom ever! We always love spending time with you and hope you had a happy birthday!