Feeling Wicked?

Ever since my Sis in Law Andrea introduced me to the amazing music of Wicked (about 3-4 years ago) I have wanted to go. So for mothers day I told Stephen that all I wanted was a weekend away from being a mommy and a ticket to Wicked, not much to ask....right? Well being the great guy that he is I went to San Francisco with my mom, sister, and Sister in law Christa. The one rule for our trip was no kids allowed! We had a blast in San Francisco. We went to pier 39, China Town, Little Italy, and of course we did some shopping. Wicked was AMAZING and so much fun if you ever get the chance to go you should. I didn't bring my camera so I don't have pictures but here is one I stole from my sisters blog! It was a great last splurge before I am officially a mother of two!

A very happy Un-Birthday!

Because Stephen won't be here when Katie actually turns three next month we decided to have her big birthday party before the baby was born and before Stephen left. My mom and I spent HOURS making Katie's princess castle birthday cake which turned out pretty cute although, I have decided that cake decorating is also not a talent of mine so don't look to close! We had the party at the park and we played "pin the tale on the donkey" and we had a pinata. When we bought the pinata and brought it home I explained to Katie that the pretty pink and yellow flower (which she loved) was not going to be around forever. I explained the whole concept behind a pinata and she even helped me fill the pinata up with all the goodies. She seemed fine at home with the idea but once all the kids actually started to hit her beautiful flower she fell to pieces. I felt so bad! She was heart broken to think that her new flower was going to be destroyed. After some calming down and some reminding of all the candy on the inside of the pinata she finally came around and helped in the fun. Katie was such a lucky girl and got lots and lots of gifts from her family. She got some play makeup, a bowling set, a battery operated pet hamster, some awesome learning puzzles, a big ball that she can bounce on, a computer game and a few other things. I am so lucky to have the love and support of my family. Overall she had a great party. Our camera was acting up so we didn't get a lot of pictures of the event but here is what we have!

Hailey's Here

Talk about close in age this is my new niece Hailey. Hailey is my brother Russell's newest addition to his family! She is such a sweet happy little girl and I have happy visions of my little girl and this little girl being great friends and going to things like EFY together in the far future! I just had to post a little tribute to my new niece. I am so happy for Russell and Amber and Hailey's big brother Tyler!

We're Back!

No good excuses to offer for my lack of blogging other than life has seemed to be flying by us. Stephen's acceptance into school has made us very busy dealing with moving, apartment finding, financing, planning and basically trying to figure out how we are going to move across the country and have a baby and go to school all at the same time. It has been interesting because it seems like nothing has really happened in my small family for some time and now everything is happening at once! I am officially one week away from having this little girl join our family and we are very excited! Because I know I have a dead line I am going to be catching up the blog this week.

To catch up Katie, Stephen and I went camping about three weeks ago. We found the absolutely best camp ground. The camp ground had a nice grass area for the tent, the cleanest camp bathrooms I have ever been in, A great fire pit area, and nice hot showers...Okay due to our obvious circumstances we couldn't plan a good time to go so we improvised and went camping in the back yard! Honestly it was a ton of fun and one of the best camping trips that I have ever been on! We did everything you would want to do when you go camping. We played card games, told "scary" stories, made smores, and looked up at the stars. We spent two nights sleeping in the tent and we all had a blast especially Katie who loved "camping" out. Below are the pictures from oue little adventure.