Happy Birthday Miss Priss!

Finally... Miss Priss' birthday recap post! My inspiration was the Little Miss/Little Mr books by Roger Hargreaves. Y'all know the books... Little Miss Bossy, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Miss Chatterbox, etc... I didn't want to do a "theme", so I used pink, purple, and orange to tie everything together.

Her invitation used the cover artwork of the Little Miss Birthday book
I made the birthday banner for the mantel

Paper lanterns and balloons made the cupcake table festive. The kiddos decorated cupcakes for the activity and I personalized aprons so they wouldn't get too messy.

Food set up on the bar

Close up of the utensils

Pink, purple, and orange Juicy Juice for the kids

Miss Priss checking out all the presents!

Loving opening her presents! I made a t-shirt that said "Little Miss Payton" and the artwork from the book and invitation.

You can see one of the aprons on Reese... in purple trimmed in pink of course!

LC and I bought her a Cozy Coupe and she was THRILLED when LC rolled it into the house. It was quite the popular gift... all the kiddos wanted to ride.

Happy birthday sweet girl! The last two years have been the best of my life. You made the biggest dream I ever had come true when I became your momma. I love you!

Big Sister P

Introducing...

Miss Teagan Kate. Born on August 24th at 7:31 am. 7 pounds 2 ounces. 18 inches long.

Build A Bear

This morning, we took Miss Priss to Build A Bear to make a little something for her and Little Miss. Turns out, you can't buy "little somethings", so we now have two large-ish stuffed animals (I think stuffed animals are the bane of any mom's existence... what do you do with all of them??). The plan is for P to take the animal up to the hospital when she first meets T.

P selected a bunny for sister and a kitty for herself. As we were waiting, she spotted this Hello Kitty monstrosity... luckily, we were able to distract and put it back in the bin!
Picking out the hearts for "Bunny" and "Meow"

Sewing up "Meow"

Holding Sister's finished bunny

Holding "Bunny" and "Meow"

4th of July

For the 3rd year, we spent the 4th with the Semi-Homemades. We skipped the parade (see last year's post for why we didn't go) this year and headed over after naps.

The girls colored (since it was over 100 outside!) and G-man tried to get in on the action.

Mr. Semi-Homemade grilled burgers, brats, and hot dogs for the kiddos. We paired it with grilled corn on the cob, LC's homemade mac and cheese, fresh berries, guacamole, and Pioneer Woman's sheet cake! Delicious!!

For our after dinner entertainment, the girls (and LC) danced to their favorite song... Lady Gaga's "Poker Face".

The guys set up Rock Band.... sang several songs... and decided it wasn't as fun when you had 3 little ones trying to play too!

Once Rock Band was put away, we headed to the fireworks. They had several hot air balloons burning off excess gas and P was none too pleased with the loud noise. She laid on the blanket like this or in my lap until the balloons had been put up!

I think she got her second wind.... R and P ran circles around us until the fireworks started.

It was all fun and games until the booms started....

but after awhile, she actually watched the gorgeous fireworks!

Brownies

This evening, LC and Miss Priss made brownies (for me). Of course the best part is licking the beater and spatula...

... or the side of the bowl if you're P!

Yum!

Milestone Weekend

Thursday I celebrated my 28th birthday! P and I treated ourselves to donuts before the last swim lesson. We'd celebrated with the Semi-Homemades the Saturday before, so I wasn't expecting anything from LC. He walked in with this huge box from Sprinkles. A dozen assorted cupcakes. These aren't just any cupcakes.... these are super popular, super expensive (almost $50 for 12), and pretty dang good.


Miss Priss had to sample the icing... which elicited an "mmmmmmmmmmmmmm"!


Saturday morning we dropped Scout off and headed to Belton for my 10 yr high school reunion. Aya and Da came down as well, so P stayed with Nonnie, Deeda, Aya, and Da... She had a ball doing just about anything she wanted while LC and I went to the dinner.

(29.5 weeks in this pic.... I don't feel like I look this big! Lord help me with the next 10ish weeks)

I honestly can't believe I'm 28, have been out of high school for 10 years, will have pledged Kappa 10 years ago this August, have been married for 3 1/2 years, have an almost 2 year old and about to have another little girl. Sometimes I think I can't be old enough to be doing "this".... the grown up life I so desperately wanted at such a young age.... a mortgage, being married, having children, worrying about raising said children "right", and trying to be my own person in the middle of it all. But I am, and I think I'm doing a pretty decent job, but time keeps flying by!