Enter creative title here....: May 2012

Liz knows stuff...

Liz graduated from UNT two weeks ago! We are so proud of her and are so excited about her new job next year! She will be a fantastic teacher!

"WE <3 LIZ !!"

I found this cute idea on Pinterest....came out pretty good, if I do say so myself!

Fun teacher gifts

The parentals

While waiting 2 hours at Cheesecake Factory for dinner after graduation, we noticed that it was also Prom weekend and there were tons of fancy-dressed high schoolers waiting with us. We decided to do our own awkward prom group shot....

More normal sibling shot

Marcos and Liz

Alex and Lane...so sweet.

The next day was Mother's Day. I hosted a lunch at our house- so fun to have everyone at home!

GG, Grandmommy, Paige and Lucy

We also celebrated all the spring and summer birthdays- Alex, Elena, Liz, Grandmommy, and Cameron!

Cousins who love their paci's...and each other!

Square One Birthday Party

We hosted our playgroup's first birthday party a couple of weeks ago. Our church has a great ministry for new moms called Square One- you basically meet new mommies that have babies around the same age as yours and eventually form playgroups.

I was so blessed to have met these moms and their sweet kiddos- I vividly remember bringing Lucy to Square One when she was 17 days old- we were all bleary-eyed, sleep-deprived mommies, trying to figure out how to nurse while using nursing covers, trying to figure out why our babies wouldn't sleep, just trying to make it those first few months without going a little crazy.

We've loved being able to play together with our friends this past year on an-almost-weekly basis.

Here's our birthday party:

Lilli wants out!

Lucy and Luke

She was tired so she just laid down. Again, theme of birthday parties is that she doesn't nap well and isn't in a great mood.

All of our friends playing!

Getting a ride from Luke and Presley.

Houston

A couple of weeks ago, we made the trip down to Pearland (south of Houston), to spend the weekend with some of Mike's roommates from college and their families! We were able to stay with James and Betsy and their sweet girls, Grace Anne and Abigail, and then David and Shelley came on Saturday and we got to meet baby Coraline!

We had a great time seeing everyone, getting to hang out and play....

loving her new Etch-a-Sketch she got for her birthday!

Shelley and Coraline

Dave and James

Grace Anne holding Coraline

Abigail!

loving spaghetti for dinner!

sweet sisters

Ladybug birthday party!

So, I'm embarrassed at how late this post is... but better late than never! We celebrated Lucy's first birthday the Saturday after her actual birthday. We call Lucy "Ladybug" and so I thought that a ladybug-themed birthday party would be fitting! I got a ton of ideas off Pinterest.... as Alex and Elena said, it looked like Pinterest exploded in my house. :)

I had lots of help to pull off the party and couldn't have done it without everyone's help!

Warning- there are a ton of pics in this post....enjoy!

The Friday night before the party, Liz, Alex, Elena and Mom came over to help me ice and decorate 50 cupcakes and the smash cake, as well as finish her picture banner....

Liz wasn't quite sure about this....

Yes, that's Alex sniffing glue in the back...

Elena's cyclopes bug

The birthday banner- it had each month's monkey pic. So fun to see how she's grown!

The smash cake, made by yours truly! See the two teeth on the bottom- supposed to look like my ladybug!

The day of the party, we had fun! She hadn't napped well that day and wasn't in a great mood (aka- not wanting anything to do with cake or presents), but we still had fun having our families and close friends with us to celebrate her first year! Honestly, I think it's more of a celebration for the parents making it through the first year...but that's just me. :)