Kristy turns 30!!

So a month ago I turned the big 30!!! Wow!!! I can't believe it!!! My family typically gets together for everyone's birthday and either goes out to eat or we make something special and then of course there is cake and ice cream. On my actual birthday Brandon took me and the kiddos to California Pizza Kitchen. I love their food!! It's so yummy!! After, we went over to Macy's because I needed a new purse, (mine had just died when I got home). I love my purse!! I think it is the first one that actually works the best for me. I am usually a small purse kind of gal, if they are too big they get used as a storage container for everyone's stuff. However, this time I wanted to try a little bigger one, plus it is really cute!! What I love about it, is that there aren't any section dividers or big pockets to take up space inside. You open it up and there is one place to put everything inside. There are two small pockets on the inside, one I use for my phone and the other for misc. stuff. There is a place for my makeup too and then on the outside I have a place for my keys. That is another plus!! I have never had a good place to put my keys, subsequently I would be rummaging for them at the bottom of my purse. So annoying!!! Anyway, it is a great purse (and temporary diaper bag for short trips) and I hope it lasts me for a while.
My parents, the next night, took me out the next night. This time I decided on Mimi's!!! Yummy!!! I love this time of year, everyone does their pumpkin flavored treats!!! Mimi's had this pumpkin bread that tasted soooo good. Mmmmm!!! Thanks Mom and Dad!! Dinner was great!!
Monday night my brother and his wife came over to my parents house for cake and ice cream. I wanted something different and a little healthier so we did a pudding cake (cake then pudding for the frosting). My mom and Scott decorated it like a graveyard. (Halloween is THE best holiday, but then maybe I am a little partial) LOL
Since I was 30 I thought I should celebrate a little more. So on the 17th we got together with some great friends and my friends Katrina and Matt Fritter's house to play games and have some yummy snacks. I had a great time!! It was so nice to get out and play some grown up games and not have to worry about the kids coming and messing it up!! Thanks Tandy, Kristen, Josh, Katrina and Matt and, (of course), my hubby, Brandon for coming !! You made my birthday very special!! Sorry I don't have the pictures, they were taken on someone else's camera.
Lillian and I waiting for our food. Sorry it's blurry but my camera was still getting fixed so it was taken with the blackberry camera and well you can't move when taking a picture. As you can see Lillian moved her arm. My little monkey is getting so big and she is so pretty and I swear sometimes she looks just like me!!

Daddy and Preston and yup he moved too. Oh well still cute!! My little baby is sooo stinkin cute!! I just love him. I love his smile and to see him laugh!!
Mom decorating my birthday cake.....Mmmmm looking yummy. Lillian in the foreground trying to help herself to the goodies on the cake.
The finished product!!
A closer shot of the cake!! It reads, Happy Birthday Kristy, if you had a hard time reading it. Mom isn't as good at the writing as I am. But who cares, it looked and tasted great!! Thanks Mom!! The cookies and Ande's Mints are the gravestones and there was crumbled oreo's for the "dirt". There were ghosts and pumpkins too!!

Preston!!

Just a quick post on my little boy!! He is getting to be so big. I can hardly believe he is 9 months.
We went to his 9 month check up (awhile ago) and he is doing great.
My little guy is so squirmy and well it got up with him. On Weds. Sept. 23rd he rolled off the counter in the bathroom (he had just gotten a diaper change) at my parents house. My mom had reached over to grab Lillian forgetting that Preston is so squirmy and just barely missed him. My mom called me at work to tell me what had happened and that he wasn't acting normal. Thankfully Brandon was almost off work so he was able to check on him and make sure it wasn't serious. When I stopped to pick up the kids a couple hours later, I felt there was something definitely wrong with his one leg since he would scream every time I tried to touch or move it. So after a very fun and exciting ER visit complete with x-rays it was determined that he had a buckle fracture in his left femur. They put a soft cast on it there and I scheduled an appt. with an ortho to put the hard cast on Friday morning. We are grateful the break wasn't in his growth plate and that it wasn't displaced. Mommy decided on a blue cast. He only had to wear the cast for 2 weeks. Thank goodness babies grow fast!!
Thankfully he had gotten his cast off the day before so I have an accurate weight. Although he had lost 7 ounces from the time 2 weeks before in ER. But the doctor said that was normal because he had been dragging that thing around where ever he crawled.
Anyway, he weighed 19lbs 14 ounces and was 28 1/2 inches long. Still in the 50%!!!
Don't remember what his head measurements were and they didn't write them on my sheet. But that was in the 50% too.
Preston loves food. I can feed him anything and he will eat it. It is so nice not having a picky eater (one's enough). He loves to crawl around and pull himself up on anything he can reach. He absolutely loves his sister and drives her nuts too. But that's what little brothers do (at least that's what I remember mine doing) LOL!! Lillian loves him too, though but we're still working on the whole sharing thing. Some days are better than others. Preston (or Mr. P) has we call him is going to be my little mischievous child. He puts everything and anything he can find in his mouth. The word NO I think means smile and look as cute as possible so mom will change her mind and then just keep right on doing it. We have found, so far, a red crayon, paper, tissues, the cat's water bowl and their scratch toy, plastic bags, any kind of cord, Lillian's books, and the diaper champ. There are days I feel like I don't have enough places to put all the things he can't play with. But we love him anyway. He is such a happy baby and brings so much joy to our family. He loves to be in our arms and snuggles a little with mommy!
Standing up in his crib!! This is after we lowered the crib all the way!! At least he can't fall out!! LOL
My little guys pretending to use the binkie. He would rather play with it then use it for what it is suppose to be for (and yes I know it's pink it is one of the ones we bought for Lillian but never used.)Waiting to get his cast off!!
Cutting through!!
We all signed his cast, Lillian had a little help from mommy. I wrote "Mommy is the best."

I think it is so crazy that this machine just stops when it touches the skin. Amazing!!!
All done!! "Yeah, I got my leg back, mommy!!!" He started moving it around as soon as the cast came off!! He was so happy!!!

Birthday Party

Lillian had her first birthday party this year. Lillian invited her friends Clarissa Taylor and Sariah Wood to come to the zoo on Saturday Sept. 19th. We walked around an saw all the animals then headed to the playground and had PB & J sandwiches and juice drinks. Cupcake ice cream cones were our dessert. Afterwords the girls played on the playground. The girls had so much fun, running around the zoo looking at the animals and being silly little girls.
Rissa got Lillian a little girl with a carriage and pony. Sariah got her a fishing puzzle game and a beach Ken doll (we needed a "daddy" doll). She loves them both and enjoys playing with them. Thanks Tandy for taking the pictures!!
Rissa smiling for the camera.
Lillian and Rissa watching some birds.
Running around being silly girls!!
The girls love the alpaca's. They spent what seemed like forever there watching them. One was so close we were afraid it might spit at the girls! LOL
"Turtle's Mommy!!!!" Another place we were at for quite a long time. Lillian and Rissa loved watching the turtles swim.

Sariah Wood, Rissa Taylor and Lillian checking out the turtles.

One of the really pretty birds over in the bird aviary.

One of the many attempts to get a picture of all 3 girls. This was one of the best ones!!
Watching the Bald Eagle!!
Lunch time!! Tinker Bell plates and Princess napkins and gift bags. Lillian picked them out. So much for trying to match. LOL
Sariah enjoying her drink.
Mmmmm yummy PB & J sandwiches!!
Smile Sariah!!
Lillian enjoying her sandwich!! Can you tell she really likes it, cause its all over her face.
Play time!!
Awww so cute!!
Cupcakes?! Yeah!!!!
The party crew!!
Yummy, ice cream cone chocolate cupcakes with orange frosting and M & M's inside!! They were lip smacking good!!!

Birthday Presents

So I know this isn't the typical attire most girls wear for opening presents but it was so hot that day!! She didn't care anyway!! All she wanted to do was opening her presents.
Throwing up the tissue paper in anticipation of what's inside.
Puzzles!! She got a crocodile and seal wooden puzzle. She loves doing puzzles.
What's in the next one?!?!
Oooo!!! A turtle book!!! Lillian loves books and especially ones about turtles!! She must have spent almost 5 minutes looking at it. We had to remind her she still had presents left. LOL

Looking at her book, "Where Should Turtle Be"
Opening another presents.
Another book!!! Cool!! A book about penguins.
Here is a picture of the books and the crocodile puzzle that she got.
Flying tissue paper for yet another present.
It's a big floor puzzle of the ocean!! She's excited, can you tell?!?!?
The last "big" present, wonder what it is????
It's CINDERELLA!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!
"Mommy open it, open it, please, please!!!
Waiting for mommy to open the present, she was so excited!!
We went to Hillcrest Park for a little family birthday celebration. I didn't have my camera with us so I will upload the other pictures from there later. But this is the birthday cake I made for her, Ariel Birthday Cake!!
I went to the Sweet's Factory to get the decorations!! Thanks to my cake decorating class from Jody Cook. All the tips were so handy!!

Yes, I used Cinderella to make Ariel and she turned out wonderfully!!
Lillian loved her cake, she thought it was so pretty, (and it tasted really good too)