Chuck E Cheese!!

So this past Sunday we took Owen to Chuck E Cheese. To say he had a blast would be an understatement. He loved everything from the pizza, the special occassion soda, and the rides, he even hugged the big grey mouse. It was so fun for him. I primarily sat with Abbie and gaurded our stuff while daddy played with Owen, and took girls we took with us. It was so nice to have a special treat like that. We kept explaining to him that he was getting to do this special stuff because of how well he has been doing on his potty training.






Monday was his day to go to day care and play with all of his friends. He loves Ms. Robins! They made necklaces yesterday and he wanted me to wear mine. It was so cute, Robin gave them wooden hearts and they got to paint them and then she wrote their names on them. I wore mine to bunko last night, he noticed every time I tried to take mine off. And this morning he was on my bed talking to me and "jumpin" looked over and noticed it on my dresser, so of course, he had to put it on me. I don't mind, I love it! I love that he gets to do sruff like that at day care. I love that I have full trust in Robin and she keeps him "in line" in LOVES her so much.

Then, Last night I had bunco and it was a suprise shower for our friend stephanie who got married last weekend. Yes, the shower was after the wedding. She wasn't supposed to get married until April, however, her future brother in law was getting deployed so she had to up the date. So it was a whirlwind of planning for her. Poor thing, but she totally pulled it off.

I hope you enjoy our pics!

Super Bowl Snacks??....... Any Ideas?

I am desperately in need of some super bowl snack ideas, or just "munchy" stuff! We love to snack around our family, dips and finger foods are our best friend. So do you have any good ideas?

New Design............Need your help!

I am wanting to get a "name plate", can you help me decide?

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Awesome Weekend.....wedding reception, suprise bday party, and then the hubs bday!

AWESOME pic! LOVE it!! Such a lucky woman ;)

We had a BUSY weekend! Saturday Duke was so busy with work, and I was with the kids. Then that night we went to a wedding reception for my good friend Stephanie, she looked gorgeous! I am so proud for her. Everything was awesome. We couldn't stay long since we also had a suprise 30th bday party for our good friend Trent. Trent lives in St Louis now with his wife Erin. But, his mom lives here in Jefferson City, so his wife and her parents threw him a party here in town. It was nice seeing everyone. We had such a good time. We didn't stay out late, we wanted to feel good the next day for Dukes bday. We had so much planned for a family day.

Owen has been awesome with potty training. I am SO PROUD of my little man. We have stayed consistent and not given up when it seemed impossible.

And, little Miss Abbie, has splept ALL night for 4 nights in a row. At first we thought, this is a fluke and probably won't happen again, the second night, we thought, man we are lucky. Now we are going on 5 nights now and thats been awesome, maybe this is for real!! It started when I went to her dr, and I asked about the night feeding, she said she should start going with out and we have to help her. That she no longer NEEDED the nutrition she just woke up because of habbit. So it started with the first night, we rocked her and gave her a binky and she fell back asleep, and we laid her down. This went on for 2 nights. The next night when she woke up we didn't pick her up, we gave her a binky and stood at her crib loving on her and soothing her, and she went back to sleep. The next 2 nights we let her "cry it out" for about 2 minutes, and she went back to sleep. Did it work? Did we gradually get out of that feeding! YEAH!! And now we are going on 5 nights of good sleep.

Both my babies have been SO good. I am such a lucky mamma!

Out to eat and a piano bar.........perfect Bachelorette Party!!

Saturday night was an awesome bachelorette party for an awesome girl!

There were 17 of us all together and it was great. Stephanie was the bachelorette, and I am so excited and happy for her, I know she is looking forward to her upcoming nuptials!

We rented a bus, yes, a school bus, had a blast. We went to Columbia MO, out to eat at Houlihans restaraunt, YUM!! We had lettuce wraps, and i had never heard or tried them before, they were delicious. Dinner was just great and the margaritas were PERFECT.









After the restaraunt we went to The Penguin, which is a piano bar. (yes, this was night of first for me, new restaraunt, and a piano bar) I thought "piano bar, classical music, not too interesting", I was wrong! That place was awesome, it was so cool. It was 2 baby grand pianos faacing each other with a drummer in the middle, FUN. These guys had talent! I had such a great time!I even told my husband that we are going to do that for a "date night" sometime.

Hairbows Galore!

Hello All!

I have started making hairbows, well, I have been making them for some friends but over the weekend I made an important decision. I made a bunch and took them in to our local Hallmark store dowtown, and she was interested, took the ones I had and now I am making more! I also have the crochet headbands for the infants/toddlers! I am extremely excited. I hope this chance turns into something great. Here are some pics....on my little precious Abbie!

A day at Lake Ozark!

We enjoyed the day yesterday as a family. We went down to the condo and took Owen swimming, he had a blast, such a dare devil. He would jump in (holding daddys hand of course), he loved going under, I hated watching it! Makes me nervous. Thank the Lord daddy didn't mind and made sure he was perfectly find during his little stunts! Abbie LOVED watching everything that was going on! We then vetured onto the strip (even though its dead in the winter) and took Owen to Dogpatch, its an arcade and he loved skiball. We played there for a while and then went to Chilis for dinner, they have bottomless bowl salsa and chips, and I LOVE it. Owen was so wore out from swimming he fell asleep at the table. Poor guy! It was such a good day and on the way back home we went for a drive and enjoyed the scenery. I loved spending the day with my little family.

Here are some pics of my little daredevil!!