THE BIRTHDAY GIRL

Nikell you are such a beautiful baby and you bring so much happiness to our family. We adore you and hope you always know how much you are loved. Happy Birthday!








Ok, so there are a few of Brooklyn too.

VALENTINES BIRTHDAY PARTY

On Saturday we had Nikell's first Birthday party. And I have a TON of pictures. So I might have to do a few posts. Here are a few pictures before the party started.

I think decorating for the party is one of my favorite parts. I love planning out every detail and making it look cute.
We decided it would be cute to do a Valentine theme since Nikell's birthday is so close to Valentines Day. I am glad that we did because it was a so easy to find cute decorations.



I thought it would be fun to try Edible Arrangements. (the fruit basket) They do fruit arangements that are so dang cute. The taste really good too!! Some of the strawberries were dipped in chocolate. Yum!!




My cute friend Melanie made Nikell's cake. I know, she is amazing!! I seriously am in love with her giant cupcake. Nikki loved it too. Great job friend, It was just perfect!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIKKI!

Our sweet Nikell turned 1 today. It has been such a fun year watching her grow and learn new things. She has such a cute little personality and we love her so dang much.
We had a birthday party for her yesterday and she loved it! So lots of fun pictures will be coming soon.

PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT IT

My cute friend Jillyn posted this on her blog and I won. I am pretty excited about getting something handmade from her. Now I just have to come up with something awesome to give to my winners.

This is how it works...

The Rules

1. Be one of the first THREE bloggers to leave a comment on this post, which then entitles you to a handmade item from me.

2. Winners, you must post this challenge on your blog, meaning that you will Pay It Forward, creating a handmade gift for the first THREE bloggers who leave a comment on YOUR post about this giveaway!

3. The gift that you send to your Three Friends can be from any price range and you have 365 days to make/ship your item. This means you should be willing to maintain your blog at least until you receive your gift and have shipped your gifts. And, remember: It’s the Spirit and the Thought That Count!

4. When you receive your gift, please feel free to blog about it, sharing appropriate Linky Love! If you are not one of the Top Three Commenter's on this post, you can still play along. Please take the button and post it on your blog; start your own Pay It Forward chain, and encourage your blogging friends to do the same!

PAST FEW WEEKS

It has been a while since my last post. I haven't been very excited to post pictures because my camera isn't working very well. All the pictures are really blurry. So we sent our camera in to get fixed and I have been looking forward to getting our new camera. THANKS for every one's input and advise. It really helped us in making our decision. Last night I picked up our new camera and I haven't put it down since. I LOVE IT! We ended up getting the Canon Rebel xs. All the camera's that all you cute friends told me about were really great cameras and it was a really hard decision. All in all we just really got a great deal from a friend that works at Best Buy.
So these are a few of the things we have been up too. Sorry that the pictures are so blurry!:(


Toby is so sweet! A couple of weeks ago he surprised me with the most beautiful flowers. I love having fresh flowers in the house and Toby always gets them for me at the most unexpected times. I just wish they would last longer! Thanks again babe you are so thoughtful!
This is Brooklyn's potty chart all complete! I can't believe how big she is getting. She was so proud of herself for being a big girl.
This is Toby and Stanley at the Kings game. For those of you who are confused about who Stanley is just go to the next post and it will explain why he is in some of our pictures.

We went to the home show in Sacramento. It was fun but a little overwhelming. We are looking to get hard wood floor in our house so we thought it would help. All it did was confuse us more. Information overload!
Nikell started to stand up on her own. In this picture Brooklyn is holding her hand so you cant tell. But it is so cute she just does a little squat and then slowly stands up. Then when she is up she starts to clap her hands in excitement.

SAN FRANSISCO

Toby had this weekend off so we decided to make the best of it and drive out to San Fransisco. We thought it would be fun to check out the San Fransisco Zoo. Wow, we had the best weather and the girl's where so awesome, they loved it! We even were able to make it out to the beach to watch the sunset. It was so beautiful, I don't think I have ever seen waves that big. We saw a ton of surfers out in the water which was pretty cool. Also, we had a little friend come with us on the trip. Our little niece Taitum sent us Flat Stanley. To help her out with her class project we dressed him up and brought him along with us.

Ready to go to the zoo with Stanley before his makeover.

I told Brooklyn to go stand by the Gorilla and she was so nervous. She walke towards it really slowly and then when she turned around to look at us she kept looking over her shoulder at it to make sure it wasnt going to move.

Brooklyns favorite animal that she saw was the Giraffe. She was pretty excited when she saw them.

They had a little park at the zoo and Brooklyn found a little friend.

Nikell loves going down the slide!

The beach is right outside of the zoo so we were able to hang out and watch the sun go down. It was beautiful.