Evie Kate's Birthday Party

One of Finley's best friends, Evie, had her birthday party at a local gymnasitcs studio. It was so much fun and Finley was in Heaven being able to fun and play at her will. She loved sliding and the big trampoline the best. Here are the pics:


Ready to Party!!!

Evie's Little Cake

Christa, Drew Finley and I

Daddy Helping Fin down the slide

Party Time

Trying to get everyone to pose... HA!!

Lacie, Finley and Josie getting ready for the parachute

Going around the obstacle course

Parachute Time!

Drew sliding down

Valentines Day almost a month late...

My sweetie surprised me and 4 of my best friends from college with a trip to Kansas city for a weekend of relaxing and shopping and eating!! (jordan lives there so that makes 5) He was so cute about it- he somehow got all the #'s of my friends husbands/ signifigant other (some he already had, but some he had to stalk) and they planned it. He told me a week before and everything was already planned so Christa, Sarah and I headed to NWA to pick up Amelia and Holly and then headed to KC to see Jordan. It was such a fun weekend and we felt like we were back in the corner 5 girl room in the Kappa house!!! We said multiple times how sad it is that our guys have to plan this stuff for us. Anyways we are going to try to do this twice a year just to catch up and just be college girls again. I love these girls so much!!

ok.... so i'm gonna start this blogging thing again for like the 4th time. I think about blogging all the time and i do in my head but it never gets typed out. So I'm counting on all my friends out there to hold me accountable... I NEED YOUR HELP!!!

Wii

I got Richard a Wii for Christmas and we have to admit, it might be the coolest thing since sliced bread. Here is Andrew playing it this weekend during his and Carmen's visit.

Juno

A couple of weekends ago Richard was in Atlanta that week for work so I met him for the weekend to hang out and sleep in while my parents kept Finley. We didn't have much planned besides going to the Razorback basketball game on Saturday night which turned out to be a nightmare since we lost by like 48 points or something like that. So after the game we decided to go see the late movie. It was between "The Bucket List" and "Juno" . I didn't know what Juno was about but I knew Richard had been wanting to see it so we picked it and proceeded on into the best 91 minutes of movie I have seen in a really long time. I am usually wanting a movie to end by the time the end comes even if I am enjoying it but I wanted to keep watching. It kinda has a Napoleon Dynamite feel to it but with an actual story line and much better even though I do like ND. I highly recommened it if you are thinking about seeing it.

Our little Diva

Getting dressed up for a shopping trip with mom

She couldn't get up with the boots on which made her extremely mad.... I like to say she has her dad's temper! :-)

Andrew and Carmen

We had such a fun weekend with Andrew and Carmen. They came and met Finley Grace for the first time and she instantly fell in love with them.... especially Andrew! We had so much fun eating, playing the Wii, playing with Finley, going to the Clinton Library(woohoo!!), and just catching up in general. We have so much fun with them and even though we don't get to see them as much as we would like it always seems like we can instantly catch up where we left off! We had a photo session with Finley because Andrew has some major Camera Skillz and she was being pretty cooperative. Here are a few from the session....

Christmas in Searcy

For some reason we forgot our camera at our house when we went to searcy to celebrate. I'll get to pics from my mom and brother and post later... some traditions continued and some changed but it was an awesome time with my family.

Christmas at Grandmarys
We had Christmas day lunch over at Richard's moms this year. It was so much fun and we ate way too much and then opened presents. The best was seeing Thomas open his batman costume we gave him and he couldn't wait to put it on and would not take it off the rest of the time. You know when you just hit the nail on the head with a gift... well that was mine this year. His expressions were priceless and I can't wait till Finley gets to be that age and we give her the Barbie car or dollhouse she had been wanting and to see her face light up will be worth any line we had to stand in or price we had to pay!

Daddy with his girl

Finley was due a nap

Before opening gifts

"I'm not scared of you Batman!"

The girls feasting some more

Finley loved her new stroller

But loved the green wrapping paper even more....

and the steps at Grandmarys!

Is that Thomas or Batman?

Finley's first Christmas Morning...

She loved all the attention and playing with the things Santa brought her. Papa and Granna spent the night and woke up with us on Christmas morning which was a treat. As you can see from the photos, her favorite things were her red wagon and rubber duckie!

Good Morning!

"All this... for me!!!"

Loving the wagon

Loving the wagon some more

"enough with the pictures already!!"

Merry and Bright... and busy!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season this year. We had such an sweet first Christmas with our little girl. It was so fun beginning new traditions as a family. Finley was such a trooper through all of the houses and families we went to see and actually loved the paper and tape much more than anything anyone got her. I can't wait till next year..... only 11 months to go.

I hosted Richard's family this year at our new house. Since we've been away really since we've been married I've never had the opportunity until now. It was fun and a little stressful at the same time... but it was my turn. :-) Here are some photos from our holidays...

Total Chaos!!

Finley and Emily loved their babies!

I finally got to use my fine china... it's only been 51/2 years!

Granddaddy cutting the Turkey

We all ate very well