Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Tofa!

A family friend of ours recently moved to Samoa to teach school for a year! Before she left we couldn't pass up the opportunity to throw her a fun going away party.

We stuck with a Pacific Islands theme to get her all prepped and ready to go.


We got out our leis
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Jungle vines (my mother in law made these - aren't they awesome?!)
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Shells
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And topped the tables with "sand" (breadcrumbs!) and palm fronds
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Grass skirts (even for the soda!)
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and of course our "rock" painted sheet so we could make a volcano.
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We had rice "volcanoes" topped with sweet pork "lava" (as seen above in the "volcano")
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and "build your own" fruit kabobs and dip.
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Lots of flowered garland and tiki torches
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Of course I got too busy stuffing my face to take pictures of the rest of the party, but belive me, it was fun!

Friday, July 22, 2011

I love being pregnant.

Nope, that's not sarcasm. I truly love it. Sure I have crazy symptoms (big feet, cankles, crazy heartburn, side aches) but over all I am happy, excited, content and loving every minute (okay minus the first two months) of it.




I love feeling her kick - the days when she is most active are my favorite

I love my ever growing belly

I love being able to eat a lot (I know it's weird, but I impress myself)

My cankles make me laugh histerically

and I love the excitement I feel each day at that fact that I am a Mom



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24 Weeks!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Mikah and her fish

This is my niece Mikah.

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Mikah loves fish.

Not to eat,

Not to catch,

But to hold...
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and yes, those are fish scales on her little knees

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Happy Anniversary to Us

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I can't think of anyone else I'd rather be mutually weird with.

Friday, July 15, 2011

The Fourth

We spent our 4th of July up in Springerville, AZ - it was my first time there for the fourth and I can't wait to go back. It was an awesome fireworks show in a perfect small town setting. They set off the fireworks at the airport and we got there early meaning we got an awesome spot for the show. We took pictures, listened to music and played games until the show started at dark.


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(wait - mom and dad both smiling. in a picture. at the same time. normally. it's a total miracle)



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My 22 week belly!





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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Greer

We were SO lucky to be able to spend all last week up in Greer with our families.

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The weather was perfect...
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it sprinkled every day for an hour or so to cool the day off then went right back to normal and sunny for us to play outside.
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We did lots of puzzles...
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...and lots of fishing...
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...and lots of eating...
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...and picnicing...
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...and hiking...
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...and lots of spoiling Atticus...


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...and lots of playing games, card tricks, laughing, late night movie watching, staying up too late fun.