Our Number One's Number One!

         I still can't believe Kelsie is a toddler! It blows my mind that just a year ago I was holding a little baby in my arms. Well maybe not little in newborn baby terms but much smaller than she is now. As I was pondering every hour the night before her birthday and the day of, it made me a little teary eyed. I updated Chad constantly about what had been going on at 'this hour' or 'that hour' a year ago. It reminded me why I'm not having a baby for at least another year if not longer. Ha.
         The day started off with a bath. One of Kelsie's favorite things to do. She crawls in and out of the bathroom as I get the water ready.

       Then she did her usual rounds of the house. She kept chasing Chad around asking "When is the party going to start? When is the party going to start?"

       After her 2nd nap of the day, I caught her lounging on the couch with her Dad and a sippy cup full of milk watching a cartoon. Another one of her favorite things to do. And Chad's for that matter because he gets to cuddle with his baby toddler!

Some of the decor. It was a red themed party.

I made red velvet cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing.

Kelsie opening her presents. She got a new book and a leap frog drum.

   Cousin Mary telling Kelsie how her drum is freaking awesome!

Getting ready to blow out her candles!

          Not exactly sure what to do with this big cupcake in front of her!

                                           Ohhhh. I think I ate too much!

Mmmmm? Maybe not!

And so her day ends with a bath!

          We have had just more and more fun with this little girl.  She likes to make this evil fake laugh now that I can't get enough of. It cracks me up. She also sucks in air and makes a funny noise and sniffs her nose to sound like a bunny. Sometimes she'll roar like a lion. She tries so say "I love you" and "Thank you" but pretty much just does the syllables with jibberish. She says baby, mama, dadda, bye bye and hi dad.  She pulls her self up on everything and walks around. She takes a couple of steps to us and will stand on her own for a few seconds. If I ask her to bring me something that she's holding she'll come over and hand it to me. 

          Kelsie is just so amazing. I love to see her grow and learn. We thank our Heavenly Father every night for sending her to us. She is such a blessing and I'm glad I get to know her and love her.

Golden Birthday/Halloween Party

On Saturday, we celebrated my "Golden" Birthday and also Halloween. If you don't know what a "Golden" Birthday is then I will define it for you. It's when you turn the age of the day you were born. Clear as mud? Exactly. For example, this year I turned 27 and my birthday is on the 27th. I think I've been talking to Chad about this ever since we've been married. I've also said that I wanted a huge birthday party which Chad now says will never happen again. Apparently he hates organizing them :) But I just told him last night that when I'm 54 I want a double "Golden" Birthday party. I don't think I've ever seen his eyes roll back farther in his head before. Come on. He's got 27 years to plan the next one so you know it's got to be the best party yet. I'm hoping for Hawaii!!! Haha.

Is anyone sick of seeing our hearth yet? I made the Happy Halloween sign with my Cricut. I'm still trying to prove it's usefulness to Chad.

These are mummy oreo suckers. Super easy to make. I found the tutorial on howdoesshe.com. I think I might make them for Christmas and put a green Christmas tree on the front. 

I'm pretty sure everyone made tissue paper pom poms this Halloween because the orange and black tissue paper were out almost everywhere.

The bugs in the water are from a store called Orson Gygi. They are the coolest things ever. They grow 4 times there size in 72 hours and then when you take them out of the water they shrink back. You can use them again. Suhweet!

My totally awesome Halloween and Golden Birthday cakes that Chad made. Not!

Our little lady bug Kelsie getting ready for take off. What a flippin' cutie!

"I'm so sick of pictures! Let me go trick or treating already!"

Right when we left to go outside it started pouring. We went to three house and ran back home. Kelsie would make funny noises when the rain and wind would hit her face. I almost kept her out there longer 'cause it was cracking me up. Later, all the other kids went out and about our neighborhood.

We ate Wingers Sticky Fingers, cornbread, tater tots, coleslaw from my mom, and chili from Kelli.

The Utah/Air Force game was on and we had some very enthusiastic fans here (Huggins)! The fam all showed up and some of my friends but did we get any pictures? Nope. I didn't even think about it until everyone was leaving. Hello.

Thanks everyone for coming. It was a blast! Now we just need to get carpet downstairs and send all the kiddies down there.
And I must say how much I appreciate Chad for taking the time to get all of the party together. I really, really, really am glad he was up for it even though I'm not always the best at thanking him for the nice things he does for me. He also surprised me with a Nook and I've already bought a book and read it. Thank you baby! I love you!