Adriane's Olivia Baby Shower

This past Sunday was a special day.  I, along with my BFF Rachel, threw a baby shower for my sister Adriane at 2Tarts Bakery in New Braunfels.  If any of you know my sister, you know that pigs are her favorite animal.  She has always had stuffed pigs and pictures of pigs everywhere in her room growing up.  So, I decided to theme her shower around the adorable children's cartoon character, Olivia the Pig.  Yes, it would have been more fitting if my niece's name was going to be Olivia but still it was a total hit.  Adriane got lots of great items for Charlee including tons and tons of diapers.  Yeah!  Charlee will be all set for her arrival. 

My dear friend and neighbor Tiffany helped me out and designed the invitations, the wish cards and the favor tags for the shower.  She is so creative and did a great job.  If you ever need anything created from wedding invitations to baby announcements, you can find Tiffany's Etsy store here.  Here are some pictures of the day. 

I put an Olivia doll on top of her diaper cake

The party favor was M&Ms with different saying related to Charlee and the wish cards were a definite hit!

I had to include this picture of the room because this bakery is oh so cute!  I made five diaper cakes to use as centerpieces.

The red velvet cake.  YUMMY!

Adraine holding Smitty Baby.  Anytime anyone said the name Smitty or baby, they had to hold the Smitty Baby!

Adriane opening her gifts.

The hostesses with the guest-of-honor.

It was a wonderful shower and now the next big event is another shower in Houston this coming weekend and then baby Charlee will be coming very soon!

Seven random things about me

My girlfriend Alyssa tagged me in her blog like over a month ago and I am just now responding.  Sorry girl!  I'm supposed to write seven random facts about me and then tag 15 people.  I don't think I know that many bloggers so I'll tag as many as I can.

1. I am never satisfied with my hair color.  It changes regularly.
2. I have a slight case of OCD.  I constantly count things.  And they have to be in even numbers.  If something is odd it drives me crazy.
3. I never go more than 24 hours without talking to my mom. 
4. I cannot go to bed with a dirty kitchen.  It has to be spotless.
5. I have a weakness for french fries.  If the choice is fries or some other side, I will always get the fries.
6. I hate the feel of cardboard.  It makes my skin crawl.  It's going to make it very hard if we ever move and I have to pack boxes.
7. I sleep with over 20 pillows on my bed.  No exageration.

I tag the following people:

• Tiffany Walker of The Walkers
• Paige Bird of Three Little Birds
• Viki Peltier of Viki and Joe's Big Adventure
• Meredith Tichenor of The Tichenor Family
• Roxanne Bradford of Hangin' with the Bradford's
• Rani May of aMAYzing Grace

Griffin and Millie sittin in a tree...

Ok I know I say this a lot but I absolutely love the thought of Millie growing up and marrying sweet Griffin Kingsbury!  His mama is my BFF and our little kiddos are too.  If they don't get married, at least they will always be close friends.  Rachel and Griffin came to New Braunfels last week and we had a great playdate.  I took some silly pictures of the babies that I have to share here.  Griffin was born with TONS of hair and has already had like two haircuts or more and Millie, bless her heart, still has peach fuzz for hair.  While they were playing Griffin's hair was getting in his face and so I had a quick solution...

It took four bows to get Griffin's hair up and I think I found four hairs for Millie's bow.

Hi sweet Griffin!!

Don't take her bow!  You have four on your head!!

Haha I love their sweet little faces.  Rachel, don't be mad at me for posting these.  He's just too cute!

Millie is 10 months old! Oh, and Happy Independence Day!

As Millie gets older it's getting harder and harder to get her to sit still to take a picture.  Notice I had to distract her with my keys.  It helped for a few seconds!

I feel like 10 months has been a huge turning point for Millie as far as her development.  She went from not having any interest in crawling to crawling EVERYWHERE and also pulling up on the furniture and walking along the couch.  She is growing up so fast I can hardly stand it!

At 10 months old, Millie:

• can crawl
• can stand up while holding onto something
• takes a few steps while holding onto the couch
• understands "No" but doesn't exactly listen when I say it
• can wave hello and goodbye
• can give sugars (kisses)
• can give high fives
• claps her hands
• likes to eat any and everything that mommy or daddy eats
• loves to munch on huge pieces of bread
• likes to stick a whole bunch of food in her mouth at one time (makes me very nervous)
• loves being in the water and outdoors
• is 20 lbs. and 4.5 oz (75%)
• is 29" tall (95%)
• is getting one of her top front teeth and an i tooth.  They are definitely giving her lots of pain and it's making me very sad. 
• is wearing 12 month clothes and some 18 month.
• absolutely positively loves music of all kinds.  Anytime the radio comes on or one of her toys starts playing music she automatically starts bobbing her head and smiles the biggest smile.  I love that she loves music so much!

Today is the fourth of July.  Independence Day.  A perfect day to reflect on all the wonderful blessings we have as Americans.  And most importantly, pray and give thanks to all of our soldiers that are fighting for our freedom everyday.  To celebrate this wonderful holiday, Trevor and I took Millie to the New Braunfels Independence Day parade in downtown and had a blast!  Millie was so great and she enjoyed all the floats and all the people.  We met up with my sister and Smitty and had a great time.

Millie with her Aunt Adriane

Have you every seen a  happier baby?  And yes, I pinch her cheeks everyday!

Enjoying a pretzel with daddy

I love this photo.  Perfect description of our personalities. 

Hi Adriane and Smitty!

Up high!

That was fun mommy but I'm ready to go home and take a nap!

It's only 2:00 so once Trevor and Millie wake up from their nap we're going to go swimming at Oma and Opa's house and then take it easy.  A little sad there will be no fireworks this year (fire ban) but happy that we got to spend the whole day together as a family.  I hope you all have a wonderful July 4!