Jacques and Stephanie's Baby Shower!

Our dear friends, Stephanie and Jacques Terblanche are expecting their first baby, a boy named CJ. Michael and I along with our friends Sara and Eric threw them a baby shower when they were in town to celebrate their new to-be bundle of joy!! It was a fun night with friends, good food and drinks!

Us! This picture would have been amazing but I think it got jacked from the steam from the dishwasher...crazy, but true!

Sara, Steph and I

Nice fake cheers Whitney and Sara

Sara, VD and Whit partying baby style

Sara, me and Whit.

More baby partying

Me and MC

Shitney and Hellby, our evil alter egos

Michael and Whitney

Pep talk about opening gifts!

CJ, you are so lucky, your parents are amazing!

Opening presents

She is a gnome

Stephanie's Family

More gifts!

Friends!

More friends!

Dad and Vaughn posing like girls, jerks

Trish, Mary and Mom aka grandmas

Jimmy, Steph and Trish

Jimmy and Steph

Trish and Steph!

We had so much fun celebrating Jacques and Stephanie....now, if only they would move back to Texas! NOW! Love you guys!!!

Whoops... and Slonie's 15 months!

So, it has been forever since I have blogged, but less than a month- so not tooooo bad. Anywho, I was just uploading pictures from my camera because I haevn't done that in forever. I will post a lot soon... I know all three of you are dying inside because I havent posted in awhile. However, in the meantime here are some  pictures of Sloanie to keep you going! She turned 15 months yesterday, it is all going by so fast!

Sloan and cousin Carter reading

She's so sporty!

Helping Mommy cook!

Happy 15 months to Sloan. A box full of peanuts = best toy ever!

I'll be right back with more posts! Promise. TODAY!



Personalities

It has been so amazing to see Sloan grow and become an individual. When they are born they are...lets be honest..just there. Yes, ever so sweet and occasionally in your few week old you see a glimpses at what may be their personality. But it not until they are a couple months old that you really start to see the personality they will have...and then it develops more and more EVERY day.

It is WONDERFUL to see Sloan and to get to know her everyday and I am so glad that she has a HUGE personality. But, lets be realistic not every aspect of everyone's personality is super awesome. But this isnt really talked about too much in babies. I mean, I am moody, OCD, indecisive, can be controlling, the list goes on...not for too long though. ;)

My point being, as I get to see Sloan's sweet, funny, smart, caring, curious side. I also get know her grumpy, defiant and moody side. I love these sides of her too because it is how she is able to express herself, but I love these sides less. ;) She can throw a good fit, can violently shake her head in disagreement, she can go from laughing to crying in a millisecond, she can look at me while I'm saying no and do it anyway. And it is all so dramatic which makes it hard to not laugh at times.

Though I would rather be hugged and kissed than have to listen to a crying fit, I am glad either way that she is able to express herself so well. Can't wait to get to know her more and more every day!

It can go from this:

to this...

in a FLASH!

Fourth of July

On the actual Fourth, which was a Monday, Michael had to work. BOOOOO! Isn't it the American way to bake your own cookies for Independence Day, come on people. Anywho, Sloan and I packed up and went to Whitney's for some fun! We missed the parade because of Sloan's naptime but still had a great time at the house with friends!

My firecracker!

Hello!

"OHHHHH"

Our friends coming back from the parade!

Pumpkin! (Who I always want to call Cookie!)

Char and Aunt Jess looking pretty in their Red, White and Blue!

The DuBroc women and Sloanie!

Sweet Stella and Tucker!

Stella and Sloan playing!

Char Bar McFar!

:)

BFFs. There were a millon takes, these are the best I got!

BFFs again

They all look SOOOO happy!

Watermelon!

Sharing her watermelon with Char!

Cooling off outside!

Happy 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July to everyone! Hope your weekend was wonderful and that you all enjoyed it! Go America!

Third of July

On Sunday we went out to my cousin's house to celebrate the Fourth of July, on third, with my family. It was nice and relaxing. Great food, drinks and swimming galore! It was good to see that side of the family!

Sweet Miss Hayden with some yummy food!

Sloan loves all animals, even the stuffed variety.

Sitting pretty

Some of the fam.

Aubrey and Hayden!

Sloanie and Aubrey bumping heads!

CHAR CHAR!

Swim time!

More swim time!

Carter and Dad!

The sun always shines when your cool.

Who? Me?

It was a nice time with family and homemade ice cream!

Second of July

Our holiday weekend was kicked off with Spencer and Emily coming over for some drinks- good times were had. Played some games, asked some questions. We have a blow-up pool in the yard for Sloan to play in and the boys wrestled each other into it and then proceeded to try and get us in it- but we were victorious and didnt get pushed in the pool by their hand. However, when they went inside to drive off we thought it would be funny to be sitting in it when they came out, just to...well, piss them off! ;)

Boys will be boys.

Scheming...

I was not going without a fight!

Veronica  was using the hose to help her!

In your face. We do what we want, when we want!

Then Michael did a Cannon Ball and got us soaking!

GT'S!