Well hello there...nice to see you again

I feel like its been forever since my last post.  We have been busy busy busy.  We are still putting the finishing touches on our kitchen reno (but that's another post entirely) and we decided to take on the task of having Brenna's 3rd birthday party (what?!?) at our house instead of my grandparents house like we usually do.

Um, yea...lets just say our yard is not "party ready".  It's a disaster.  First of all, we have almost no grass in our yard.  Its pretty much made up of weeds, sand and dirt.  Of course, we have tried to grow grass in the past but if Bailey could laugh, he would have laughed in our faces when we attempted that.  He has literally killed every patch of grass we've ever grown.  Just with his giganticness (I know thats not a word).  So we have been taking advantage of the gorgeous weather we have been having and trying our best to get our yard ready.  Our plan is to attempt some grass seed (haha) and see what happens.  We have eliminated some gardens and put up a swingset and slide so we may or may not try to just mulch around that.  We are going to plant some new flowers in the gardens we have (and try to keep them alive for more than just the month of May).  And we are going to plant our vegetable and herb garden, but that wont happen until around Mother's Day weekend.  We spent this past weekend raking the rest of the leaves (yes we still had leaves from last fall in our yard, but we have an excuse and he goes by the name Brody, we were busy in the fall) and digging up old plants that we are going to replace.  Our yard already looks 100% better.  But we still have a long way to go.

Speaking of Brenna's party, I kept asking her what kind of party she wanted.  She told me "a flower party".  I asked what kind of flower party and she said "yellow flower party".  So a yellow party it is.  I finished designing and ordering her invitations over the weekend.  I have a dress picked out for her and now I am looking for some kind of cute embellishment for her dress that possible has a 3 on it.  And can we talk about that for a minute?  She going to be 3!  When did that happen?  She just turned 1!  No, I mean, she was just born wasn't she?  How did she get so big?  As much as I love watching her grow and learn new things, boy do I miss my baby.  Just look at this little face!

Where did this baby go?

Anyway, in other news, we finally got new family pictures done this past week.  The last time we had family pictures done they looked like this:

Aaron Riddle Photography

Overdue much?  I think yes.  So on Thursday, we went to a park and Stacey (who did Brody's newborn pics) took some family pics for us.  The previews that she's shown me so far are amazing.  I can't wait to see the rest.  Here is a sneak peak (even though anybody reading this blog has probably already seen them, but oh well)

StaceyLee Photography

StaceyLee Photography

I think I'll save the rest of my updates for another post. I'll try not to wait so long next time.