Happy 30th to Craig!

HAPPY 30TH!

Yummy food with great company!

irina and zerrin

CHEESE!

this is so cute, they had a blast in the fountains with zerrins mommy

Last month my husband made it over the hill and turned the big 3-0! I wanted to do something for him but I'm not the party planning type. I love people who have an act for it but its just not me. I took the easy way out and set up a surprise birthday bash at joe t garcias. I just sent out an evite and baked some cakes, easy! I told Craig I was having a girls dinner and that he needed to pick up Crew so we could go out for (more) drinks after wards. He was confused why I just didn't leave him at home and then got upset with me because I made him find parking in the over stuffed parking lot on a Saturday night. He was dumb founded when he saw familiar faces sitting together and it took a friend yelling "SURPRISE" for him to piece it all together. The weather couldn't have been better, we had fun talking about how Craig was mad about the whole thing. We had a great turn out, about 20 people came out to celebrate Craig getting old.

Big Bike

I want to say THANK YOU to everyone from our neighborhood playgroup, Liam and The Blake Family for the gift card that bought Irina her helmet, elbow & knee pads and gloves. She absolutely loves wearing her safety gear and that makes mommy & daddy happy! Her new bike was a gift from her buddy Matty, he is going green with his mommy and re-using the bike he has outgrown. We also want to say THANKS to him for sharing and going green. Irina got on the bike and rode off quickly, she was a pro at her trike and this was a piece of cake for her. She has a great time around the neighborhood with her new bike and accessories.

3rd Birthday Party

Irina is into Toy Story and her party was Buzz themed, she had a blast flying around with her cape and hugged her Buzz balloon non-stop. She isn't as girly as I would like but she is Irina and I love her and her Buzz obsession!

Craigs Birthday!

irina & mommy

cheese!

she wouldnt lick the spoon! weird!

but she licked her hands after squeezing fresh lemons!

mixing w/ daddy

measuring w/ daddy
craig started teaching her conversions! how many ounces in a cup??

I'm really late blogging about this but things have been super crazy around here!
Craig celebrated his 29th birthday two weeks ago, I wanted to have a small birthday party for him but he didn't want that. I need to mention that days before his birthday, Craigs car was broken into, the window was smashed and the CD player was stolen. Poor Craig, we knew exactly what to buy him..a CD player! Which we haven't eve done yet! The only thing he asked for was a pie, a lemon cooler pie that our friend Maria makes. So I got the recipe from her and went to work, Craig wanted to see Irina help so we started right before he came home from work. Irina did surprisingly well helping with the instructions I gave her, she loves to feel like a big girl. The lemon pie was a huge hit, it was perfectly sweetened and was light enough to where you wanted to eat two slices.

Irina's Birthday Party & New Class @ Church

cindy & annabel

irina & her datty

friends!

make a wish!

the birthday girl

"cheese"

sneaking off to open a gift

holding baby Henry

"I twoo" is what she says

Mondays are our playgroup day and so we decided to schedule Irina's 2nd birthday party on a playdate. We had a great turn out and everyone had a blast! I can't believe my baby girl is 2! She is growing so fast! She has been putting sentences together and is doing a great job, she is trying to do the same in spanish but doesnt quite get it yet. I really need to talk to her more in spanish but it slips my mind, I have to pick a day and focus on just speaking spanish to her; it's difficult! So anyway, she has also learned to count to 6 and can count to 3 in spanish..slowly but surely we will get to 10! I'm so proud of her!

Irina's half birthday

Her baby carrier, she loves it!


Her first putter, watch out Tiger! Or Tiger's kids...


My baby was exactly 1 1/2 on Sun, Aug 16! I was so glad that I read my friend Laura's blog talking about her sons "half birthday", I read it just in time to borrow the idea and give Irina her first 1/2 b-day bash. I think she got the idea from our other friend Chrissy, thanks to you both for a super cute idea! On Sunday's after church we always go to my parents house for lunch, sometimes we go out but we are without fail at my parents house. We didn't want to do anything big but we did want to do something a little special for her, she is half way to 3 already! We had a delicious lunch followed by lots of treats continuing with our "half" theme. My sis took pics with her camera but she hasn't gotten those to me yet, sorry. We had half a birthday cake topped with 1 1/2 candles, sang the birthday song half way and she opened a few gifts that were half wrapped. She had woken up from her nap so she looks a bit cranky, opening the gifts cheered her right up. Craig bought Irina her very first "real" putter, I gave her some wooden blocks and we both picked out a mini baby carrier. Half a birthday celebration = 1 full day of fun!