Bridal Shower!!

Saturday we celebrated Sabrina's upcoming wedding with a bridal shower!!  Despite a few setbacks, the day turned out perfectly!!

Friday morning when I looked out the window, I saw our builder unloading a trencher in our backyard!  We are doing some work around our house and apparently, Friday was the day to trench.....right through the backyard where the shower was to be!  I freaked out a lot little.  Scott assured me the builder would have it covered up by Saturday afternoon.  As you will see in the pictures, that didn't happen.  And so I took a deep breath and just pretended everything was fine.  And really, it was.

A special thank you to Beth, Jake's mom.  She came early and helped us set up!  She took all the pictures!!  She helped us clean up!!  Truly an angel and we are so thrilled to call her 'family'!!

Talisha holding her sweet little niece!

Getting decorations ready for the shower!!

So much fun!!

Sleeping babies!!  Aunt and niece!

The Bride!!

Perfect setting, perfect day!!

Mints!

 

 

Yummy food!

Frames for the photo booth!

Babies!

Olivia loved the shower!

Cute Vanessa and Myah were our Photographers at the photo booth!

So much good food!

So much laughing!!

We asked her questions about Jake. If she got it wrong, she had to put a piece of bubble gum in her mouth! I think she got that one right! 

And that one!

Oops, not that one.  Getting to be a mouthful! Hahaha...

One of Jake's grandmother's with Sabrina's grandma's!

The moms with the Bride!!

 

 

We had perfect weather, perfect setting, friends, family and amazing food!!  It really couldn't have been any better!  Ok, maybe if that trench was missing from out of the pics....but other than that! 

 

Less than two weeks until the Big day!!!!  

She's One!!!!!

Our little sweetheart turned one!!!!  Can you believe it???  How does the time go so quickly????  She is such a joy!  I can't even begin to tell you what a sweet baby she is!  Here are a couple of pics from her special day!!

Olivia uses her pointer fingers to feel/explore new things.  You can see in this picture that she is feeling her tutu with her finger....totally checking it out!

 She grabbed it with both hands and tried to get it to her mouth!!



She loved it!!!  In her mouth, in her hands....she just couldn't get enough!!

So cute!

 I love this one!!!  She totally stopped moving around to listen to what I was saying!  Her 'listening' face!

 



Aaaaaannnndd, back to laughing and giggling!!

Tutu back in the mouth!!!!  Hahaha....

 

This picture is from later in the evening when we were having her party!  She is totally asleep!  We couldn't get her to wake up for anything!!!  She even has a little bit of drool on her cute little chin!  We sang to her, helped her blow out her candle, helped open her presents.......nothing.  Stayed asleep!

 

Happy 1st Birthday Olivia!!!

We love you to the moon......and back!!!!

Treasures From Below The Ground!!

I love our property for many reasons.....but one of the best reasons is because of the treasures we find below the dirt!!!  Below the dirt?????  Yup, you read that right!  You see, the story goes that long ago....about 100+ years ago they destroyed an old hotel that used to be downtown.  When I say 'destroyed', I mean they totally destroyed everything in the hotel and brought it out to the country and dumped it.  They strung it along an area that includes our property!  Now some people might think that sounds terrible but really it's the coolest thing ever!

They must have separated the debris into like items.  The stuff we find on our property is all glass!  Now, that might not sound very exciting but we seriously find the coolest treasures!! Take a look at this little gem Scott found last night as he was working  on the sprinklers!!

It's a little jar with a tin lid!

When I opened it up, whatever was inside had turned to powder...or maybe it started that way....

 

 

With all the landscaping we have done around here, we have uncovered so much glass!!!  Most of it is broken pieces of bottles, china, etc., but we have also found some real treasures...like these:

This tiny little jar is my favorite!!!!

The tiny little lid was found separately but it fits so well on the bottle!  I put a pencil in the background so you could get an idea of the size!

 

This thing....not sure what it is....Scott said something about electricity.....it's adorable!

Some of the cool jars!

Another section of them!

I LOVE that blue one!!!! 

I love the colored ones!!

I started lining them on top of one of my cabinets in the kitchen so I could see them everyday!

 

 

 

We have a 5 gallon bucket full of bottles/jars that we have dug up that are just waiting to be cleaned and washed.  Most of the time they are full of dirt and take forever to get clean.  Someday my backyard will look like the movie, Holes!  Haha, I would love to dig up treasures but for now I am content to enjoy our landscaping!