showered with cuteness!

My friend Ja'nette decided that even though it was my third baby I still needed to be showered or at least sprinkled. and my goodness can that girl throw a shin dig!

I know, it makes your mouth water just looking at it huh?

 and please note all the cute tags, they are replicas of the invites she sent out.

and then there was the cutest drink idea ever!

is it weird that I have an obsession with these straws?

my friend Jackie made the cupcakes which were delish, and how cute are those mini fruit pizzas?!

in all I was spoiled by about 18 friends. 

how lucky can a girl get? 

I didn't get pic's of everyone...

but I won't soon forget who was there and all the fun that was had!

these are some of my cute YW...how darling are they?

after 2 entertaining games that we could do while chatting, which is perfect in opinion, it was onto the

 gifts...

now if you know me...you know I am a bit, well, animated in my facial expressions.

it started out tender...

moved to scandalous...

and then it got interesting...

it looks like I am giving Sarah the evil eye, but look at that darling dress...how did this face emerge when looking at that darling dress?!

and then it got all out crazy. Sadly there were more like this...and it was too hilarious not to document. apparently I need to tone it down a notch. not easily done. and why did no one tell me I still had my sunglasses on my head?

Ja'Nette even planned a raffle for those who brought a pack of diapers along with them. she thought of everything...even these cute thank you notes that coordinated with the invites and shower decor. 

Seriously, she was out of control with cuteness. 

I felt so spoiled, esp the 3rd time around, bonus!

Thanks to all who came and helped us celebrate this little lady who is soon to arrive!

I felt absolutely showered with cuteness!

dancing through life...

ali has been in dance for several months now. It's a ballet class, with some cute creative stuff thrown in. Now if you know ali, you know that hip hop is much more her forte, but alas I can't find a hip hop class that will take anyone younger than five. So, she had to settle for ballet...or her version of ballet at least. 

 (at some point we will blog her hip hop moves...and you will pee your pants)

so the night of her recital she got all dolled up.

and waited.

until...ready...

  

set... 

go! oh wait....

that's better.

the video's are taking forever to upload. but eventually you will see the footage. let's just say she added her spiciness to the show... it was hilarious.

after the performance she ran up to me and with the proudest expression ever boasted

"Mommy I made good decisions!" 

her teacher, Miss Amy, gave them each a little gift and a certificate.

ali asked "hey Miss Amy, do you have another one where you spell my name right?" 

nothing get's by her...

Poor Miss Amy dealt with a lot of per-son-al-ity! 

and ali loved her.

tons of parents brought flowers and ali asked me when her flowers were going to show up under my chair.

uh oh

I didn't even think about flowers! way to drop the ball mom.

 (she doesn't look too sad right?)

but luckily dad's exist.

(poor Justin had a work training that he had to teach, and due to a number of circumstances it was impossible to get out of. I don't think I have ever seen him so sad to miss something.)

she went running to the car when she saw him.

then Justin hooked the camera up to the TV and ali sat on his lap while they watched the "Movie" of her performing. 

she ate up every second of that...as did daddy.

over all it was a great night. she is every bit as at home on a stage as I would expect her to be...and it was so fun to watch her shine. 

she was simply Tu-Tu cute.

stick to it!

this is ali the night of her dress rehearsal for her dance recital...

her love for the stickers she get's each week is apparent eh? 

this is just a teaser, stay tuned for the real deal...and get ready for quite the video compilation!

Sunday Style

walkin' on sunshine...

tanning

exercising

flying high on sunshine.

Life is good.

Like Father, Like Son

Man am I glad Justin has a little buddy who likes camping as much as he does!

(Let's just say Justin is still a little bugged I wouldn't register for camping equipment when we got married. It's not really my idea of fun, but just look at the smile on Cole's face!)

Father and sons was a huge success!

and then these extreme campers got to go on another father and sons...but that's a post for another time!

family pics minus the baby bump...

All the way back in October, the amazing Val made the long trek to our new home in Idaho to take yet another round of Maddux family pics!

we had tons of fun with these frames (which actually sit on my fireplace mantle as living room decor).

Justin suggested we take them with us and Val was all over it!

It has taken me forever to blog these, but they were too cute not to post even though they are from a while ago.

when I took down last years family pics to replace them with these, I couldn't believe how much Ali had grown up. such a little gal, and no longer a baby...

speaking of babies...I was preggers here. We took these on Sat and found out Monday we were expecting. So technically it is a complete family picture session with all 5 of us present! Wish I had known, I would have posed with a frame around the tummy to announce our addition!

ah, the love of my life...such a masterpiece of a man...

she owned it on this shoot. There are tons of pictures that have a vintage ali pose going on, but didn't work with the rest of us. I will have to post some of those later for your viewing pleasure.

this last one is for SURE one of my favorites of the day. 

Val is AWESOME! she is such a talented gal and her prices can't be beat.  

Thanks to her we have yet another year of memories documented!

Thanks for traveling all that way Val, we LOVE them!