I yuv you

3 words that melt my heart every time she says them. The pride that comes with watching my daughter blossom into a little girl. Of all the words that she has begun to use on a regular basis, "I yuv you" is her new favorite phrase.

She says it often.

I repeat it back. Often.

She says it before she goes down for a nap, before bed, throughout the day and most importantly if she misbehaves and is punished she will say sorry, give kisses and say those 3 precious words... 

I yuv you!

Playing Catch Up

Wow! It's been forever since I blogged. We've been busy, busy around here. Rags to Stitches Boutique, my baby accessory line is thriving and I've been filling several orders recently. I love that my business is growing, but it's definitely more tricky to find time to sew with 2 kids. Besides being busy with work, our family has been busy getting settled into our new home, celebrating Easter, my 30th birthday party and our trip to the Santa Barbara Wine Festival. We had a wonderful Easter celebration with family. Here are some pictures from our day.

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Can I just say how much I love her haircut!?!

Katelyn's 1st Hair Cut

Kyle and I took Katelyn to Cool Cutz for Kids today for her 1st haircut. It's been getting long and unruly and we missed seeing her beautiful little face hidden behind her mop of hair. I'm not going to lie I was very nervous, anxious and my heart pounded in my chest through the entire hair cut. I was so worried the girl was going to cut it too short or not the way I had wanted. It felt like I was visiting a brand new hair dresser for the first time. Katelyn did great!! She was a little hesitant at first, but she loved sitting in the yellow car and watching Elmo while she got her hair cut. She even sat still for most of it. I decided I wanted to do an a-line cut on her hair so it's shorter in the back and longer in the front, just like her mommy.

Turning 30!!

I know that there's 2 exclamation points behind my blog post title, but it's an excited !. This past year has been an amazing one filled with Katelyn's 1st birthday, finding out we were pregnant again, the birth of Brayden, the engagement of my brother in law to an amazing woman, and buying a house!! When Kyle told me a year ago he was going to buy me a house for my 30th birthday, I told him, "No Way! You can't predict where the market will be at the point and if we'll even be able to find a house in our price range." Low and behold, God is SO good and he has continued to bless our family!

We are going to have a party on April 10th (wanted to give myself some time to move in and get settled), but the day of my birthday was an extremely special day too. The morning of my birthday I did a Spring Boutique with Rags to Stitches. My mother-in-law came and watched the kids so I could go and enjoy myself for a few hours. I did get a few orders, which is awesome, but most of all it was a great networking opportunity. I'm really hoping to do a fall boutique at our house (maybe) and so I wanted to meet other ladies that I could invite to be a part of it with me. When I arrived home from the boutique I was greeted with this:

While I was gone at the boutique, Katelyn, Brayden & Gigi:

So special!! The cake was DELICIOUS!!

After enjoying some cake, I put my little ones down for a nap and Kyle's Mom stayed so Kyle and I could go spend some alone time together. We saw a movie and then had dinner at Buddha's Favorite in Newport Lido. 

Thanks Gigi for watching our precious little ones. They always have so much fun with you!

Our New Home!

I know many of you have been asking when I'm going to post pictures of the house. Well... 

here they are!!! I included pictures of the house "empty" before we started construction,

 some construction photos, and then how it looks now. I will update from time to time so 

you can see some of the other things we do to the house. Right now we're still working on 

hanging pictures and such around the house. Our goal is to get it all ready to go before April 10th, which is the night we're having a party to celebrate my 30th birthday. Can't wait! In the meantime, enjoy the pictures!

Babnick Easter Egg Hunt

Every year our friends the Babnicks have an Easter Egg Hunt for all their friends and family. Last year we weren't able to go, so we were excited about being able to take Katelyn this year. They have a great house with bunny's, horses, chickens and ducks.... as you can imagine Katelyn was in animal heaven. She LOVED checking out all the animals, especially the baby ducks and chickens. My friends Christine told me that she bought the eggs and rented an incubator and brought them to her classroom so her students could take care of them and wait for them to hatch. Awesome!! I am going to do this with Katelyn and Brayden when they get a little older. I know they will love it. Katelyn had such a great time at the Easter Egg Hunt and found tons of eggs around the yard. I'm so glad that she was able participate in this hunt as we missed out on the last one. 

Katelyn loved the baby chicks or as she called them chickies.

Story time. We began with a story about Jesus's death and resurection.

Brayden even got in on the action.

This little baby chickie just sat on Katelyn's lap as she ate some of her Easter candy. He didn't even try to jump away. It was too cute watcher her sit there chillin with the baby chicken.

Picture time with the bunny. This bunny was amazing, he just sat there while the kids took turns taking pictures with him.

Katelyn even got to feed the Babnick's horse. The horse tried to give her kisses, but I think it scared her because after it happened she was done visiting with the horse.

All in all it was a great Easter Egg Hunt! Thanks Babnicks for the invite, can't wait till next year so Brayden can go hunting for eggs too!

Welcome Baby Jacob

Our good friends Rosh and Rachel had their baby boy, Jacob, this week. He's absolutely adorable! Kyle and I got to visit them and see the baby yesterday morning. So precious!! Since we had the kids Kyle and I had to take turns going in and visiting Rosh, Rachel and the baby, but I did manage to get a couple pictures. It's been so exciting to watch their family grow and I know they are going to be great parents to baby Jacob!  Congrats guys!