HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my 1st place Baby Contest Winner!

Wow! Two great things happened this weekend. We celebrated Eva's first Birthday with family and close friends. And on Saturday I entered her into the Freedom Festival Baby Contest and WON FIRST PLACE! She took first in the girls ages 10-12 months.

Her birthday party was themed under the sea. I wanted it to be mermaids, but couldn't find anything mermaid except for a pinata.
This her birthday outfit, and below are her shoes. They are soft highheels, so she can't walk in them very well. But super cute!
This is a picture of her birthday, we put blue cellophane on the ceiling to look like water and my sister and I made these paper mache fish (that took forever!)to hang. It was all worth it!
I had this balloon made at party land along with the fish below.

Preping for the party.....

Enjoying the party.

I can't believe my baby is already one year! Thank you to all the family and friends that came and shared this special day with us!

Living in TWILIGHT!

For all those Bella and Edward lovers, I made it to the home of TWILIGHT! Jose was on a business trip in Washington state, and decided to make a va-ca out of it for me. Its just how I imagined it, the sun was shining every where else in Washington that day, except for in Forks.

Welcome to Forks, Wa. The town is only about an arm stretch wide. Its tiny, and in the last two months they have recieved over 7,000 people alone for Twilight.
Bella's red truck. We asked for directions to the Chamber of Commerce and the lady said, "Its the last building on the left, Bella's truck is parked there, you can't miss it!" Twilight is there life here now! There is a picture of Edward and Bella in every business window.

The little sign says "Home of the Swan's". This is just how i imagined her house when I read the book.
This is the Cullen's home. It actually looks like Bella's home in the movie.
Charlie's cop car.

This reserved Dr. Cullen sign is really at the Community Hospital. I tell you, everyone is involved.Before we even got to Forks, and the only way to get there, you have to catch a ferry. We had to be there an hour early so we were taking some fun pictures to kill some time. Jo is catching a few waves, well...ripples.
This was the ferry we caught to cross the bay. This is actually a small ferry and only a single decked, others are double decked and carry triple the number of cars.
This was while we were on the ferry.

Port Angeles!

We stayed in Port Angeles one night. It is a beautiful and quiet town. We ate at a resturant right on the bay the night we stayed called Downriggers and ate fresh fish and shrimp.

This is the view from our Hotel room.

This is the Hotel we stayed in, with a view from the pier.
This was a store in Port Angeles, the picture with Edward, they have this whole meadow set up in the display window that you can lay down with him and take pictures. I didn't have the guts to do it. After hiting all the hot spots in Port Angeles from the book (not pictured) we headed for forks which highlighted earlier but here are some fun pics.
This is my Edward! We stopped on the side of the road to catch a few pictures.
These last two are just pictures of beautiful scenes from our drive. The picture of this beach looks just like La Push, but its not of course. We ran out of time and its the only place in the book we didn't make it to.

Family Pictures

Our pictures were taken by the none other Janne Thurgood Bonnett!

The whole Bud and Delaina Bonnett Family.

All the Bonnett Grandkids.

Easter

Better late than never! HAPPY EASTER!

This is my only easter decor, and I made it so I had to post it. It came out really cute.
Ciara, Alexie, Eva Jane, Isa, and Matthew.
Ella, Isa, Luke, Eva Jane, Ciara.

Eva's First Easter Egg Hunt!

She doesn't enjoy the grass much.

Collecting the easter goods.

St. Pattys Day!

I called my husband on St. Patricks Day and asked him if he was wearing green. He told me that March 17th isn't a day he remembers to celebrate. I asked him how many of his high school students were wearing green? And he said not even 1/4. As for me, I told him that as I was walking around the neighborhood, and every child I saw was wearing green. And He said "They are in elementary MOM." I am a person that would love to make a celbration out of every day. You can bet I was wearing green, and so was my little creamy! Not a huge holiday, but a good excuse to buy cute green stuff, and get together with your sister and have a green themed dinner!