All dressed up

 

Here is our sweet little Claire all dressed up in her first big girl outfit. She had to go in for her 2 week appointment so I thought that was an appropriate time to put on the big girl clothes! She is so fun to dress up and take pictures of, let that be a warning to you all that there will probably be a whole bunch of pictures of her on here. (She got great reviews at her appointment, weighing in at 9 lbs 6oz)

 

Honestly I set out to get full body shots of her in this cute little outfit but I couldn't resist a close up of this adorable little face!

 

We had Billys parents and grandparents over for dinner last night and I caught this shot of Claire getting a little bit of attention. I wish I would have got the camera out sooner because the was pretty much what it looked like all night. It almost makes me cry everytime I see a sight like this. (honestly, I am fighting back the tears to avoid looking like a huge baby) My children are blessed to be surrounded by so much love. They have wonderful grandparents and great grandparents, not to mention aunts, uncles, and cousins. I don't think there is anything better then having a great big loving family.

 

I generally don't like to have my picture taken until I have lost at least half of the 200 pounds I gain each pregnancy but I sacrificed to be able to take a picture with my sweet little angel. I just love this little baby with all my heart, I can't imagine anything better then just staying home and taking care of her. (and the other kids too I guess) Ok, I'm kidding of course I love all of my sweet children more then anything in the world and I am so fortunate to have each one of them to love and care for. I am one happy mama!

Here she is....

 

Claire Paisley Blackwell

 

her blog debut

 

she has tons of hair

 

and we all love her lots and lots and lots!! (more to come soon)

Happy Birthday Sophia!!!

 

Look at this beauty!!! Joni and I made this all by ourselvess. We practiced one time on a tiny little cake and look how nicely this baby turned out. It may have had a few blemishes on the back but at least we were smart enough to put them all in the back.

 

Sophia had a nice little winter party for her first birthday and it actually was a little cold outside, like we got to wear our sweatshirts AND stand by the fire!! Thats rare around these parts. The kids even got to throw snow in the air.

 

Here is Joni's cute family, I'm not sure why Jackson looks like he hates me because I swear he loves me. My camera ran out of batteries before I got any pics of Sophia by herself but she was really cute! She got the whole top tier of cake to herself but she wouldn't touch it until Joni peeled the fondant back.

 

Here's Chloe, she won a prize! Joni had wrapped up a box that had a bunch of tiny boxes of nerds and all the kids got to guess what was in there! Chloe got it pretty quick and kind of spoiled it for the rest of the kids, girl knows her candy! Fun party, cute birthday girl I cant believe she is 1 (or that I will have a baby girl turning 1 at this time next year)!
***we are now taking orders for custom cakes***

You can not outsmart this thing

I tried and it didn't work. I am super lazy about my blogging and the easiest way for me to post is through picasa which will only let me do 4 pictures at a time. So I did 2 seperate posts but I did them backwards, I tried to trick blogger into posting the second one first but it didn't happen. That is why below you will see part 2 first but if you are cool and you want to do it the right way you can scroll down and read it in order!!

baby shower part 2

 

Here I am on the way down. Karen suprised me with this little gem, a real cupcake inside a fake cupcake! It was awesome, nice work Karen!

 

Joni Lightyear? It might have gotten a little goofy towards the end. Well, this was only after one store so maybe it was a little goofy the whole time.

 

Ryanne lightyear? She actually started it, Joni was being a copycat.

 

Weird, it's Joni doing some crazy activity again. I tried to talk Joni into going in this Hurricane thing when we tool our trip to SLC back in July and she wouldn't do it. THis time she couldn't say no, it was MY babyshower! I did have to fork out the 2 bucks but as you can see from my head thrown back laughter it was totally worth it! SOmebody must have said something, I don't remember it really being all that funny.