Easter Weekend 2013 at the Lake

We had a great Easter weekend at the lake. For as long as I can remember, we have spent Easter at the lake. This year is a little bittersweet because it will be our last easter here at this lake in this house. It is where Campbell has spent her first two Easters, and where we spent our last Easter as a family of three!  Campbell really enjoyed playing outside and wore herself out! Enjoy the pics:

What a difference a year makes!

Our San Francisco Girls Trip!

We had so much fun in San Francisco! I'm so thankful I got to spend a few days exploring the city with 3 of my favorite women! My grandmother (MO), mom, and sister all joined me...all thanks to my hubby for the suggestion. He wanted me to get away and do something I wanted to do before the baby comes! What a sweet man!

I've never been to California and have always wanted to go there. San Francisco was a place I thought would be fun to visit, and I knew Jacob could care less about visiting there. It was definitely a fun, but exhausting trip for this preggo. I have never walked so much and been so exhausted after a "vacation", EVER!

Enjoy the picture overload of some of my favorite places. We enjoyed an Alcatraz night tour, morning Muir Woods tour, and lots of walking to the other famous sites San Francisco has to offer!

22 Months and 24 Weeks...

Campbell Grace, another month has already flown by. In less than 2 months I will have a 2 year old. That is absolutely crazy to me! You are definitely such a big girl. The "baby" is fading away so fast, but your daddy tells you everyday that you are still his baby girl and you adore him!

This month your words and sentences are becoming more clear and appropriate. You are putting more words together. Over the past few days you have been saying "Mommy/Daddy/Duke, etc, where are you? (mostly sounds like Are You?" and when we read your Peekaboo book, you say "I see you!" You still say, "Mommy, sit down" when you want me to sit in the floor and play with you or sit at the table and play with playdoh. And you also grab my hand and tell me "Come On."

You have become very polite saying please when you are asking for something and saying thank you when we give it to you. We have been working on this for a while, and it is so nice to see it finally sticking! You have also been saying yes and no ma'am. I say this to you all the time, but I also think you are learning it at school. Sometimes it comes off pretty sassy, haha, but it's so darn cute.

This month you have added a favorite show to your list...Bubble Guppies. It's a nice change for mommy and daddy, although you still enjoy Mickey.

You have started to want to dress yourself and put on your socks and shoes. It is crazy how much you are growing up! You pick out what bow/clip you want sometimes. You also like to pick out your shoes.

Bubbles have been a fun play activity for you when it's warm enough outside. And of course, going to the playground and spending time on the slides and in the sandbox.

When you see letters/numbers in a book you always say "8,9,10" haha. I think it's hilarious. You are trying to read, but you repeat numbers instead of letters. Needless to say, I guess we know your favorite numbers right now. You can go through your numbers 1-10 with our help. And you can pick out the number 8 anywhere.

You absolutely love to read books. And I love spending that time with you. Your favorites are Dr. Seuss, the Sandra Boynton board books, well, just about any of them!

I love you so much my gorgeous girl! You bring so much light to my life :)

We have reached the 24 week mark with baby girl #2. I can't wait to give you a name, but with your parents, we procrastinate and have a hard time making decisions...and we are sorry for that! We got to see a little, short, very short glimpse of you yesterday. Dr. B. is still pretty sure you are a SHE. So we will move forward with that.

Mommy needs to get a move on in deciding what to do with your room and your big sister's room. I have a feeling we will leave the nursery pretty much the same and you will get to experience the calm, soothing room that your sister grew up in for a few years. Your daddy worked so hard on it, and really, it is one of my favorite rooms in the house. I can't wait to rock and love on you in that sweet sanctuary. I will, of course, have a little different bedding made for you, maybe adding some other colors, but you will have the grey and silver walls with pink accents. I plan on using a lot of what I already have for your big sister. It just makes sense that way.

You are a mover little miss. And I'm loving experiencing it once again. You seem busiest when mommy is eating...which can make it really hard to finish. I have to constantly stop and take breaks. Your heart beat yesterday was 133 bpm. Absolutely perfect! I love hearing that sound.

We are so happy that you are growing and healthy in mommy's tummy. Meeting you will be here before we know it! I can't wait!

I love you baby girl!

Campbell's Class Valentines

I'm not all that big into Valentine's Day, but I guess when you have kids, the schools/daycare make such a big deal out of ALL the holidays, so you guessed it...I am doing my first set of valentines for Campbell, I have how many more years of this!?!?! At least when she's a little older, she can help and do them herself, right?

Because she's not quite 2, I wanted to do something that didn't really revolve around candy. I don't know how the other mothers are about it. I mean, she loves a good bag of m&m's and I'm ok with it, but lots of parents aren't.

So, I happened upon a blog I follow quite a bit back in January that had some cute valentine printables. You can see them HERE.

I copied the WRITE ONE valentine and got pencils and note pads from the dollar bin at Target. Since I had such an adorable pic of Campbell from her photoshoot, I decided to use it and make my own print out...which I created on picmonkey.com. It was super easy. I printed it out on photo paper, so the quality looked good and then made them. I added a few heart stickers and of course, I couldn't go without a little "goodie" so some Dora gummies it ended up being. I'm not a huge Dora fan, but that's what I found. I'm happy with them! I also made her teachers/director one with a larger notepad! Easy, inexpensive, and sweet!

Here's the pic/photo I used, and here are the finished products:

Cattle drive at the Stockyards

I took Campbell this morning to the Stockyards in Fort Worth. My mom's office is down there, so we met her to see the cattle drive and have lunch. Campbell is very interested in animals...especially cows and horses. And when she saw the cowboys she would say "Yee Haw"...I mean how cute is that? We even got to sit on one of the longhorns to get our picture taken. She wasn't sure what to think. We weren't up there long and she was like..."down." We will have many more visits to the stockyards in our future!

Enjoy a few of the pics I was able to get: