Monday, July 26, 2010

Hodge Podge!

Since I've procrastinated, you guys get to see a whole bunch of pictures from a variety of scenic venues. :) This summer has been awesome so far (humidity and bad hair days aside, lol!). Just this weekend we took Cayleigh to the "Wild West Fest" at the berry farm, where Cayleigh fell in love with a prostitute, I fell in love with fry bread (a mix between a hot donut and heaven), and Phillip got to shoot stuff....so pretty much a typical family weekend for us. :)D Enjoy the pics!
We barely escaped from the raging buffalo! Fortunately, Phillip saved us with his amazing bow shooting skills. If you don't believe me, there were witnesses; Chief Big Feathers, and his wife, Tiny Waist. (They're in the picture and saw the whole thing!)
So proud of herself, and yet confused at the look of horror on mommy's face......

And she's out!

Oh no she didn't! *Snaps fingers in diva fashion*

My man and his little look alike!

Save me mommy!

Horsey!!! Whitney has personally witnessed my transformation into a five year old when any animal life is present. :)
I found him alive, but took him in dead just for the heck of it.
Apparently I knew I was missing before it happened.....
Pose more fitting for an Uncle Same "I Want You!" poster!
Phillip shooting the raging buffalo endangering his family....we were juuusssst cut out of the picture, I swear!
The nice lady prostitute I couldn't detach my daughter from. Awwwww, it's so nice making friends. :)

Hmmmm, what's wrong with this picture?
Ms. Independent....that is, until she turned into a blubber butt during the "shoot out", and the sheriff afterwards tried to give her a sticker badge!
Play date fun! I wrongly thought that slides were meant for going down, but Cayleigh quickly corrected my evil ways.
Awesome room!
Fun with daddy :)
We don't think Cayleigh is growing fast enough,so Phillip likes to stretch her from time to time.
This picture is especially for PaPa Yates, who said that we needed to worry about Cayleigh being grown up when she started to wear her hats backwards. (She put on her ball cap backwards by her own choosing!) Looks like we're in trouble!
Pool fun! (at home)
WWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Come and play mommy!!

Going down the slide at Papio Bay and , of course, licking the water as we go!
Let me gooooo!!!!!!!























Sunday, July 18, 2010

4 Year Anniversary/Wedding Weekend Get Away

*Sigh* I hate this blogger thing sometimes. See two pictures down for full narrative.
The happy couple (Sara and Dustin Last-Name-I-Can't-Spell) dancing for dance as husband and wife.
Can you tell they just told us we could have our cake? She sure can't say a whole lot, but boy does she understand "CAKE"! :)

Phil and I were invited so my friends' wedding (Sara) this Saturday up in Vermillion, SD. Since a two and half hour drive, 6 hours of wedding, and two and half hours of driving home would be a bit much with a 15 month old, we decided to stay the weekend near town in what looked like a really nice hotel (its only saving grace was the gloriously huge tub that I could stretch my whole body out it in). Our 4 year anniversary had been this past wednesday just before the wedding weekend, so my parents met us at the hotel to change for the wedding, we packed up overnight stuff for Cayleigh, and they took her home after the reception, while Phil and I went back to our hotel to celebrate our Anniversary. :) The wedding was very sweetly done, Sara was beautiful, Chuck (the dad) was torn between tears and laughter, and we enjoyed the freedom of being just guests there to celebrate!
The next day Phillip and I took our time road-tripping back. We had breakfast at Perkins, stopped at the Lewis and Clark State Park halfway through to look at the Keel Boat, had lunch once in town, and then went to pick up our freshly napped daughter from the depths of despair that she was in from being tortured with her grandparents (note high pitched squeals of laughter in the background when entering said grandparental home). :)D All in All, a very busy and very fun weekend! Extra bonus, we found the campsite (L&C Park) that we want to take Cayleigh to next summer! It has a swimming beach portion to the lake. Ooohhh yeeeaaahhh. :)



Making Friends...Cayleigh just loved Callie, the flower girl, and Callie loved Cayleigh right back. They were two peas in a pod the whole reception!


Cayleigh petting the buffalo....more accurately picking Mr. Buffalo's nose, lol!



I love this picture! My mom caught us outside, Cayleigh "refueling" her bravery to go run around for another hour or so and Phillip keeping us company.





Cayleigh looking beautiful in her Sari from our dear friend Satya and Swapna. They went to visit their son and parents in India and brought back this gorgeous set for Cayleigh! She, of course, had to wear to the first special occasion we had :)



Anniversary Flowers...Four roses for the years married, and one for year to come. :) The goof-ball came free with purchase, and as he was cute I kept him!


The lake at Lewis and Clark State park...this was taken right before Phillip strapped an iron ball to my legs and shoved me in. Hahhaha!


The keel boat; well, a quarter of it. The santa fe would only haul so much....


Honestly, could you think of a more iconic place to make a Captain Morgan pose?



At the wedding ceremony, with the full garb on. We eventually had to lose the sash as she kept chewing on the flowers embroided on it!












Thursday, June 17, 2010

Been A While

Casin' the hood with PaPa Yates, lol!

Awwww...giving nice snuggles after a hard day of swimming and playing :)
My First Swim! Like my hair? :)


Picking flowers! Her favorite thing to do outside :)



"The Hiiiiiilllllss are aliiiiiive with the sound of Muuuuusiiiiiic"

So, it hit me yesterday that it is June. I know...it's not even early June, it's very much mid-June; all the same, my brain only caught up yesterday. SO, with that said, here's a post with some pictures of our vacation from May (it's only been a month) when we went to visit Phillips PaPa and then my PaPa, who live correspondingly in VA and NC. We drove out to see them, and all things considered I would say the driving was a success. :) Cayleigh slept through the night in her own portable crib every night (even the first one in a strange hotel room) without any troubles, so the traveling didn't disturb her too much. She does NOT sleep while driving (contrary to popular belief), so we read alot of books, played with alot of toys, pulled out alot of mommy's hair (and I mean literally; my hair is her security blanket, which resulted in a very bad neck crick and a hair thinning treatment I did not ask for!), and ate alot of goldfish. :) Cayleigh loved seeing both sets of her great-grandparents and her Nana Rita, all of whom ran from Cayleigh like she was a leper and had nothing to do with her.....HA! Just making sure you're still paying attention! No, in fact, she was dreadfully spoiled (not such a bad thing in this case) by all the love, and her little legs are not so little any more as they most resemble a pair of pack-mule hind legs; in short she never sat except to eat or sleep. Here's a few pics from our trip, though only from the time spent with Phillips folks. I have to get the pictures from my grandparents moved from the camera to the computer still! We love all of you and can't wait to see everybody again (especially those we didn't get to see this time!)





Sunday, April 18, 2010

1st Birthday :)

**Warning: The following post contains dangerously cute pictures and information. Reading of the post may result in excessive "awwww-ing".**

Yesterday was Cayleigh's first birthday!!! Since Daddy wasn't here, we just had a simple lunch with my parents, and brother and Shelly. She had an awesome day, and just played and played and played. We started it with waking up to the birthday song, followed by oatmeal (she loves oatmeal!) dyed blue just to make it fun. It actually made her cry before she tried it b/c she thought I was trying to feed her something that was NOT her oatmeal, but once I shoved a spoonful in there she was a happy camper. Then we just played (well, mommy cleaned and cooked like a mad-woman) until it was time for lunch! Right before lunch a beautiful bouquet of yellow flowers arrived from Daddy for his "beatiful ladies" birthdays. :)
Then Grandma, PaPa, Uncle Dan and Aunt Shelly all came over for birthday burgers and cake. Cayleigh thought she was full until she tried the cake. Then she somehow manage to force herself to eat the whole slice. She is such a trooper! And even though her real party isn't until Daddy gets back home, Uncle Dan and Aunt Shelly brought Cayleigh a birthday present anyways (a stuffed polar bear with the "earth" series DVD on polar bears). In the moment she really only played with the bow on top of the present, but this morning she gave her new bear lots of hugs and cuddles, so we have now confirmed it as a winner. :) A card arrived for Cayleigh from her great-PaPa Yates at the same time we were opening gifts, so it was perfect timing! It was also great Papa Yates birthday as well. :) Mommy also got her little sugar booger some new books, b/c lets face it, it's not a party until you've gotten a good new book! Well, to me it isn't!
To wrap up the festivities we took all the family downstairs to the backyard for a "swingin' good time" (we pushed Cayleigh on the swing and took an absurdly large amount of pictures while doing it!). And do you know the best part of all that busy, busy fun? THE NAP! (I can hear all fellow mommas sayin' "amen sista") :). She slept like a rock for her nap, even through the pictures I took of her when I went to wake her up 2 hours after she went down.
She had such a fun day. It's hard to believe my little baby is already 1 year old, but I have to say that I love the stage that she's at. I love that she's running around, jabbering non-stop, giving hugs and kisses (real ones!), and riding in a forward facing carseat. She was beautiful the day she was born, and she's even more precious today. All the work, all the tears, all the sleep deprivation, pale in comparison to all the joy, laughter, and love that she's filled our lives with. I'm looking forward to another fun year with my little lady bird! (or Cay-zilla as I more commonly call her now) :)D


Sweet, Sweet rest.




Swing time! Higher Uncle Dan!


Hi Daddy! I Love You!

You may think she's going for the bear, but no....if you look closely you'll see she's just taking the bow off of it's head!

What's in HERE?!

Check it out....I got a bear!

Random cake picture...I like it cause you can see her smiling underneath the avalanche of cake :)


*giggle* What'd ya get me, Uncle dan?

Hmmm, curious. Very curious. It looks like a newspaper, but there's something suspicous about it's shape.....


By golly, a bow!


Oh yeah, that was good!


Sweet goodness gracious, why did no one tell me this existed?!


Yay!

Arfff murph grff mmmmmmm



Resistance is futile...

Okaaayyy, I'm gonna go with this.....


By far the cutest picture of the two of us. :)


"Smelling" a flower from Daddy.


Her Cake!

WEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! Party Time!!!

Such a lady :)





The table; Phillip's flowers are in the middle and they perfectly completed the set up!



It's such a pretty day, Mommy!

Dentist Face. She actually says "AHHHH" while doing it! My baby's so smart!

The blue birthday oatmeal. Yes, I can understand why she would cry upon seeing that my intention was for her to consume it, lol!

It's my birthday!! :)