Saturday, April 30, 2011

The Sid Monster is ONE

Sid turned one this week. Nicki chose a monster theme party. It turned out so cute! And the monster theme is fitting! I love to throw a party and I was so happy to be able to help Nicki with everything. We got to spend a lot of time together working on the party set up and cake.
The night before the party she came over and we started the monster cakes. We were up until 3AM making the cakes. They turned out great!

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The smash cake.






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The party was at James Island County Park. It was a great location. The scenery is beautiful, and the weather was nice too.

William brought balloons for his cousin Sid. Notice the smiley face one? That is sooooo Sid with bandaid all over him.






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They entertained BOTH of these guys.

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Asher had a great time playing in the water until.........he was kicked out for peeing!







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Sid started crawling right before he turned one. Way to go Sid!
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Sid is the cutest little monster I have ever seen.
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Favor bags for the kids.
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After being there a little while the cake began to melt. I am glad I took some before pictures. He looked kind of scary at this point.



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Here are some "posed" pictures of the birthday boy. He LOVES balloons!



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These two are starting to really notice each other.
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Time to smash the cake.
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Beating the monster!
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Here are some random photos from the day.

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There's a scary monster face.
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There's a sweet monster face.
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Sweet cousin moment.
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We had a great time! We love you so much Sid. Happy birthday. Thank you for bringing so much joy and laughter to our lives. I cant wait to see the person that you will be one day.





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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Easter this year was really special. Not only was a it a day to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and beauty of a loving God that with so much mercy and love gave His Son so that we can spend eternity with Him, but it was also a day for our family to celebrate a woman that lives her life giving, loving and revealing to all of those that she encounters the very loving God that gave His Son. This year Angela's birthday fell on Easter. It was funny at the beginning of the year when I marked her birthday on my calendar and I noticed this I thought it was cool of course. A few days later I got a call from Angela and she was so excited..." have you looked at the calendar?" She asked. " My birthday is on Easter!" Apparently this is something she has been waiting 63 years for. She was almost as excited about this as she was when she found out she could retire at 62.
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She is so cute. I wanted to throw a little party for her at my house the week before. As I was trying to figure out a day to do this I asked her if Friday would work for her. She said "no, I really don't feel comfortable celebrating on Good Friday." I love that lady!
It didn't work out for her schedule and mine to have something at my house so we celebrated on Easter. To celebrate this special day we went to church with her and Aunt Theresa. Angela beamed with pride as she held William during mass. She was even more of a proud Myma when she took him to the priest to have her first grandson blessed and prayed for.

William was really good during mass. Our saving grace was a cute little girl on the row behind us. She and William chatted and flirted the whole service.

After mass we went back to Aunt Theresa's house for lunch and a much needed nap.

Not only was the food great tasting, but it was cute too.
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We could all just eat him up!

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After dinner went to Hampton Park to walk around. Going to Hampton Park on Easter was a tradition that Angela and Aunt Theresa had growing up.

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William and MaMo
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Happy Birthday Myma! We love you! You are best!
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

14 Months Old

There are a lot of words that could describe William at 14 months. Since I am his mother I can only think of wonderful adjectives.
So I will not say much accept that he is simply majestic (as his middle name Shea is defined).
I think these pictures say it all......




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(photo was taken on Easter)

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Spotted!

One of the best features of the new house is the screened in back porch. It is a wonderful place to sit and enjoy the outdoors while William plays with toys and the dogs run around the yard. On nice cool days I let William play on the porch while I work in the kitchen or on the computer where I can see him.
On this day he was just walking around the porch babbling and talking to himself. I grabbed the camera hoping to get some candid shots of him, but he spotted me.

I thought his reaction of pure joy was so cute. He squealed with delight and let out a big chuckle when he saw me admiring his cuteness.

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I think he knows how cute he is.


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Mischief!

Yes, though we can go on and on about how good of baby William was and even now as a toddler he is laid back, and (somewhat) calm. But! (and that is a BIG BUT) he is into EVERYTHING!
A couple nights ago as I was on the computer I realized that I had not heard anything from him for few minutes....so my first thought was "what is he into!?"
I came a around the corner into the living room and spotted this.......






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William was emptying a box of tissue. He also had a cord that he found as we were unpacking.





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Of course he HAD to eat the tissue.

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What am I going to do with this boy?
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Poor Sid

A few days ago Nicki sent me a text that said "guess where I am." I had some pretty scary thoughts at first, then she followed the text with one that said " I am in the ER with Sid. THe poor thing fell down the front steps of his house. Poor guy, first a broken leg and now a scraped up face.


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He is still a cutie!

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We were grateful that he did just get scraped up. They thought he might have broken his nose at first.
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I am not really into the posed cheesy look in photos, but I had to include these. Asher can not stand to not be the subject of lens. That is the cheesiest smile I have ever seen.
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