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Saturday, November 1, 2008

Isabella's Birtthday Celebration!!

As I put in a previous post, October 26th was Isabella's 2nd birthday! We decided that with how crazy the last few months have been we would have a much more low key birthday party for Isabella, family only this year. We will get back to having a big party next year!

Well, we started the weekend with a little birthday celebration at daycare! All of the kids in her class are so great, and usually interact well. They may all bite, push each other, and get rough at times but at the end of the day they all hug as they are leaving! It is so cute to watch them interact, and celebrate events together!



Isabella loves Marcella so much--she calls her "my Sha-sha!!" Apparently she is very possessive of her during the day!

Isabella with her ladies(Miss Marcella and Miss Kote)--minus Miss Sarah, she was gone for the day already!

Her little family party was Saturday afternoon, my Mom came over Saturday morning to help me continue to get ready for the party! We made Rice Krispy treats and she iced the cake and cupcakes that I had made (I am a terrible cake-icer).


Isabella loved licking the Rice Krispies off of the spoon! I always thought that was the best part too!
Notice the pumpkin cake, thanks Mom for icing it for us!

My new favorite picture of them! They both look so happy!
The yummy chocolate fountain that we tried for the first time!!
Isabella playing with her new kitchen, she absolutely LOVES it!!
Isabella with her new talking Minnie Mouse and the phone from her kitchen! She always talks to Papa on the phone!
Isabella really loved her Great-Grandparents this trip, it gets better every trip!
She seriously has hardly stopped playing with her kitchen since she got it!
Dinner at Lone Star Saturday night, a great way to end a great day!

It has been a week and I still can't believe that she is two years old already! It seems like just yesterday that we were in the hospital, and she was brand new! She is seriously sweeter, more precious, and more fun to be around than I could ever have imagined! It is so hard to even comprehend how much we love her and she has changed our lives for the better!! Sometimes it seems like she was just born and other times it seems like she has been a part of our lives for ever!! Thank you Lord for the precious, priceless gift of our Isabella!!

Just thought that i would include a few pictures while we were still in the hospital! Wow--it is crazy to look at how much she has changed!!

Our trip to Baltimore

The first weekend of October we went to Baltimore to see some family. We decided to leave after work Thursday and just drive until we got there. Well, at around 1130 we changed our minds and decided to stop and spend the night in a hotel and finish the trip in the morning. We had hoped to get into Ben and Kim's house and not wake them up, I am very glad that we changed our minds. Isabella had been totally asleep in the car, that is until the motor was turned off. She decided when we got to our hotel room that she was wide awake and wanted to talk--I bet that we laid there and tried to get her to go back to sleep for at least a half hour!

We finally got to Baltimore around noon the next day, and after a quick stop for lunch, and at the grocery store, Isabella and I were laying down for a nap by 1:30pm--and when we got up around 3 Ben was home from school! Shortly after that Kim got home from work and our weekend together got underway!

That night we went out to G&M restaurant and feasted on the best crab cakes ever! I always say that you can't go to Baltimore and not eat a crab cake! To make it even nicer--Ben and Kim treated as a slightly belated birthday gift to me. Thank you again, it was wonderful!!

Saturday morning was pretty quiet, just hanging out with Ben and Kim. That afternoon we went over to my cousin Emma's house to celebrate the baby shower of her brother and his wife! They are expecting their first baby girl in December! It was a great afternoon of showering Valerie (and Walter) with gifts, and watching football with a lot of family we don't get to see nearly enough!

Saturday evening we drove to downtown Baltimore to catch some fireworks that the City of Baltimore was putting off in celebration of Michael Phelps. Apparently the city celebrated him (he is from Baltimore and still lives there) all day on Saturday! We missed the rest of the celebrations, but made it for the fireworks! With the help of Emma's husband Joe (he is a Baltimore county transport policeman) we were able to park close enough to see the fireworks, and actually hear Micheal Phelps speak just before the fireworks, but still far enough away to miss traffic!!

Not sure why there did not turn out better, I even used the night setting!

Isabella and her Aunt Kim!
Emma has new twins (Ava and Landon) that are almost 3 months old! That Sunday they were Baptized and we got to go the the ceremony. After the ceremony we all headed back to Emma and Joe's house to continue to hang out together and get ready for the Sunday night football game between the Steelers and the Jaguars!
The proud parents on the left, Godparents on the right, and big sister in front!!
The vast majority of my family are Steelers fans!
Madison, Isabella, and Uncle Ben--all decked out in their Steelers gear! Thanks Uncle Ben and Aunt Kim for Isabella's new jersey, she loves it!
The girls with Uncle Tom!
Isabella celebrating a Touchdown with Uncle Ben!!
Monday we had to get in the car and come home! We had a wonderful weekend with family, it was great to get so much time with them!! It is also, and always, great to watch Isabella with Ben and Kim. They all just love each other so much!!

Thanks for a wonderful weekend Ben and Kim. We love you so much!!