FUN TO BE ONE

Guess who had her first birthday?!

Yep, it's true.  Our sweet little McKenna Monkey is one!

I cannot believe it was a whole year ago that we first looked at her perfect little face.

I wish time would slow down, just a little bit.  She is getting so big, and is growing way too fast.  But she is so much fun!  She makes us laugh every day and has brought our family so many smiles, we can't really picture life now without her!  We are sure in love with her.

To celebrate McKenna's big day, we took a trip to the puppy store, then headed out to an early dinner at Chick-Fil-A.  They have the best chicken nuggets, yummy milkshakes, and a really cool indoor play place. All the kid favorites!  

When it was time for the real party, she was actually mostly just a little confused.  She was a little unsure of the present unwrapping (Brinlee was more than happy to step in there), a little concerned by her candle being on fire, and she took it very seriously when we took away the rest of her annihilated cake. But she sure was cute, as always!

Happy Birthday to our big one-year-old girl!  We love you Kenna babe!

HAPPINESS IS...

...family 'pizza and a movie' night, 

picnic style!

We finally saw Big Hero 6, and everyone liked it!  Both Brinlee and McKenna giggled out loud actually, and they both ate better than ever! We might have to make this more of a regular thing.

WORLD CLASS PARENTING

Do you remember that time when you thought your almost-one-year-old had mastered the stairs, so you left her upstairs to finish her tantrum while you went downstairs to clean up dinner...  and then, she did indeed find her way down those stairs, and ended up with a beauty mark like this?

You don't remember that?
Well unfortunately, we now will remember just exactly that!
In our defense, she really has done those stairs just fine probably 1000 times!  I guess tonight she just wanted to try tumbling down them instead.  Just to mix it up a little, you know?  Get us all a little more excited.

Poor baby girl. I guess she's not so keen on me trying to crack down on some discipline tactics for her.
At least she recovered quickly!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIMMY

Our handsome man had a birthday!

The big 28.

He might be getting old, but he's still cute!  :)

The birthday boy is actually getting ready for a test (I know, shocker), so we didn't do much partying.  The girls and I got up and made him some breakfast, and once we were done eating, Brinlee gave Tim the ziplock bag of loose change that has been sitting on our dresser for the last few months, announced that daddy's birthday was over, and asked when she was getting her present...

and that was that.

We did get out of the house for a while though without kids.  Best present ever!  Tim has been to a couple OSU games, but this was my first.  And it was actually pretty fun.  Freezing cold, but fun. Go Bucks!

Happy Birthday to the most wonderful man there is!

SISTER SUNDAY

The other day I went upstairs to find the girls playing in the middle of a serious disaster.

Brinlee looked up and said "Hey mom, McKenna and me both made this mess, because we just love playing together!"

I watch these two together every day and still can't get enough.  They are so amazing.  

Happy Sunday!