Part 2 of Kaleias 1st bday (pictures)

I got the pictures back from Sammy our photographer... She does such a wonderful job capturing every moment of Our beautiful daughters birthday. Thank you Sammy...

Kaleia's 1st birthday Party

Thank You to all are Family & Friends who were able to that make it.  We totally appreciate everyone for coming out and special thanks to those the helped the setup and abrupt take down. Its times like that where you just have to laugh and smile!!! Who would have ever thought, I even double checked 3 times to ensure.. OH WELL, What an exciting way to end the day huh?? It's her first Birthday and we wanted everyone to remember it in more ways then ONE- ha ha!!! Thank you again.  

 

It was a great day filled with fun, happiness and love all around for Our beautiful Baby Girl!!! We was pretty tired but she stuck it out to get through all the beautiful gifts she got to have fun opening. I have to tell you her first favorite was the PINK TISSUE PAPER that she was all about crinkling and taring up.

 More Pictures to COME!!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Kaleia!!!

A poem from your mommy!

I have a little angel girl, her name is Kaleia Rose
She fills my days with laughter and my nights with sweetest dreams
Her loving eyes look up at me, my heart melts clean away
Her cherub lips are perfect, a treat to kiss all day

Her tiny fingers now learning to hold, fill her with delight
Her wiggly feet are just perfect for her to suck and bite
She is almost sitting on her own; balance is still an issue
Oh dear, up it comes ...Please pass another tissue!

She drools and spits and gurgles in ultrasonic tones.
Two miniature teeth are cutting through (On the bottom left and right)
She’s trying tasty food each day to help her sleep at night!

After bath and milk and cuddles, she sucks her teeny thumb
 into her Binky And pretty soon thereafter makes noises from her bum!
She likes to snuggle on our bed and often goes straight to sleep on my chest
So through the night we seldom hear another little peep.

She is a little miracle, a precious beauty and the sweetest thing.
I would not change her for a thing, our sweet princess is NOW the BIG 1!
 HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL.... MOmmy loves you unconditionally

How the year just flu by...

As I'm sitting here thinking about this past year and cant even describe in words what this year has been for us. Jonathan and I are so grateful to have such a wonderful, sweet, caring, funny little peanut. She has been the biggest blessing and new joy in our lives since day one. I don't even know what Ashton would have done with out her now. He asks for her the minute he wakes up and is the first to kiss her good night every night.  AS I look back on this day last year, I was in labor and getting ready to head to the hospital for my C- section anyways. (perfect timing, my baby girl was ready to come.)   As we drove to the hospital all I could think about was my first experience with Ashton and my emergency C-section and nightmare leading up to it. I kept telling myself don't worry it's going to be ok and nothing could be as bad as what I went through the first time. Once we got there it was so different and felt like it was in slow motion compared to the first time. I felt more at ease. The one thing that made me so nervous was the epidural that took them like 45 minutes to do. But then we went from everything taking so long to it all just happening. We both did great, along with being happy and healthy.

 I was a little out of it but so excited to see my little GIRL at 11:26am Tuesday May 10th, 2011 ~
 5 pounds 12 ounces, 18 inches long...She was breath taking and so darn cute, ( but really looked Chinese or Japaneses:) .... I do have to say I was a little worried about that because you know babies don't always look fabulous right at first. It was so neat to see Jonathan hold her and cut a part of the cord. That sure is a moment you don't ever forget.

It's hard to believe it's been one whole year since we were in the hospital for a whole week. Some days, it seems like yesterday when I got to bring her home and then I look at her and it seems like so long ago. As much as it’s a life changing experience, for our whole family, I can’t imagine a day without our little peanut.She is a blessing and a beautiful gift I can’t live without. She makes me work harder and get excited to spend every minute with her and Ashton, that I have. I treasure every moment and experience I get with Kaleia & Ashton each and everyday. Thank you god for this beautiful, happy, healthy baby girl we have…

At first I was not sure how I was going to be able to love two perfect little babies just the same but I can tell you the love I have for my babies reaches more then you can image. Their is more love and happiness in our HOME then you could ever imagine.  

OK so I'm not going to write any more mushy stuff since I started to cry but, it is such a beautiful thing to have KALEIA in our lives and I count my blessings everyday.

We are so excited to share Kaleia with all our Family and Friends this Saturday as we will be having her first Big birthday bash. We cant wait to have everyone there to help us CELEBRATE HER BIG ONE !!!! I cant wait to see how much fun she will have.

We are going to do frozen yogurt cup today/and a little smash cake on Saturday w/ apple sauce. I cant wait to see what she does with it. It will be her first time eating sweets ever this week. Will see how that goes...:)

Keep you all posted with pictures of Kaliea's big birthday party Saturday!!!

THANK YOU BUBBA, for being the most amazing father and husband in this world to our beautiful family. All of this couldn't be possible with out you. Thank you for being my forever LOVE ...

It's coming so fast

I'm a bit wiped out from the crazy 2 1/2 days I have had at work, what a week and it's only Tuesday night! OK, enough about that... I forgot how crazy I went for Ashton's first Birthday!

I  have been working by day, prepping birthday goodies by night and shopping on my travels and on the weekends between event and play time to have everything ready. Let's hope this time, I actually remember to get all the decorations I make up before I get side tracked the day of !!!

I told myself I stressed out myself so much the first time to have everything perfect that I was not going to do that this time, and I think I didn't quite listen to myself but I keep telling myself DON'T worry it will be great. I'm no where near as stressed as I was the first time, well at least not yet. I just want it to be perfect for my beautiful little girl.

I'm super EXCITED about her veRY VERY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!

So I've gotten a little emotional the past few weeks when I really think about it, it's happy tears but it makes me want to cry because I cant even believe she is going to be 1. My BABY will be all grown up to a toddler. My little peanut has been my sweet little petite baby this whole year and I think it's just so hard to know that I wont ever get to do this again with a baby and now I will get to enjoy ever other coming of age, as each one I think is the BEST one and that's because they will all be.

  Jonathan, Big Brother Ashton and I are so lucky to have the sweetest loving-est love bug in the world.  Were so lucky to be here, with everyone being happy, healthy  and continuing our Family journey. To have this little girl in our lives is the most amazing feeling everyday. She is so sweet, a ray of light, and perfect in every way. It's truly been an amazing experience this year with having both of them but even more watching the bond Ashton and Kaleia have between each other is something I don't even have words to explain. Kaleia looks for ashton's every move he makes and Ashton watches for her every where he is. It's so cute in the morning Ashton pretty much is up any where between 15-30 minutes before Kaleia every morning and as soon as he hears her on the monitor he says' Mommy or Daddy depending on who's home - my sissie is a wake lets go get her now. He is so concerned if he does not know where she is. He watches for her and will bring her toys and play with her but most recently he wants to rough house with her, sometimes it's just him tickling her and she laugh's so hard and thinks it 's the funnest thing in the world and other times she laughs then try's to wiggle from the side and craw away but sometimes we have to remind Ashton NO Sissie is fragile and you have to be really careful with her.

Kaleia is trying so hard to walk by her first birthday but one of the funnest things is she waits for Ashton to go into the other room or while he's taking his nape she looks around and check where he is, then pulls her little self up and steps her foot out and then holds and balances, sticks her arms out to balance and leans sometimes she steps again or she does then reaches for the furniture again and walks it all around. Keep you posted on her walking moves

Jonathan and I were just talking the other night I cant believe a year ago I was a week away from having our perfect baby girl and Ashton no longer being the only baby... (or as he corrects me : mommy I'm a kid, i'm a big kid)

* oh on a side note before I let you all go tonight, Sunday morning I was writing something in Ashton's baby book and we were playing in his room. 

Ashton- leans over to me and says that's the hospital mommy (pointing to a picture)

mommy-  yes that's right ashton.

Ashton- Are we going to the hospital to get new baby, like sissie or mommy... Landon's baby!!!

mommy-  we already had sissie almost a year ago she is not as small as landons baby anymore.

ashton- OH,  no more mommy??? (his face was priceless, like he was so confused)

In that moment I had flash backs of both trips to the hospital and I'm so fortitude to have the most sweetest, funniest and loving kiddos in the world. We are truly blessed in more ways then ONE!!!

When I told Jonathan, he laughed...and smiled... I said NO more Bubba 

ONE BIG EXCITING PIECE OF NEWS~ Kaleia said MOMMY yesterday for the first time. YEAH!!! :)

That's it for now.... Thanks for all the RSVP's we cant wait to see our family & friends a week from this Saturday.