more wedding pics:

I just keep looking at these pictures over and over again reminiscing in my head about what an awesome day and night this was. If this is any indication of how well their marriage will be then I can definately say it will be near perfection:)
I can't wait to see the thousands the photographer,MATT SPILKER PORTRAITS, took. Here are just a few I got my hands on:





When being introduced we came in wearing Blue's Brother looking shades...wow was it difficult to walk through the tables to get to our chairs. I felt and now looked like I was truly blind:)

Your dad, Scotty, and Terry karaoking- "it's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight"

Your dad and I bustin a move

Yes, I caught the bouquet:) She literally threw it right to me. Guess we're next;)


Sister Moon a.k.a Aunt Shannon


The best looking flower girl I've ever seen:)

Jake & Amy's wedding weekend

This past weekend your Aunt Amy and Uncle Jake were wed in Nebraska. We were honored to be apart of the big day with you being the flower girl and I the maid of honor. It was such an amazing weekend! This is the kind of weekend you want to happen over and over again because it was just so perfect. The only glitch in my opinion was the fact that I was running fevers and had a touch of the flu. There were moments (when getting hair and make-up done) that I didn't think I was going to make it. After I got my make-up done my fever started to break so I was sweating profusely and started to break down in tears. I had to talk myself out of a complete melt down by reminding myself this would do my freshly applied make up NO GOOD. How was it happening that on one of the biggest days of my life, (my best friends wedding) I was sick as a dog. I ran home to rest for about thirty minutes while my mom and dad typed my maid of honor speech. Talk about last minute, I had wrote and re-wrote it in my head the past few weeks but never got the chance to get it down on paper. There was no way I was going to do it on the fly without some sort of script. Thank GOD for the rents, they were such a big help! After we arrived at the church, the Thermaflu started to kick in and I felt much better:) The ceremony was beautiful and you did such a great job being the flower girl. The ring bearer Ben pulled you down the aisle in the little red wagon. Right as you came down the aisle the entire congregation was oooing and ahhing over you. Some say you stole the show:) Of couse Amy was stunning and once she stepped out, your show was over! The reception couldn't have been better! We danced, sang, and shared the special day with family and friends. What a great weekend! I just keep smiling everytime I think about different parts of the day/night. Thank you Amy and Jake for having us be apart of your celebration and we wish you a lifetime of life, love, and happiness!!!

We just can't shake the funk...

We have been some sick birds around our camp these past few weeks. We have managed to pass this cold business back and forth to one another. You recovered from Croup and now the past couple days you are running a high fever and have the running nose AGAIN. This time it's especially not fun because of the fever part. Even with the funk you are full of energy. You have now gotten faster at the bear crawl and can get where you need to go in a jiffy. We have started to Harper proof the house because you like to get into whatever you aren't suppose to. (especially cords and strings)

You started a Daycare a little over a month ago and it seems (from the video spy cameras) that you really enjoy it there. You are there for 12 hours a week. For those 4 hours a day you pretty much crawl and attempt to walk the ENTIRE time. The paper we get from the classroom teachers everyday says "she is so READY to walk" You are so funny... you will sit in a squatting position and play with toys and then manage to stand straight up for a couple seconds before falling back to your bum. Wow time flies, it just seems like yesterday we were forcing you to do the dreaded tummy time. (Attending daycare could very well explain the sicky funk)

Just the other day we decided to put piggy tails in your hair to see if it would work and sure enough your hair is long enough. I LOVE your hair in pig tails, it really accentuates your face and skin. I must tell ya, your really not a fan of the process of putting them in. Hopefully you'll get used to it. Once we take them out your hair is standing straight up and fro like. Too darn cute!

We have been working on your wave. The other day when watching Baby Einstein your little hand was waving as you saw the baby waving. Also in the past month you have been super interactive when skyping our family. The only problem is you slamming your hands on the keyboards, sometimes shuts it down. and...STILL NO TEETH! This does not bother me at all but it's funny because I could of sworn you were teething at 3 monhts with all the symptoms, but STILL NO TEETH. Yyur grandpa D always jokes and says to me "so where are those teeth at?"

When you are fussy there are few songs that can be sung in which you will stop right then and smile. One of which your Aunt Kate made up. It's to the theme song of weeds but goes a little something like this... "Peanut, peanut butter, butter jelly, she's my peanut, peanut, peanut butter, butter jelly, butter girl, harper, harper peanut, peanut butter, butter jelly ball...(you get the idea)..another one is by Jack Johnson and your favorite verse is simple..."can't you see that it's just raining".. on the word raining you get the biggest grin on your face. Also with these songs you have started to sing along in your babble. Hopefully you will get your dad's voice because I am tone deaf and HORRIBLE at carrying a tune. But I will say I'm not afraid to belt out a song regardless:)

Well kiddo it is so amazing to be your mother and watch you grow. You amaze me everyday! Until next time we love you to the moon and back infinity.

:)


The look after your piggies came out!




Hanging with Uncle Pete during a visit to mommy's work on my dinner break


(notice who is on the onesie..if you can't tell it's Joshua Radin:) I got that for you when I attended his concert while 9 months prego)

CROUP

So my little deary, your summer cold has turned into a barky seal cough virus known as CROUP. Yesterday morning when you woke up before 6 a.m. in a coughing fit I had a huntch that you have the C word so I took you to the doc to see if my huntch was correct and indeed it was. You haven't been too fussy or spiked a fever but you have had two little facets draining NON-STOP. The thing that helped you during the winter colds was the battery powered suctioner. I LOVE this gadget. It works great and helps clear you out fast. I mean really, with the bulb suctioner you do one suction and then have to stop to clean out the suctioner and re-suction the same dang nose. With this you just hold the button up to the nose and it sucks all the "snobbers" (as your grandma D calls them) in less time, minimizing the length of trauma caused to you. The other day I went to use it and the damn thing is broken. Your dad told me you were saying "it's a dream come true!" Your not a fan of mommy's gadget. I say mommy's gadget because your daddy won't touch it with a ten foot pole. He hates the sound it makes and I think he thinks I'm hurting you. Anyways, difference of opinion...I'm sure in your lifetime we will have many more differences of opinion to work through or split hairs on....:)
Oh ya so back on track...the doc gave you a steroid in which you HATE and quite frankly it's a hell of a time to get you to take this medicine. I really don't blame you kid because at the age of 28 I still have to plug my nose when I take liquid medicine and I realy try to avoid it at all costs. Last night though, I took some Nyquil (because I'm getting the adult version of croup-wooohoooo) and about passed out from the taste and that was with my nose plugged:) Good times!

Here are pics from my phone I took of you at the doc's office.
BTW you now weigh 19.5 pounds

Goods friends and 1/2 glasses of wine

So the big question these days is are you crawling? The answer is somewhat tricky...it first starts out with "no not really", followed by "well she scoots around on her bum and when she goes to crawl she gets on her hands and sticks her butt in the air and gets on her tippy toes." It's too freakin cute. I think it's amazing that in these past few weeks of standing on your tippy toes/hands you haven't figured out the simplicity in using your hands and knees to get where you want to go. Your quite content with your own style of getting around. I have a pretty good feeling that this will be one of MANY "doing things your own way."
I LOVE IT:)

This weekend we traveled to Nebraska...OF COURSE:) We attended my BFF Amy's bridal shower. (I will go in detail sometime about why at 28 I ALWAYS, i mean everytime I refer to her I use BFF:) Anways it was a great shower day. Good friends & glasses of wine:) Also this weekend her brother, Scotty, came in town from Colorado to do some readings from his new book "The No Where Cafe". I am so excited to read it! He also wrote the book "TOO HIGH ON THE ROOF TOP" which I will say is a great read. If you want to know more check out : scottpincsak.com

We also spent lots of time this weekend with your g-ma D & tias. Grandpa D was out of town for work so we missed him:( Well, despite having a summer cold you keep on being my little traveling trooper.

Love you to pieces peanut butter!

Pics from the weekend are not in my possesion but in the mean time here are some cute photos for your viewing pleasure: