Flash Back Friday! #4

This Flash Back Friday, is in honor of Valentine's Day. Seeing how it is Valentine's Day tomorrow. 

This is a picture of me and my honey when I had just gotten back from a trip to go see my friend, Leah in Tennessee. We were engaged at this point. This was 3 months after Valentine's Day. But I wanted to show this picture because of the flowers. Kurt would always give me flowers when I would return from a trip and, like I said, we were engaged when this picture was taken. And Valentine's Day that year was a turning point for Kurt and I. 

I had returned from a trip to see my sister in Washington and had returned on Valentine's Day. I was so nervous to see him again. We had only been dating for about 4 months and I was gone for a week, so that was why I was nervous. Well, when I had seen him that night everything had changed. I really had missed him and he had felt the same. He brought me the most beautiful long stem roses. I wish I had a picture of him and me with the roses but I don't. That is why I wanted to post the picture above to show how he would bring me flowers. Kurt was the first guy to buy me flowers without me having to hint to him. I don't care who you are, if you are a girl, there is something about receiving flowers. It makes you feel so special. 

If fact after the first time Kurt and I kissed he had roses delivered to me and they had Hershey kisses on stems in between the roses, to symbolize that we had kissed. He is such a great guy and usually guys like him would make me turn away but I knew I needed someone who was sweet like him. I was so used to having guys that didn't treat me so well. I am glad I stuck with him because he is a blessing in my life and he still gets me flowers.

Here I am with the long stem roses he got me. The picture doesn't justify them of course.

And here is my dad holding them. Just one of the many times my dad has been a good sport and let me take a picture of him holding my roses, even though he felt stupid. I love you dad!!

I tried to get a picture of the flowers with my mom but she wouldn't let me.

My friend Melissa let me, though.

I even took a picture of them with my dog, Chico. Isn't he such a cute dog? He lives with my parents because I can't have dogs were I live and, plus, I couldn't take him away from my dad. My dad loves him. I have never seen my dad love a dog like he loves Chico. Plus, now with Ayla, I don't trust Chico around her. Chihuahuas are not kid-friendly, dogs.

Anyways, I hope every one has a wonderful Valentine's Day and gets to spend it with people they love. And that means not just their significant other. Valentine's Day is about love and that means anyone that you love. Share the love tomorrow!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Four!!

I was tagged by this tag a long time ago by my friend Rebecca and I was recently tagged by it from my friend Christy. I planned on doing this tag when Rebecca tagged me. I just haven't gotten around to it until now because I have been doing a lot of other posts. There are a few tags that I am behind on. 

Anyway, this tag is, go to your picture folder, go into your fourth folder and post your fourth picture and tell about it.

It is a picture of Baby Kurt. He is about a month in this picture. Isn't he such a cutie? 

I was pleased that the picture wasn't something terrible looking. 

Plus, notice how big the picture is? Yeah, I am pretty frustrated because I recently just realized I can post pictures on a large scale. I found this out from my friend Ann's recent post about blog etiquette. She had a link on it and I found out from that person's blog that you can make your photos large. I noticed that people had large photos on their blogs and I wanted large photos on my blog this whole time. Well anyway, I had this woman come to my blog to see if my pictures were too small and she commented that they were fine and that I had them on a medium scale. I was like, "medium scale?" Then  I realized that when you post your pictures there are options that you can make your pictures small, medium or large. I was so angry with myself because it has been there the whole time in plane site and I am just a lazy reader sometimes. So now I am wanting to go through my whole blog a enlarge all the pictures so that when I print it out, they will be large pictures. The only problem is, I know I can enlarge them through the Html but I am not so sure that the pictures will be the same quality. I might have to upload all of them again. I hope that is not the case. Anyway, wish me luck!

Lane's Birthday Party!

This past Friday, my nephew, Lane turned 12. We celebrated it that night at my sister, Marion's house. I, of course, made him a cake. I did a dinosaur cake and I loved how it turned out. It is on my favorites list of cakes I have made.

Here it is.

Top view.

I made the volcano out of an ice cream cone and I tried to make it look like the dinosaurs were fighting and make it look like one was drinking from the river. It turned out just the way I had imagined it. I was pleased.

Here is Lane with his gifts he got earlier that day.

This is my cousin, Shawn. I had him come to the party at the last minute. He lives below my brother and, when I went pick up Lane, I went downstairs to his apartment and asked him to come. He usually comes whenever I ask him to. We have been close cousins ever since we were little. Even when he moved to Alabama and came back, it was as if time never passed. I love my cousin Shawn and his brother Levi. I am close to him too. I just love his whole family. His mother, Ruth is my dad's sister.

My sister-in-law Carolyn made shepherd's pie for us for dinner. 

Uncle Ernie and Marion's boyfriend, Monty just chilling.

My dad just a chillin too. 

My sister just bought him this Utes shirt for his birthday. He looked great in it. I think my dad should wear red more often.

I had to put a picture of my Sweet Pea in the post. 

Ayla and me at the party.

After dinner, we all sang to Lane.

Him blowing his candles out. 

This post reminds me of something. Oh yeah. It is a lot like Morganne's birthday post, that I just recently posted.

Lane was so funny. He decided to put some of his cake on his nose. He was actually wanting to have a food fight. I told him to go ahead and start with Grandma. My mom was not too happy about that. I always tease my parents. It is my job to tease. I am the baby of the family. Needless to say, we didn't have a food fight. Sorry Lane. Maybe next time.

Here is Lane showing off what he got earlier that day.

 He got a light saber from his parents and Madagascar 2 from my parents. Our present was the cake, so he had a lot of dinosaurs to play with.

Marion and Monty got him a small fish tank with a small betta fish.

Here is the fish. He is in the left bottom corner of the tank. It was a cute little tank. Don't you like the little Shark statue?

We all had a great time celebrating Lane's birthday. 

Happy Birthday Lane!! I love you!!!

Ayla is walking!!!

I just wanted to document and share with everyone that Ayla is officially walking. She walked about 5 feet on Friday but last night she was walking all over the living room. I trailed behind her to catch her when she fell but she did really well. She would walk about 5 feet or so and then she would fall. She is really getting the hang of it.

Go Ayla!!

Go!!

Good Job, Sweet Pea!!!!

Morganne's Birthday Party!!

On Saturday, we celebrated our niece, Morganne's birthday. We were supposed to have celebrated it two Saturdays before but too many of us were sick and decided to wait until everyone felt better. 

I had made a cake for her so we ended up freezing it for two weeks.

We had the party at Grandpa and Grandma Perry's house.

Here is the birthday girl on the bouncing horse that Grandpa and Grandma just bought for the grandkids to play on.

I had to get a picture of Morganne's hair. I thought it was so cute. Her sister, CC did it.

Here is Ayla sitting in a cute little chair they have. 

This chair actually belonged to Kurt's sister, Krista when she was little. How wonderful that they still have it and the grandkids can enjoy it now.

Daddy playing with Ayla.

"The bunny going to get ya!!"

Here is Ayla walking and pushing a little toy stroller. 

She is really getting good at walking holding onto things that she can push. She has been taking some steps on her own this week. And Kurt and I have been having her walk back and forth between us. I give her a week or two and I think she will be walking.

And of course, little Baby Kurt was there.

Morganne's little brother.

What a cutie!!

Morganne, thanking her Aunt Suz for the balloons she gave her. 

Suz had gone to the store to pick up some more ice cream and brought back the balloons!

This was Ayla's first time playing with balloons. She really liked them.

And I had to show this close up of her with the balloons because of her bright blue eyes.

Our niece, Brooke had a good time with the balloons too.

And here is the cake, two weeks later and thawed out. It still looked almost as good as the day I made it.

Birthday girl with her cake.

Birthday girl, being silly with her cake.

We all sang "Happy birthday" to her.

And here she is blowing her candles out.

Here is the after picture of the cake, after we ate some, and I guess Morganne played in the cake after we had already left the party. I am so glad she enjoyed her cake.

Ayla had been on the bouncing horse once before but didn't know what to do. 

This time she watched her cousins ride and bounce on the horse while we were at the party.

Then Ayla got on the horse and actually started to ride it and bounce on it. She had learned what to do on it by watching them. It was so cute. 

Below are two clips of her riding the horse. I couldn't pick between the two because they both were good. The second one she waves to her Aunt Suz in it. Enjoy!!

Fun on Thursday!

Ayla and I had a fun day on Thursday. We started our day at my sister-in-law, Suz's place. We visited with her for a while and then went home and took a nap. After our nap, we went to visit some of my friends.

We first went to my good friend, Ann's house. 

This is a picture I had shared in a previous post when we went to go visit Ann. I wanted to post it because Mary is pointing at Ayla. She just kept pointing at her. LOL!!

Well, this was taken on Thursday evening and Mary started to point at her again. LOL!! Ann said Mary hasn't been pointing for a while and that is was funny that she started to point at Ayla again, like last time.

If you click on the picture you can see her pointing at Ayla better. Plus, don't you just think Mary's hair is darling? Too cute!

Of course Ayla was fascinated by their cat, Mittens. Ayla was drawn to the window where he was. Ann has had that cat for as long as I have known her and I have known her for 10 years now. Wow, 10 years. Has it really been that long? Mitten's must be an old cat. 

Don't you just love the picture though? Mary loves to climb up on things. She always climbs up on that chair. Too cute!

Ayla at the window!! My little cutie!! :)

Mary decided to get down and play with Ayla. I just adore Ann's kids and I love that Ayla and Mary are around the same age. 

Oh, by the way, this is the Mary I am holding in the picture of me at my shower on the post before this one.

Ann has such cute decor for the holidays. I had to take a picture of this one for Leah. Leah had made the sign for Ann for Christmas. Ann has it out for Valentine's Day. How cute.

After Ann's, Ayla and I met my friend, Tonya and her kids at Applebees for dinner. 

Me and Shaylynn, Tonya's daughter. 

I used to watch Shaylynn when she was a baby. I just love her!!

And here is little Justin Timberlake. 

Actually this is Cody, Tonya's son. Isn't he a little heartbreaker? He is such a cutie!

And to the left of him is Tonya.

They brought a gift for Ayla because Ayla's 1st birthday is this month.

It was a Pooh bear and Piglet that she can take in the bath with her. 

Thanks Tonya, Shaylynn and Cody for the bath toys. She needs more bath toys.

Ayla playing with Piglet. She really liked the gift. 

I find so much joy in watching Ayla be happy. There is nothing like it.

What a fun night!!!