Adilynn's 1st birthday party 7-18-2010

The morning of Adilynn's birthday party we awoke to the sounds of thunder and lightning which was not good since we had plans of having her party at the park, but shit happens and plans changed so Russ and I got busy cleaning the house and calling everyone to inform them that the party would be at our house and not the park. It turns out that having it at our house worked out perfect because we didn't have to lug a ton of decorations and food to the park and when Adi got tired she got to take a nap in her own bed.

We had so many more quest than we had anticipated. All of my family came, Russell's mom and a few of our great friends. It was truly a wonderful day and I could not have asked for a better first birthday party for Adilynn!


The cake I made for Adi





The cupcakes I make for the guest

The goodies for the kids Adi loving her cake

Opening her gifts

I'm done

I'm done going out of my way for people, I will not do it anymore. Adi's party really made me realize who my true friends are and I'm sad that a few of the people that I really thought were my good friends wouldn't even go a tiny bit out of their way to come...Ohh well they are the ones that missed out and I will not being going out of my for them anymore.

Finding out who your friends are

Lately I'm really finding out who my friends are and not the easy/good way. I have so many friends online and they support me in so many ways I just wish I could find people in real life that could do the same, I guess it's easier to support people through words than it is through actions but still I feel like I'm always going out of my way for others whether it be watching their kids for them, being a shoulder to cry on, or just listening to them complain about others. But when it comes to me needing someone to be there everyone just turns the other way and than when they are done needing me for something I don't hear from them again until the next time they need something. I'm sick of being the only one that goes out of the way to be a friend.

While I'm a super excited for Adilynn's 1st birthday party that I have been planning it for months I'm sad that the people I expected and wanted to be there the most won't be. But I'm not going to let it get me down, If they can't go out of there way to be there than I will not be going out of my way for them anymore. I will enjoy every minute of her party whether they are there or not and they will be the ones missing out.

Night 1 was a success!

We finaly deciteded it was time for Adi to leave our room and move into her sisters room (this decision was partly made by the fact that Adi had not slept in 3 nights and mommy and daddy were tired and needed some sleep). We set up Adi's pack n play in Rylen's room (I didn't want to move her crib just yet because I wasn't sure how it was going go or if they would keep eachother awake all night). To our suprise The night went very well! The girls only woke up once at 5am, Rylen woke up first and then woke Adi up so I calmed Rylen down because she had a bad dream and then I brought Adi into my bed nursed her and put her back in Rylen's room. It is now 8am and they are still sound asleep... I could get used to getting a full nights sleep!

Changes

The girls are getting ready for some changes even though they don't know it yet. I have been working hard to get Rylen's room clean and all of her clothes sorted and put away and I have been putting some of Adilynn's things in Rylen's room because in a few weeks Rylen will be getting a "big girl" bed aka toddler bed and her and Adi will be sharing a room. This is going to be a big change for both of them. I'm a little worried but it all, I worry that Rylen wont stay in her bed or her room, I worry that the girl will wake each other up at night especially since Adilynn still wakes up to nurse atleast 2 times a night everynight and Rylen sometimes wakes up with night terrors. I still have alot of stuff to go through in Rylen's room before we can get her bed. I just hope everything works out and they can happily share a room together.

My friend Miranda is also going through some life changes and I can't think of a better time than now for her to get a makeover! Now more than ever is when she needs to feel strong and beautiful and it's about time she does something for herself, she is always doing stuff for everyone but never does anything for herself and I can't wait to get to play "dress up" with her! We are going to my mom's work so she can get a hair cut because she hasn't had one in forever and then we are going to sally's to pick up some hair color and she wants me to do highlights in her hair since she has never had her hair colored this should be fun. After her hair is looking sexy I will straighten or maybe give her some pretty curls and maybe a little makeup too! She will be looking hot for her date night with her hubby. I can't wait! I'm getting way to excited about this.

Some other changes might be coming too. I haven't had a period in almost 3 months and I'm starting to get a little worried, I know I need to go buy a pregnancy test but I'm just too scared, I'm just not ready to have another baby right now.

Diaper testing

So Miranda went to the diaper tester meeting today, I had a good time getting out and talking to other adults! We go back for another meeting in 2 weeks. Unfortunately I can talk about the products we are testing...bummer.

Guinea pig!

Tomorrow the girls and I are going with Miranda to cotton babies to be diaper tester! I'm so excited to get to see what type of diaper we will get to try. I really love cotton babies products and getting to do this with a friends makes it that much more exciting. Miranda and I don't get to hang out much so I'm looking foward to getting to see her.