Just call me Mrs. Picasso!

Every year all my girlfriends do something fun for all of our birthdays.  One year everyone got to pick a "NICE" restaurant to eat at for their Birthday.  I picked Captain Anderson's for mine.
Last year we put every one's name in a hat and we picked one.  Whoever's name you drew is who's Birthday you hosted.  I had Jennifer - and she wanted a good ol' backyard BBQ with hamburgers and hot dogs.
This year, we're all picking something fun to do! I picked going to Paint Your Art Out (PYAO) at the Visual Art's Center.  You go, and an artist walks you through painting your picture.  It's not a "paint by numbers" either! You start with a blank canvas and go to town!

It was awesome!!! All my girlfriends (that were able to come) brought snacks and wine and PRESENTS!! :-)  I had such a good time! I'm blessed to have so many wonderful and amazing women in my (and Kali's) life! Couldn't ask for better friends!! Love my girls!!!!!!! And...I think we're going to go do it again next month since we all had such a great time! YAY!!!!

Here is my masterpiece! 

This one was made by Lauren

This one is Dallas'

She's an overachiever who painted seagulls too! LOL!

This one is Christie's

I loved her waves!

This is Theresa's

JD (her husband) says that her dock was hit by a ship...

I said it was hit by Moscato wine! LOL!!!! :)

This is Lacy's

Her dock was my favorite!

Theresa getting some pointers from the artist.

All of us with our artwork!

Love them!!!

I really did have such a great time! I can't wait to do it again! Happy Birthday to me!!!!!


On a side note: for my actual birthday, my mom took me to lunch and Jennifer took me to get a much needed pedicure!  Kali spent the night with TJ's parents and he took me to dinner at Angelo's. Delicious!! And it was really nice to just go out the two of us!  When we got done, we called to let them know we were on our way to get Kali, but she was already asleep.  So we decided to go see "What to Expect When You're Expecting".  It was super cute! I laughed, I cried, I laughed some more! If you've had kids or are pregnant - I definitely recommend it!

All-in-All, I had a wonderful birthday. Turning 28 was pretty awesome.

Just a little bedtime story

I went to put Kali to bed tonight, and was going to read her a story (The Little Engine that Could).  She decided that she didn't want me to read to her...she wanted to read to me. I love how much she loves books, and is trying so hard to actually read it to me! I love this little girl!!!!!

Goodnight!

Moving on up!

TO A BIG GIRL BED!!!!!
Kali is getting so big and so quickly! First, she was climbing out of her crib (little monkey!!!), but lately she hasn't been going to sleep or not sleeping well in the crib.  Since she's in a 'big girl bed' at TJ's parent's house, I figured it might be time for her to upgrade to the toddler bed.

SO.....down went the crib side:

 Look at how sad TJ looks! HAHA!

All done and ready for Kali to go to bed!

She loved it! Went running into the room straight to the bed!

Pretending to be asleep (she even does the fake snore! Yes, I know, she's adorable!)

Look at how happy she is!

Even Junior got in on the action!

My two babies "sleeping" :-)

She was so tired!

The first night, she wouldn't go to sleep unless I laid in the bed with her.....for two hours! And then she only slept until about 1:30am before getting out of the bed and coming to our room. 
The second night, it took TJ laying with her for about an hour to go to sleep, but then she slept all night long! I'm hoping that she'll get back to going to sleep without a problem and sleeping through the night.  It also doesn't help that she's been dealing with the stomach bug that I had last week as well as getting her second eye-tooth in.  So, it's been a lot for this cute little thing to deal with! But she's a trooper.

Love love love!!!