First Birthdays... oh the fun!

First birthdays are such a fun thing... but they can also be kindof saddening for some Mommies - it's the point at which you realize you no longer have a sweet little baby but a movin' and shakin' toddler... Hang on tight!

One of my bestest friend's experienced just such an event today! Her first child, Hatley - turned a big ONE! She enjoyed a classic first birthday theme - John Deere Tractors with a hint of pink, any farm girl's dream! :) She did great and had lots of friends there to celebrate with her. We love Hatley -

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROO!!

I've been through three first birthdays... The first for Jaxson was a Race Car Birthday! Over the top -60 people with a potluck, penant race flags all over, flags in every telephone pole from town to our house (almost 3 miles of poles)... and lots of cake! Yummy yummy Costco cake (my favorite, a MUST have for every birthday for Jaxson...) ...

Jaxson's 2nd Birthday

(I don't have a pic of #1 on this computer!)

Landon's first birthday was a costume party - he was "Landon the Lion" and adorable... it was sized down a bit - only 30 people or so - and lots of pizza instead of a potluck since it couldn't be outside - too cold in October!! Landon had cake for his first birthday - but he's had ice cream every year since then - he does NOT like cake, not at all! It's kind of weird, but for his birthday he is allowed to be picky!

Landon's First Birthday

Reisse just celebrated her first year this February - she got a pretty small gathering with about 30 people and again more Pizza... She enjoyed her cake but unlike the other two kiddos - she'd had cake since she was old enough to be eating food - seems the more kids I have the more liberal I get with what they can eat in that first year - I guess if we have a fourth that baby will have a well rounded taste for food by the time he/she is one!

Reisse's First Birthday

OK ... Happy weekend to all ...

Motivation... know where I can get some?

  Spring is here! I think, maybe? I hope! For some reason all my "motivation/ambition" to start working out is connected to the weather ... so if it's freezing cold, no walking for me! I even have a treadmill in the shop behind our house, and yet - no walking for me... So, what is it that I have to do to convince myself to GET OFF MY TUSH?! 
   Don't even get me started on eating better... I am the worst!! My big bad habit - SODA! I am finding it almost impossible to give up - and for some reason, water is my cryptonite! Over-sensitive taste-buds that only like the well water I was raised on, even the cooler water at work tastes funny for me, I'd much rather grab some soda...  
   So... how do I kick this bad attitude? Start to think better and get going!? I keep saying - when the weather is better, but somehow I think I'll still end up too busy, too tired... unless I can just kick it into gear... Step one... cut the soda! Step two... move my tush! Step three... keep it up...

Wish me luck...

And for fun, a pic of my lil' girl playin' at "The Train Store" . . .