Mother's Day

For Mother's Day, Jake surprised me by having our friend Sarah Denbow take some pictures of Anniston.  So fun!

Easter

He is risen!  We had a great Easter, complete with a fantastic Easter egg hunt, and then a sunrise service  with our friends to celebrate the risen King!

Our friend Sarah hosts an amazing Easter egg hunt every year and this was Anniston's first year to attend.  It was so fun!

Sweet Ella Rose always loving Anniston so well.

 This girl knew what she was doing.  No hesitation as she filled up her basket!

She loved the Easter bunny.

Pig tails oh so cute.

Thanks Hartsock's for hosting such a fun event!

Spring Time!

We had a great Spring!  Just soaked up our little one as much as possible and watched her grow up, talk more and more, learn new songs, and just fell more and more in love with her everyday.

A great day in the Spring is Jake's birthday!  This year for his birthday he wanted to take Anniston to the zoo for the first time.  We had such a fun time!

Just riding her car...

One day Sara brought Anniston up to see me at work.  It was so fun having her there!

One of her many trips to the book store...

I love to watch Anniston on her monitor.  She loves to put her animals on her head.  It's pretty funny 

 She loves playing in the drapes in the living room.

She really loves headbands.  She always goes into her room to find them and puts them on...

 

We took many many trips to the park this Spring.

We loved stopping for treats and bringing them to the park with us...

Sweet sleeping girl.

Anniston loves to listen to her dad sing and play the guitar...but mostly likes to help him play!

Loves wearing mom's shoes.

 Just being cute.

Picnic with Ra Ra

I got the great privilege of going to Dallas with my mom to celebrate my birthday.  Meanwhile, Dad was taking Anniston to get cake pops for breakfast!

 We had fun walking to Starbucks for breakfast on pretty mornings this Spring.

I can't get enough of Anniston's pretty hair.  I never thought I'd have a little girl with curly hair!!

What a fun Spring!

30th birthday

I don't have many pictures from my birthday, which is quite sad because it was amazing.  I felt so incredibly loved.  It started with a birthday lunch that my dear friend Sarah arranged for me.  Cafe Plaid, during the day, with some of my closest friends.  Kerri made these incredible peanut butter chocolate cupcakes that topped off the already amazing lunch.  I spent the rest of the day with Sarah Kopke before she headed back to the Middle East.  Man, a few hours set aside to hang with Sarah- more of that please!  So so fun.

The next day I came home from a long day at work, and my mother-in-law walked in our house.  Jake looked at me and told me to get dressed for dinner.  I found out we were going to my favorite restaurant The Mantel in Oklahoma City.  I was pumped.  I love this place....but I was quite surprised when we walked in, and Jake said "I have reservations for Jake" and they replied with "for 16?"  What???  Dinner birthday with some of our friends.  So so fun!  I was so surprised and felt so blessed that my friends would take an evening to drive to the city to eat a fancy dinner with us.  It was incredible.  Then I came home to my extravagant husband's birthday gift...no, let me rephrase- my extravagant husband's 30 birthday gifts, complete with a reason why he loves me to match each gift.  I was truly overwhelmed.  He loves me so incredibly well.  He put so much time and thought into my birthday.  I am so blessed by him.

So after all of that amazing celebration, we headed off to three days in Mexico.  It was awesome.  We were so thankful for my mom and mother-in-law who watched Anniston while we were gone- we knew she was in good hands which allowed us to go and have fun.  Three days of doing nothing- sleeping, walking on the beach, eating good food, reading books, talking...it was perfect....but what was so fun was that we were flying back and Jake says "it's amazing what loving my job and loving my daughter can do to you- I'm not dreading going home, I can't WAIT to get back to our life in Norman".  I couldn't agree more.

This is where we spent almost all of our time...laying on our cabana that Jake reserved by setting his alarm for 6 am and going to put our stuff on it.  Such a great treat!  We just laid here and read and looked at the beautiful ocean.  So fun!

Jake's lunch- much more adventurous than anything I ate!

My idea of a great vacation...

Tuesday I got back and walked in to my office to find it filled with 30 balloons, and attached to each balloon were fun facts, clothes styles, tv shows, music, slang words, etc all from my birth year, and in the center of it all, a homemade peanut butter chocolate cake.  Amazing!

My birthday lasted for over a week and every aspect of it was so much fun.  I felt so loved and was just overwhelmed by how thankful I was.  Turning 30?  Not so bad....pretty incredible actually.