It's my 13th Wedding Anniversary and my baby girl's 6th Birthday!

Today, I celebrate the day I said "I DOOOOOOOO" to the love of my life! These past 13 years have been full of wonderful, WONDERFUL life changing memories and I wouldn't change them for the world! You are my EVERYTHING and I loooove you sooooooooo much! On this special day we're also celebrating the 6th birthday of our baby girl, Jaida! She is the smartest, happiest, most energetic, super athletic, multi talented, funny little 6 year old ever!!! Most importantly she knows how to PRAY and how to get a message to God like no other!!!! We thank God for her and for all that she brings to our family. Also, Happy Birthday to my loving Grandmother (who passed away a month after we got married) and to our dear Uncle Robertlee (who passed away just weeks ago). We love and miss you sooooo much! Lastly, Happy Anniversary to my wonderful Aunt & Uncle Daisy and Alex We celebrate your wonderful union along with you!!! Love you both!!

Happy 6th Birthday to our baby girl....

Happy 9th Birthday to my Daughter!!!

Well, this past weekend was packed full of soccer (3 games) and my eldest daughter's birthday.  I spent the entire week, leading up to her big day, shopping!!!!  I must've gone to party city about 6 times!!  Everytime I turned around there was something else that needed to be added, made or created.  The theme for her party was SOCCER, of course.  However, she wanted to have a pool party centered around that theme.  So, we tied the two themes into one and went with the flow.  I decided to bake her birthday cake and cupcakes this year.  I made everything from scratch and topped it off with soccer ball decorations..... very simple.  We had chocolate and vanilla cupcakes (a vanilla cake) with homemeade cream cheese icing.  YUM!!!  I dyed the icing green with hopes of using it for the soccer field.  I was then going to draw the field on top of the cake with a soccer ball in the center.  That didn't quite go as planned soooooo I went with plan B, kept the field simple and placed 4 soccer balls in each corner.  I got candles that said "Happy Birthday" with her name and the #9.  Here's what it looked like:

The kids munched on pizza (sausage, pepperoni and cheese)...

Annnnnd then we headed to the pool for some fun!!!



After the girls swam for an hour we closed out the party with cake & cupcakes!!!

All of the guests left with these handmade gift bags (my by me) with smiles on their faces and laughter in their hearts :-)

She had a blast opening up all of her gifts once we got home.

I was one exhausted momma but seeing the smile on my daughter's face at the end of the day was well worth it. 

MY RAVENS!!!!!

So, I know it's been a while since I last posted anything.... I've been soooooo busy with life that it's hard to keep up with posting.  All is well over here.  The girls' soccer seasons are about to be in full swing!  My eldest daughter has already had 2 soccer tournaments over the past 3 weeks and they won both of them.  She scored the winning goal in the Championship overtime game!  I can't even begin to describe the emotions behind that! Here are a few pics from that tournament:

 

 

 

 

 

Hubby also celebrated his birthday that weekend so that win was a great birthday present for him :-)

 

The following weekend, we celebrated my sons 11th birthday!  He had an aweome football party (it happened to be Super Bowl Weekend) at a sports themed location with tons of friends.  Here are a few birthday pics from his special day:

 

Bumper Cars

 

Football shaped cupcake for the birthday boy!

 

The girls on a roller coaster :-0

 

Fun and Games

 

Laser Tag

 

Pizza & Cake

 

Blowing out the candles 

 

The party complex

 

We ended the weekend with a SUPER BOWL WIN FOR MY BALTIMORE RAVENS!!!!!