Sunday, July 17, 2011

Fireworks, Birthday Cake, Shamu, and Beach!

Hello everybody! It's been way too long! There has been lots of stuff goin on and i just am too tired at the end of the day to blog! lol. 
First, Corey had leave for 2 weeks, so we got to fly out to cali again. That's always nice!
Aren't they just the cutest? They were really comfty on the plane lol
Our first weekend here we got to spend 4th of July with all of our family! It's my favorite holiday too so i was so happy to have my hubby home, since last year he was still deployed :( On the 3rd we went to my grandma's house on my mom's side for a pool day. It was fun and all the little girls just loved corey! haha Here are my 2 loves :)
She seriously is the cutest thing ever, and she is growing so fast and learning so much!
Then the next day on the 4th, we had most of my dad's side over, and corey's parents came and some other friends too. It was a lot of fun! I learned how to make tutu's from another army wife in washington, and i'm obsessed now!
We aren't technically allowed to do fireworks in our city, and i would just like to say i didn't light anything! lol but of course the "big kids" brought their toys out and lit them anyway! Ami did love the sparklers though!
THEN the weekend after that we celebrated Ami's 2nd birthday. Her actual birthday is on July 26, but Corey had to be back up to Washington earlier in the month so we had her party on the 9th so he could be there. We did an under the sea/little mermaid theme, and everything ended up coming out really cute! I have a few pics from my phone that i took, but i'm still waiting on my best friend Nikkie to get me the rest of the pics she took on good ol' Trannie hehe.
Instead of doing goody bags, me and my mom came up with the idea to do little buckets, since it went with the theme. So here is a before picture, and after lol.
It really wasn't as bad as it looks lol. Ami had a lot of fun helping me put everything in too. 
Another idea we had was to put goldfish in little bowls for the center pieces on all the tables, and well, you can see for yourself how this idea turned out. 
If you can't tell, we had 2 fish in each bowl, and only 4 survived after a few hours. But don't worry all fishies go to heaven. R.I.P fish. you will never be forgotten. *moment of silence*
Alright that's over, now back to the party haha.
The beautiful birthday girl <3
And her cake.
And the bouncy slide/ pool thingy we got, which was a big hit for the kids.
This is ami and ava (my cousin's daughter). They were so cute!
Thank you again to everyone who came! We had a great time!
The day before corey left we went to sea world, and of course i loved it like always hehe. 
On our way:
Waiting for shamu to come out:
Ami waving at Zoe:
Then of course the next day we had to take corey to the airport and send him away, (again). I love when the sky looks really pretty so i try and take pictures :) sometimes i think it's my grandma shining down on all of us <3
And finally we all went to the beach for a friend of my dad's baptism and i had a really nice time just enjoying being outside and hanging with my fam. 
She's a good haha she was trying to kiss me.
Thought this was a cool pic ^
Tyler and ami were digging and making sand castles, so i decided to make a little something too :)
I can't get this picture to rotate lol. but they are just hearts :)
Anyway, i hope everyone is enjoying their summer, and hopefully sometime this week (if i can get an appointment) we will find out what the baby is!!! Pink of blue? what do you think?
And one last thing
She's out. SMH