Casey's Awesome Birthday Fun

Saturday night I ventured out to the Piano Lounge, it's one of my favorite places for going out in Cedar Rapids.  They have every martini you can think of!  My new buddy Jenn introduced me to the Pineapple Upside Down Martini, WOW......seriously, it tasted like cake!

Missy and Ed are visiting from North Carolina and they joined us, it was such a great night :)  I took full advantage of Happy Hour with the $3.50 martinis, I should have known better with me being more of a beer girl than a liquor girl.  I got some good shots before the liquor really hit at least ;)

I can't take credit for this next photo of Casey and Mindy they take great self portraits :)

Of course there are some random ones that I didn't take or at least don't remember taking them!  It really was a total blast, thank you to Mindy for driving my butt around, Missy for taking care of me and making sure I closed out my tab, and Jenn for introducing me to the delicious martinis and hanging out with me :)

Silliness

I just had an amazing moment with Isabella.  She was a little upset and making her frownie face at me, so I made it back at her and she just busted up laughing.  Then we journeyed into a little game of try to make the frownie face but you can't because it's so silly and you just can't stop laughing :)

Simple Gift

I have a hard time deciding what to do for gifts for Bella's teachers at LaPetite.  This year I found an idea in a magazine to give cookie mixes in a jar.  So I decided on chocolate chip cookie mix in a jar and I made tags for the recipe cards.  Here's how one of them turned out :)

It was so easy to make and they look like such pretty gifts I think. It was super fun to make! 

Loving the Big Bed

Bella was very surprised when she saw her new bed.  It was so neat to see her reaction and know that she felt like she was now a big girl :)  Thankfully we aren't having too many problems with her getting up, but she has done that a couple of times.