Baby Shower!

My awesome friends Michelle and Allie threw me a baby shower in May. It was beautiful, had delicious food, and was so much fun. I feel so lucky! These are all pics that Michelle took - we all know how I do with the whole remembering to take pictures thing.

Oreo cheesecake bites!

Michelle is an awesome party planner and actually runs a party planning business in conjunction with her floral business. She posted some social media stuff with my shower, thus the "Jane Doe" on the envelope!

"Be like Steve and plant your seed!" Hahahaha! Best party favors ever!

May

Penny tidbits from May:
- Has a little mole on her thigh that she was trying to talk to me about. She called it "the polka dot on my leg"
- Ariel = oreo
- We had some airhead candy and Penny was trying to ask for one, but couldn't quite remember the name. She kept asking me for a head phone!
- She has been making up a lot of songs about baby brother on the piano recently. Her favorite is "baby brudder wake up to meeeeeeee!"

Steve has a camo Broncos hat and Penny was really excited to find a matching camo hat in her size while out shopping!

My parents sent the movie "Coco" for Cinco de Mayo and we got the package on the 4th. Penny was NOT okay with having to wait til the next day to open the present!

One day Penny kept asking me for "brown shoes". She does have a pair of brown shoes, but just started crying and saying "no no no!" when I brought them to her. After a lot of effort and "show me"s and pantomiming I finally figured out she was asking me for a cashew flavored lara bar. Brown shoes = cashews! She was soooo happy when I finally figured it out!

Love that little arm around the neck!

Penny's favorite food by far is salad. I don't even order off the kid's menu anymore - I just get her a side salad! One day we had a left over piece of chocolate cake she was eating and I was eating salad. She literally dropped the cake and came running over to have bites of my salad. What kid does that?!

Saturday shopping...

Found her just quietly reading a magazine in my bed while I got ready one morning!

"I have glasses, Broncos hat, pink shoes. Going to school. Bye!"

Cuddles with "baby brudder"!

Steve has been awesome about making Popsicles this summer with Penny. She loves it!

Steve's masterpiece! 

We bought Penny some Puma socks and she was so excited to match!

One of my good friends here in Lubbock moved since her husband completed medical school. We had a last hurrah girls trip down to Dallas with five of us. It was a blast! We stayed at a friend's parents house and hit up Magnolia Market and the silos. I only took two pics the whole trip though... whoops.

Magnolia Market. Sooooooooo crowded!

We celebrated my birthday at the Cheesecake Factory.

At a goodbye party back in Lubbock. Allie has watched Penny once a week while I worked and her sons Cecil and "baby Holden" are some of Penny's very favorite people. Penny just sate in this chair most of the party up by the adults and yelled at any of the other kids that tried to pick up the sprinkler (it was a water party).

Steve suggested we take a day trip up to Amarillo for Memorial Day. We love the zoo up there and were feeling like we needed a break from Lubbock. It was a nice break!

One of the real lions was making noise and I mentioned to Penny that it sounded like he had something stuck in his throat. Penny talks about that all the time now!

Out of all the animals we saw, I think she most loved the prairie dogs. That we have a bunch of in Lubbock. That live half a block away from our house.

Less than two weeks til Steve defends! He sure is stressed, but Penny and I are so excited for him to be done with it. We're sick of hardly seeing him! :)