Nephew #3's 1st birthday!

Sunday was my sister's first son's first birthday. We celebrated with all of their family on Saturday, and had such a great time. Baby D has grown up so much over the past month since I last saw him, and of course over the past year!

And golly.. he sure is a cutie! :)

That was one of my favorite pictures of the day.. How great is that face? And the belly! Oh dear..

And then there's this one.. that's me and the baby, and he's got the wheels churning in that cute, tiny little head of his. He's trying to fool me with his charms here.

And this is when he decides that he wants to share his birthday with me. On another level.

Happy birthday, Baby D! Auntie "Manda" loves you!

Big news!

My sister called me yesterday afternoon with some incredible news.
She's getting married in a month!
She got her date, it's February 20th in a stunning cathedral downtown. I'm so jealous of her!

I am the maid of honor and have LOTS of work to do to help plan this out! I'm so excited and can't wait! :O)

I've been anxiously looking at bridesmaids dresses so I can try to help pick a color for the MOH dress (she's thinking red for the bridesmaids, but we haven't figured out a second color for me and the BM). I suggested pink or black, she thought maybe purple if we find the right shade to match, and my roommate suggested gold wouldn't be a bad color either! Lots of options.
Found a few dresses at Davids Bridal that look very nice.. just a matter of how they look on non-models! ;D
I'm sure once I go trying on dresses though, nothing I will have checked out before-hand will even be options.. haha!



There's lots more dresses that look great on the website, but DB looks like it's down for the count right now.. probably website maintenance. boo!

Anywho, I can't wait to go home this weekend to see what dress her and my mom picked and fell in love with for her! She called me and said it was perfect :O)

Great day, Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! Wanted to show yall a little bit of life with my family.. ;D
These are deliiicious "resurrection eggs". You may know them as "devilled eggs", but we'll hear of no such things on Easter.

And here you'll see my work of art for the day.. "Welcome Back, Jesus!" cake! :O)
Complete with J.C. himself! I wanted to make him have some shades and throwing up the peace signs, but it was getting a little rough already, so I had to give it a rest. Haha!

Hopefully soon (once my sister in law sends me the pictures) I'll have some pictures of my nephew and his easter egg hunt!
Hope everyone's having a Happy Easter, and a wonderful start to spring!