Life As I Know It: August 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Wedding Bliss

My baby has been asleep since 6pm tonight. I realize this is early...but usually it is between 6:30-7:30pm and he stayed up late last night so he was pooped. It doesn't matter what time you put him to bed, he wakes up at 5:30am.

Always.

Every.Single.Day.

Almost to the exact minute.

I love my predictable baby.

Who needs an alarm clock when you have a Kiptyn.

SO....since I had a bit of extra time tonight I thought I would sneak in a quick wedding post. Jessica and Justin were married two weekends ago. It was beautiful and I was so happy for them. And a little added bonus? I rocked it out Maid of Honor style!

We started the day at the hair salon getting both hair and make-up done. After some mimosas and laughter I headed home quick to see my two men quickly before I drove out to the farm.

Unfortunately with the craziness of the day I forgot my camera at home for the morning and before the wedding so the only pictures I got were on my iPhone and they weren't the best pictures. Luckily Dave, Kiptyn, and both my Mom and Dad were attending the wedding so they took pictures for me of the rest of the day. It felt VERY strange not to have my trusty camera around my neck! Here are my men once they arrived...

Everything was beautiful. The tent, the barn, the bar, the house, and the weather was HOT HOT HOT but it didn't rain! Jessica looked beautiful in her vintage lace dress which suited her perfectly.

I love the atmosphere at weddings. I love the party, I love the details, and I love the love. You feel it everywhere. I was so lucky to be a part of this wedding and to have my childhood friend choose me to be there by her side on the day that she and her love became one.

After the ceremony, we took pictures and played some games before dinner. This first picture I stole off of Facebook...and I don't even know the person who posted it. Full credit to them as I didn't have any official pictures of the wedding on my camera roll. I will post some of the professional ones if I get the "okay" from Jessica in a couple of weeks once they have come in.

Girls lounging.

This amazing truck was the perfect backdrop for that punch of colour.

My Bug and his games.....he was enthralled with this!

(Notice the rosy cheeks...I told you it was hot...)

My beautiful Mama.

My goofy and loveable Husband.

To end the evening, we had a gigantic bonfire. I cannot even explain to you how big this was and how unbelievably cool. You could feel the heat from across the grove. This picture doesn't even start to show the intensity of the fire. It doesn't look all that big but remember, we were all so far away.

It was a simply delicious day!

Monday, August 13, 2012

Monkey Fun for someone who's ONE

The morning of his birthday, I heard him wake me with the babbles from his crib. It didn't take me more than a second to go in there and scoop him up into my arms. I sang "Happy Birthday" to him and I couldn't help but fight back the tears. My baby has an AGE now. He is ONE. As my nephew says, "He isn't Zero anymore".

We got up and spent the morning as usual- cuddles in Mommy & Daddy's bed, playing with the television remote, breakfast, Sid the Science Kid, and playtime. The only difference was that there were balloons, a few gifts, and extra smiles that morning. I think he knew.

After getting ready for the day, it was off to Gammy & Grandpa's house for a party! Both sets of Grandparents were there to love and spoil him. He played outside, had a BBQ lunch and ate ice cream cake! He LOVES ice cream.

The next day, we had a BIG birthday party for the little man. The Theme? Sock Monkey! What a perfect theme for our Monkey....

Of course, I have been planning for months and months (because that is how I roll...), and the day turned out great! The weather was nice and warm, all of my baking turned out, and everything went as planned. Since we had so many coming to the party (and not everyone RSVP'ed) we decided to stick with a dessert table. This way we wouldn't have to worry about how much food we would need to feed everyone and we wouldn't have to have someone by the BBQ all day...it is a good thing we did it this way as we ended up with almost 70 people! It sure was a sugar rush!

There were cupcakes, chocolate dipped marshmallows rolled in Skor, brownies, sweet and salty popcorn, banana marshmallows, chocolate malt balls, red gummies, gummy coke bottles, doughnuts, cookies, tootisie rolls, sugar sticks, and CAKE!

We had monkey necklaces and party hats for the kids, and I hand made 57 monkey sugar cookies and wrapped them as favors.

Take a look at this AMAZING cake! It turned out JUST perfect and I couldn't be happier (and no...I didn't make this one...lol)

I finally got to put together my 52 weeks of KIPTYN!

Here he is! The Birthday BOY!

We had a ton of fun and he was surrounded by the people he loves most! We are SO blessed to have had all of our family and friends there to help celebrate with him.

He didn't nap on the day of his party....but he did almost fall asleep in the swing a few times!

Cake time!!!

I bought this vintage high chair off of Kijiji and sanded it down, to paint it red. Oh how I love it!

And GONE!

He took the LONGEST drink ever when he was finished. Good job Bug!

Thank you to all of our dear friends who came (and some traveled) to the party. It will forever be in our memories and one day when Kiptyn looks back at the pictures he will see how very loved he is. It was a fun filled weekend. People know I like to keep busy, so after the party ended and we packed up, I drove an hour out to the beach for Jessica's Bachelorette Party. The next day, I helped host her shower. I'd say we packed that weekend FULL to the BRIM!

I will leave you with a couple of Kiptyn's birthday photos we had done a few weeks before his party. We used the photos for invitations and for decoration and they are just darling. Dave did an amazing job on the invite....