Libbys actual birthday

So yes I know what you must be thinking, by this time we have pretty much celebrated Libbys birthday three times but because her birthday is 2 days before christmas I always go out of the way to make it so very special for her. So unfortunately I had to work the morning of her birthday so got to have birthday lunch with her maw maw, paw paw, aunt abby, and daddy. JImmy brought her to me when I got off and I had decided to take her to club tabby.

Club tabby is a young girls boutique here in Louisville. It is SO cute!! They do their hair, nails and make up and they do a really good job of just making over them. She felt like such a princess!! She looked so cute when she was done, even though she did choose the BLUE eye shadow haha. She walked around the rest of the night like a little diva and has asked several times since to go back

So after that we went to celebrate her birthday with nana, pop pop, and amanda. The way we do birthdays in my family is that the birthday person gets to pick where they want to go eat. In this case I let Libby choose and she chose Mr. Gattis. So thats exactly where we went. She had so much fun playing games and getting presents from nana and pop.

Libby is so very blessed to have such wonderful family and friends. I cannot believe my baby is 3!! We had So much fun celebrating with her and I cannot wait till next year and we can do it all again :)

Libbys Friend Birthday Party

So since Libby has been so blessed to have so many friends in her life we decided that she should have a friend party this year, and she was SO excited!! Libby wanted to have her party at All About Kids, which is a kids gym here in Louisville. We go there a lot for free play and she loves it :) Because her b day is December 23rd and their booking there we had to have her party on a Monday morning, but it worked out because school was out. So on December 19th Libby and her 12 friends celebrated her 3rd birthday and it was SO much fun.

First we opened presents and Libby was really into that this year!! She was so blessed to get so many good things her friends. She got a lot of art supplies which she loves!! She got cute clothes, movies and barbie dolls!! She got her picture taken with each of her friends and I do not have enough space to post every one but you will get the point :

Next it was play time and we had So much fun!! We had a lot of babies there to which Libby loved!! All her friends had fun jumping on the trampoline and swinging on the trapeze. One hour was definitely enough for us mommies because we were worn out!!

The last thing we did was eat cake. Libby is so blessed to have a pop pop that is very talented at making cakes!! She told him she wanted a Tinkerbell cake and man did he do a good job!! She loved her cake her it tasted amazing to :)

Over all we had such an awesome party. Libby is so blessed to have such amazing friends and family. We had so much fun, this will be hard to top next year!!

Libbys 1st of 3 birthday parties

Yes I know what you are thinking... 3 birthday parties? But first of all let me explain that my child was born on December 23rd so its very hard to just have one party and everyone be able to come. We usually try to do one big party but with me having so much family out of town and the holidays right around the corner we just decided that we couldn't do that this year. So we settled on having 3 smaller parties :)

The first one was with Jimmys family who all live about 3 miles away from us. We had everyone over on Sunday dec. 18th for Taco soup and Libby was SO excited!!

I made her a cake (which you can see in the pictures that I definitely did not inherit my dads cake gene).

She loved opening presents and she was so grateful for each thing she got!! Every time she would open something she would say "Oh thats just what I wanted!!!"

Jimmys family was SO good to her and she got a lot of good stuff!! It was a great way to kick off her Birthday Festivities!!

The best Christmas present ever!!!

Three years ago tonight at 8:00 pm Jimmy and I welcomed our precious little girl into the world. Libby was a stubborn thing and didn't want to come out so we had to do a c-section after about 24 hours of labor. She was a big girl weighing in at 8 lbs 4oz and 21 in long. She was SO sweet right off the bat and for the most part was a really good baby.

Since that night she has blessed our lives and our families lives SO much. She is so kind hearted but definitely knows what she wants and when she wants it. She is very social smart and can figure pretty much anything out. She loves movies of all kinds but her favorites are Veggie Tales and Shrek right now. Her biggest fault however is night time... it is quit a struggle at our house because Libby never gets tired!! I always enjoy hearing what her newest reason for not wanting to stay in bed is. So far I have gotten the typical I'm thirsty and hungry and I have gotten the not so typical my teeth hurt? haha.

This has been the best and quickest 3 years of my life and I cannot wait to see what this year has in store for us, I have a feeling it is going to be a BIG year :)

Libby, I love you more than words can describe and I feel so blessed that God chose me to be your mommy. You are so sweet and loving and I can see that you just have a heart that melts for people and that you already have such a love for God. Happy birthday sweet heart you will forever be my BEST Christmas present ever!!

Christmas time with a 3 year old...

Libby is loving Christmas time this year!!! She has her own pink tree in her room that she got to decorate and every time we go to the store we have to get something new to put on it. She got bored with putting our tree up, but loved putting all the ornaments on it. She liked to hold up all the special ornaments and me telling her the story of how we got them or who made them... etc.

She definitely gets the whole Santa thing this year. Every time we are in the store and she wants something I always say "what do you need to do" and she always says "ask santa clause!!" haha its actually kind of nice!!! She has seen him 2 times and both times walked right up and sat on his lap and was SO excited about it!!

Last year we had an elf on the shelf come visit us and this year he came back. At first his name was miss piggy but then libby told me he changed it to strawberry cake!! So strawberry cake hides in a new place every morning and Libby has had so much fun finding him as soon as she wakes up. Her favorite candy is mints and so last week she found our elf hiding in the mint jar and she just thought that was the funniest thing ever!

We have been so busy that we just got started on our holiday crafts today. We painted a Christmas tree picture and did a Christmas hand wreath, which turned out SO cute!! She loves any kind of arts and crafts and I cannot wait to do a ginger bread house with her. We went tonight and bought a bunch of stuff to make cookies and other holiday treats so that will be tomorrow night.

She has really gotten into the holiday movies to. She loves the Grinch but her favorite one is the Santa Clause, with Tim Allen which mommy and daddy just happen to love to. I tried to watch the Polar Express with her the other night because neither one of us had ever seen it but I think it was a little to scary because she made me turn it off after 10 minutes haha.

There should be MANY more posts to come in the next couple weeks because Libby's birthday is just around the corner which involves 2 birthday parties and then whatever we decide to do on her actual birthday. And then 2 days later we will have all of our Christmas fun :) I love my baby girl and all the many memories we are creating together!!

It's a girl :)

So we found out on November 17th that Jimmy and I are going to welcome another sweet baby girl into the world on April 11th. I was So excited to find out and the fact that everyone felt like it was boy kind of made me have that feeling to. We walked into the room and the ultrasound tech went straight to find out what it is!! She looked at me and said "Well, did you keep all of Libbys clothes?" And I said "Yes... is it a girl?" and she said " yes it is"!! Libby just lit up with excitement. She wanted a sister So bad!! We have had the name Marlee picked out since I found out I was pregnant. My grandpas name (my moms dad) was Marlon and I was very close to him when he passed away 5 years ago. I was playing around with family names and then it just hit me to name her Marlee :) Her middle name, Lynn, is jimmy's mom and sisters middle name so that was something I had planned all along. It is So much fun to start getting her room ready and to pick out bedding (monkeys) and to start buying clothes. Libby finds all kinds of stuff in the store to buy Marlee (which gets us in trouble with daddy).

My belly is getting bigger and bigger everyday!! Marlee moves like CRAZY and I love it!! feeling her move is such a blessing from God. We have less than 4 months to go which is so crazy to me. I am so excited and cannot wait to have 2 sweet baby girls!!

Our sweet Sophia....

On October 27th EARLY in the morning my cousin and her husband welcomed their sweet baby girl Sophia Lowe Cassetty into the world. My cousin and I are very close so i felt like I was getting a niece. Sophia was very stubborn in getting here so when she finally decided to make her appearance we couldn't contain ourselves!! She is so perfect in every way and it has been so funny to watch libby with her baby cousin. I think in Libby's mind she feels like she is 10. She thinks she

hold Sophie and pick her up just like anyone else, so we have to keep a close eye on her. She loves Sophie so much though. She loves to give her her bottle and she HATES when she is fussy, it makes her so sad. It just shows me that when Marlee gets here she is going to be such a good big sister!! Before Ashley had her baby I had matching cousin t- shirts made for the girls, don't they look SO cute :) Well I can't wait to watch Sophie grow up and be apart of her life, she is such a sweet girl already and such a blessing :)