Lions, Tigers and Bears OH my!

I have neglected my blog life. Hi, my name is Alisha and I have serious time management issues. There, I said it! I have to confess that I have entirely WAY too much fun playing with play dough and tea party and "I'm going to get you" games ALL day long and I usually forget to document all this amazing-ness.

BUT I am making blogging, at least weekly, a priority as of now. Aubriella is growing way too fast and we are exploring often, I want need to blog it all :)

SO, I'll start with today- we totally died and went to heaven at the San Diego Zoo!

She LOVED her frog my parents bought her

Duck Pond, Quack Quack

We normally start putting up all our 'Green' today for St. Patties but today was a semi-sick one. Aubriella has been fighting off a gross stomach bug for almost 4 days now :( But feeling cooped up, we decided to go to the duck pond just up the street from our home. It made us both feel better :) TGIF!

 

This is pretty much the look Aubriella always gives out now- the "Mom you're kind of embarrassing me" ....look

 

 

 

Valentines Day Adventures

So, we definitely enjoyed ourselves this Valentines Day by showering each other with LOVE. Yea right, this year was all about FUN :) Life has changed in so many ways with Aubriella, for the good:) Mainly celebrating all the holidays differently. This year instead of a fancy-pancy dinner and gifts we don't need- we celebrated the day by taking Aubriella to the Zoo!

OF COURSE we started the Day with Valentines Pancakes :) We fell in love (no pun intended) with Sprouts' Organic Sweet Potato Pancake Mix

 

 

Aubriella LOVED the Zoo, we always knew she was obsessed with animals- but I think we have to buy her a giraffe now :)



 

 



Birthdays and Beach Days

I can't remember the last time I was on here! :( Life does that sometimes, it gets so busy you don't have time to do the little things you enjoy. Here is an update from our last blog, Aubriella turned 16 I mean 1!!!! hehe. I am a blogger FAIL because I was SO busy at the party that I forgot to get pictures of all the adorable decorations I made!:( I will post the links to where I found the directions for everything- hope it inspires someone to DIY their next party.

 It was "Shabby Chic" theme, so we used up her old birth announcement milk bottles as cups for the guests and had babies breath in mason jars as center pieces. I created two banners-similar here

I also did a fabric banner for around her high chair- precious and EASY it took 10 minutes! Similar here

I wanted "kids food" because we had party trays for all the adult guests. So I created a kids table, which had a basket of her favorite Peter Rabbit Squeeze Pouches, Zucchini Muffins (her fav, I make them) a huge bowl of fruit and Chicken Meatballs (I also make).

Finally, I had all the tables covered in Butcher Paper- cheap and easy, also went with the theme. I am so excited for the years to come, I LOVE planning parties!

Here is our big girl on her "actual birthday"looking SO cute

Shirt: Carters

 

 

 

 

The weekend following her big party, we were having some awesome weather here so we decided to take Aubriella to the beach. We had a great time! This car is amazing: