Weekend Overflow!

WHEW! What a weekend! Somehow it never fails that I have many events hit me all at once; and right after I was sick all week with a bad flu bug! I was kind of quiet in the bloggy world, I just wasn't up to being on the computer a ton. I was running a fever for about 2 days & have to have help with Avery because she too was sick. We both went to the doctor. I was contagious & had some sort of a viral infection. Her doctor thought she may slightly have the same thing I did, mixed with her nose & throat from teething. There is nothing harder than being a momma & having to take care of a sick baby too. WOW!

Friday was our friend Alyssa's 32 Birthday celebration. We were going to do something at my house & I had a fun black & white table planned for her but when I got sick we decided to just meet at Abeulos for dinner. (Hence the black/white cupcakes, hehe)...



We all pitched in money & ended up getting Alyssa a $200.00 GC! We wanted her to be able to get whatever she wanted!

I will let the pictures do the talking since we took so many!!!




















The biggest part of my weekend was Saturday. It was my sweet niece Stella's 1st Birthday Bash. I was beyond excited when my sister in law asked me if I would help decorate. My favorite thing to do! So Saturday we got up & around & headed her way to get things ready. It was just all too precious!












One of my favorite things about parties is of course the cake! This cake was to DIE FOR. We got it none other than our little family secret where we get these amazing beauties! It's pure hidden bliss as I like to call it! It was 1/2 strawberry, & have vanilla with strawberry filling. DELISH!





Stella's little cake was so adorable! You will later see that she also seemed to think the same thing!




We enjoyed capturing all the family pictures we could get!











Stella loved that it was her Birthday & enjoyed looking at all of her bright colored goodies!





The kiddo's had fun too!






Then it was time for cake. Stella LOVED her cake so much. Things got out of hand but it was hilarious! We just couldn't stop letting her dig into it. She is simply a DOLL!






I loved her face after she was covered in cake. We were trying to clean her off & this is what she was doing...smiling. Lil' stinker!



Present time! Oh goodness. My little niece is spoiled. I had such a hard time trying to figure out what to get her that I got her all kinds of little goodies! One of them was a purse! These girls... they are becoming very prissy.





So after Stella's festivities we got together with my other sister in law, Tiffany to celebrate a night for her. Im not sure if you would call it a "celebration" but if you have followed for awhile you know that my sister in law broke her hip in 4 places several months ago & went through a pretty extensive surgery. After she healed she began feeling pain again. She is having another surgery this Friday on her hip to have the plates taken out of it. She will be out of work for awhile so we all thought it would be fun to take her out for one last girls night before she is stuck on those mean crutches again...

We enjoyed a nice evening at our favorite Italian place, "Joe's"!







Later we made our way to another location where we ran into an old Razorback Basketball player, Ronnie Brewer. He now plays for the Chicago Bulls so me & Tiff had to get our picture with him.





We all have so much fun together & enjoyed spending the evening with Tiffany before her surgery!




Finally, thought I would share this picture of me & my girl before church this morning. She looked so sweet.



Church was amazing today. A retired AMAZING coach from FL State preached at our church- Bobby Bowden. He was such a great speaker. It's so neat to hear stories of how many people he reached for Christ through simply spreading the word to his players. He is such an example of Christ & to see that he was able to be such an example all of those years was awesome!