Daphne's Birthday (a little late)

Daphne celebrated her 1st birthday dinner at Leona's. One of our favorite restaurants. She had a great time coloring and opening her presents before dinner.

She did a great job opening her presents and was very curious as to what was in the boxes.

One of her gifts was a car shoot that she loved playing with while we waited for our dinner.

Her birthday cupcake was chocolate with pink frosting! We sang happy birthday and then she went to town!!

A bath was required when she was done!!

Daphne's party was on the 27th of August and we had such a wonderful time celebrating with family and friends

She wasn't sure which chip she wanted to eat first

She had a great time playing with all her friends and cousins!

Daphne's first birthday cake!! Super cute (mommy designed it)

We had such a great afternoon and thank everyone who helped to make it such a special day for a wonderfully special little girl!!

Happy 1st Birthday Daphne!!

Our Warrior!

Our Beautiful Warrior

Marcia Lynn Powers
9.1.1953 ~ 7.13.2011

Courage, perseverance, strength and unrelenting love;

our beautiful warrior paved the way for our own struggles.

If you ever find yourself downtrodden,

saddened, feeling helpless or hopeless,

ask for a "Marcy Push" to help pick you up and push onward.

Love you forever and miss you always! XOXO

Josh's First Northern Pike

Here is a photo of the very first Northern Pike Josh caught in Illinois!

Go Josh Go!!

The Month of May

It has been a long time since I've posted, so, I have a lot to catch up on. This post is going to go over the month of May. Since the weather has warmed up, Josh has started fishing. It has become one of his favorite hobbies. He is trying out some different areas but I think he is having the best luck at Lake Barrington. He tries to fish when we go visit my mom. He is mostly catching large mouth bass, in between he will get some small mouth bass, blue gill, and he has even caught a northern pike. I don't have a photo to show the northern pike but it was quit large in size. Around 2 1/2 feet in length!

Here is Josh on mothers day fishing at my mom's house in Lake Barrington.

Daphne is very playful and loves to crawl around and explore everything! She is pulling herself up every chance she gets. She has also started to walk along the furniture! She loves to play and laughs at Bosco and Pete all the time.

Daphne is a great eater and will eat just about everything we do!

These pictures are from Memorial Day and my birthday. I feel very lucky to have a parade on my birthday! I was so glad to be able to share it with Josh and Daphne since moving back.

Daphne was relaxing before the parade started. It was also the first chance she was able to wear her new sun hat from her grandma.

Daphne really enjoyed all the people and the noises coming from the parade. She also had one of the best views from her daddies shoulders!

Our proud soldiers

There were also may veterans to whom we owe many thanks.

Me and Daphne enjoying the celebration.

After the parade we walked to Memorial Park where they hold a special ceremony for all the soldiers and their families. It was very hot so we didn't stay for the entire ceremony. We live very close to the parade route and the park so we walked to and from.

Daphne was so tired after all the excitement. After the parade and park I decided that I wanted to spend some time at the Arlington Park Race track. It is very beautiful and so much fun!

Daphne didn't last too long in the heat! She did enjoy some cheerios while watching the horses. She had three bottles of water in a four hour time period due to the heat. We kept her covered as much as possible and had her lathered with sun screen too.

And they're off!!

I had a great birthday and a wonderful Memorial Day.
It is so nice to be able to share it with my family!