Long time no type...

It has been over a year since I visited this blog. I thought I would give it another go. Since I have been gone I gave birth to our second daughter. While I was purchasing items from a maternity store, I received a coupon for $20 from Shutterfly. I decided to use it to create her birth annoucements. This is what it will look like when I get it in the mail..

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**Shutterfly did not pay me to type this but I may get a $10 credit towards my next purchase for doing this. We will see if that happens.

Summer is over!

Summer is over and school has begun!

Squeaky shoes dancing

Christian and I have been dancing a lot lately with Sofia. She seems to enjoy it. I didn't think she was watching our feet until I put squeaky shoes on her. My friend, S.T., had these shoes for her beautiful twin girls. She handed down a pair for Sofia on one of our visits to her house in B.R. Sofia loves the shoes! The video shows her love of squeaky shoes with some dancing and curiosity mixed in. It is long with some poor filming parts.  However, I think Sofia makes it worth watching.

Flat Friends on Sunday

We had a short adventure on Sunday. Then the fun was over until next time.

Sunday with the Gurkhas - how to create a free slideshow

My Flat Friends

My friends and I have flat versions of each other. We take each other places and take pictures. My friend, Shirley, was in town and we brought our two "flat" friends with us on our afternoon shopping trip. Here is a slide show of our adventure.

Gurkhas in Houston - slideshow maker with music

Zoo

This past weekend we took Sofia to the zoo for the first time. We met friends so we wouldn't have to suffer through the heat alone!   We only stayed for a couple of hours. In that short amount of time we  enjoyed the AC of the Natural Wonders building, oooed and ahhhed over the baby elephants, walked through the primates, and quickly went through the new Africa section. Sofia really seemed to enjoy the zoo and pointed at animals. If you ask me her favorite part were all of the fish but Christian would tell you the sea lions.

Sofia's birthday party..over a month later

I guess I forgot to post her birthday party. Sorry. It was fun. It was hot. It was exhausting. I am glad we did it for her in the end.  Daphne Lafosse photographed the party and all of the pictures posted are hers. She is wonderful and very sweet. If you are looking for a photographer, check out her website.

Sofia dancing before the guests arrived.

Favors. The buckets held sidewalk chalk, punch balloon, bubbles, beach ball, and a sports water bottle.  Everything was from Micheal's but the punch balloon. I got them in a package from Target.

Food. We had  sammies from Costco. They were awesome! I pinned tulle around the table and added a trim to hide the pins.

I made the banner. It had a front and back. Both sides said the same thing.

I saw this idea somewhere and Pinned it. It now hangs on Sofia's bedroom door.

We had just finished taking pictures with the "ONE" when guest arrived. Sofia went down the walkway to meet them.

Sofia had an outfit change into an traditional ao dai to select her future.

Vietnamese and other Asian cultures have the child turning one select items that indicait what he/she will have a career in. Sofia picked the thermometer. She is going into the medical field.

I made her smash cake.

We tried to get her to eat some of the cake but she just wanted to play.

She was so messy Grandma was reluctant to hold her.

Cake for everyone. We got it from Costco. Friends said it was yummy.

The pull pinata I made.

It didn't work so well. I think I added too many layers. I had to dump out the contents. It was funny.

Sofia's Venezuelan friends, Landon and Nicolas. Well..half Venezuelan like her.

Kiley Y.

I still can't believe this many people were at the party.

Our family at ONE.