Monday, Monday...

Well, Monday is upon us again. Boo.  We had a great weekend though, celebrating Birc's birthday all weekend! We celebrated with Ann and Skip on Friday, my parents and Anna and Aaron Saturday night, and our Sunday School class after church on Sunday.  Spreading it out helps the birthday more fun!  I hope Birc felt the love everyone was giving him!

birthday decorations :) 

Gran was lifting her up to see Cadence and she thought it was AWESOME!

say CHEESE!

homemade cheesecake.  Maia's recipe! YUM!

who is this???

Mimmie! (all Mickeys and Minnies are Mimmie to her)

swinging with Daddy!

Sliding with Mama!

Uncle Aaron is definitely in the right profession.  Kids are so his element :)

And he and Anna were tickling Savannah and she was loving it!

Grandad is so funny!

Savannah loved the balloons.  If we're honest about who they were for, I'd say Savannah and Birc is ok with that :) hah!

Corky's for lunch with some of our favorite friends!

We had a great weekend! Hope Monday goes easy on me. :)

BIRTHDAY WISHES!

This post is all for my super-smart, super-hot, super-talented, wonderful husband! Birc, I love you so much and CANNOT imagine my life without you.  I am so very blessed to have you as my husband and Savannah is a lucky little girl to have such a wonderful daddy as you.  You are one-of-a-kind and I am so grateful to God that we get to walk side by side each day.  A photomontage is next of course.

Savannah would like to say to her Daddy...

Happy Birthday!

Wait, mama, there's something on my shoe.  Can you get it off before we keep going?

What does this thing say anyway???

Aw, it's daddy's birthday???!!! Exciting!! Cake time!

HHHHAAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTHHDDDAAYY!!

I think that's all I've got time for this morning Mama.

Here's the sign in case you need it.  

Happy 33rd Birthday from your girls!

A few blasts from the past just to highlight Birc's awesome-ness more...

after a few months of dating

trip to the beach with his family after being together a year

4 years ago today! hah!

Our wedding day! :)

Fall 2011. Crazy how time flies, I feel like this was maybe 6 months ago.

with a tiny 4-month old Savannah! :)

Happiest of Birthdays to you Birc.  We love you and think you are wonderful and we are so thankful for all the hard work you do every day for us and love you give us. :) Hope you have a great day!

**just a quick note. This could very well be the last birthday sign post with Savannah's help. It is near impossible to get any photos of the child in general these days, much less holding a sign the correct way and smiling for more than .05 seconds. I'll keep you updated about this.**

Cute Pictures

Just some cute pictures I haven't been able to fit in earlier since they're from Birc's phone. 

Ring Around The Rosie

Cousins! (note the chicken in her lap.  There's where her love of fake chickens was born)

First Ice Cream Cone at Chick Fil A

What, do I have something on my face?

Savannah getting her chicken from Nana and Gran!

She loves chickens.  It's a thing.

My Little Owl

While Savannah was sick we were pretty much house-ridden the whole time but she would, every afternoon, bang on the back door towards the swing set and yell, "weeee!  weeeee! swwwiiiinnngggg! ssswwwwiiiinnnnngggggg!" and then fake cry [whining with NO TEARS] until we could distract her or decide it was warm enough to venture outside for 5-10 minutes.  For a while now, she's known she needs her "aket" [jacket] to go outside and she also usually needs her owl hat.  So while she was sick she'd go over to the hat/scarf/glove basket and grab her hat and pull it on and go to the back door.  And all around the house.  Smarty pants.

this is in front of the cat/workout room where we have to put a gate so she doesn't go digging in the cat food.  :)

Dressing Up

Savannah got an adorable dress-up trunk from her cousins Anna and Aiden at Christmas and she's taken a really big interest in it lately.  She's loving the shoes especially. And I love the pom poms best.  The fairy wings are a close second in the adorable-ness category.

Valentine's Day + Weekend Review

We've had a busy few days around here.  Miss Savannah got ahold of a nasty fever virus on Wednesday that kept us out of commission, really, until Monday.  She's been fever-free since Saturday night sometime but we missed all church activities and Soup Sunday (an event with Anna's workplace that is super fun and tasty) today (Sunday) just to be on the safe side.  I'll try not to overload you with pictures and spread it out over a few days. [after finishing the post, sorry to say I did overload you with pictures.  sorry.]

Take-home art activity for Savannah's school.  Decorate the heart any way you choose!

Girl's got 100 degree temp but you can't tell!

Gran's tongue! 

Bubbles! The cats love them as much as Savannah does.  It's hilarious :) 

I'm gonna BITE them mama!

Savannah made her valentines for her classmates.  She's stamping them here.

work in progress

finished product! Savannah stamped the cupid and put the glued heart wherever she wanted! I did the cutting obviously and wrote the message after she did her thing. 

Savannah's valentine basket! Target dollar aisle was great :)

Mille's sugar cookies for Savannah's valentine party on Thursday. Which she ended up missing since her fever returned with a vengeance.  

cookies for her teachers, class party, and valentines for her friends and another class they exchanged with!

She got tons of valentine goodies! A chicken from Nana and Gran (there's a story behind the beloved chicken), a puzzle and the adorable homemade dress from CC and Grandad, and the basket of goodies from Birc and me.

Valentine morning she was doing great, no fever, and happy as a clam opening her goodies.  She loved the soccer ball of course.

As I said earlier, Savannah got a terrible fever that returned while she was at school so all our Valentine plans went out the window.  We ended up grabbing a quick burger at MooYah.  Happy Valentine's Day to us!

How we spent the rest of the weekend.

Poor baby.

You know even though I hate for Savannah to be sick and could not wait for her to be better, all the cuddles and snuggles were so wonderful.  My normally tornado-esque busy girl actually sat on my lap for more than 2 minutes, hugged me, cuddled for hours, and just wanted to be on me or held by me all the time.  I loved that part of it but hated every other part since she felt so badly.

Valentine's Schmalentine's

This is the face of a girl who ended up with over 103 when she woke up from her nap at daycare today.      She and I had a day at home yesterday when she ran a low-grade fever all morning and early afternoon. It was gone by 3 though and she never acted sick. We aren't sure what she's got yet as we are waiting for test results but Dr. Uncle Aaron has checked her out and it's either some sort of fever virus or a UTI.  Since she has Hydronephrosis, Aaron wants her to have her urine checked anytime there's a high fever with no other symptoms that he can find.  So we will wait for that to culture and see what it says.

I should have known when I dropped her off and she looked at me like this that she was sick. Poor baby.

Needless to say our Valentine's Day didn't go as planned but that is A-OK as long as my baby is ok! I got to spend it with my loves and so it is good no matter what.  I'll update tomorrow or the weekend with lots of fun pictures to come!