Parties, babies and more - Oh!, Novemeber

The last two weeks have flown by and we have not been too timely with our blogs here lately. So here is a nice and condensed version.

November started with some birthdays earlier in the month. First weekend in November brought about Maddie's BIG first birthday, Jessica's baby shower and a week later, Maddie's daddy, Matt had a birthday party.

First, here are some pictures from Maddie's, Matt and Savannah's daughter, first birthday. Boy, what cutie. You will just love, love her tutu. And her sweet Grandmother, Savannah's momma, made this great birthday ensemble. Oh yeah, and Savannah's dad bought a toddler bouncy-house for Maddie...TOO fun! We can't wait to see this thing at many more b-day parties. Well, if Matt and Savannah don't mind of course...wink, wink.

Here is the cute Maddie Birthday outfit I was talking about. Way to go Maddie's Grandma!!

Look at Maddie eye-balling her cake mound.

Nummy! Birthday cake!

Our friends Keith and Michelle taking care of our little miss. Mae is friend to all laps.

Here is Maddie amongst all of her gifts. What a haul!

Here is Maddie enjoying her birthday present from us. A Rody! Too CUTE!

Here is our little miss enjoying another lap, but this time she was a little sleepy.

The next day was baby-celebration-palooza. Abbey came over and picked me up a little before noon and we headed to north Austin to get ready for Jess's shower. We had a safari themed shower for her and her baby boy, who is due at the end of February or beginning of March.

It was a ton a fun and Abbey and I didn't get home until after six that evening. We are very grateful for Shara and her great house for hosting the event. We are also super excited for Jess and Mark and their baby boy. We can't wait to meet him and give him more hugs than humanly possible. And yes, Dusty and I will try to see how many that really is.

Here are the pictures from Jessica's shower. Please note that I, along with slew of other hostesses put together the shower for Jess. Hope you enjoy.

Here is a picture our the cute safari-themed cookie jars. Abbey found this cute theme on a blog and we borrowed it. Yeah blogs :)!

Here are all the ladies enjoying a shower game. It was a memory match game with cute prizes. Way to go Shara for coming up with this game...go Skor bars!!!

Here is Jess opening some of her baby shower gifts. We loved being able to get Jess her baby boy's bedding.

A week later, we celebrated Matt's birthday. Here are some more photos from his 30 plus one birthday party. We went over to their house for another Saturday get together. They made pizza's on the grill and we enjoyed watching Maddie eating her daddy's bday cake...yet again too cute. And later Dusty and I learned we have no business owning "DJ hero" because boy we would not be good at this game even after some showed us how to actually play it. Sorry, Matt and Jason, you guys can have at it.

Here is Matt and family ready to celebrate his big day.

Mommy and Maddie ready to get their cake-eating on.

Matt's Transformer cake. Too cute!!

And now, here is the Transformer cake enjoyed by Maddie. Black icing and all.