Weekend In St. Louis

Well this weekend I went to St. Louis for a Franklin Covey conference and watched Kaiya on Saturday. These are just some fun pictures I took this weekend.

Ziggy felt left out that he didn't get to wear a party hat for Kaiya's birthday. :)

Ziggy really just wanted to be friends, but as you can tell the cats wanted nothing to do with him.

Tony is already trying to pass his love for music on to Kaiya. She thought she was pretty cool stuff wearing the headphones. And she really liked taking them off and then trying to put them back on all by herself.

I took these pictures for mom. We drove past this house on Saturday morning when I went garage saling with Rachel, her friend Bethany, and Ruthie. The whole entire yard was filled with all sorts of bird houses. It was one of the funniest houses I've ever seen!

On Saturday afternoon Ruthie and I took Kaiya and Ryan (the boy Ruthie tutors) to the Zoo. We all had a really good time, but it was about 80 degrees so we were all pretty sweaty! :)

Kaiya was such a good girl in her stroller at the zoo. She is really liking Cheerios right now so while the rest of us ate our lunch at the zoo she sat very content just eating Cheerios.

She seemed to have fun looking at all the animals. She would say "ooo, ooo" and point and then let out a screach trying to get the animals' attention.

Kaiya Grace

Well, I had a couple of cute pictures of Kaiya (taken in the last couple weeks) that I thought I would post.

She was having the hardest time trying to figure out how she was going to get her ball, that rolled into the laundry basket. She was afraid to actually crawl inside the basket.

Rachel and Kaiya came down last weekend to help me with my wedding invitations. We went out to dinner at El Maguey's (mexican restaurant) and Kaiya had her first taste of a lemon...and as you can tell she wasn't exactly thrilled!

Wedding Dress

Well, I've waited 4 months for this day...my dress finally arrived!! The bridal shop here in Rolla called me on Thursday letting me know it could be picked up whenever I had the chance. I went yesterday and tried it on. It fits just about perfectly. The straps need to be taken in just a little...but other than that I think we're good to go. I tried on several veils yesterday, but had trouble deciding which one I liked better. I went back today with Linda (a lady from my work who is my mom away from home). She helped me decide on the veil that is in the picture and then took pictures for me. I absolutely love it and can't wait to be tan and have my hair and make-up all done. I am planning on wearing my hair half up (like it is in the picture) and curled. It feels like the wedding is really getting close, now that I have my dress. I wanted to post pictures of it so everyone would have a chance to see it. (Brent doesn't know about this blog so he won't be able to see it before the big day) The dress is an ivory taffeta material which i think will work really well for an outside wedding (no chance of snagging).