One of Chris' other daughters.. spent the night for the first time

 

How do I load this into a nutshell for those who don't know about this part of life.... Yikes.

 

okay so Chris has two other daughters, both with different mom's. the relationship with both mothers is...gosh how do I pick a word... a rollercoaster.

 

We haven't had much to do with either of them, for several reasons but one of them being that they both live in different states than where we live, the moms don't answer the phone,  they weren't married so there is no decree or anything about visitation. and if we have any rights we don't know about that. We faithfully pay child support for both each month even though we never get to see them.

 

We have only seen Keersten 3 times since we have been married and she is 7. Not for lack of trying though that's for sure..

 

The last 6  months the mom has been better and now that  Keersten is older she can talk on the phone and have her own thoughts and opinions about things

 

 

 

 

They came down to Roy, Utah which is like 1.5 hours from where we live, and called and said we could have her overnight. um.. WHAT??????  we though for sure the mom was sick. Well of course we said yes. we hadn't seen in her 2 years, I was like 2 weeks away from my due date last time we went and saw her..

 

It was super nerve racking but it was just one night and it turned out good. I had already made other plans to go listen to a concert with my friend but it gave them good bonding time they went to trafalga. samarah loved having her around

 

Lol samarah just kicked back chillin I love it

 

tried to get all of us in the picture

 

it was hard. haha

 

this one (above) is pretty good lol at least we are all smiling

 

then we decided we had to try to get the dog in

 

she has to get a lick in always

 

(Above look at samarah behind me chilling with my glasses on haha she is awesome) oh and below actually. she's like laughing and looking cool with her glasses. keersten is getting sick of smililng.. casey can't stop licking. haha awesome pictures.

 

Not going to lie it was kind of weird, I have always known about Keersten but where she hasn't really been a part of our life it as kind of a shock but she is a good kid and chris was so so so happy so i'm glad things are going better.

 

He took her back to Roy the next day and that was that. for now

Tile update

My bathroom is damn near finished I just haven't taken pictures yet.. These were RIGHT after we grouted

 

 

Chris replaced a few drywall pieces because I was scared about the mold so we cut out a bunch just to be safe

 

 

Just wait until you see the finished product :)

My best guess is Nachos?

Ok so we got a papa murphy's pizza and you know the trays they leave it on, well it was on the floor because it needed to be taken out to the garbage..

 

And I forget how many things I need to put away. So there were a few things that Samarah could reach.. one of them being a bag of chips, the other being a bag of cereal... I looked over and she had dumped the chips out, then the cereal, and I turned around as she was trying to dump crackers on top of it. I laughed but it looked to me like she was trying to make nachos :)

 

 

 

Samarah's birthday party!!!!! Well, a preview anyway

I am going to try to be a better blogger! it is the day of her party and I am going to post a few pictures! only a few though so you get a hint of it and then i'll do a full post later!! but i'm trying!!

It went so good but it was SO stressful!! and expensive!!!!!!

I don't know how many or which pictures to pic for just a sneak peek!


My gorgeous girl with my dad! In her adorable dress that matches her cute Minnie mouse ears perfectly haha

 

Table set up.. I see you annalee!

 

decorate your own sugar cookies! (on the right)

 

Samarah's little friend Kallan!

 

Chris got her her own laptop so she would stop wanting ours. haha. no its a leapfrog learning one that i'm excited it was a good pick

 

Pin the bow on Minnie mouse!

 

Pin the ball on Minnie?

 

She blew out her two candles by herself!!

 

I will overload you with pictures on the next post but I wanted to get some up the day of!! and did! and 11 pm :) I am so glad for all of you that came! Can't wait to post more!!

 

I love my little girl she is awesome!!

Samarah is having a birthday party.. and you're invited!!

Samarah turns 2 on Sunday August 4! Oh my gosh! Aubrienna and I got our heads together and decided we'd have a cute little party for her! I don't have time to explain it all right now, bad blogger I know, but I wanted to show everyone the invitations that we HANDMADE! :)

Samarah doesn't really have one thing that she loves more than others but she knows Minnie Mouse and always points her out on stuff so we decided to go with that theme.

We drew all the circles and cut them out with scissors.. glued.. taped... made the bows all 'from scratch' too... and the result is....


The cutest invitations ever :)

 

So her party is Saturday August 3 (tomorrow) at 6 pm at my house! Just in case I missed texting you or giving you an invite!

 

I have had mixed emotions about the party.. it seemed so fun and exciting.. then to start getting into it, then it was frustrating.. then it was awesome after the first invitation was put together after hours of cutting the circles..

 

Then getting all the Minnie decorations and seeing the cost add up.. but then knowing how cute it will be.. haha. I can't wait to see how it turns out.

 

I hope little friends come so she can run around with them! she is so cute with other little kids I love watching it!!

 

I will update! I promise it will be soon after her party :)

First ponytail!

Samarah finally has some hair!! but its like long in the back and still really short on top so the front looks really funny in a pony tail but the back was so so so cute!!! We had to give her Aubrienna's phone in order to cooperate. Lol.

 

 

 

It lasted less than 5 minutes but soon it will be long enough that a simple tug won't pull the pony out!