| keaton & emily | august.15.2009

So. I am behind. Very behind. I have SO many other things to blog about, but I just wanted to post some fun pics from the lasted wedding from the Ahlberg family.

Keaton and Emily got married on Saturday, in Richland, Washington. We were able to drive down there and attend. And I am so glad we did! We had fun, and Kayla even survived all 24 hours we spent in the car!!

I have some fun pics from the driving, but here are just a few off of my camera from the wedding.

Emily's back yard was AMAZING!!!! I could hardly hold myself back from jumping for joy. The only problem was, I had very LITTLE time with the bride and groom. I feel like I want to drive back there and make them get all dressed up again just so I can shoot some more pics. The light was perfect, the backdrop couldn't have been more amazing, and I only got to take a few little pics!

I took a ton of the other family's though so I will post those soon!

| sand between our toes |

Little did we know, that we could go right across the road to a sandy beach. Daybreak has a beach at the North Shore Lake, and it was tons of fun!

The girlies loved to splash and Addelyn especially loved to go as deep as she possibly could into the water.

Kayla loved every minute of it. The water was a little cool so she would play in it for a minute and then run back and want to be wrapped in a towel to warm back up.

It was tons of fun! And we will definitely be going back soon!

| july.04.2009 |

We had a fun filled holiday WEEK this year. We made sure to pack in plenty of events and see how mad we could make Kayla :) She was a pretty good trooper through most of it. (until 8pm hit)

On Wednesday we visited the {City of Fun}, rode the rides, ate 2 corn dogs each (I loved every bite), had some funnel cake, and watched the carnies. Kayla didn't love all the creepy men helping her get buckled in on the rides and she would just start crying the moment they came near her. She seemed to enjoy some of the rides, but not many! 

On Saturday I started out the morning with a run. I did the Riverton 10K. Which was quite an accomplishment for me. I can't really say I have been training for it, but for the past 3 weeks I have at least tried to go running. I haven't run for over 4 years now, so it was really fun to be able to run the 10K. I was glad to have family along side me to keep me going. Hopefully the next time I run another one it will be faster, but I don't think I did too bad for my first time ever. 

We spent the afternoon at my parents, and I forgot to take pics of the water balloon war! Maybe we will have to have another one so I can get pics :)

We then went to Bryan's parents to watch fireworks. We always have our yearly tradition of taking pics of all the grandkids together. I did get some good ones, but this one is by far my favorite...only because this whole "tradition" of taking the picture is always quite entertaining. It isn't too easy to get all the kids to cooperate at once. But as you can see, Kayla had her cheeser ready wether or not everyone else was ready. Silly little girl.

| 2 little monkeys |

Finally I am getting around to doing a new post. It has been FOREVER! We have been one busy little family. 

I was able to go out a little while ago and do a photoshoot for Kayla and Crandall. It was a blast! And you will quickly see why they became our 2 little monkeys. They were so much fun, and I fell in love with my Kayla just a little more. I loved seeing her cute little smile, and her giggles at all of Crandall's jokes. I rarely take the time to do a REAL photoshoot of Kayla, so this was a real treat for me. I definitely need to do it more often.

Here are my favs:

| why not |

So since I had all of my sewing stuff out from making all the baby shower stuff I figured I would just keep on going. I recently bought a TON of fabric, and I received some advice from a very wise friend who said I better make sure I use it all, and not just buy it and let it pile up. Since then I have just sat an found TONS of patterns online for little outfits I could make for Kayla.

Well I wasn't really in the mood to sit and read patterns and try and figure out what the heck they are trying to tell me to do, so I decided I was just going to come up with my own.

I have seen a really cute dress on Shabby Apple for quite some time now and yesterday when I looked at it I decided I was just going to go for it. What is the worst that could happen right?!

Well it turned out GREAT! I love the little dress. Kayla looks adorable in it! I need to take a picture of her in it, but she was just too wiggly to let me get one when I put it on.

| new project |

At my house we are ALL girl. I am so used to girly shirts, colors, activities, you name it! I have a baby shower coming up and my friend is having a boy. What a boy?! What on earth am I going to make for a boy? I honestly racked my brain forever trying to think of something. Sure I can make a blanket, and some bibs (which I am doing), but what else....

I found this tutorial at Tangled & True a long time ago, and had all kinds of ideas for girly shirt I was going to make Kayla, but then realized I could make a cute boy onesie too!

I printed the whale on the fold of the onesie, and I really like how it turned out.

Here is some detail of the whole whale.

This was a fun little project. The screen printing was actually pretty easy, and not really even that time consuming. The problem was the stitching around the collar. I should have just hand sewn it. In fact I think the look of hand sewing would have been really cute. I just thought the machine would be so much easier and quicker. Maybe for Amy, but DEFINITELY not for me. I unpicked it 3 times before I just decided it was going to have to just be the way it was.

Can't wait to make more shirts and onesies. I think I am hooked!

| avery denise |

Amy and Trevor had their baby on Tuesday, May 12. We were so excited to have another new baby added to the Ahlberg side of the family. I love all her hair, and her adorable little nose! Avery weighed in at 7 lbs. 4 oz, and was 19" long.



I was curious how Kayla would do when I was holding a baby. She didn't care one bit...until Bryan held the baby. She wanted nothing to do with me, she just went and sat on the floor by him, and watched his every move. She is definitely a daddy's girl!