Charlee's Goin on a Plane

Charlee is sleeping... Gavin is getting his fill of video games... and I still have 565168 things left to finish on my lists of things to do before we leave, but it doesn't matter because tomorrow we will be leaving to take my baby on her first vacation ever.  Tomorrow we will be getting on a plane or "plate" per Charlee and going to Florida.  She knows we are going to get on that plate and go to the beach....  We are visiting Grandpa Walt and Grandma Pam tomorrow night and then its off to Madeira Beach to stay in one of our dear sweet friends condo for a week.  This was a gift we got for our wedding.  We are super excited about it.  Gavin is reaching a "red ring of death" level with his anxiety... and if I have to discuss plane to car outcomes in a crash one more time... I might stop being understanding.  He is way worse than Charlee ever dreamed of being.  I'm not sure why I was worried about her? She will be cake compared to the 6'4" baby I'm married to.  All the flights he was on in college... and we still have to go through this every time...seriously?
 Anyways... I bought a new camera card for the trip and I plan to fill the sucker up so when we get back I can blog like crazy about all the amazing stuff we did and how much she loved it... I hope!

Ill leave you with this funny picture...

Gaeton and Charlee at BW3's practicing for the Olympics.

The Graduate

My little sister graduated!! She is on to bigger and brighter things after high school.  She is pretty confident and excited about being a hair stylist...(score for me and the fam) :) But may discover something else fantastic along the way.  Aveda watch out... here she comes!

Cake was awesome... Gavins mom, Laura will agree!! She didn't save me any icing flowers like promised...
It was made by Cakes by Jen. Don't have her website but her phone number is: 317-289-5209

The Harper/Charlee show: or Charlee Harper!
Harper was so pleased with her hug she didn't want to let go... seriously it was like a minute total. Charlee was a little confused. haha... picture-worthy.

Daddy with our little fish.  Her mouth needs to be open so she can concentrate... and drink some water that we tell her constantly to spit out!!

Daddy's with babies is always so sweet...

These girls loved cake.

Pretty sure they couldn't get enough.
*yes those are stairs behind them... we noticed, and they were closely watched... and still manged to get matching boo-boos. Charlee's head (Always) and Harpers leg.

The best Hostess in the world: Mom, we are kidding... you put together a knock-out graduation party! it was very classy and most importantly pleased your little grad. We love you for all your hard work to pull all the dishes, napkins, and decorations together. Well done!

After bath babies smell so good. 

It was a family/friend gathering that lasted well into the night... we were swimming and then forced inside with the storms (Cousin Zack's house was hit... thankfully he is fine).

We brought out the second and third round of food for people to soak up some of the beer with.  I was forced into taking shots with the famous Miss Blanka because I love her so... and will miss her when she leaves for Croatia for A month. 

This was the third day we had to get all gussied up so we ended with a bang and slept all day the next day...not really, but It was a good thought.

Congrats Graduates.

Charlee's 18 Month Pictures

Kimberly Reid does amazing photos.  We are huge fans and have used her for my maternity pictures, Charlee's newborn, 3,6,9,12, and 18month pictures, our reception, and a family portrait!! We pretty much love her work.  These are Charlees 18 month pictures taken at Grandpa and Grandma Crowes farm.

I had really great ideas for this session.  Charlee wasn't having any part of it.  All the other sessions we have had Charlee just goes with the flow and plays and is just fine posing on her own... we have even had a few where she is cheesing it up laughing at Mackenzie and Madison while Kimberly clicks away.  This session she just decided she didn't want to smile and she didn't want me to walk away from her.  I wanted her to have an umbrella, rain boots, stand in tall grass... she was scared of the umbrella, hated the grass and didn't want to put on the boots until she saw the water.  It was not what I was envisioning... but as usual Kimberly pulled through and got us some good pictures.  I would have thought there wasn't a single picture that she wasn't crying and reaching for me in.

You can contact Kimberly HERE to get yourself some awesome photos.

All Pictures are taken by Kimberly Reid:

This was her Easter Dress.

One of my favs:

Man I just want to eat her up!!

Hello little Gavin:

The Boots: so cute!

Thank you Kimberly!!

Wow... JUNE

Charlee's Garden update:

We had to transplant them into a bigger pot because they weren't growing... I'm sure that has everything to do with the small pots, and noting to do with my not-so-green thumb.  She doesn't know that here momma has a knack for killing plants.  I can kill a cactus... that's hard to do.  Just leave it outside in the winter... voila.. dead!

So studious!! She is obsessed with glasses. Loves to wear them and get dizzy trying to look through them to walk.  I probably shouldn't let her do that...

Daddy is already starting in on the basketball!!

Man ... the suit is a 2T and I'm looking at it like its too tight!! Geez

LaLa getting in the pool (or Cool) like Charlee says!! My girl is a little fishy!! She has been so good in the water this year.  The 1st day we were at LaLa's we tried the swimmies on and she took off... Daddy helped her get the hang of it and kept her on her belly and after the first day she was good to go on her own.  It was a sadhappyproud feeling.  She is getting too big too fast and I feel like I'm not savoring every last drop.  I'm trying to take pictures and still write cute things she says down in her baby book.  I try to video her saying sweet and funny things so we can always remember these precious precious moments.  And her with her LaLa is one of them.  We love LaLa!!

We had a busy weekend: first we had Kenzie's Graduation at the convention center downtown and that was going on at the same time Daddy was in Cory's Wedding.  MiMi came and picked us up to take us to the Zoo to get there in time for the reception! Charlee was pretty good at the graduation considering it was a no-nap day and on short ride to the Zoo she didn't sit in her car seat because by the time I talked her into it we would have been there... yeah, I let that one go! I know... bad mom.  At the wedding she danced with her daddy and played with Ella before Nina and Pappaw came to pick her up.  We got a behind-the-scenes peek at the seals on our way out.  She is a seal fan.

Gettin restless at the graduation.  Last name Crowe... so we didn't have to sit forever!

When they first walked out I tried to get pictures but I couldn't see anything because we were sitting on the floor, I'm 5 ft 2in, and I got crazy emotional at the graduates entering the room I didn't know what to do.... so I took pictures of Charlee cheering like crazy for her Keekah.

There she is... This is the best of 20 or so pictures I was frantically snapping.  Way to go Kenzie!!

Off to the Zoo for our second event of the evening.  She was a trooper all day... love her!!

Charlee and Mommy!!

Charlee and Daddy dancing.

Family portrait... this never happens!

About to fall asleep at the table.  We changed her into jammies waiting for Nina and Pappaw to pick her up.

Later: "A little bit softer now"

"A little bit softer now"

"A little bit softer now"...

Everyone had a great time at the Long/Ruckman Wedding.  We even got cut off by the staff at the bar.  And when I say we I mean me, Emily, and the Groom... You would think he would have some pull being the GROOM and all... but no.. they were sticklers (that was a bummer) Probably for the best... I had a massive wine headache the next day anyways!
Highlights from the wedding: Photo Booth, Brett at the rehearsal "We love her", thought Josh was Gavin, Breakin it down outside of Kilroy's to the Glee crowd, Lady wearing the spandex, ... and Bret's suspender buttons! Good times.

This makes me a little sad because we only have a few people left to find love in our guy-circle of friends so we must make the most of each wedding.  I loved getting together with everyone for the rehearsal even if it was an effort to find a sitter till 11:00 (Thank you Poppy and MaeMae).  A reason to get dressed up, have some drinks, laugh at each other, talk about your babes! We hadn't seen each other in a while, but it left me looking forward to the next birthday/Holiday party/cookout/corn hole tournament/baby shower... whatever it may be to bring us back to good friends and good conversations.

Remember your wedding day....