I know it has already been a month but I would like to recap on my wonderful 25th birthday.  Trev and I decided to spend the day at Virginia Beach.  We planned on waking up at 5 and leaving by 6.  Somehow Trevor’s alarm got set to 4 instead of 5 and we didn’t realize it until we were walking out the door to leave.  Needless to say, we got down to the beach really early.  It was a great day overall.  We had a delicious healthy breakfast at subway.  Then we walked up and down the boardwalk.  There was a lot going on because it was the day the blue angels were flying.  We found a nice spot that wasn’t too busy to put our stuff.  Then we pretty much just relaxed the whole day.  Kirra had a ton of fun playing in the sand but she was not a fan of the ocean.  The water was perfect.  Even I got in!  I did not go very far out though because ever since I saw that movie about the girl getting her arm eaten off by a shark I have been terrified of that happening to me.
We played for a few hours before the air show started.  Kirra and I were sitting in a hole that we dug down by the ocean when a huge plane snuck in from behind us and flew over our heads making a scary loud noise.  Kirra was terrified.  She grabbed hold of me and screamed and would not let go.  She eventually fell asleep but when she woke up and the air show was still happening she was not happy.  Ever since then any time she hears a loud noise like a helicopter or roller-coaster at the amusement park she freaks out and cries and wants to be held.  I think she was traumatized.  It was nice just hanging out the 3 of us and enjoying the great weather.  We left right after the show and drove to Richmond to meet my parents for dinner at the cheese cake factory.  They have an awesome mall called Short Pump there so I did a little shopping at some of my favorite stores.  We had an amazing dinner and then got delicious cheese cake for dessert.  Unfortunately by the time dinner got to us Kirra was just done.  She would not sit still she was touching (or throwing) everything she could get her hands on, and banging silverware on the table.  Trev and I took several turns taking her outside.  By the time we got in the car to head home she was so tired that she fell right asleep.

 Luckily Kirra slept the whole way there and the whole way back

 Kirra was starring at some people eating while we were at subway

 She takes her shoveling very seriously

 Trev was trying to get Kirra excited about the ocean

 She eventually warmed up to it a little

 Loved taking her baby with her everywhere

 I love this face...I feel like she is saying, “are you kidding me"

 The beach usually charges for these chairs but Kirra got it for free.

 I buried Kirra’s baby and she did not like it.  She yelled at me after she saved her baby.

 Kirra will kiss anyone if they have food in their mouth.  Kind of gross I know.

 We asked this lady to take our picture and she told us that she was a wedding photographer

 So of course she had to get a kissing picture.

 It made me nervous to see these planes flying at each other.

I loved my Birthday but I hate turing 25.  I am half way to 50 now.  Before I know it I will be finding grey hair in my head and wrinkles on my face.  I felt like singing "forever young” all day.  I think I will just stop aging now and stay 25 for the rest of my life.

Kirra Bailey is 1!!!!!

My little Kirra Bell is one year old!  I don’t know why I have avoided blogging about her birthday.  I think it is because it was such a stressful day that I did not want to relive it.  The original plan was to get everything done and ready the week before Kirra’s birthday so I could just enjoy the day with her.  What actually happened is that I waited until the day OF her birthday and I was running on 3 hours of sleep trying to make everything perfect.  The night before her birthday I could not sleep because I kept thinking of everything I wanted to get done.  I woke up at 6 in the morning and started making the filling for my cake.  I was going to make a fondant cake but I made a practice one and no one liked it.  No one in my family is a fan of fondant.  I decided to make a cake that everyone would enjoy.  I ended up doing a cookies and cream butter cream filling.  It was pretty yummy and only took about half and hour to make.  Then with all my left over fondant I was going to make a ballerina for the top of the cake.  It took me about 2 hours.  Part of the problem was that the air conditioner in our house was being repaired so it was really hot and the fondant kept melting.  Also Kirra kept sticking her fingers in the food coloring and then I would get it on my hands and then I would smear it on my ballerina and have to start all over.  I finally finished it though and it turned out much better than I expected.  Then I had to make the icing.  I knew I wanted to do little rosettes with the frosting so I had to make it kind of stiff.  I don’t really like super sweet icing and wanted to do something other than butter cream.  I decided to do cream cheese.  It was a disaster.  I added lots of cream cheese but you could not taste is because I had to add so much powdered sugar to thicken up my frosting....Needless to say it was basically pure sugar and not really my taste.  So in the pictures the cake looks pretty awesome but it only tasted mediocre.  After I finished everything and put it all together I decided that I hate making cakes and I am spending the 40 dollars or however much it costs to buy all birthday cakes for the rest of my life.  Then I spent an hour decorating.  By the time I got everything ready and took some pictures of my one year old, it was time for everyone to come over and I really missed her birthday.  I decided that all that stuff was really for me and not her.  She would have been happy going to the park all day.  It was fun to have Kirra’s friends over later and open presents.  Kirra got a LOT of baby dolls which she loved.  She wanted to get them out of the box the second she saw them.  She also got a bunch of cute clothes.  I decided though that I really celebrated her birthday the next day.  We filled up her baby pool and spent the whole day outside playing together and it was a great day.

                                                        This girl loves picking flowers

                                                        And she takes it very seriously

                                                  It looks like she’s saying, “I’m 1!"