what would i do without her?

sometimes i think.... i would have so much fun blogging about diy stuff. or beauty tips i find around the worldwide web. or maybe wardrobe tricks and styling secrets. or maybe i should just start taking more pics when i am out and about thrifting my life away... and then showing what i end up doing with my finds at home. i think it would be good for me at this point in my life, to start blogging more regularly and scheduling it into my weekdays. simply because maybe it would help me in organizing my time better. which probably sounds weird but it all makes sense it my head. but also how adorable is my trudy baby? this age is sooooooooooooooooooo fun. the more she understands, the closer i feel to her. i love it. i could do without the messes though. today she dumped an entire canister of oatmeal all over the kitchen floor. and then instead of cleaning it up we both just decided to leave the house.

i love instagram. i think phone pictures are so great. taking pictures on my phone gives me the opportunity to catch moments that i normally would never pull out the camera for. in fact i created this just the other night and love looking and remembering what was going on in each picture. i love postalpix. one of my favorite apps. i have a list actually. maybe i should share... do you have any favorites? i love finding fun apps.

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she's one. wait what?

my family came down for trudy's birthday and made it even more fun. they all love her so much and it's so fun to watch them all interact with her. these days with all the pressure for a crazy out-of-this-world themed party from blogging or pinterest or whatever.... i started wondering what to do for her party awhile back. then i realized that i like to look at pictures of those pretty pretty parties and also admire all the creative mommies (and i do mean that sincerely) out there, but all of that just isn't me. at least not for her first birthday anyway. i was mainly just excited about watching her eat cake for her first time. i did like the idea of having a babushka/matryoshka/russian doll theme so that was my inspiration for her cake. i sort of struggled with it but i had fun. i loved using this chart to help me mix up the right colors with food coloring. we ate the babushka cake and then trudy had her own cupcake cake to destroy. she ended up being scared of it instead (totally not what i was expecting) but did eat some of it. we had her party at the park right by our house and the weather was almost perfect.... just a little windy. trudy loved her presents.

currently she loves to play with dolls, blocks, cups, pans, my makeup and most of all her food. she's been walking since right around her birthday and keeping me very busy. she is such a delight and light's up people's faces wherever we go. i will have to get a picture of her pigtails because i tried them out for the first time today and about died of cuteness overload. her spunky, sassy, stubborn but almost always happy personality is so fun. we just adore her.

i knew everyone would have it

but the swimsuit was too cute not to get. the first time trudy got in her princess pool it was ... i wanna get in... and now i want out... no wait back in... splash splash splash and now back out. 

really really really love my trudy

trudy thinks i'm funny

earlier i was telling grant about my workout. i was explaining to him how good i was doing and was somewhat over exaggerating how big my strides were. apparently trudy thought it was really funny. she starting laughing so hard and so we pulled out the camera and i kept repeating my silly moves. she probably would've kept going all night but we had to put her to bed. we love her!

trudy's tripod

right before trudy started crawling she would find herself stuck in the same position all the time. and with nowhere to go. she would get into this v shape and then even hold her arms out so only her tippy toes and head were on the ground. it was hilarious. she'd get pretty frustrated because she didn't know what to do next. luckily for her, she eventually figured out how to crawl. she's a wild one! these days i can't do ANYTHING to keep her in her high chair or even sit in the shopping cart. it doesn't matter how tight i fasten her in... she finds a way out.

no. matter. what.