Kayley's birthday party!

Princess Phia has arrived

It seems like we have a birthday party every weekend. Kayley is Sophia's friend from school and her party just so happened to fall on my birthday! I knew Phia really wanted to go so I took her and we had a blast. It was a pirate/princess party. Pretty sure the kids favorite part was wacking each other with balloon swords. Wow...the kids went nuts! Phia's favorite friend from school is Riley and Riley is also in Little Church with Phia so they see a LOT of each other so she was so happy to see Riley at the party.

No princess party is complete without painted nails!

Showing off her newly painted nails with Princess Aurora

Phia's best bud Riley

Let the madness begin.  Us moms were in awe at the pure balloon swore madness.

It all turned into a blur!

I love their faces...

The kids did a buried treasure hunt outside

The birthday girl Kayley

At a birthday party you can always find Sophia very near the birthday girl and very near the cake:)

Mama's birthday celebration at home!

What i wanted to do this year for my birthday was have a family tostada night at home and eat cake:) We invited Nana and Nonno over and Auntie Kelly, Uncle Rob, and Kennedy too. This was exactly how I wanted to spend my birthday, very relaxed, at home, surrounded by my faves. It was such a perfect evening!! And of course the kids favorite part was singing happy birthday to mama!

"I will take care of you Kennedy"



Presto was very protective of Kennedy:)

Mama's birthday at Cake Mix!

I got a gift certificate from my friend Marta to Cake Mix for my birthday. It's owned by Duff from Ace of Cake's and you order your cake(any kind you want) ahead of time so when you get there it's ready for you to decorate! The have fondant that you can dye any color you want...or buttercream frosting instead by the fondant is easier to work with so we choose that. Of course I took Sophia with and she had SOOOO much fun!! I thought she'd lose interest but since we were surrounded by cakes and candies she didn't want to leave. Our cake got a lot of attention which made Phia so happy and proud. This was such a fun gift and a fun way to spend the day with my princess:)

We choose chocolate fondant of course:) The staff is so friendly and helpful and we so sweet with Phia!

sweetest little baker I know

watching our fondant being rolled out

Phia helping mold it onto our pumkin chocolate chip cake(it tasted like a chocolate chip cookie)

We dyed our flowers and Phia helped roll it out

Phia blotting water in the center of each flower so we could add our flower centers

And of course she had to taste test everything!!

Such a cute bakery:)

Tada!!!!

we'll be back next year Duff!

Grandma's Birthday!

Happy Birthday Grandma!!

Our family(minus mama and Bentley) met up with Grandma at a cafe in Pasadena to celebrate her birthday. The kids had a blast with their cousins. Daddy said he made 4 bathroom trips with the kids. They like to take tours of the bathroom facilities when we go out:) Daddy got some great pictures!!

Pretty girl sure does love dressing up!

Hanging with Uncle Frank:)

The birthday girl!!

Uncle Frank and Everett

Yay! The Tees family:)

Daddy joined the fun!!

Visit with Santa 2012

After our Christmas shoot at Picture people we headed over to see Santa.  We just LOVE this Santa.  He's the same one we've been bringing the kids to since Phia was 3 months old and he's so awesome with the kids.  Can't believe there will be one more Tees baby sitting on his lap next year! Get ready Santa!!!

Christmas card photo shoot!

The whole Tees fam!!

We took Christmas pictures today in an attempt to get our Christmas card photo taken. Considering the huge effort put forth we think it was pretty successful! Presto decided he didn't know how to cross his legs or look at the camera and Bentley wasn't so much having to sit longer than 2 seconds but in the end we got a few decent ones. Phia was the star! She looked stunning in all the pictures and listened so well to the photographer...made mama and dada so proud!

This is the one we used for our Christmas card this year

This is the best picture of all 3...we love it!!

This one shows their personalities so much. 

Darling little Pheeeee

She literally did whatever the photographer told her to do! Unlike her brothers...they were not having it!

Hey...this is a great picture!!

And we got an amazing shot of our little B after a LOT of work:)



Look at our handsome little devilish boy...I could eat him up!