Retail Website Up and Running!

Helloooooooo friends!!

We are so so so so so so pumped to tell you that our website, thelittlecrane.com is now up and running and you can officially make your TLC purchases directly on the site.  We will still use facebook for special promotions and big sales, but now most of your shopping will go through the website and home trunk shows.  We are saving the majority of our new inventory for these shows, but to celebrate the re-launch of our website, we have listed these two beyond precious items for pre-order!

Y'all, the quality and cuteness of our new pieces FAR surpass that of our old!  We know you will be just as impressed when you open your TLC package as we were when we opened up the samples for the first time.  

Get on over to our site to order your smocked geometric floral dress or bubble right now!! Items will ship mid-May.  We're only offering 2 per size....don't miss it!

Homemade Play Doh Recipe!

A couple of weeks ago it was raining here every afternoon which = meltdown central in this house.  We don't know what to do when we can't go outside after naptime!!!  This particular day we were supposed to go to a friend's house to bake cookies, but on top of the rain, both girls were sick, so cooking play date was cancelled.  Sadness all around, but I SAVED the day with my mom's play doh recipe.  How excited do you think I was to find this treasure in her recipe box?!?!?

I'm assuming she corrected the word homemade bc she was having my dad type it up for her pre-school class....just a guess.  Anyway...in case you can't read, here's the recipe:

1.5 cups of flour
1/2 cup of salt
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup vegetable oil
food coloring

I used a mix master, bc the girls think they are all-star helpers when they adjust the settings, but i'm sure you can just combine everything by hand.  Mix the first two ingredients, then slowly add water and oil.  Food coloring is optional, but who would bypass food coloring??? NOT US!

The girls sat at that table for a good 30 min.  That is a loooooooonng time for Miss Olivia.  Laine kept going even longer.  SO much less intervention needed from me when there is only one color.  No mixing colors, no wanting to trade for a new one.

I think we're going to make a new batch this afternoon.  They want purple this time.  I know you have all of these ingredients.  Trick all your friends into thinking you're supermom and make a batch with your little people today!! It takes 5 min and lasts in your refrigerator for weeks.

On another note...it's March y'all.  This means my people are about to be 3!  GOOD...LORD!!! 3!
Remember their first birthday???  Remember these cupcake toppers??

Who are those tiny 1 yr olds??? With no hair at all???  Time to get crafting for this year's festivities.  Happy Wednesday y'all!

Help us choose some summer appliques!

Happy Friday ya'll!! 

This week we've been planning our summer applique and monogram pieces.  We want to know what you want. What's missing from your sweet darlin's wardrobe?   Take a second and cast your vote for your favorite group in the comments below!   Fish? Alligators? Surf Boards? Whales?  Please let us know.  Keep in mind these aren't necessarily the colors we are using...just design ideas! Also...are we missing something? Tell us!!

Fish:

Alligators:

Surf:

Whales:

*** All of these images were (OBVIOUSLY) pulled from appliquemarket.com.

Hugs and Kisses to Everyone!!

Guess who's face was the first one to pop up in my Instagram feed this morning?!?!?  Precious Maggie y'all!  She says...."Happy Valentine's Day TLC friends!!!"

 

It's day 2 of cowgirl gear at school(we do live in Texas), so we didn't get any V-day shots yet.  We did, however, make this perfect pink treat last week, not meant for Valentine's day, but it sure would be easy to whip some up this afternoon with the pink loving people at your house!  These two are OBSESSED with the Pinkalicious book series.  Do y'all know it? I mean...the first book is fine, but I could live without the rest.  In Pinkalicious, the main character eats so many pink cupcakes that she turns PINK.  L&O know every word, so imagine how excited they were when I decided to bust out the food coloring and pink sprinkles in a super mom moment last week.  Here's how we did it y'all.  4 simple steps:

1-Mix one box of cake mix and one can of clear diet soda instead of eggs/oil/water.

2-Add some red food coloring until it turns pink.

3-Add pink sprinkles on top of your cupcakes(we made minis) instead of icing...less mess my friends!

4-Bake.

We hope you are spreading the love all day! We sure are...especially all over our baby boy who will be one month old tomorrow!! Already!!! How does this happen?!?!?

Hugs and Kisses all around friends!

Shout out to my village...and some sneaks from our newborn shoot!

I've preached about this since the girls were born...ESPECIALLY when people ask "how in the world do you manage twins?" The answer is simple...my people.  Grandparents, best cousins, best friends...all of these people ready and willing to help in a moment's notice when sleep is seldom and toddlers are needy and babies need to be fed!  It's takes a village y'all and that's how we're surviving life with a newborn over here!

Let me just describe my day yesterday.  Grams(Josh's mom) arrived at my house at 9:15am to stay with Owen so I could take Liv to the doctor.  Honey(my stepmom) picked up Laine from school and brought her to lunch for some "it's all about Laine time".  She then stayed at my house allllllll day long, because the girls skipped their naps and I had to bring them to swimming late  in the afternoon and Owen needed another babysitter.  Sarah(you know Sarah) talked me off a cliff when I turned into Midnight Mommy around 3pm and then proceeded to show up at my house after making 3 pit stops on her way home from work.  3 pit stops so my girls could have the perfect cowgirl outfits to wear to school today.  She then helped me plan my schedule for today, so I wouldn't have such a meltdown in the wicked afternoon hours!

A village y'all...done!  It's the only way we're surviving!

Now for a total sidenote... Erin Carlyle...you know her?  Sarah shared some of her photos of Maggie with us months ago.  Wellllll....Sarah and Mags and John gave us a gift certificate for a photo session with Erin and we used it for newborn pics......ya'llllllllllllllllll! It was the most fun.  Please get out there and get some professional pics of your family taken ASAP.  You won't regret it. If you're in Houston and you use Erin, you 100% won't regret it! Just saying!

Here are some favs:

There are sooooooooooooo many more, but I haven't decided which to use on the birth announcement, and don't want to spoil it here just yet!!  Happy Wednesday y'all!

Shrimp Avocado Tostada

Happy Happy Monday! Happy Happy Lundi Gras!

I LOVE SHRIMP. I LOVE AVOCADO. Soooo when I saw this on Pinterest I needed it stat!

 

Linky Right Here!

An even better surprise was the avocado's that were 4/$5 at Kroger! Honestly I didn't really follow the linked recipe, but I'm sure it's uber delicious. I mashed up my avocado's with lemon juice, cayenne, and garlic salt- and sauteed the shrimp in olive oil with garlic, cumin, salt&pepper.  I bought already made tostadas, topped them with spicy fat free re-fried beans, cheese, pico, olives, s.cream, guac and shrimp and they were delicious! And Fast! And able to be made with a 17month old clinging to my legs yelling MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY CAI CAI CAI at the top of her lungs. (which is speak for PLLLLLLEASE put Caillou on or I will die...but we are on a Caillou-only in case of emergency- ban, he needs a spanking...I can't take the whining one more second...don't judge bc I said spanking)

And here's my version! ENJOY!

Friday Wrap-Up!

Thanks for an incredible week y'all!  As our inventory drawers have been diminishing all week long, we have gotten even more excited about our new perfection coming soon!! OH.MY.GOODNESS....Crane & Co. is just taking it to a whole new level! We are beyond pumped to share it with you soooo soon!  We packed up about half of your orders last night and will finish shipping this weekend.  There are some unpaid invoices, so we will post the leftover pieces STAT.  If you didn't get a chance to take part in this C-RAZY sale....you'll have another opportunity shortly!

Meanwhile, I have a special treat for you!  This morning I sat down to my computer, opened my email, and found the best surprise ever from Nicole.  Did you know we were friends in high school??  We were.  And since then, we have a Friday song that me and Nicole and our three other best friends have made a point to listen to that seriously blows our mind every.single.time.  It never gets old.  In high school, we blared it in the car on the way to school.  In college when we weren't all together, we would call each other and leave it on voicemails or sing it loud and proud over the phone.  It's been a while since anyone has made the effort to share the love, but this morning NEECOLE surprised us all and seriously, my day is made.

I hope you love it as much as we do(don't be scared off by this pic of Wyclef..ahahahah)!  Turn up the volume on your computer and dance in your office, living room, kitchen, car....whatever! Happy Friday Y'all!

Survivor...ehh?

Ohhhhhh hello! Long time no chat!

Sooooo I'm supposed to be writing how I'm surviving a miscarriage. Blah. I don't think I'm at that title yet...survivor...seems too...raise your hands in the air like a champion, and I certainly do not feel that way.  (side note on "I'm a survivor": Did I hear ppl mumbling that they didn't like Beyonce and DC?? Whhhhhaaaa? I loved every single second. done.)  I think I'm more of a champion of- keep putting one foot in front of the other because that's really the only choice you have. I'll take that trophy- maybe Super Grand Supreme style.

In the past 6 or so months I've been making up these little milestones in my head- if I can just get past this...then this. If this can just happen...then this. Yeah that is silly. Time. It's the only friggin way. TIME TIME TIME. TIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. When my Mom died, someone told me- give time some time. Gross. But true.  So in this time 99 people I know have announced their new pregnancies or had a baby, and I've watched 5 nearest and dearest friends have their own new babies within 2 weeks of my due date. Yay for new beautiful healthy babies! Booooo for the knife that is set on auto-twist inside my heart/ovaries. One step in front of the other.

About halfway through my steps I learned a really valuable lesson and I'm going to turn it into a PSA. You are the only one that thinks and analyzes and turns everything into something about your pregnancy loss/infertility daily (or any struggle for that matter), the only one. People are scared of your struggle, they don't know what to say, what to do, or how to act- so they, as humans, choose easy. Ignore. If you want this to change you have to tell people the expectations of what you need from them- you have to start the dialogue- they can't handle it. It's going to be so hard since we've wrapped our lives up in Tiffany boxes with big bows on top- but it's going to be SO therapeutic when you do it.

And on the flip side- my steps are leading me to grow as a friend, sisterfriend, sistercousin, as support, as someone who asks and spends the time to figure out the correct carefully crafted words to someone in need. SO go do it. That friend that YOU KNOW is in the depths of this- you know she is- send her an email. ASK HER QUESTIONS (and think about what you are asking before you ask it). I promise you its on her mind and she would LOVE someone to talk to about it- and if she doesn't...she won't. But you can ask again. When you don't talk about it- she thinks you don't care, she thinks you are too consumed with your own blessings that you can't stop to remember the absence of hers- and it's a horrible horrible feeling to have. A horrible isolating feeling on top of all the other CRAP she is dealing with. 

Six months of one foot in front of the other has done me pretty well. Getting stronger by the day. Surviving. Ovaries still SCREAMING for another baby. We'll get there :)

I love Valentine's Day!

This is one of my favorite holidays y'all!! The decor, the treats, the crafts....I mean I could do v-day once a month, every month...right?!?!?!  Clearly, I've been pinning and pinning heart cuteness and the reality of any of this being pulled off is slim to none. We have a 3 week old in this house! Ha! However, I think just sharing these ideas with you is giving me almost as much gratification as actually making any of it.

Remember when I posted a pic of the garland Sari made for Owen?? Instead of stringing the pieces together with ribbon, she sewed it all and swears it was soooo much easier than weaving the pieces by hand.  Guess what....everyone is sewing garland on pinterest!  Who knew?!?  I have visions of these in each of the large windows in my living room.  Y'all think it will happen??

As I pin, I've been thinking "simple, doable, simple, doable," so that's what inspired these very easy projects.  The girls already made the flamingos with my sister and they loved it.  She had to premake the different pieces, but using glue like big girls was the most fun! I adore the cupcake liner valentines and if I can pull off sewing little felt hearts onto cardstock and sending them to just a few of my closest friends, I'll be so satisfied!  Wouldn't you die if you got one of those in the mail!

Ohhh treats!  Remember simple and doable?? That's the goal here again.  Heart fruit on a stick? The girls will go totally nuts over that!  Sugar cookie hearts with sprinkles?? Pillsbury y'all...the end.  Now those hearts all the way to the right....probably not simple, but soooo cute.  Love the color combo and the shape of the hearts...LOVE!  Those aren't going to happen in this house....maybe next year!

What are you planning special for February 14th?  Want to try one of these projects and then send me pics so I can live vicariously through you?? Ohhhhh that would be the most fun!!  Links to all of them can be found on my v-day pinterest board.

Sisterly Love

Hello! I’m so excited TLC is back!! Life changing events have been going on while we’ve been away. Did you know Anthony, Annie and I also welcomed a baby into our family? A little ray of sunshine. Ella Nicole was born on November 4th at 2:41am weighing in at 6lbs 10oz. I delivered her in less than 3 hours from the time I checked into the hospital. She came fassssttt! So fast that only Anthony and my mom were there for her birth. It was intense, surreal and incredible.
And I now love another child just as much as I love Annie (who knew that could even be possible??)  My heart grew bigger and just fit little Ella right on in.

Annie has done a great job adjusting to her new sister. (thank goodness) There is no denying the sisterly love in my house. Annie takes her big sister role very seriously. She has always been sort of a mother hen type… wanting to help with chores, hugging on the little girls, tattling on anyone who breaks the rules and then taking it upon herself to put them in time-out. Ha. Well she is super in love with her little sister (most of the time). She loves to help change her diaper and has to sit on my lap next to Ella when I’m breastfeeding. When Ella cries, Annie is right there assessing the situation with me. “Maybe she just needs a paci”or “maybe she feels sick”, Annie will say.
I also let Annie pick out Ella’s clothes for school in the morning. Annie gets a BIG kick out of this (and I find it a good opportunity to teach Annie about matching… something she has struggled with in her own wardrobe choices).

SISTERS!

I don’t have a sister and I’m very envious of all you girls that do. I have the next best thing, my cousin Catherine, and three amazing sister-in-laws who have adopted me and many many great girlfriends who are my pseudo sisters. So I’m good. I’m really good. BUT can I just say I’m the most excited that Annie has a sister!!!! And I hope 20 years from now they will be sitting around my kitchen table, tears rolling down their cheeks from laughing so hard, telling stories about all the trouble they got into when they were kids.

February Blow Out!

We're making room for Crane & Co.(our brand new line debuting in April) y'all!!  Before the shipment full of sweet perfection arrives, we plan to completely clear out our inventory shelves! Want to help? Ha!! I know you do! Especially after you see these prices....spring and summer pieces from our past collections all for $20 or LESS!!

Anything here look good?

How about here?

You know you need one of these for $15 or less...

Some quantities are limited.  Some aren't.  Sizes range from 6m-4T.  We will be charging $2 per order for shipping.  We'll be updating our fb status each time we make a new item available for sale.  HOWEVER....you know how fb is these days, so the only way to ensure you don't miss any of these pieces is to check in often.

We are looking forward to sharing these sweet deals with you all!  In fact, the sale has already begun on our page.  Get on over there right now!!

The Little Crane Smocked Shoppe

HI! Hi! Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Ohhhh myyyy goodness!  Anybody still out there?? I just looked back to our last post which was OCTOBER!  We were talking about Maggie's first birthday and facebook changing things up, making it harder for you to find us.  My oh my...it seems like a lifetime ago.

Here are some things you've missed in our world:

Halloween!!!

Christmas and Chanukah: Sarah hosted the MOST outstanding gingerbread house making party! We could not believe how much participation we got from the 2 and unders! Mags came to our house for Chanukah and we went to Mags' for Christmas.  Multicultural y'all!

And finally.....BABY OWEN is here!!!!

The girls are acclamating to life with a new sibling.  That top pic was their first meeting.  Cuteness! We've spent lots of time being slaves to the nebulizer! This crazy Texas weather is really giving us a run for our money.  Thank god Josh is superdad and has been captain of keeping the girls and their boogers away from Owen.   Do you see those banners in the bottom right photo that Sarah sewed together for Owen's bris??  8 days after he was born, we had a celebration at our house with you know 100ish of our closest family and friends...insanity! I know...but's it what  we do!  Of course Laine, Olivia, and Mags coordinated with the decor!

Soooooooo what's on tap next???? Welllllllll....we've decided to go bigger and better as we push forward with The Little Crane .  We've finally committed to a new line of high quality, sweet monogrammables, and modern smocked pieces.  We're calling it Crane & Co. and it is FAB!  It's a small Summer collection and will be available sometime in April.  Each piece is perfect and we can't wait to share it with you.

The most exciting part: we'll be looking for some special customers interested in helping us bring Crane & Co. to your area.  Want to help us debut our new line?? Shoot us an email to info@thelittlecrane.com and we would LOVE to discuss the possibility of you hosting a trunk show for us in your own home!

I'm getting ahead of myself y'all....soooo typ!  While our new line is in production, we'll be blowing out every single style we have in our inventory.  I'm talking $20 pieces.  I'm talking 2 for the price one one!  I'm talking major, major clearance!.  Are you ready????

We are!  It's been a sad three months away from you, but WE ARE BACK!!  See you Monday with our first steal!

Ohhhhh facebook!

Mornin!

We've noticed lately that a substantially low percentage of our fans have been viewing our recent posts. Honestly y'all, we started to panic a little bit, but then saw other pages similar to ours announcing they were having the same issues.  It looks like FB is now trying to make money off of status updates, which is a brilliant idea on their part, but means we will have to pay a minimum of $10 each time we post an update on our wall if we want to be sure you see it!  That will add up FAST!!

The great news is that there is a loophole!! Woohoo!! It's called an interest list.  If you would like to see not only our updates, but maybe the updates of all the other precious kids clothing pages you follow, then check out these easy steps below to create an interest list of your own.  I just did it.  It took less than a minute!

Step 1- On our page either hover over the "liked" button or click that spiral drop down next to it and select "add to interest lists."

Step 2- At this point, if you don't already have an interest list created, you can do that! It's easy.  Just make sure TLC is checked and then click next at the bottom of the screen.

Step 3- Give your list a name.  If you are anything like the addicts Sarah and I are, you are probably following multiple children's clothing pages.  So, if I were you, I would call my interest list "kids clothing" and add all of these pages to this list.

Step 4- Click done!  After you add us, you can easily add any other page to this list, simply by going back to step 1, hovering over the "liked" button on the page you want to add, and clicking "add to interest list."  Since your list is now already created the process ends here for any future page you want to add to your "kids clothes" list.

We're not quite sure if this will have an effect on your news feed, but now you can find us and our most current updates at the bottom of the left hand side of your fb home page under the tab "interests."

Less than a minute y'all...promise!  I even think I've added all of my fav kid pages in less than 3 min.  It's like having a news feed just for all of the kids clothing sales currently going on! Perfection! Wish I would have learned how to do this months ago! Just saying.

Laundry List!

My dear dear college/nola love friend Candace is about to have her first baby boy, HAYES (so cute right, you're jelly!) and I just read the most satisfying blog from her- in list form! And it reminded me just how much I LOVE list form blogs. So she inspired me to get back on the train! But we can't wait for Hayes, his Mom and Dad are so preppy perfection that I can only imagine he'll be wearing seersucker from dawn on Easter morning until sundown on Labor Day and only things with alligators and gingham in between!!! Which of course we LOVE in TLC Land!

ALSO...Nicole! Our TLC blog sista...is about to have her baby girl Ella. Like we had her sprinkle on Sunday (i'm sure jessica will hook you up with some pics soon) and that baby is drop drop dropped down. My official guess is the 27th- just saying. And don't think I have forgotten about Emmaline, another sweet sweet darling little crane on the way real real real soon. It's not stopping y'all...there are another 5 on the way. Okay Okay Okay!

1. Presidential/VP debates- Political Allegiances aside...these things are just horrible. Do I not remember from last time? Has media/social media just blown it up? I am not an undecided voter, but if I was, I wouldn't get a lick of anything out of that. Is this really the point? See who can play "gotcha" best? Blah. Thought we were better than that.

2. Homeland- Jessica and I are obsessed! So are Josh and John! I need more, I need it everyday. I need Carrie and Sol at my dinner table everynight! I mean I also want to thank Claire Danes for the black suit everyday- so what if your blond hair is thin with pink lip gloss inspiration she is providing me with.

3. Dewberry Farms- For you B's in Houston. We went , we saw, we conquered, and we LOVED. Please get there at 9:50 and leave at 12:15- it will make your trip OH SO more enjoyable. Jessica's going to get you some pictures of our kids looking adorable. And I'm not afraid to say it- the best dressed kids there. Also pack your sunscreen and your wagon!

4. I need an outside toy for a one year old. Like winter's version of the water table- ready set go. I'm trying to be like Jessica and become captain of my street and it's kinda working- but I need more, I need another gimmick.

5. I flew by the year mark of losing my Mom. Unfortunately I have a mentor in these type of things and she told me many moons ago that one day doesn't mean anything different than the rest. Which is exactly true and totally non-understandable until you know. BUT I really really appreciated everyone's flowers, cards, calls, gchats and texts. You know who you are and you mean the world to me. It was so nice to know in my heart that so many people were thinking of my Mom on that day, and remembering how amazing she was!

6. And an extra numbered shout out to my husband. Who has not only spent the last year handling losing someone that he loved, but has done so holding me up in so many ways- even though sometimes I forget to appreciate it. I also arrived home to two beautiful cranes in my backyard. Cranes were my Mom's good luck charm, her Cancer religion if you will- get it- Little Crane- so now through my back window I see two cranes everyday- like she's there in some way, watching me, watching Maggie, protecting. Lucky lucky girl I am.

7. LSU/A&M. Love it! It's so fun having rivals at work. It never mattered before!

8. I ordered Maggie's halloween costume- pink poodle...you know bubble costume style. I'm letting you down right- because I didn't make it. But she loves dogs, she says Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuf (more u than f on that) I had to. It's the only year she'll wear one of the bubble poof ones. I'll feel validated when I have my perfect pottery barn kids picture.

9. I need new tory's. Taupe? Patent? What would Carrie get?

10. I know nothing about DisneyWorld. I've never been- gasp- I did a major formidable stint in Bakersfield, CA and we just did DisneyLand...like 1000 times. When do we go? What age? Do I need to start a side savings acct? How do you know all the stuff?? I worry about my inadequacies here!

11. I would be REALLY REALLY happy if any unmarried friend of mine would get engaged and get married in a tropical location with free umbrella drinks when I'm not pregnant. Okay. I hope you are all reading and timing your lives around my wishes. It's all I can think about.

12. Maggie's 1 year pics. I died. I HOPE YOU ARE LISTENING WHEN I SAY THAT ERIN CARLYLE IS AHHHHHMMMMAZZZING. The girl just ROCKS it. ROCKity rock rock rock its. I'm saying this on my own free will- but you know when you spend money on something and then are let down by it a little. And it eats at you.  I think that professional pictures fall into this situation big time- major opportunity for disappointment or not full satisfaction. This is my biggest love of Erin, you won't feel like this- you don't even need to get it in your head- you will be so overly satisfied by every picture she gets to you- the investment is never questioned. Also, you'll want to be best friends with her from the second you meet her. BEST FRIENDS. (I will admit to having a problem of wanting to be best friends with EVERYONE) and her studio shares a parking lot with.....drumroll....a snoball stand. Serious. Match made in picture loving heaven!

Maggie's First Birthday!!!!

I know I took forever on this! Looking at the pictures Maggie looks so small- like she hit a big growth spurt length wise in the past month and now only wants to WALK EVERYWHERE. No sitting, no playing- just walking walking walking. Why do we wish for them to walk??? Anyways we had the best 1st birthday a girl could ask for! We had planned on swimming the afternoon away but the lightening kept us inside- but we didn't even care! Most fun most fun most fun (of course I think so!) Okay Okay Okay- back to business- I'm jumping right in!!!!

We woke up Saturday morning and had a birthday breakfast with Grandma Laura and Grandpappy! Pancakes with Sprinkles......there may have been some people in attendance that didn't think they were going to be good....these same people went back for seconds!!! Just saying! Maggie loved the attention..Piper loved all the pancakes Maggie dropped on the ground! (And how do ppl have babies and no dogs...like do you sweep and mop everyday???!!!)

Sprinkles pancakes for Birthday Breakfast!!!



It was one of those days that kinda rains all day...like kinda rain, lightening..kinda not. But who cares, we just didn't do a lot of swimming! I had been cutting and stringing bunting banners all week so you better believe I overkilled on them at the party! I of course obsessed about food back and forth with John (who really could care less!) and we decided on Cane's and Which Wich...it was perfect and delicious and I didn't even overorder (well not too much). I also made Maggie's cake and ran out of icing at the very end and then ended up having to dye another batch- why do I care SO much about these things...no one would have noticed. Please tell my daughter I did this for her one day..and don't forget the crib I painted- thanks! 

Things Mom obsesses over!

  We had so many friends come to our 1st birthday! I know they all really wanted to go swimming but they were really good sports about participating/eating/crafting inside most of the time!

 

Crafts!!!

Grandma Laura came in from St. Louis to celebrate!!

Do you see all this bunting..your jelly right!!! I also HAD to have a wooden high chair painted pink...John made it happen for me- like always. 

Singing Happy Birthday (suckers are such wonderful bribes...thanks Nicole for discovering this) What is not pictured is these darlings when the realized they could stick their fingers in Mags cake for their own taste. Like they were so mad that she didn't get it, that they needed to show her! Especially the two other Little Cranes Laine and Olivia.

Time to dig in!!!! I mean she's adorable, I can't stand it.

Sharing my cake!!!

My sweet bebe girl!

Marla made us the most delcious treats- Nautical Themed Cookies and Cupcakes...and the cupcakes y'all................... Y'ALL, Martha approved!

We did a teeny tiny bit of swimming!


And made out with a lot of great Birthday Loot! 



They love me...they really love me!