Wordless Wednesday XVII - (Who's this kid and did she eat my little baby??)

I know I've been slacking a bit lately... I'm in the middle of full-on first birthday party planning madness at the moment... More on that a little bit later tonight if I can find a few spare minutes. 

In the meantime, to make it up to you, here are THREE pictures for this weeks Wordless Wednesday!

Notice that it even says Bean on the front?!

She finally figured out her horse-y!

Ok, seriously... who is this big girl? Where did the baby go??

The Liebster Blog Award!

This weekend I received my first official blog award from Emilee over at Momma Made It!

Apparently it's an award for up and coming bloggers, usually with 200 followers or less...
(an extra thanks for bending the rules for me, Emilee!!) 

Here are the rules it came with:

1.  Copy and paste the award on your blog

2.  Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you

3.  Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.

4.  Hope that your followers will spread the love to other bloggers.

It actually took me a little longer than I thought it would to post this because narrowing it down to just 5 blogs proved to be much harder than I thought! 

Here's who I came up with, I hope you'll stop by and show them a little love! 

1.  http://www.smallkucing.com/    Lots of posts about her family and awesome Malaysian food plus she's a great bloggy-friend to have!

2.  http://spanishpinaynanay.blogspot.com/  More good food!! Good humor, interesting posts and always something nice to say!

3.  http://www.justbyliving.com/  Ok, this is where I bend the rules. But I know and love this mama in real life... good luck not wanting to steal her little dude. He rules.

4.  http://www.thehipsterdad.com/ Slightly less of a rule break on this one... ^That mama up there^ this is her husband's Daddy (that's right, daddy) Blog that he runs with a friend. This proud papa and genuinely awesome dad is like family to me and I'm lucky to know him (and his lady!)

5.  http://ladyteeiabodesigns.blogspot.com/  Super sweet and amazingly crafty! Haven't known this mama for long but I love stopping by to see what she's up to!

So there you have it, stop by and check them out, I promise you won't be disappointed! Ooh... and go visit Emilee and thank her for me!! 

In other news, there won't be an 'Our Weekend' post this week. It was my birthday so there was lots of celebrating and recovering... but, unfortunately, no pictures! Hope everyone else had as great of a weekend!!

Aura's 1st Halloween! Here's some photos!

At the Halloween store doing some last minute shopping!

I made Aurora's first Halloween costume for a neighborhood party we were supposed to attend on Saturday... however, due to the crazy snow/ice/rain/general yuckiness, it was cancelled!! I was really bummed but we settled for trick or treating at the mall on Monday. By trick or treating, I really mean just walking around and collecting compliments haha. Still too young for candy! I wish I got some better pictures but Aura was particularly mobile that day and most of the pictures are so blurry she looks like a real ghost!

See? She was on the move!! Here's the few good pictures that I got:

Scary face?

Happy Halloween!!!