addi's party.

we celebrated addi's first birthday tonight! she is so stinkin' cute. i can't get over it. we went over there around 5 to eat some delicious ashby burritos. after that addi opened her presents. sean and i got her a pretend cell phone because she loves playing with her mommy's cell phone. this phone even lights up and calls you back. you can record stuff on it too. she loved it. they had to keep taking it away from her so she would open her other gifts. the funny thing was that the phone would start ringing and she would perk up like "where is my phone??" haha. it was so cute. she had 2 of the cutest cakes made for her. one that she could tear apart, and one for everyone else. she wasn't quite so sure what to do at first. she would daintily pick up some of the frosting flowers.. then she finally started to go to town. slowly but surely. eventually there was frosting all over her hair and eyelashes. i am not gonna lie...  i was pretty jealous that she got an entire cake to herself and people were encouraging her to eat as much as she wanted with her hands. note to self, i want to do that for my next birthday. anyway, here are a bunch of pictures of the night! happy birthday adders! we love you!

{my favorite picture}

the evening ended with tired moses laying on my lap. and tired sean laying next to me, passed out on cold medicine. poor guy. anyway, it has been a great weekend. good night world!

happy birthday addi!

it seems like just yesterday when our niece addison renee was born. i can't believe it has already been a year. we just love this little girl to pieces! she is the cutest little thing ever! she is always so smiley and fun and she even has her own little "addi"tude as her mom calls it. i just love her. i love calling her adders and sean calls her bean. she just had a hernia repair surgery yesterday. what a nice birthday present eh? i hope you are feeling better little addi! we love you so much bean! happy 1st birthday! you can read more about her day of birth here.

p.s. all of these pictures were taken with my phone. not the greatest quality but oh well. i almost have as many pictures of her on my phone as i do of moses! i can't help it.. when cute things are around? the phone comes out!

the time i stabbed the couch.

man. lately? i just don't have a whole lot to say. not sure why. so much has been going on this last week. i am still worn out from it all. i have missed doing my random, talk about about nothing important, TMI, rambling type of posts. i hope to get back into doing those... i mean pictures about real life events are great and all, but wouldn't you rather hear about our most embarassing moments and how i stabbed the couch with a knife all that fun stuff? no? probably not. haha. oh well.

oh, what's that? you want to hear about why i stabbed the couch with a knife? hmmm. how to explain that one without sounding like a complete psychopath... well, i guess i could tell you that someone broke into our house..and tried to steal our awesomely old, used, free couches and i was like "oh you better not! you better not!"

so then the robber laid down on the couch and got all comfy like he was at his own home or something and was all, "oh yes i am. i am so taking these."

and i looked around and all i could find was sean's pocket knife and i proceeded to threaten the robber and he wouldn't back off so i stabbed the couch to prove that i was serious, and then he finally got the hint and ran out with my ipod.

or i could tell you that there was a spider on the couch..and it laid babies inside, so i had to stab the couch to release them.. no that is just sick. gross.

well. this is what really went down. and it is not that cool or exciting. but sean bought his friend a pocket knife for his birthday. he was showing me how cool it was, and i opened it up and was admiring how sharp and shiny it was. then he said, "i dare you to stab the couch with it."

and i was all, "really?" and he was like, "yes."

so i was like, "k." so i did it. and the look on his face was pure terror. i don't think i have ever seen him that scared in his entire life.

i don't see what the big deal was. and i even told him that. "well technically sean? it is your fault. you told me to stab the couch. what did you expect?"

"chloe, if your friends all jumped off a bridge? would you?"

"well probably. that sounds like a lot of fun."

"chloe, i can't believe you just did that."

"sean, remember how you asked me to? this is your fault. and besides. i never make dinner or do my laundry when you ask me to. so i finally do this one thing, and you freak out and act like i just stabbed a couch or something. oh wait. i did. but you told me to."

so now we have a lovely hole in our awesomely old couch. it does have a slipcover. but that was on the couch when i stabbed it. so that has a hole too.

for the record, sean said that the thing that concerned him more than me actually stabbing the couch, was the no-hesitation and pure satisfaction of stabbing something. maybe you better watch out sean.

and my question is this, why wouldn't you stab a couch if someone asked you to? i mean i think i would be more concerned about the people who didn't when they were asked.

so i leave you with this.

cute pictures of our niece addison that we are obsessed with and would probably steal if we could but won't because we don't want all that family drama and stuff. maybe if we could get someone that we didn't know, to take her, then give her to us 9 months later..it wouldn't seem like such a big deal. although she won't look like a newborn then. boo. i'm gonna have to come up with something else. do you remember that movie, "the face on the milk carton"? it would be like that. but ten times cooler and i don't think this baby will have red hair.

p.s. sean was trying to cheer her up while she was getting her diaper changed. gosh. he never laughs when i am changing his.

she is here!

 our niece Addison Renee Wagstaff was born yesterday!

she is as cute as a button. and has lovely long feet.

i am very happy about this, because my feet are bigger

 than sean's dad and brothers. and the same size as seans.

yes. it is true. so of course i am ecstatic about this!

us long-feets gotta stick together addi!

she weighs 7lbs 12 oz and is 19 inches long.

Kayla and Kade are very proud of their little sister.

i am in love with her.

the happy parents!

i forgot my camera so had to use my iphone.

that is why the pictures aren't as clear! or maybe

i just am not very good at taking pictures.  maybe both.

the proud uncle.

this is the 3rd grandbaby on sean's side.

none on mine yet.. but now that i am part of

the family, i feel a special connection with this little one.

Sean has nicknamed Makayla and Kaden.

they are Baby and Chico.

right when Sean held Addison, he said,

"her new name is Bean."

it felt like an indian naming ceremony or something.

the way he said it. it's like he held her, and the name came to him.

so there you have it.

little bean! we love her!

congrats Jason and Amanda!