7 Months!

Baby girl is CRAWLING! It isn't exactly coordinated but this girl can move! If she sees something she wants, she is off! Big motivators are the dogs, our phones, and the TV remote!
Hating baby food! I tried for a month and half every baby food possible hoping the next one would be something she would like! Each new food was met with head turning, slapping away, spitting out, gagging, etc. Our pediatrician gave us the go ahead to start introducing bites of food. Claire LOVES this and is quite the little piggy for bites of "grown up" food!
Most days Claire is over the mid-day nap and down to a morning and an afternoon nap.
Eats breakfast and dinner (real food) and nurses or has a bottle 5 times a day (8. 11. 2. 5. 8)
Seeing the start of her first tooth! On the bottom, middle right!

Hi!!! First time in a high chair!
We were loving using the bumbo to eat, but decided it was time for this big girl to sit with us at the table!

Soooo excited!

Great Grandparents and Graduation!

What an amazing weekend! Claire got to meet her GREAT Grandparents all the way from Kentucky! My precious 86 year old grandparents flew into Texas to spend some time with Claire before we drove to Oklahoma for my little brother's college graduation. 

Baby girl was showered with attention and LOVED it!

This was the weekend her yelling started!
Anytime some one was talking Claire would share her two cents with a loud, deep, long yell! She had us laughing so hard!



Obsessed with Grandpa! Thought he was hilarious!



Seriously couldn't get enough of him!

And just stared at Grandma...

...and stared some more!

My sweet parents and little brother, all grown up!

Such a fun dinner before the graduation ceremony!

He did it!

Aunt Kaki Graduates!

Congratulations Aunt Kaki! We love you!

We are so proud of our little TCU grad and so excited for this new chapter in her life!

Baskets from the Bunny!

We were so excited the Easter Bunny came to the Crudups this year!

Claire loved her little basket!

AND loved the grass that came in it!

We could not believe the Easter Bunny stopped by Big Daddy and LaLa's too!
And left this ADORABLE little wagon for Claire!

How cute is this!

The sweet little flowers spelled out Claire's name and the wagon was overflowing with goodies for our baby girl!

We went through each and every thing in the wagon one by one...Claire LOVED it all!

Sadie, of course, had to get in on the action too!

Love, love, love my sweet baby!
What a fabulous first Easter with our precious darling!
Thank you Easter Bunny!!!

Happy Easter!

Our Easter celebration took place over the entire weekend and I loved every second of it! Something about holidays changes when you have a child, every moment is precious and every event is something to celebrate!

Smiling from ear to ear with Grammy and Papa!
Claire and I spent the day with my parents the Saturday before Easter!
We had such a yummy lunch at Terra in Fort Worth and spent the afternoon on the patio at our house!

Hanging out with uncle Bennett is always fun!!!
Ok, maybe not as fun as the Wheat Thins box on the table that Claire became obsessed with!

Sunday we had our first road trip with Claire!
We went to Durant, OK to visit Clay's grandparents.
Uncle Brad held Claire for the first time! (It only took 6 months!)

Claire has started throwing her head back when she laughs!
So funny! Love our silly little girl!

Baby girl with her Momu!
Claire was not a fan of the road trip,
but we were so glad to spend time with Clay's grandmother.
She has been very ill and I know it meant a lot to her to see baby girl!

 This precious darling melts her mommy's heart! 

Sunday evening Big Daddy and LaLa stopped by to see Claire on her first Easter!
I adore how they shower her with attention! Claire is so LOVED!!!

SURPRISE!!!

     This year I threw my amazing husband, Clay, a surprise party for his 30th birthday! First, I CANNOT believe I actually pulled it off and surprised him! Second, I will NEVER throw him a surprise party again! As much fun as I had planning his party, it was sooo stressful keeping everything from him! I am horrible at keeping things from Clay, especially something I'm so excited about! 

     I told Clay we were going to dinner at Joe T. Garcia's (his favorite mexican restaurant) with a small group of friends for his birthday. His first surprise of the night was the limousine waiting in our driveway to take us to dinner. Birthday boy was thrilled he didn't have to worry about enjoying his favorite margarita and driving home! I had the help of a Joe T.'s employee to get him to the Puertita, which is actually a huge party room next to the restaurant! When Clay opened the doors to the Puertita he was greeted with a huge SURPRISE from family and friends!

    All the planning and hard work was well worth it! I absolutely LOVE that I got to celebrate the most important person in my life with all of our friends and family! I am very appreciative of everyone that came, especially those that came from out of town! I could not be more thankful to share my life with such an incredible man! He is such a wonderful husband and adoring father, and I look forward to planning many more (non-surprise!) birthday parties!

Guests wrote sweet messages to the birthday boy as they arrived!

I had the invitation (front and back) at the entrance of the party so Clay could see it!



I ADORE this picture of Clay and Claire I had blown up for the party!





So appreciative to everyone who came!



Turquoise and lime green jelly bellies added some decoration.
Matching napkins with Clay's initials and No. 30.

My little brother and me!
So glad he could come in town for the occasion!

Centerpieces on each table had different pictures of the birthday boy over the last 30 years!

Ummm...I don't know if Clay blinked when we took this pic or if he was showing us his margarita smile!
Either way, the birthday boy was having a great time!

PARTY PICS...

Sooo Surprised!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAY!!!