May 2013

 5.5.2013- Ella Jay's Baptism... We Love You Ella! 

 5.5.2013- The Vader/Lightfoot Cousins!

 5.11.2013- Brecken LOVES to color... yes, she does try to lick and/or eat the crayons, but with some supervision and guidance she gets back to the coloring page! HA! 

 5.12.2013- Happy Momma's Day! Me and my girl!!! Love her! 

 5.12.2013- CHEESE! Brecken is a ham for the camera! 

 5.12.2013- The Vader/Lightfoot Gang on Mother's Day

 5.17.2013- Happy 6th Birthday to my first baby girl! We love you Fala!

 5.18.2013- Happy Graduation Day Patricia! CONGRATS!

 5.18.2013- ... and we're walking... why does she have to be next to the tallest guy there? HA!

 5.18.2013- Grandma and Brecken just hanging out!

 5.25.2013- Mmmmmm... Ice cream for dessert! 

 5.26.2013- Brecken's FIRST boat ride... she literally fell asleep in seconds! 

 5.26.2013- The boat is parked and docked and we're all ready to go inside except Brecken... I hung out on the parked boat for a while so she could get her beauty sleep... Brecken honey night night! 

 5.26.2013- Brecken and Daddy going to feed the fish!

5.26.2013- Mommy, are you coming? 

April 2013

 4.6.2013-DANCE PARTY! Brecken loved the DJ and dance party at her cousin Georgia's birthday party! 

 4.21.2013- With the crazy weather, we were HAPPY to get out on a nice Sunday afternoon and try out our new wagon! 

 4.21.2013- Someone else's trash is our treasure... we picked up this car that had been thrown in the trash and cleaned it up really well ... Brecken LOVES it! 

 4.21.2013- Fala is VERY happy to be hangin' outside! 

 4.28.2013- We took Brecken to her VERY first petting zoo! 

4.28.2013- Daddy and Brecken with the camel... Brecken wasn't too sure about it! 

March 2013

March 2013

3.2.2013- We headed to Wichita to celebrate Riley's 30th... this is basically what we did all day on Saturday; sit, stare at the babies, and LAUGH! SO MUCH FUN! 

3.2.2013- GG, Haley, and Poopa... just hanging out in Derby! 

3.8.2013- Mommy and Brecken reading before bedtime 

3.9.2013- First Day of Mommy and Me Swim Lessons! Lovin' the Yellow Polka Dot Bikini! 

 3.10.2013- KSU photo shoot! 14 months old! 

 3.15.2013- Going on our first Spring Walk! 

3.16.2013- Celebrating St. Patty's Day at Breit's... we walked in the "parade" and then hung out! 

 3.21.2013- Celebrating March Madness!

 3.26.2013- Just hanging out in the kitchen cabinet... no big deal!  

 3.31.2013- The Easter Bunny is SCARY!!!! I think she hated the bunny more than Santa!

 3.31.2013- Oh, this bunny is so much better! 

 3.31.2013- Family photo on Easter! 

 3.31.2013- The Vader Cousins... Tige, Brock, Georgia, Brecken, Cole, and Ella! This was the best picture we had.... its hard to get six kids to look at the camera and be happy! 

 3.31.2013- Pure Joy.... love this girl!

February 2013

In an effort to keep up with the blog and now that Brecken is ONE, I am going to be updating the blog on a monthly basis.

Recap from January 2013 (and the reason there aren't very many pictures)
The rest of January was eventful to say the least... right before Brecken's 1st birthday, I went in for an emergency appendectomy. They took out the "angry" appendix. While doing the surgery they also found a ruptured cyst on my ovary. They cleaned out the fluid that was leaking from the cyst and called it good. A day later, I went home to recover... Even though I had surgery, we decided to still have Brecken's party... it was all planned, we had family traveling to town for it, and people had cleared their calendars. Thanks to Leigh, Kelly, and Jeb the house got cleaned and decorated just in time for the big party!

The day after the party and on Brecken's actual 1st birthday, I unfortunately ended up in the ER again due to severe abdominal pain. I was admitted to the hospital for the 2nd time and the next two days were pretty awful... I was violently ill and in severe pain. The surgeon went in for an exploratory surgery and found that the original cyst hadn't done all its damage yet...this time it had fully ruptured and was creating havoc to my insides... oh what fun! The cyst was removed and everything else was checked thoroughly. Fortunately the problem was solved and I am healthy, but unfortunately this was a very INVASIVE surgery, so had weeks of recovery ahead of me.

Thanks to my wonderful husband, family, and dear friends we got through it all and I am now much better and back to work!

 2.14.2013- Our little Valentine is 13 months and took her FIRST THREE STEPS on Valentine's Day!

 2.14.2013- Fala hates it when I put headbands on her, but look how cute she is!!! 

 In February, we had FOUR SNOW DAYS! Brecken didn't stay in the snow long, but she LOVED it and it made her smile! SO CUTE! 

 2.23.2013- Brock and Brecken... Brecken kept trying to hug him and touch him and Brock wasn't having it... don't you just love the cute face he kept making? He was trying to tell Brecken to BACK OFF! HA! 

2.23.2013- I went out with my niece and nephews to help them make a snowman! I might have overdone it because I was in pain the next day, but it was WORTH it because we had a blast! 

48 Weeks (1 YEAR)

OUR BABY GIRL TURNS ONE!!!!! 

 1.13.2013- Happy 1st Birthday Brecken Leigh Vader! We love you SO much! 

1.12.2013- The YUMMY and gorgeous cake by Kodi Tillery! 

 1.12.2013- The absolutely AMAZING cookies by Sarah Purtee! 

1.12.2013- The "WALL OF BRECKEN"... we hung up canvas pictures of every month of Brecken's first year! It was so neat to see how she changed from month to month! 

 1.12.2012- Brecken opening her gifts!

 1.12.2013- Brecken LOVED her smash cake and ate a TON of it! As you can see, she got most of it in her mouth and wasn't TOO messy.... that smile says it all! We love you baby girl!