Happy Birthday, Kate!

Yesterday was Kate's birthday. We were supposed to be in Chattanooga, but the storm messed up our cars and left us lots to do at home. (I will post those pictures soon!) We still had a fun day! Her party was last weekend so she has been celebrated plenty, but I still wanted her actual birthday to be fun too! Ben had to take his final exam in the morning and we had our small group in the evening. Here are a few pictures from the day.

Birthday banana muffins. This girls loves muffins! Really all carbs...like her mom!

We ate at Tropical Smoothie Cafe, which I love! She had her first smoothie and was a huge fan! She managed to only get a little on her shirt!

"Must you document everything?"

Then we went to Toys R Us to buy a new water table since ours was torn about by hail! The kids had gift cards so it worked out great.

My cute little three and one year olds!

Kate, we love you so very much! You are the little girl I never knew I always wanted! I wanted all boys...or so I thought! But now I so insanely crazy over my little girl. I love her 2 tooth smile, I love when she laughs hysterically when Braden tickles her, I love how her hair is always a mess, I love how she pulls my chin over to make sure I'm looking at her when I hold her, I love dressing her all girly, I love how she is so dramatic, I love the 5 seconds a day she snuggles me, I love being Kate's mommy! What a wonderful year!

Braden's Third Birthday

We started the day with some balloons.

Then round one of gifts and cards.

An early morning birthday song from Aunt Holly.

Number "3" pancakes.

Kate enjoyed the pancakes too.

The cove with our birthday buddy, Leah. She is four today!

"Hooray for birthdays!"

Striking a pose.

Jillian and Kate

Kate loves Mrs. Alison

Beautiful day for a birthday!

PlayDoh to help ward off post nap grumpiness.

Presents Part 2: "My own fishing pole!"

Fishing with Daddy (I love this picture and these guys!)

We headed to another park for dinner, fishing and cupcakes.

Kate was a trooper. She mostly gnawed on french fries. Don't judge me! :)

Happy Birthday to you!

Kate still chilling in the stroller.

The Stanleys met us at the park for cupcakes and playing.

Love these cuties!

I think Braden had a great birthday! He said his favorite part was the cupcakes...surprise, surprise! We sure love this little guy and thank God for him daily!

February

Well, it's April and I'm finally posting pictures from February. If there are still readers of this blog I am sorry for my lack of posts! What can I say? Life is busy and blogging is at the bottom of the list. Here are the few pictures I took in February.

Hanging with the Hughes!

Henley and Kate: best friends!

Kate is ready for Henley to sit up and play with her.

My morning snugglebugs!

Braden with his letter projects. We started out strong and have since slowed down. Spring weather came and we have been outside every day we can since!

Story time at the library! A fun cold day activity.

On "C" week we went to Cities Cupcakes! Fun and delicious!

Kate's mohawk. She still has some cradle cap so I lathered her up with lotion in an attempt to help it. It didn't work but it made for a cute picture!

I found this stinker digging in the diaper bag. She is into ev-er-y-thing these days!

Old news now, but I found Kate like this one morning. Don't judge me, but we still haven't moved the crib down! It's a big job and Ben is busy and I don't know how. Soon!

I will try to get March pictures up soon since April is a big month around here! There will be many posts to come!

Kate says "Hi"

Happy Valentine's Day

Ben and I were going to go on a date this evening, but then we decided that a family night sounded fun since we haven't seen a lot of Ben lately. We went to Brixx for pizza and then went to the mall for our annual photobooth picture. We have only missed one year since Valentine's 2005! They didn't turn out great, but I still love it. Braden also got a big M&M cookie. He decided Valentine's is a pretty fun holiday. I'm afraid he's going to be like me and enjoy any reason to celebrate!

January Recap

January always seems to last forever! It's cold and the kids are sick a lot and you are stuck inside. But as I was looking at our month in pictures it looks like we had fun and made memories! I'm thankful for the snow days as well as the few days that were warm enough to play outside. We even enjoyed the cold, rainy days. Enjoy our month in pictures!

One of the semi-warm days of the month. Kate loves to be outside!

Kate looking like a fatty! Her face looks thinner even from this picture! Sad.

Braden has loved his scooter he got for Christmas. We even let him ride inside sometimes.

Both kids were sick the first half of the month. I think Braden enjoyed the extra pampering and special snacks.

Oh, snow! I just have to bundle the kids up and go outside in the snow, even if they are sick.

Sweet Ben got home from working a 12 hour shift and took Braden sledding. What a sweet Daddy!

Once we were all well Allyson and I got to trade kids again. The boys love snack and Sesame Street time!

Another outside scooting day!

We got Braden some rain boots because everyone needs rain boots...and for the next time it snows! Well Braden was determined to get dressed up and go outside to splash in puddles. I told him it was cold, he didn't care. This picture is so funny because this is as far as he made it. He stood on the deck and looked inside. Finally he asked to come inside.

We have been learning a letter each week. This was "A" week and Braden was practicing writing his "A's". This boy is one smart cookie!

Picnic dinner and watching Despicable Me. Fun times with the fam!

Braden's morning "Kate holding" time. It usually ends with tickling and screaming. Love these two.

Kate is on the move! They don't stay immobile long enough!

A day at the park!

Kate got two teeth this month. The first on the 15th and the second on the 19th.

Letter of the Week