Let's Party!!!

This past weekend, we celebrated Bailey and Griffin's birthday a few days early! We had the party at our house with our picnic theme, and it was just us and some of our family and close friends. It was a very laid back, and fun time with some of the people who love B and G the most!

We were ready for our party guests to arrive...and Bailey and Griffin were not into smiling at all! :)

Bailey was telling Jackson that she is SO excited that he's moving here!

Griffin just a swingin' while the big kids played in the yard!

We finally got a smile out of Bailey!

Papa and Poppy with B & G

Some of the "big kids"

Love my sweet girl...she was a little distracted the the bouncing kiddos!

The Supervisors! :)

Bebe and Bailey

The yummy food table

The cupcakes that Aunt Hannah and I made the night before the party...a little more difficult than we originally anticipated! :)

Drink Table

Present time....Griffin reading his card from Mali 

Bailey opening a present very gracefully!

A Truck!!

Daddy and Bailey checking out her new baby!

Not sure what to think about their presents from Poppy and Bebe...

Our own cars (guess who gets which one)!!!!!!!!

Griffin was amazed by the horn!

"Is this mine????"

I see many of these crashes in our future!

Cake time!!!

"What is this??"

Griffin dug into the cake!

Bailey blowing bubbles after her cake

Check out the difference in the cakes when we were done! I should have taken pictures of the floors and walls that were covered in cake!

After a bath, we played with some of our new toys and Bronson joined in!

Trying out my new slide from Papa, Gran, and Aunt Jenna!

Cuddling with Aunt Hannah

Thank you for our cars!

Party favors for everyone!

Thank you for coming to our party Aunt Jenna and Papa!

We were so excited that our birthday party was so much fun...and that our birthday is still coming up!

Tomorrow is Bailey and Griffin's actual birthday (along with Aunt Hannah's 18th birthday)...we are having one year pictures taken, so say a prayer for us! :) Birthday post tomorrow!

Bailey and Griffin's First Beach Vacation!

We can now say that we have gone on an official family vacation with Bailey and Griffin, and I would say that it was a success! I was a little nervous about the trip there, as well as how they were going to do with the beach, the pool, sleeping arrangements, etc. Although it was a challenge, they could not have been any more perfect! They were never fussy on the trip there or back, and the sand wasn't their favorite thing, but they loved the pool. I'm just going to post a lot of pictures, because that will show more than me just writing about it...we made some amazing memories, and it was just another reminder of how blessed I am to have my sweet, little family! Just to warn you...it's picture overload!

First reaction to the sand...not big fans of this!

Dinner at Doc's...love my sister!

Jacob took this picture...babies were restless and everyone was up trying to keep them happy, but I was determined to finish my crab legs!

Hannah trying to hold on!

Love my wiggly family!

First ice cream!

Now trying a chocolate cone

Griffin's turn!

COLD!

Bailey and Daddy

Love my sweet girl!

Hannah trying to hold on...right before she left us to go to the beach with her friends! :)

We don't have too many pictures of us these days!

Daddy mocking Bailey's new fake cry...it's hilarious!

We loved the pool!

These floats were the best decision I've made in awhile!

Griffin would only wear his hat backwards...love my little boy!

Warming up to the water

I LOVED Griffin being cuddly...he wasn't letting go of me while we were by the water!

Taking a juice break

This is what Bailey does EVERY TIME that you tell her no...this was after I told her that she couldn't eat sand!

She calmed down quickly...sand all over the face!

SO grateful for my family!

Daddy and Griffin

Mommy and Bailey

They have them wrapped around their little fingers!

On our way home, we stopped to visit with my college roommate, Meghon, and her husband and little guy! This was the best picture we could get!

So glad I got to see Meg..it's been too long!

It was a great vacation...and we have lots of pictures to show for it! :)

Mother's Day

My first Mother's Day was a great one...I really am so blessed to have my two little cuties! Before I got pregnant, I remember just longing to be able to have a baby and now I have two and couldn't be more grateful! There are many days and nights that I could just cry because I think about what a gift they are to me and how honored I feel to have the responsibility of raising them. I know that we will have many ups and downs, but there aren't too many things much sweeter than when they look at each other and at me and just start giggling!

Daddy made this Mother's Day really special...he let me sleep in on Saturday and Sunday before church. I remember never understanding why my mom couldn't sleep late. Now I understand...given the opportunity to "sleep in", I slept until 7:45! :) It sure was nice though. "Griffin and Bailey" made me a card with pictures of themselves, along with pictures with me, and put a sweet little note inside of it...they also gave me some other sweet gifts! We tried and tried to take pictures, but it is VERY difficult these days to get them both to look and smile at the same time (our one year pictures are going to be quite the challenge)!

Amazed by their shoes...they both kept trying to undo each others

Sweet grins!

The best one we got...and we took a LOT!

Bailey and Mommy

Griffin loves to move at all times...notice a shoe is missing because Bailey undid it and he kicked it right off...at least I tried! :)

I've had a great first Mother's Day! 

Griffin's First Haircut

It was a big day for Mommy and Griffin! His hair has been getting a little long lately...but only in the back and sides, not on top. As sweet as it is, and as sad as I was to cut his hair, it was really starting to need a little trim. I knew that we have some big things coming up with my sister's graduation next week, a trip to the beach in two weeks, and a FIRST BIRTHDAY in a month and a half. With all of these events, many pictures will be taken and Griffin wanted to look really handsome! I decided it was a good day for a date with just the two of us, so we went this morning to get his haircut, then took a little trip to Babies R Us. 

I was a little (okay, a LOT) nervous about how this haircut experience would go. I knew that we would have to time it right with naptime/eating time in order for this to all go smoothly...and that's not even taking the haircut experience into consideration! We got to Pigtails and Crewcuts, and there was a 45 minute wait, so we went and walked around a few stores while we waited (we did buy Bailey a few bows at The Toggery). After we were tired of walking around (and my arm was about to fall off from holding him), we went back to wait our turn. He was one of the smaller ones there, but he didn't seem to realize it. He drank his bottle, then kept wiggling to get down.

My big boy crawling right over to the train table

He stood right up with all the "big boys"

Playing with the trains!

At this point, I'm getting VERY nervous because there's another little boy a little bit older getting his first haircut and it was not pretty! He was SCREAMING and his Mom was having to hold him down...I said many prayers at this point!

Sitting in the firetruck waiting for this adventure to begin!

This isn't so bad...having fun driving the truck!

Watching cartoons on the tv

Handsome boy finishing up the animal crackers that he got to munch on during his haircut!

Sitting so still!

All done, but checking everybody else out!

WE SURVIVED! He was absolutely perfect and I was so proud of him. The stylist kept commenting on how amazed she was at how well he acted and sat there. I love my little boy and had a great time with him today!