Happy Birthday Audrey!

My sweet girl turned 2 today! It's funny with kids- it seems like time has flown since she was born but at the same time I can hardly remember what was life before her. She is so outgoing and talkative, she has a very sweet personality with a dash of drama. She loves crazy things like dinosaurs but seems like such a girly girl with most things. She loves her brother- yet tortures him every chance she gets. She didn't sleep for the first 18 months of her life and now she sleeps like a champ, even going so far as to tell me when she is tired and ready for sleep. She gives hugs all day long. She has figured out that if she says "Hug" instead of "Up" to get picked up that no one can refuse her. She likes to try new foods, she loves her friends, and she is a slave to fashion. I am so lucky to have her for a daughter. Happy Birthday Audrey! 

 Chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast

 Opening presents

 Scooter from Uncle David

 Shopping Cart 

 We invited friends over to celebrate! 

 We went to the Cheesecake Factory for a birthday dinner. Audrey took down her chicken nuggets and french fries- and the bread basket- and an ice cream :) They sang her Happy Birthday- she actually wasn't embarrassed at all she just wanted them to finish so she could eat her ice cream. After the meal we went to the Disney Store where she could pick whatever she wanted. In a store full of everything princess she ended up leaving with Perry The Platypus from Phineus and Ferb and the Dinosaur from Toy Story. (Grandma and Grandpa sent her a set of princess figurine which she had been playing with earlier in the day so apparently she was princessed out.

Over all we had a great day celebrating! Her party is Sunday so hopefully the Birthday weekend ends up being as fun for her as today was.

Celebration at the Museum

I decided to start Audrey's birthday celebration a day early and take the kids to the Museum of Life and Science. Audrey loves dinosaurs and they have a great section of the park with big dinosaurs and a digging for shark teeth. We also did a train ride, explored the butterfly house, went into the new mist farm, sailed boats, went inside a space pod, looked at a real skeleton, and so much more. Over all it was a great day! 

Baby is Almost 2!

Audrey's 2nd birthday is Friday. The party preparations have begun. She is very excited- she keeps saying "Happy Birthday Audrey!" every time someone mentions birthday or party or cake or anything she associates with birthday parties. Ryan is very excited also- he has been telling us that Audrey's birthday is next since the day after Don's birthday. Hopefully he remains this exciting when Audrey starts opening her gifts....
Year round school started this week in our County which means that one year from now Ryan will be starting Kindergarten- and my baby is turning 2, crazy. It seems like I have been a parent forever, yet I can't believe how big they are getting!

Home Improvement

Ah the joys of home ownership :) We (and by we I obviously mean Don) spent the afternoon installing one of two fans in the kids bedrooms. We live in the south and fans are a must, because we moved into new construction fans didn't come in all the bedrooms so we are adding them ourselves. This is our first major project in changing something in the house and it was a success! Hopefully tomorrows fan installation will go even better! I admit late in the afternoon something fell downstairs and my first question to Don was "was that your fan?"... the good news is it wasn't and my confidence in the fan has grown exponentially with each passing minute that it stays attached to the ceiling (most importantly) and working properly (secondarily important).

Happy 4th of July!

We had a wonderful 4th of July! We went to a friends house for a party with most of Ryan and Audrey's friends. We had a potluck with amazing food, water balloons and sprinklers, fireworks (as big as legally allowed- which isn't that big but the kids seemed to really like them), and great friends, we even were able to  celebrate one of the kids 1st birthdays with cake! 

Future Doctors?