Father's Day

Early Saturday morning we loaded up EVERYONE and EVERYTHING and got on the road...headed to the farm!

We got to the farm and hung out with the fam all day. It was so hot that we thought that Caroline might enjoy a dip in the princess pool.

Check out the inflatable fish that her Grandmommy bought her. She loved them obviously.

Well it was too hot for the adults outside and the mosquitoes at the farm could quite possibly carry Caroline away...so what was the logically solution...Put the princess pool in the dining room and let Caroline enjoy the water while we enjoyed the air conditioning.

No water yet...but having a blast!

She really loved that fish!

In came the water...YEAH!

Give me that water hose.....

Now it was off for Vivian to have fun popping/eating bubbles. I wish I had taken a video of it.

Then Sunday we went to church with my parents and then hit the pavement back to H-town.

As you can tell we had the most fantastic first Father's Day!

Caroline's Christening

The first weekend in June was wonderful. It was Caroline's christening weekend spent with family.

We started out the weekend at the farm with a first...a sippy cup! It went really well considering it was her first time.

Then it was off to the Disney Princess Pool. She had a blast as you can clearly see.

She was trying to get at those princesses!

Splish Splash! Oh how she loves to splash in the water. You should see me after a bath.

Then Vivian decided she needed to cool off.
Seriously...are you guys going to allow this?

Vivian was clearly in Golden Heaven!

This is one of my favorite pictures from the weekend. This is my Granny, Caroline's Great Granny, warming up Caroline's little feet.

Then it was time to head inside for a bottle given to her by her Great PawPaw. Caroline wasn't very appreciative...it looks like she's punching him.

Then the big day....

Caroline wasn't so much a fan of the bonnet....

Another one of my favorites...

Tada...THE christening gown in all of its glory.

Eston, the reverend that married Kyle and me, came over from Alley, my parents' church, to perform Caroline's christening. It was so much more special.

After church we headed over to the Kinsloe House for lunch and a wardrobe change...to the other more casual dress...

Lunch was wonderful and it was so great to spend the day with friends and family. We are so incredibly bless to be surrounded by such loving people.

Caroline's christening went so successfully and she looked so beautiful in BOTH of her dresses.

Lots of wonderful memories were made that day. Memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

Decorating Help

Ok "followers", all 15 of you...I need some help...I found this headboard on a different blog...one of the 100s that I follow and I LOVE it!

Yes, that's right...it's pink...and it's shantung. Since I know ALL of you personally and therefore you ALL know Kyle...do you think I can pull it off in our master bedroom?

Or am I going to have to go with the boring white one?

I mean the white one is just plain cotton and will allow me to change my bedding etc. BUT I mean I LURVE the pink one!

Be brutally honest...that's why I cam to ya'll in the first place!

Last night...

Well last night started off normally...put the babe to sleep around 7:00 and then off to do laundry and make baby food...when I was doing laundry i forgot about the sleeping babe across the hall and slammed the dryer door...waking said sleeping babe. Then it was off and on until about 9:00. Then I finally got all the baby food made and cooled and put in the freezer and was going to bed around 11:00 (I know I'm super mom).

Well things went well until 3:00. Then all hell broke loss on Panterra Way. I went into her room changed her diaper and picked her up and rocked her. I put her down and then went and got back in bed. I suppose 30 minutes went by and I was awoken again to her screams. This is probably what makes me different because I was a little happy this time. I knew my plan of action. I went back in and tried the same thing...didn't work...I got even happier. So I put her down briefly and bloody murder screaming ensued and went to the guest bedroom and got rid of all of the pillows. We were going to have a sleepover. Now R-E-L-A-X this doesn't happen that often. In fact we haven't had a sleepover since she was 4 months old...it's a rare thing. I put that little crying babe on my chest and golden silence. She just needed a little one on one time. I mean the serious one on one time that can only occur at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning. The kind where you feel like you are the only two people up...the best time. I just laid there and breathed in every single minute because I know these moments will soon come to an end not because I want them to but because she'll eventually get too big to lay on my stomach. I don't even want to think of how sad that will be...and I won't...I'll pull a Scarlett O'Hara and think of that tomorrow.

I mean how could you not love every single minute spent with this little babe...

The sleep lost taking in this beauty was quickly corrected by a venti (large) triple skinny cinnamon dolce latte...it was definitely time well spent!

David's Birthday - Tyler Zoo

Last weekend was CRAZY! We drove to Tyler Friday afternoon, I had taken Friday off, so that we could be there bright and early for our newphew David's FIRST birthday party!

Friday night we all had dinner over at Mary Ann and Doug's house. A little pre-party celebration for the little man. There was lots of cousins playing. If it was any indication of what future Blair/Haley celebrations will be like...it's going to be interesting. Anytime now there will be 4 cousins and they will all be under the age of 4...don't you want to come along for the next celebration?

Waiting on some dinner....

David and Caroline...aren't they cute?

Playing side by side...awwww...how cute!

Then Saturday it was up and at 'em for David's party. We all met at the Caldwell Zoo and made the trek up to the party room...it was quite the hike. The room was perfect. David's party was the LAST party at the zoo. They won't be offering it any longer. That's how we roll!

Look at the adorable cake!

The Birthday Boy!

Caroline in her smocked monkey dress. The invitations had monkeys with bananas on them so OF COURSE Caroline had to match....

Caroline had to walk over and see what all the fuss was about...isn't she advanced?

Then it was off to check out all of the animals. If you haven't been to The Caldwell Zoo you should. It's great!

Caroline was actually awake for most of the zoo.

I was kind of obsessed with the birds...here's the proof.

Then she fell asleep...

BUT there were tiny birds to be fed with my niece before we left. We walked in to this netted area and were given tongue depressors with seeds glued onto them. Then we just walked over and let the birds nibble. There were a lot of little kiddos in there having the time of their life. I only screamed once and Liv laughed at me. Needless to say these were some fat birds.

Then we were done. It had been a long hot day and it was time to go home and get in the pool!

Caroline had the best time at her cousin David's party...she had her first taste of icing, which surprisingly she wasn't too excited about...and she got to hang out with her family. She had so much fun with her cousin David that she's going to celebrate his birthday again this weekend!

Happiness...Thankfulness...

I realize that I'm blessed for absolutely everything that I have...a wonderful husband and an even better chunky monkey (a.k.a. Caroline), but there are some days when I just don't feel as thankful as I should (like tripping and almost breaking my neck on Kyle's flip flops or getting to work and noticing Carolines little love note...in the form of baby spit up on my leg...I know...I know it's a great place for a noticeable stain especially in that particular color). On those days I go here http://www.kellehampton.com/ and my thankfulness tank gets fulled up (I'm from Corsicana what did you expect).

I follow her blog on a daily basis. She's an amazing mom, photographer, wife and friend. She reminds me daily about what is important and I just had to share my Kelle fix with my friends. Follow her...learn from her (like I have)...appreciate your life a little more!

This most recent post really reminds me about my last weekend in Shreveport (shout out to those girls) and makes me look forward to my long awaited weekend with my bestest at the end of June. It can't get here quick enough!

Have a great weekend! What you say...it's only Thursday not Friday...that's right readers I'm going to get my groove on tonight at Jimmy Buffett and then no work on Friday. Off to get my chunky monkey and then to Tyler to celebrate the first year of life of my super advanced and adorable nephew...it's at the zoo and Caroline is wearing a yellow seersucker dress with monkeys and bananas on it. That's your taste for next week's post! Lots of pictures to come.

But seriously head on over to Kelle's blog, but you've been warned get your Kleenex!

Your homework for the weekend...Have a belly laugh like this...