Lots of Birthdays!

This past weekend Caden and I went to Conroe for Bella and Lane's birthday party, my birthday party and Lane's baptism. Here are some of the photos from the weekend.

Kari, Mom and Me!Me and my beautiful Lil Sis!
and my beautiful Mom!
Caden played in the pool at Mom and Dad's and Poppa joined in on the action and actually got in fully clothed! Caden had a blast!Cheesing for the camera!Here is a video of Poppa and Caden splashing each other!



My Mom decorated a birthday cake for me and it was just as delicious as her cakes were when we were kids! I loved the summer theme!

Before the 'event'...

Bella and Caden were awfully quiet while I was opening my gifts so we went to investigate. Here is what we found!We should have known they were going to get into the cake! Here they are with Lane before they poked their little fingers in for a taste!Mommy and her Cade ManHere I am opening my gifts. I got a photo album that Kari loaded up with pictures from when Caden stayed with her for a week a few months back. It was a very touching gift! I got pj's, earrings and money from Mom and Dad to go shopping. Mom and I had a blast the next day spending my money!Caden helping me blow out the candles!On Saturday we attended Lane and Bella's birthday party at Kari and Scott's. Caden had a blast running all over the place with Bella. He preferred the bounce house to the water slide though. Bella with her Dora themed birthday cake.Lane with his Avatar themed cake.To end the weekend we were able to watch Lane get baptized by my Dad. What a wonderful Sunday!Thank you all for a wonderful weekend full of birthdays and gifts and family fun! We love you and can't wait until next time!

Hi Mommy!

Caden's Summer Camp teacher sent this to me yesterday! He is so loving Summer Camp and is wiped out when he gets home in the afternoons!

Happy Birthday Lane!

Happy 7th Birthday Lane! We love you so much and are so excited to celebrate your birthday!!!

Wordless Wednesday WINNER: Jamie

What? You've never seen a hooded towel before?

Happy 4th of July

We hope everyone had a wonderful 4th! We had our great friends J, Jamie, Stetson, Cassidy, Erin and J.D. over for some grilling and pool fun AND fireworks!

The pool was a bit chilly from all the rain we had so us girls took our time getting in! Stetson is swimming without his floaties this year! Look at him go!
Caden had a mohawk for the festivities and was saying CHEEEESE in this picture!
Cassidy Sarratt! Cutest little girl!
Pretty girl!
Here We 3 are just before the fireworks.More of the mohawk!Erin does my hair and is a great friend of mine as well. JD is her son and he and Caden are in MDO together! We were so glad that she and JD came over too! She made some awesome cupcakes!My best friend Jamie and me! You can barely see Cassidy and her bow!Time for the fireworks! Our seats were great!My 2 guys enjoying the fireworks!On the way home Caden fell asleep and I thought this picture was so good because you can see him dozing in the background!All tuckered out!For more great pics from J and Jamie's blog, click HERE!

Here is a video of the fireworks.

Happy Birthday to Me!

So, I turned 34 yesterday! I had a great day spent getting phone calls from my family and Face Book wishes from all my friends. I was craving some Italian so I chose Olive Garden (I had not been there in a lonnnnng time!).

Caden was more excited than anyone about the decorations and he ran into the room and sat down and said, 'Mommy It's Birthday Time!'Tim went all out decorating for my birthday for our We 3 party for me! Tim got me a birthday tiara to wear so I had a blast sporting that around the house while we did gifts and cake!
Birthday kiss from my Cade Man!Here he is helping me open one of my 2 tops they got me. I also got a Kindle and I love, love, love it!!!!
The card Tim got me had these funny little guys talking with sound and Caden was fascinated and had to rip it out of my hand to play with it.
Helping Mommy blow out the candles!
I love, love, love ice cream cake and Tim got one for me! Devil's food cake with chocolate chip ice cream! It was delicious!
After we ate cake and after dinner I was on the phone with my Mom telling her all about my cake and gifts when Tim pulled out the silly string and shot me!
At first it scared Caden to death, but he got over it and we shot each other!
Thank you baby for making my birthday so special! I love you and Caden more than words and nothing could have topped off yesterday more than what you did!

Toy Story 3

Last night we took Caden to see Toy Story 3. It was his very first movie theater movie to watch. He did amazing and had such a great time! During the previews-which lasted FOREVER-Caden was cracking us up. The movie theater was pretty empty and each time after a preview ended and the screen would go dark, he would throw his hands up and say, 'Here Comes Buzz and Woody!!!!', loudly! We were dying laughing and so loved watching his excitement. He was like a kid on Christmas morning!

It was raining so Tim dropped us off and then snapped this photo of us waiting to go into the theater. Caden could hardly contain his excitement! He was decked out in head to toe Toy Story clothing and shoes!

Tim took this one as we walked to our theater. I love how he put the tub of popcorn in the picture!Tim and Caden shared a LARGE tub of buttery popcorn and Caden ate 1/2 the tub on his own. NOT KIDDING! His first introduction to popcorn was at GiGi and Poppa's and he has loved it ever since! Tim kept looking at me like, 'Should we let him eat all that?' I don't know where the child put it all, but he downed it along with some Reeses' Pieces too!

Here we are after the movies!Here are my 2 favorite guys after the movie was over!

We 3 Iveys!
This was on the way home after we left. He was wiped out!He slept until about 8 which is SO NOT NORMAL for him! He was tired and got some good sleep! He told me when I came into his room this morning the following: 'Mommy, Go Away! I Too Sleepy!' After he got up he started telling Tim and me that he wanted to go see Toy Story on the Big, Giant T.V.! We will definitely be buying that one to add to his collection!