Candy Land Birthday Invite!


I ordered this invite from an amazing seller on Ebay and she did a fabulous job customizing it for me! The invites (60 total) are ordered and will be here next week! I'm so excited about this party and cannot wait to see all the happy kids on Brooklynn's special day! Where have the past 3 years gone? I have tons more to do to be ready for the party, but we're getting there!

Brooklynn's 3 year Pictures


Brooklynn did such an amazing job getting her 3 year pictures made last Saturday! We're doing a Candyland themed birthday party and we "had" to get special pictures made in her costume for the invitations to the party! She, of course, hated wearing the costume, so bright ole mommy bribed her with the lollipop (that happened to fit perfectly as a prop)! I'm just thrilled at how these all turned out and am in awe that my little baby is almost 3 years old. The time has really flown by!
Here are the best pictures from the photo shoot:







Silly Bird...


Ah yes, we so love our trips to our local Walmart where we not only go to pick up random unneeded items, but allow our soon-to-be 3 year old to dress in character. Oh how I hope she doesn't outgrow this highly entertaining stage!

Brooklynn's 2nd Birthday!


I am SO late in posting this! I have been majorly slacking on the blog and it's almost Brooklynn's 3rd birthday and I'm just now posting pictures from her 2nd birthday! Bad mommy! I'll do better!

Oh what a wonderful 2nd birthday our little Brooklynn had! We decided to do a carnival theme this year and it turned out great! We had around 50-60 guests and everyone had so much fun! I spent months planning all the details out to make this party unforgetable, and everything went so perfect. When we woke up in the morning we were pleasantly surprised to see that we had been "flocked." Thank you Grandpa Chris for the funny flamingos being put in our front yard overnight! Hahaha!

I tried to snap a couple pictures of everything set up before everyone started to arrive! It was such a job getting everything ready, but it came out so festive!





Shhhh...Brooklynn's Birthday Present...

Shhhh...don't spill the beans...here is a sneak peek at what Mommy and Daddy have bought Bird for her birthday this year:). I'm so thrilled! I've been waiting for a long time for Tracey to have the time to make this for me, and she's been awesome enough to have it ready by Brooklynn's birthday party this weekend! I can't wait for Brooklynn to see it! As you can see, we played on Brooklynn's nickname, Bird, for the quilt's theme! I'm so excited that I'm about to burst over this! Haha! Brooklynn's going to love this for a long time to come!

The Front:



The Back:

Brooklynn's 2011 Easter School Picture!


Awww, her school pictures came out so good this year! I was just thrilled to see my little Brooklynn smiling so big for the camera (how they got her to not only sit still, but to actually pose and smile is a mystery to me)! Grandma Julie took us shopping to pick out this adorable little outfit...you can imagine how thrilled I was to find matching shoes on the clearance rack! Whoot! Haha!

Our new SWINGSET!!!

Thank you so much to our wonderful family that helped both financially (Grandma Julie) and physcially (Grandpa Javier, Grandpa Chris, Grandpa Delbert, Grandpa Roger, and Uncle Tommy)to get this swingset up. This swingset is already bringing so much joy and happiness to our backyard! We are so excited to see the continued happiness it brings to the kids in our family and in our neighborhood!

The work begins. We (well, not really me, but Michael and Javier) spent the first weekend leveling the ground...what a JOB that was.



The next weekend was spent doing the building! WOW! This thing came in four huge/heavy boxes with a ton of nuts/bolt/screws/washers. I joked that we had enough to open a hardware store! HA!





The finished swingset is so beautiful. We love it so much! Now all we hear from Brooklynn day in and day out is "outside? swing? outside?" Hahaha!



We can't wait to host many more cookouts this summer to put this thing to use! We are so blessed to have been able to put this up for our wonderful little Bird!

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