Karley's Birthday Fiesta

Karley had her birthday fiesta on Saturday at Bear Creek Park in Grapevine. A special thanks to all of our friends and family that came and made Karley's birthday a very memorable one. I hope every one had a blast. I know my kids did. They have been pretending to be the grumpy old troll and swiper all weekend and making each other solve riddles so they can cross over the bridge. For those of you who couldnt make it here are the highlights of the party!!
Thankfully it was a beautiful day and the kids started out by just hanging at the park. Special thanks to Laura who took all these pictures for us!





After some play time we ate Dora snacks. Explorer star sandwiches and chocolate covered bananas for boots the monkey. Who knew so many little people could fit at one table.Happy Birthday Karley, a little help from Mommy and Kolton to get the candle blew out.

After some snacks everyone grabbed their backpacks and got ready to go on an adventure with Dora to find the big pinata

A VERY VERY special thanks to swiper the fox who made an appearance and tied to steal our backpacks and made a couple of kiddos cry along the way including Karley. She is usually my brave one, but no this time Kolton had a blast and Karley freaked out!!

After we made it past swiper we came to the grumpy old troll, but we couldnt pass over the bridge until we solved the trolls riddle.

Finally we all made it to the big pinata!

Thanks so much to swiper and the grumpy old troll who agreed to some photo ops. I owe them BIG. I think lunch is one me at least until Christmas! You two did an amazing job. Kolton is still talking about it. He wanted to come back and see you after naptime and again on Sunday!

Once Karley realized Swiper wasnt there to swip her she was back to her happy self and ready to open presents.

Karley got some amazing gifts. Thank you all so much. By far her favorite so far has been her new babies and her butterfly wings. She has only taken the wings off for nap and a bath, we hid them so she couldnt find them to wear them to church :)

Once she had wings... she insisted she could fly!

Thank you all for coming. Karley had a great time!!!

Karley is 2 and its JoMama's Birthday too!

Our baby girl is officially 2!! She had a great day with Bethany and Lilly and had a mini cupcake party complete with a birthday sash and a birthday crown which she kept on for the entire day!

Kolton had a hard time not being the center of attention today and he opened up Karley's presents while she was in the bathroom. However she was perfectly happy to share and didnt mind that the presents were already open.

Birthday Cupcakes

Karley and all of her new dora babies thanks to G-MA, Bethany and Aunt Kristy. Karley loves her Dora. She carried all three around all day.


They even made it safely into Karley's bed. I bought her a pack and play to put her babies in and she happily put them all in and said goodnight, but then got mad when i would put the pack and play in her bed. So she moved all the dora babies into bed with her :) This house is surrounded with Dora everywhere!

Kolton's Field Trip

Today Kolton and Mommy went on a field trip with Kolton's school to the Dallas Arboretum. We had lots of fun checking out the pumpkins, playing in the playhouses and getting Kolton's face painted. Once his face was painted he ran around saying "woof, woof" to everyone who walked by. We had a great time today just having some Mommy Kolton time!

Kolton's first day of school

Kolton had so much fun on the first day of school.

Mommy: Kolton what did you do at school today?

Kolton: We played, we played in the gym, we played with cars, we played on the playground at school. I did work a shape puzzle.

Mommy: What was your favorite part at school today?

Kolton: My favorite part was the scary balloon and the shape puzzle

Mommy: What made the balloon scary

Kolton: The air was going out on the balloon

In case anyone is wondering, I had a good first day too.

New York Vacation

We had so much fun on our vacation to see our families for Cameron's first birthday and my grandparents 65 wedding anniversary party. It started off a little rough and both kids got sick the night before we were supposed to leave, but even puke in every room didnt stop us from making it on the trip (just a day later than planned) Here are some of my favorite pictures from the tripKarley reading a book with G-Pa (my dad is too cool to be called grandpa so we had to come up with a cool name for him.
Kolton turned into a baby for a while and really enjoyed the baby toys.

Karley and uncle Doob, she loves being tickled

Kolton, Karley and baby Cameron chilling on the swing

Karley on the motorcycle

We loved swimming in Jo Jo's pool

Kolton's camp out, more like camp in, but he slept and napped in a tent at Jo Jo's house

Kolton, Karley, daddy and Art Art going on an safari adventure to the "rainforest" They actually went out back in the creek, but the first time my kids had been in the woods and Karley thought it was the rainforest thanks to Dora and Diego's show when they go to the rainforest.

Aunt Kristy and Baby Cameron

Here is Kolton playing with the baby toys again

Cameron's first birthday boy did he love that cake. Happy birthday cameron!!