Brielle's 1st Birthday

Here is our 1 year old princess! She is all dressed up for her party.

She is a very happy little girl. Here she is holding a sunflower from our garden. We are setting up for her birthday party at the Jacksonville water park.

Here are the cupcakes I attempted to make for her birthday. The frosting didn't work out. They tasted good, they just didn't look great.

Here is Brielle eating her first cupcake. She mostly poked at it.

Liam really enjoyed helping her open her presents.

She loved opening up her new toys.

She loves to look at all of the animals in this book.

I'm excited we are getting some pink toys in the house.

Her is Brielle eating a cupcake on her actual birthday.

She wanted to eat it with a spoon. She did a good job eating this one. I put whip cream on top of it instead of frosting.

Graham's 30th Birthday

This is Graham holding the box that Liam and Brielle made for his birthday.

We are ready to eat some delicious ice cream cake.

Here is Brielle running around with daddy's birthday money. She is learning early.

So I threw Graham a surprise party this year. Some of his friends from high school came up to join in the surprise. We hit his truck with water balloons and silly string when he was on his way home.

In the spirit of The Office, our niece Lindsay put some of Graham's things into a jello mold for his birthday.

My dad and our friends Sara and Devon were nice enough to cater the event for us. We had ribs, tri tip, bbq baked beans, corn bread, corn on the cob and more. It was delicious.

I made Graham a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting. He said it is his new favorite!

These guys all pole valuted together in high school. Thank you guys for coming to his party. We had a great time with you.

We ended up staying up late and having a lot of fun together.

Liam's First Day of Preschool

Liam started preschool 2 days a week. This is him opening his new backpack we got him. He was very excited about going to school.

Here he is getting ready to go in. He picked flowers from our garden for his teachers. His class is great. He has 2 teachers and only 11 kids in his class. He happily went inside and started playing. He didn't get clingy or cry. 

He had a great first day. He said he played with playdough, played outside, learned about the letter A and played toys. I think that school is going to be great for him. I look forward to seeing how the year unfolds.