It's Party Time

This year our precious girls turned one and three. We decided that since they are young and have the same friends, we would have their birthday party together. We booked it at a park, just praying for good weather in November. It turned out to be a beautiful day...almost 70 degrees. It was pretty windy, but we had a great time! It was so fun to celebrate our precious girls! They are such a blessing to us!

Brenley loves to open presents and was pretty sure that they were all for her...Brooklyn was okay with that this year, but next year might be a different story.

So excited about her new toy

We were so blessed to have their cousins at the party.

My precious one year old

Happy Birthday Brenley and Brooklyn

It was so windy we couldn't light the candles, but that didn't stop the fun.

Yum Yum!

Every one year old has to make a mess... it's so fun! This girl has a sweet tooth like none other...takes after her Daddy :)

I wish we would have taken a picture of the four of us.
We had a fabulous time at the party. Thank you to everyone who came.
Happy Birthday sweet girls!

Big Girl Bed

Brenley has been in her crib for a long time...three years to be exact. And she loved it! She would have stayed in it longer, but we were pretty sure she was ready to move to big girl bed.

So for her third birthday Brenley got a new bed. We bought a bunk bed, but only put together the bottom bed together because we didn't want the girls climbing up to the top yet. Some day they will have to share a room, so bunk beds will be perfect then.

Brenley absolutely loves her new bed. She has been such a big girl too. She's been in it for a while and still hasn't gotten out of her bed. When we put her to bed she stays there and when she wakes up in the morning or at nap time, she stays in her room until we come get her...it's fabulous!!!

Anytime anyone comes over, even Nana who has been over a lot, she usually always asks if they want to come see her big girl bed. She's so proud of it. And we are so proud of her! She has exceeded our expectations!

Fun With Family!

We always have a great time when the Hunters come in town and this time was no exception!

When they got in Thursday afternoon we were still at our house watching Ellie, the baby that I keep. We had planned on going over there that evening to see them. But Pops and Avery surprised Brenley and came to pick her up early. I don't think I've ever seen her so excited. She was jumping up and down and was talking a mile a minute, showing Avery everything in her house and her room. She was thrilled to have her cousin here! Atley and Avery are her best friends. Even though they live far away, she still talks about them daily. At night when we pray with her, Atley and Avery are the first people she wants to pray for. I pray that they always have a sweet friendship like they have now. It's just precious.

Here are a few pictures of our time with the family. There is always a lot going on so I don't always get out the camera. But here's a taste of what we did.

Uncle Danny took some time out to read a book to Atley and Brenley.

My beautiful sister Shelly, cute baby Champ, the adorable pregnant Amber and my gorgeous Mom. We always have a lot to talk about when we are together. Amber's sweet Baby Hudson is due December 20th, so we all love to talk about babies. We can't wait to meet little Baby Ruth!

Nana has a shofar (a hollowed out ram's horn) that she blows and the kids love it. They all got horns at the girl's birthday party earlier that day, so they were marching around blowing their horns. It was pretty noisy, but really cute!

One of the reasons the Hunters came down was to see our church's new campus. It is absolutely amazing, especially the kids part. They went above and beyond!

Here's Avery and Brooklyn riding Noah's ark :)

Brenley and Canon were off to help put out a fire!

My parent's neighborhood has a few beautiful ponds. They just put in a new playground by one of the ponds so we went to check it out on a beautiful day! We had a blast and enjoyed the beautiful surroundings.

Sweet Canon had been taking off his hat and saying, "Yee Haw," just like Woody. But I couldn't get him to do it for the camera, he just sucked his thumb, but he looked so precious!

Brooklyn joined him for a while but I don't think either one of them liked it very much.

Al got to take Pop's bike out for a spin. His first time on a bike in years! He never missed a beat!

Precious Avery being such a big girl walking on the ropes all by herself.

Sweet Atley was so big too!

Nana and Pops acting like kids! I'm so glad they still like to have fun!

Phillip showing his kids how to dig to China :)

Us girls posing for a quick picture.