Fun Family Day!

Yesterday, Blake and I took Caroline to the GA Aquarium for the first time. I had this big expectation that she would be in awe over all of the big fish. She did like seeing the different fish but she was more scared than anything. It was super crowded too so I think that made her even more timid and shy. None-the-less, we enjoyed a family day together!

The best family picture we could get!

Mommy and Caroline!

This picture shows how scared Caroline was. In this particular tank, they had a scuba diver cleaning the tank and she was freaked out by it.

Daddy and Caroline...you can tell she's still not buying it!

Cool jelly fish picture!

Walking through the tunnel...she liked looking at the fish above her!

Daddy and his look alike!

Daddy and Caroline going through the penguin tunnel. She loved it...that was probably her favorite part!

There's that sweet smile!

Love,love,love this picture!

I took this picture with my phone so the quality isn't great but I thought it was cool how big that fish looks compared to them standing there!


After the aquarium, we decided to go for an all time Atlanta treat and eat at the Varsity. Caroline loved it! She ate every bite...and so did Blake and I. It was super greasy but so yummy! We even decided that since we ate so bad that we would keep it going and get some ice cream. Here's Caroline enjoying her treat!



I'm thankful for days like yesterday to be able to take time out of our busy lives and focus on our family! We had an awesome day and made memories that I'll never forget!

Organization is key!

I am a very detailed and organized person. I love love love when things are clean, neat, and organized. Recently Caroline's toys/baby clothes have taken over our garage and it was starting to kill me how un-organized our garage looked. So, when my father-in-law bought us a garage organizing kit I was beyond thrilled. My in-laws came over a couple of weeks ago and we went out to dinner and came home to put up the shelving units. It didn't take Chris and Blake long to put it together and the after product is amazing. I LOVE it! I so wish I had taken a before picture to compare the two. Here are some pictures of the after product. They aren't the best pictures since I was trying to take them with my car in the garage so you can't really see just HOW great and organized our garage looks but you get the idea! I mean I don't have to bang my car door on the tricycle or the doll house or our coffee table (that we had to break down) when getting out of the car!...you get my gist???



And we have so much more room to grow in our garage...which is nice to know seeing how quickly kids can add things to your house!


So I want to give a big thank you to my in-laws for bringing organization back to my life!!! Now if I could just get a backsplash in my kitchen...ummm??!!!

Birthday and Valentines Day!

Saturday was my mom's birthday! Caroline and I called her early Saturday morning to sing "Happy Birthday" to her. I wasn't sure that Caroline would actually sing but she did and she didn't miss a word! It was precious and I know it made my mom's day! We celebrated her birthday last night at my parents house. We had a yummy dinner and Caroline and I had picked out a yummy cake for her!


Grandma with her wonderful grandkids!

Caroline was a little excited about eating cake and ate the entire thing! She is serious about her sweets!


Caroline had a fun Valentines day today! She woke up to find a Valentine Minnie Mouse that mommy and daddy had bought her! I had told Blake to take pictures of her this morning since I leave for work before she gets up. Here she is posing with her goodies!!! I could just eat her up...I love her so much!




She also celebrated at her school and came home with this card holder that she had painted and it was full of Valentines and other goodies!


Eating her Valentine sucker!

Playing with her PlayDoh that she got from a friend at school!


We hope you all had a great Valentine's Day!!

To my faithful blog readers....

I'm sorry that I've been in a blog funk lately. I've just been busy with being a full-time employee during the day and a full-time mommy at night! I do have a few things that I would like to show you all that we've been doing the past week or so but I haven't taken the time to download the pictures onto my computer. So, for now I'll leave you with 2 cute pictures of my little diva that were taken with my iPhone!

A girl needs her accessories!

Little Pony Tail! Love it:)



Check back later this week for a catch-up post!!! Have a great week!

A new day!

If you read my post below, you saw that Caroline and I had a horrible Monday...even though we didn't go to work/daycare. How is that possible??? Anyway...today turned out to be a much better day. Caroline went back to daycare since it seems as if her fever and runny nose/cough is from teething. She did great and was excited to see her friends. I went back to work and was doing well until 10:00 when I about passed out. I started feeling so yucky but I'm not the type of person to announce that I feel bad and am about to pass out b/c I get embarassed(silly-I know!). Luckily, one of my co-workers came into my office about the time that I thought I was going to fall out of my seat and got the nurse two doors down and they helped me out. Ends up my blood pressure was high (go figure!) and blood sugar levels were low. So, I ate some crackers and felt much better. It's just an off set from the other issues I've been having since Saturday. Another story for another day!!!

So, as promised...here's some pics from our fun girls lunch. I've mentioned on my blog before but my mom and her sisters and their daughters all get together every 2-3 months to celebrate the birthdays for those months. We always involve food in our get together too...who wouldn't?? We met at Journey's End again...my absolute favorite southern food cooking restaurant. I could eat there everyday..but then I would be 100 lbs heavier so it's probably a good thing that it's so far away from us!I usually get good pics of everyone and a group shot but with 2 two year olds and 4 other kids..we didn't get around to it! Plus, I was feeling pretty crapy so I wasn't in the mood for pics! Oh well...there's always next time!




Caroline got to celebrate her birthday again...this child is going to think it's her birthday every weekend!! She got lots of cool stuff from my aunts and cousins! Fun times!




And here's a tired little girl who was more than ready for a nap!

Our Monday

What a day Caroline and I have had. I just can't believe all we went through today. Let's just say that we both were sick yesterday so I decided to stay home today to REST. But we ended up being at my dr's office from 11:30am-3:00pm. During that time, Caroline had a melt down with goldfish, a nasty poop that smelt up the entire room, and I was about to have an anxiety attack from it all! We both were exhausted from being up all night last night with C having a 103 fever and cough. I had hoped to nap between my dr visit and her's but it didn't happen. It was a ROUGH day.

Good news is we had her 2 year check-up with her sick visit and she's perfect. She's meeting all of her milestones and beyond. She didn't gain weight from 18 months to now but they aren't concerned since she gained in height. She's in the 50th% for height and 5th% for weight. She is only 23lbs...my little shrimp!!!

I have pictures to post from our fun girls lunch we had with my family on Saturday. Hopefully I'll be able to do that sometime this week. I'm just SO tired from our crazy day of going and going that I'm heading to bed! Glad to put Monday behind me!

Party Time!

(Warning: This is a long post with lots of pictures! I wanted to document our fun weekend into one post since this week is going to be crazy for me and I probably won't have time to blog again for awhile!)

We pretty much began celebrating Caroline's birthday on Friday! She wore her birthday girl shirt to school and they gave her a party hat to wear and sang Happy Birthday to her! So by the time I picked her up from school and got her home she was walking around singing Happy Birthday to herself! So funny. Then we went and got pizza (her favorite!) and my parents came over to spend the night to help me prep for her party on Saturday. She was thrilled to see her grandma and granddaddy and stayed up way to late with all of the excitement!


Saturday we had her big party with all of her friends at our clubhouse. We had 2 jumping houses and a crawling tunnel for all of the kids to play in so she had a blast with everyone! The theme was Minnie/Mickey mouse and it turned out really cute!

I bought these cute buckets and added the minnie mouse ears! Easy and cute!

The spread. We had all of Caroline's favorites...chick-fil-a chicken nuggets, chips/dip, pimento cheese sandwiches, fruit and goldfish!

The cookie cake..again her favorite!

A few of the decorated tables!

Party favors!

Jumping in one of the jumping toys!

The family shot...wasn't that great but at least we have one...right??!!

My college roommate and her little boy, Tyler!

Caroline jumping with her friend Katelyn!

Caroline's best little buddy...Luke! They were SO cute at the party and wouldn't go anywhere without each other. He's in her daycare class and are big buds!

Is this little guy not the cutest thing ever??? I could eat him up!

Singing Happy Birthday to Caroline!

Present time! She LOVED this baby doll and wouldn't open anything else!!

Caroline opening the gift her friend Hayes gave her!

More presents!

A cute little riding toy from her friend Megan!

Some of my greatest friends!

All the kids at the party minus about 5 others that had already left by the time we took this picture!

Sunday, was her actual birthday! We got up early and went to church where they celebrated her special day even more!! She got to wear a party hat and eat a HUGE sucker! Any kid loves a day where they can get overloaded on sugar!!! Then we went to Cleveland to my parents house and my mom had a big dinner for her and made special cupcakes.

Sweet birthday girl!

Caroline's first scooter! She LOVED it!

Yummy cupcakes!

Cupcake face!

We had the best weekend celebrating our sweet girl. I'm glad she had as much fun as we did! Now we just need to find a storage unit or a bigger house to hold all of the toys!!!