Happy Birthday Piper!!

Dear Piper,

Happy 1st Birthday! What a year! You have brought us so much joy this year. I can't believe how fast it went. I remember how excited we all were to find out if you were a boy or girl and to finally meet you. I remember my dad (your Papa) coming over to the house before we left to the hospital and saying to me...."You know your having another girl, right?" I said "Yes". (I didn't know officially because we decided to wait until you arrived but deep down we thought you were another little princess) We had a little chuckle and the he said " well do you have a pretty little outfit to bring her home in?" I told him no because I didn't know and didn't want to assume....well your Papa and I went into the garage and started digging through bins of newborn outfits until we found the right one to bring you home in. (Thanks Dad, as you know, it turned out I needed that outfit.) Meanwhile your dad was pacing the kitchen ready to take us to the hopital and get us there on time:)

A few hours later you were here! Our sweet Piper Rose! Your were perfect. Very calm and quiet. You loved to be held and loved your baths. You have made a wonderful addition to our family and we couldn't imagine life without you. We hope you continue to grow strong, healthy and full of confidence. We love you so much! Happy Birthday

Love, Mom

BARNYARD BASH: PIPER TURNS ONE

Over the weekend we celebrated Piper's birthday. And what better way to do so but with her party animals...and Pebbles the pony

The cake

Party Favors

Decorations

The animals

The birthday girl

Birthday girl and Daddy

Presley and the baby Chicken

my turn...

Gigi and The Cub

Pony Rides

not quiet sure....

the best part....cake time

I'll take that

and give some to sissy Peyton

yummy

sharing with Aunt Lindsay

sweet ladies

serving the delicious cake!

Thanks so everyone for coming and making our Piper's birthday so wonderful and special!

Atlanta: Me, Singne and a little Dingo baby!

Over this past weekend I had the opportunity to visit Singne in Atlanta! All by myself (thanks babe :)) Mike was out of town so it was just me, Singne and her little unborn baby girl who we now refer to has her dingo baby. I know this doesn't make any sense to anyone as to why we started refering to her baby as a dingo but every time we said it ( with a fun accent of course) we would laugh, so the joke continues....

It was such a relaxing weekend. Singne and Mike have such a beautiful home. There is plenty of space for visitors although I decided to bunk in her room anyways. We definitely had a lot of catching up to do. It has been so hard to have a lengthy conversation with her lately with the the time difference of 3 hours but we now have a set schedule as to when we will call each other so I am soooo excited for that. We stayed up late (really late) chatting, laughing, and remembering some crazy times. So fun. We registered her and the baby, looked at bedding and looked at furniture. We even fit some shopping for us in too. The weather was rainy most of the time but was a wonderful change for me.

I loved every second of my trip and can't wait to bring the entire family back in July!!! I love you Singne and thanks for having me.

Here is Singne in her nursery. Mike is so excited to get painting it....PINK! Here a few purchases we made while we were there.

We didn't take a lot pictures so when we decided we better have a few to document the trip we needed to set up the equipment!

And here we are!!!

Here we are on their porch...pretty view

And here is the picture that Singne will be mad at me for posting!!! But look at how stinkin cute she is.

Disney for a Day

We had the opportunity to go to Disneyland for the day with my sister and her family. Kevin's son is visiting from North Carolina for two weeks so for the first weekend we all headed to the happiest place on earth! We LOVE Disney so we couldn't pass :) We had such a great time. I took the two older P's while my brother and sister in law took care of the Cub! (thanks so much Seth and Dani). We were only able to spend a day and a half with the James' family while they stayed the entire weekend. We loved getting to know Braxton and the kids played really well together. We spent 13 hours at the park on Friday!!! What fun we had. We also got to see the the World of Color show which was very cool! Thanks for all the fun memories Lindz, Kev and B. We love you all so much!

After 6 hours in the car we were finally to Disney

Ok...are these kids 5 years old or a 16?

We loved the Mad Hatter...him and Alice spent 20 minutes at our table

lets go!!!!

My little Pistol

Mission Complete!