PaRtY pArTy PaRtY

We celebrated Caroline's second birthday with a Dora-themed party! We had a moon bounce (which Dan coincidently won in a golf tourney), riding toys, balls, a pinata, and lots of food and cake. We had a great turnout and loved getting to celebrate with all of our friends and family.The "real" Dora even came. All of the kids seemed mesmerized for just a second but most came around and gave her a hug.
(I loved that Mary Bibb later commented to Ginny that she cant see Dora's braces when she watches her on TV!)

The Dora pinata before.....

And after.......
Caroline was so excited when it was time for her friends to sing Happy Birthday...she had been practicing singing it to herself and blowing out the candles for WEEKS!
We saved the presents for when we got home and Caroline got SOOOOOO MANY nice things. Thanks so much everybody!

Happy Birthday Caroline!!!

Caroline,

Happy Birthday sweetheart. We celebrated your second birthday this week. These last two years with you have been the happiest of my life. I love you so much. You are so cute and sweet and have so much personality. You are growing up so fast....talking, running, riding a tricycle and much more. You like to be the center of attention and are such a little ham. We had to have you a Dora party because you are obsessed with her and with Barney. I can hardly remember what my life was like without you are I thank God everyday that he lets me be your Mommy.
The previous pictures mark your birth, your first birthday, and your second. The two below are from Cracker Barrel on your first and second.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

We had such a great Halloween. Caroline was fired up the entire day.....in fact, she layed in her bed for an entire hour at nap time and never fell asleep and never stopped talking to herself the whole time. We finally relented and got dressed up. We started trick-or-treating about 3:30 in the afternoon and did not get home until about ten pm. We hit the family members first (which if you know the size of my family, it took awhile) and then went on the two great parties. Caroline played so hard and loved trick-or-treating. She was very good about yelling Tick or Teat!! and saying thank you. She was also saying "Best Niiiiii Ebberrrr!!!!! (Best Night Ever) She and her daddy went on a long hayride and she ate TONS of candy. She was probably the dirtiest I have ever seen her by the time that we got home but it was well worth it. Here are some pic in random order and even a few from last year just to compare.....(I sadly did not get any pics from our last get together because I could not find the camera...I finally found it this morning at the bottom of Caroline's pumpkin candy bag.....maybe someone will send me some!)

TrUnK oR tReAt!!!

We took Caroline to Trunk-or-Treat at our church recently. She got to wear her Raggedy Ann costume and looked adorable. She loved getting to see all of her buddies dressed up and really loved getting all of the candy. We then went inside and ate and played all kinds of festival games. Caroline expecially loved the cake walk....she played until she won a chocolate pie which we took to Granddaddy. She also won a prize for her costume. Can't wait until next year!!!

Carving at the Coulters

The Coulters have been busy carving our halloween pumpkins this week. We didn't get many pictures..my hands were too messy from cleaning three pumpkins, but we did get a few.

During the process....

And our finished masterpieces......

DADDY'S ALABAMA "A"

MOMMY'S GIRL JACK-O-LANTERNAND CAROLINE'S DORA!!!!! SHE IS OBSESSED WITH THIS PUMPKIN..TOO BAD ITS ALREADY ROTTING......

Pumpkin Patch 2009!

Some friends and I decided to take our girls to the Tate Farm Pumpkin Patch this past Saturday. Besides it being the coldest and windiest day of the year so far, we had a blast. It was absolutely freezing so we did kind of hurry through, but the kids got to do almost everything. We somehow did not manage to make it home with a single pumpkin! Oh well.....maybe next year.

The kids were so excited on the way there....hehe

We loved the petting zoo part..they had bunnies, puppies, pigs, goats, and a llama.

We played on the playground equipment and walked around....LOVED playing in the corb cribs...Took a hayride out to the pumpkin patch and picked out pumkins (that we were too lazy and too cold to carry back in and buy)...

And tried to get one group shot before we headed home...this was the best we got!

Best Friends