*drew*tarah*maddux*reese*holden*

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Bowling

We took Maddux bowling for the first time 2 weeks ago. This video says it all... SOOOO much waiting and all for a gutter ball! :)

Friday, May 27, 2011

Maddux and Paisley took swimming lessons together this year. The first 3 days were basically a cry fest. But, miraculously on day 4, both were happy and did awesome the rest of the time! Ms. Pam really knows what she is doing and hopefully now our kids will both be little fishies in the water.

Maddux's favorite thing to do in the lessons is to jump off the side and swim to the edge by himself.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

walker

I'm a bit behind on this because Reese has been walking since right after her birthday. Just last week she gave up crawling completely and now walks everywhere.

This first video was when she was first figuring the walking thing out. In the second one, she is definitely more confident. :)

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Date Night

In the last year, I cannot think of a single time that Maddux and I have spent time together, just the two of us. So, I took advantage of this Mother Son Date Night at Chik-Fil-a. I LOVE Chik-fila. Their food is ok (definitely better than most other fast food places though), but I mostly love that it's so kid friendly and the employees are SO awesome.

So, to start our date off, we got to have a little carriage ride behind a big white horse. Maddux was SO excited. I think he felt sooo special!

We had a little table for two with a server and everything.

Dessert included...

Craft table...The kids were supposed to make this hanging heart for their Mom's that said, "#1 MOM" However, Maddux insisted it would be for Daddy, so we left the "MOM" part off. ;)

They even had a relaxing corner set up for moms to get a chair massage while the kids played.

It was an awesome night and I loved spending time with my little bud!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

one

My baby girl is one! I can NOT believe it!

She started out her bday by waking up at 4:30am to play for a couple of hours. She must have been REALLY excited. ;)

We threw her a balloon themed party last night and I think she loved it!

the set up...

instantly her favorite new toy...

this girl got spoiled! She has had to fight off her big brother from all her new toys!

Sweet big brother giving her a spontaneous hug...

She didn't mess around with her cake..

she shared with Daddy..

She had her 1 year appointment today and these are her stats:
Weight: 19 lbs, 7 ounces- 25%
Height: 30.25"- 80%
Head: 18"- 70%

Reese...

**takes a few steps before she decides to sit down and crawl, but I know she could keep going if she was brave enough.
**loves to blow kisses.
**dances EVERY time she hears music.
**loves to call Daddy on the phone, or anything that she can pretend is a phone.
**eats anything and everything she can get her hands on.
**gets really shy when strangers talk to her

Monday, April 25, 2011

Newport

My parents took the fam to Newport to celebrate my mom's big 50th! It was so fun and having ALL the cousins together was amazing/chaos. I loved every minute of it! We stayed in a house that was just steps from the beach. I took WAY too many pictures and had a really hard time narrowing it down. (This is a long post)

My mom opening her book that Amber worked so hard putting together(Letters and pictures from all of us...

Maddux whacking a mole...

LegoLand...

We took our giant strollers all the way to the top, only to find out there was no way down but the way we came. My parents were so nice to push them ALL the way back down AGAINST traffic...