Caroline's birthday

Tuesday was Caroline's actual birthday. Travis and I spent the day with her and tried to make it truly "hers." We started the day by making her favorite breakfast - blueberry pancakes, although they weren't quite as good as Grandpa's. We took her to Fit for Fun to play. She helped me make some birthday cup cakes. And we met up with Carl and Alex and "Aunt" Marci at Chuck E Cheese for supper and more play time.

mmm, mmm, strawberry cup cakes!

watching Chuck E's band sing

flying high on one of the rides

riding with Barney

watching her boys play air hockey - this reminds me of me and Carrie at some campground arcade when we were growing up :-)

It's hard to believe how much Caroline's grown and changed over the past 2 years. Don't remember what life was like before June 16, 2007!

our precious angel 6/16/07

Sweet Girl 1 year old 6/16/08
Birthday Princess 2 years old 6/16/09

Birthday party

Yesterday was Caroline's 2nd birthday party at Power of Play, the theme was Yo Gabba Gabba! Everyone had a good time, especially the birthday girl. The biggest challenge of the day was keeping her still long enough to open presents. Her actual birthday is coming up on Tuesday, Travis and I will both be off work to spend her special day with her. Below are a few pictures from the party and you can view more by clicking here.

Where did May go?

Hard to believe it's been a month since the last post, I don't know where the time has gone. Here's just a few pictures to summarize some of what we've done.

We enjoyed going to Fit for Fun with Adrienne and Zoe

My Grandma passed away May 9th, here Caroline is helping us pack to go to the funeral. She loves to buckle things, so she strapped herself in the suitcase.
We celebrated my Mom's birthday in Smithfield and Caroline got some quality time in with her younger cousins, Margo and Brayden, while the older ones were at a movie. I think she's teaching them how to properly ride a rocking horse while drinking a cup of milk here.

Travis' cousin and family from South Dakota came down Memorial Day weekend. Caroline had her first bloody nose after meeting these cousins for the first time - she and Aspen accidentally collided while running on the beach in the dark.

For the past couple of weeks, she's reminded me of a little homeless person, loading up her most precious possessions in her shopping cart and pushing it all around the house. She'll put everything in there - dolls, toys, cups, food, blankets, clothes, etc.

And for the past couple of weeks, I've been party planning. I sent out these invitations for Caroline's 2nd birthday party coming up June 13th. I'll be gone for an entire week right before the party so I'm trying to take care of everything before I leave this Friday.

Definitely shouldn't be another month before I post again, we'll have lots of birthday pics in a couple of weeks!

We love Gabba!

I couldn't pass up this singing DJ Lance hat with glassess at Target yesterday. It's from Caroline's favorite TV show Yo Gabba Gabba. She really does like it more than you might think from this picture.

And I think it's cool too. And so does Travis!Her birthday party is going to have a Gabba theme this year too, maybe Travis can dress up like DJ Lance if we can only find a bright orange unitard in his size now...

I've also been meaning to post a few pictures from Fit for Fun with Carl and Alex a couple of weeks ago. Caroline has been there several times before but this was my first time going with her. It's a great place for her age group and she had a blast as usual, especially getting to spend time with her old pals.