Been busy

I've been super slack about taking and posting pictures obviously, but here's a few random shots taken during the past couple of weeks.

Caroline still loves jumping on her trampoline. She can now jump "high"!
As Travis predicted when we bought her a baby doll set complete with pack n play, she gets in it rather than putting her babies in there.

She enjoyed a visit with cousin Brayden, Aunt Leslie, and Uncle Greg and we gave bathtime with a boy another shot.

Looking serious and wise wearing Grandma's glasses when we spent a week there while I had trust training in Raleigh.

While in Smithfield she and Madeline and Lydia had a "dance recital" one night for cousin Maks. They danced to some old Beatles records wearing Aunt Leslie's old dance costumes (until those came off and she was dancing in just a diaper.)

Her new favorite breakfast is "cereal with milk." What a big girl!

She was sooo excited to go fishing with Daddy in the boat. Here she is posing before the big trip.
And demonstrating her technique.

She loves this ginormous puppy that Travis picked up for her (more clutter for our already cluttered house that we've been trying to declutter in order to sell.)

And this is a picture of the extended Thomas family (my mom's side) at Wiseman's View, beautiful setting where we spread my grandmother's ashes.

We are very excited that we have a contract on our house now, scheduled to close on September 28. We're purchasing a lot to build a house on, so now we have to find a place to rent for a few months until our new house is complete. I can't believe I don't know where we're going to live in a month!

Yesterday was our 8th wedding anniversary. Perfect anniversary gift was finding my wedding album that had been MIA for a couple of years. We didn't get to do anything to celebrate our anniversary because I had a meeting after work last night, but we're trying to find a babysitter this weekend so we can go out to dinner and a movie maybe.

Happy 4th of July!

We've had a great holiday weekend, took the boat to Lee Islands Friday and Saturday and enjoyed Wilmington's fireworks Saturday night. I was a little nervous about taking Caroline to see fireworks since they don't start until after her bedtime and not knowing how she would react to them, but she did good and enjoyed the show.

Maggie came with us to the beach Saturday for the first time this year, and she chased minnows in the water for about 5 straight hours. Caroline enjoyed playing in the water too.

And in the tube with Caitlin.

And in the sand.

And in other news, we became the owners of a minivan this week. My Honda Odyssey was delivered Tuesday. It's very nice, but I'm still getting used to the idea of driving a minivan.
Caroline had NO problem getting used to the DVD player in the back seat, and she learned how to get her headphones on real quick!

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.