Brooks's Birthday Party

Brooks's Birthday Party was a zoo theme. Our family loves our trips to the Riverbanks Zoo and is a big fan of animals, so we thought it was appropriate. We had fun!

Mom, Dad, and the Birthday Boy

The whole fam. Davis and Maggie called Brooks "the birthday boy" for about 5 days! It was awesome.

The cake, but B got a lion cupcake. Love some Little People animals!  :)

Friends made zoo animal masks! We made B a tiger, but he kept taking it off. Maggie made an elephant. Can you tell she's smiling? 

I'm ready, Mom!

I love everyone singing to me!

I get to eat this whole cupcake?

Who's smile is bigger? Mags or Aunt Elle?

Dad busted out our slip n slide one last time post party with our cousins. This hill is perfect for slip n sliding

Brooks is One!

Our Summer was awesome! It would be described as fun filled and exciting, but not necessarily relaxing. Relaxing is not really part of your vocabulary when you have 3 active kiddos under the age of 5. :) One day, I hope to catch you up on our visits to the beach, the lake, times with grandparents, and general adventures at home that we had this summer. However, that is too daunting to me at the moment, so I am going to start with Brooks turning one.

I hate that he is changing into this adorable little guy with a ton of personality and so many of you haven't seen a pict of him in 6 mos. Sorry! Here are some shots we had someone do for us. Yes, he is walking, and climbing, on everything! One of his favorites is to stand up on the chairs that Davis and Maggie use for craft time in the play room. He claps his hands and chooses to do it when I am trying to prep dinner and wishing he would play with his blocks for a few minutes--on the ground. Wishful thinking! :) He is all boy, smiles a ton, gives awesome hugs, has goose eggs on his forehead often (but fortunately has his dad's pain tolerance), thinks he is such a big kid when mom sees him coloring and playing with friends at preschool, will play with Davis and Maggie as long as they will let him (which is usually a good amount of time), keeps us on top of sweeping and vacuuming or he will do it :), loves singing and being silly, loves playing with Davis's Cars, and loves his giraffe nite nite. The list could go on. It still amazes me how your heart grows each time you have another child and you have just as much love for them as you do for your other children. It's pretty cool. God knows what he's doing, I guess!

Brooks is one! Could eat him up!

He's gotten 6 teeth (already had 2) since school started in August!

Flashback

These are some pictures I finally uploaded from my iPhone. We love being able to send pictures to each other and grandparents. One of my fave features of this new phone. Now if I can consistently upload them to my computer.

February...

March...

April...

April 2012

We stopped to visit Grandmomma on our way to Charleston in April. Maggie and Grandmomma looking at some photos.

Maggie and Brooks

Enjoying some Gdaddy

We went to a FamJam festival and the kids did some yoga.

Davis and Dad doing a sack race.  D got his face painted, he doesn't have a black eye!

Brooks with Nana and Gdaddy

Davis and Maggie ready to get on a stagecoach to go to a friend's birthday party, Western style!

Mom and the boys went to Date Knight at ChickfiilA. We already love ChickfilA, but the event was over the top and we had a blast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maggie and Dad had a date night too. Of course Maggie picked out a dress to wear and made sure Dad's shirt coordinated!

They had knights that talked to us!

We got to fight the knights! They made us balloon swords to take home and knight shields to color.

We even got to pet a horse and go home with coupons! D was excited he had his tunic from Mags birthday party. Our friends we met there wore theirs, too.

Pickin' Strawberries

We met Aunt Anne in Athens to do a picnic and pick some strawberries. Davis didn't understand why I didn't make him a strawberry shirt, so we decided to bust out some tractor ones for him and Brooks since we were going to a strawberry farm. :)

Maggie filling up her bucket. We made lots of different strawberry treats and snacks, but Maggie didn't want to eat them this year. She did a great job picking!

Silly kiddos!

Davis had trouble filling up his bucket at first since he kept eating them. He remembered all the details about picking strawberries from a book we had read and reminded us. "Get the big red juicy ones and get them gently and don't squish them in your hands."

Maggie and Aunt Anne following D's rules.

Easter 2012

Maggie with one of the Easter treats we made. They looked cuter than they tasted. :) We did lots of Easter baking this year--and of course crafts too!

We had lots of Easter egg hunts in our backyard leading up to Easter.

Morning of Easter parties at school. Mags wasn't feeling the picture, but the boys were.

We painted glue and decorated with colored sand on our Easter eggs this year. Davis and Maggie loved it and it was so much more hands on for them than the dying. We will do this again!

We made some cinnamon biscuit crosses and they were super yummy and it was a baking thing that Davis and Maggie full on did.

Davis with his Easter basket. We didn't do a great job of taking pictures of this morning, so this bug eyed shot is about all we got from the 3 of them! :)

Ready for church