Tristan's fourth birthday

So Tristan had a party with kids and everything. He then had a second party with us, lol.



Adrianna peeking over a present.



Woo-hoo!



She looks impressed too! :0)



He just looks so kissable! He was posing for his mama, I just snapped too. Every time I see it I want to kiss his cheeks. He's growing up way too fast!



I love how he's "reading" the back.





There was fun with balloons.







And fun with jellybean pooping chickens. I started to clean up Addy's dress in photoshop, then I thought, nah, let it be. She's two, she should be messy, lol.







Tristan still loves his baby sister. He calls her, "My Anna" or "My Baby Anna".

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Life is a party!  Let's have fun and celebrate it!

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Adrianna turned 2

I think she's unhappy that there's always Christmas decorations at her birthday party. :0) Actually, she was a very happy girl. . .most of her party. We all gathered around to sing Happy Birthday and she was beaming, looking around at us and beaming, then suddenly she clouded over and before the song was over she howled. lol We SO wish we had been running a video! Dang!

More HTC Heros than anything else, lol.

Just a Gray Cat

Several weeks ago we went to a geocaching event that was also a birthday party for one of Team Black Cat's members. His wife had this cake made up for his 50th birthday and even though he's now a gray cat he's still going strong. lol

I loved the cake and snapped a few photos with my little point and shoot but had forgotten all about them until now.

His wife also made this yummy chocolate candy kitties. :)

Hope you don't mind me breaking out of living critters to share some fun ones. If you haven't heard of geocaching, it's a sport using a gps to basically find tupperware containers, film cans, etc in the woods and parks and such. Kind of a treasure hunt where the prize is a smiley online. We've found well over 4000 caches in about 35 states (more or less).

Adrianna's party

December 18th marked Adrianna's 1st birthday. Of course there was a party.

And cake!

Her mama made the cute little bears, pink for Addy and white for Twister. There's a story behind the bears, each one of my children had bear cakes just like these for their first birthdays. It makes me so happy that Britney is continuing it with her children too.

And lots of girlie presents.

She figured out the whole wrapping paper thing pretty quickly and it was good practice for Christmas a week later, lol.

Not to get all mushy but I love this girl SO much! She is so affectionate and tiny and cute and sweet and funny and huggable and I could go on and on. A year ago I wondered how I could possibly love her as much as I did Tristan, but I do, and it took a while for her to like me, it seemed, but she sure does now. There's nothing better than having both of these babies on my lap.

And princesses, lol.

Another first birthday tradition that Britney has started is pizza. We anxiously watched our little peanut sample her first piece of pizza.

She figured out what to do with it quickly.

Pizza in one hand and cake in the other, could there be a better day?

Tristan did very well throughout it all. He wasn't jealous of sister getting presents at all. But I love the expression when he sees his bear on his tray.

Lil ham.

He figured out what to do with the bear pretty quick.

As did Addy.

Yep it was a good party!

The Birthday Party

My Precious Pumpkin had a birthday!

The puppy watched on.

Twister, Tristan, first grandchild of mine is now 2 years old! I’m still trying to figure out where the time has gone, it has went so fast!  (Sidenote: See that rolltop desk in the background?  I got that when I was 11, that was uh. . .um. . . -math gets harder the older you get- 31 years ago!  It lives with Britney now)

I swear just yesterday I was watching him come into the world, all 8lbs of him! He has grown into those hands and feet. And now he’s a big brother!

Of course we celebrated with presents and you can probably guess what we got him. No? A camera of course! No, not a Canon 5D, just a little kid camera for starters but I can’t wait to take him on photo safaris.

And lots of cars! Oh how he loves cars!  And I'm more than happy to play with hot wheels again.

We managed to pull him away from his toys long enough for cake.

Even the cake sported a car, one with turning wheels and such that he is able to play with. Yay!

Uncle Haden lifted him up to blow out the candle but I guess he thought we were trying to burn his face off and he wanted no part of it. Daddy blew it out for him.

I bet you never knew the proper way to eat ice cream. But now you know, you pick the glob up with one hand and pinch pieces off with the other.

And the proper way to eat cake is, of course, to get a piece on the fork then pick it off with the other hand. Check out the face in the background. All in all I’d say he had a great birthday!