The real Birthday at Chuckee Cheese

"We didn't know we get to have TWO birthdays," says Cole.




Claire's showing off her new play Ariel shoes!

3rd Birthday party!

Our 3rd Birthday party was a success! The cakes they wanted were pretty easy to make, although I took some help from the store with Claire's cake toppers! She is all about the Disney princesses!
Claire was too embarrassed to blow her candles out, so Cole blew hers out after his!


The bikes were a big hit!

I know all of you know this game! Nick and I had to buy it when we saw it at the store, notice we are both playing as well!

Cane's Baptism

When I found out that both my Grandmas and Mike (dad's brother) were interested in coming to Cane's baptism, I decided to schedule it the same day as Cole and Claire's b-day party. It is not often they make it to Cedar Falls, so I wanted to really make the trip worth while. A baptism and a birthday party all on one day!

Our guests from Missouri!

Cane was so attentive! He never cried once, he actually smiled after they poured the water on his head!
Marcie (my sister) and Tim (Nick's brother) are Cane's Godparents


We didn't want Cane to feel less important at the party, so he got his own cake!

Mexico!

Scuba Diving!

A night out in Cancun!

Kari and Kevin's Wedding!

Kari and Abby (college roommates)

A typical day at our house these days!

My three babies playing on the floor!

The Wedding!

Nick's best man from our wedding got married this past weekend. Nick was a groomsman, I was the personal attendant, and Cole and Claire were ring bearer and flower girl. When they asked us for Cole and Claire to be in the wedding a year ago, I thought it would be so great! And it was great, they did amazing, but being the mother of two 2-year-olds in a wedding was very stressful! Since Nick was in the wedding he was unavailable most of the day to help, I wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for my parents! While we definetly had ups and downs throughout the day, they walked beatifully down the ilse with big smiles just like we had talked about for the last month! I would never have guessed Claire would be leading the way down the isle after seeing her crying and asking to take her dress off 15 minutes before the wedding started! We even made it through dinner and danced for quite a while before I sent them home so I could relieve a little stress (which I did, didn't I Marcie)! Overall, looking back on it, they did a great job, especially compared to what I expected! Congrats Josh and Sarah, our family had a wonderful time at your wedding!

Practice hair day on Thursday, I needed to make sure she would sit still while I curled it, and she did!





Immediately after making it down the isle, we were so happy! The kids did not sit through the wedding, after 2 hours of sitting through pictures, they couldn't sit still!

Cane, of course, did an amazing job of just hanging out all day!I had a little relaxing to do after the wedding!