Happy Birthday - Briley's first party!

Briley absolutely loved her balloons! And, of course, we had a huge pink pig balloon on top!

Briley is ready for cake. Her cousins and sister are there for moral support! I actually think she was scared at firsst because everyone was looking at her. When she sucks her thumb it is usually for comfort or if she's sleepy and I don't think she was sleepy! :0



As you can see, Briley dug right in. At first she just poked at the icing but eventually she got the hang of it.

One of my favorite gifts (next to the gifts of love from all my family who came to see me today!)is - yep, you guessed it - a PIGGY bank! If Briley's favorite animal is not a pig I'll be so surprised!

Afterwards, we girls needed a little snuggle time! :-)

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Here are some photos we had made of the girls! I wish I could show you more but I never have gotten slide shows figured out yet!
Thanks to Sheila Cherry! phone 8426034 OR 2024342

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

SOMETHING TO CHEER ABOUT:

Briley is one year old today! I can do lots of things like CLIMB. My latest trick is climbing off the bed and up onto the coffee table. I still don't walk - I so prefer to crawl. However, I did take 4 STEPS to Paityn yesterday and then 4 steps back to mom! So, I really can walk - just don't want to. If you try to make me I lay down in the floor with my head down and just whine! Too funny! I don't really like table food very much either except for spaghetti and sliced cheese! Other than that, on some days I eat pudding or apple bits or fish sticks but on other days I spit it out! So confusing for mom! I do have four top teeth and four bottom teeth so I'm totally prepared to chew everything. Let's see, my new word is uh-oh although it comes out uh-eeee. Hilarious! I love to drop things! I'm saying ba for bottle. I drink out of a sippy cup so the bottle is almost gone - again, I just PREFER a bottle. Looks like I'm pretty particular about things huh?!?! Check back soon for birthday pics - we are having my family party this weekend! I'm also having pics made this week so maybe we can post some of those??

Happy Easter - a day late!

Here are the girls trying to hunt Easter eggs Sunday evening after we returned from our trip. Needless to say, it was way too windy to have Briley outside for long so I snapped a couple pictures of her finding her ONE egg and then we ran back into the house while Brad and Paityn finished gathering the rest of the eggs. Briley got the hang of putting them in her "pig" basket pretty easily! Ya know, I hope I haven't given her a complex or anything but she was a pig for Halloween, has a pig basket for Easter, and we are having farm animals for her 1st birthday with a HUGE pink pig balloon! HaHa! Look for our birthday pics soon. Hopefully I can get a post on her birthday! We are actually having our family over to celebrate the weekend after her actual birthday. I can't believe we are in her final days before she is one year old! Time goes by so fast!

"Our" weekend golf trip

Well, my wonderful husband booked a golf trip for us on Easter weekend so here is what the girls and I did most of the time while he was out on the golf courses - 4 different courses in three days???!!! Briley absolutely LOVED going up and down and up and down the two whole steps in our condo! I did get to sit back and relax while the kids played together and I didn't have to cook one time in three days! Wow! We ate at the country club one night and hit some fast food places plus a couple of microwave breakfasts! So, we did get to leave the hustle and bustle of everyday happenings at home but did I mention it was a GOLF trip?? What in the world was my husband thinking? - and it was in TN - not even near a beach for goodness sake! But at this time of year I'm not sure that would matter a whole lot unless we went way down south! We did get to meet some wonderful people - we love our "roomie" and new found friend who is due to have a baby boy in June! I'm already looking forward to meeting Baby Boy Andrew? (still working out the final name choice!) This is her first child so I simply offer the advice - just go with the flow and do what comes naturally! Pretty solid advice from a mom of two, don't ya think?


By the way, Briley QUICKLY learned to go backwards down the steps! She bacame a pro after three days of lots of practice!

Happy St. Patrick's Day ( a day early!)

Here is Briley preparing for a happy St. Patrick's Day by wearing Paityn's necklaces. She can actually put them on and take them off by herself - a pretty neat trick for an 11-month old I think! :-o The funniest part was when they got stuck on her hair bow! Too funny! The pictures don't show it as well as an action video would - I'm still trying to get the "youtube" thing going but I haven't figured it out yet! Maybe you'll see some video clips soon?? Enjoy!


She has also begun to hand things to people. Here she decided to hand me the necklaces after she took them all off! She's got the best "sharing" manners! :-) Love you sweet girl!

My funny girls!

Here is what I found the other day when I went to check on my girls!!!!!!!!!!!! Briley had actually started putting the swing from Paityn's dollhouse up in front of her face like a pair of glasses and then Paityn decided to give it a try! Hilarious! Briley would just laugh and laugh! I think she's gonna have a very silly, funny personality - takes after Granpa, I guess! :-) She has lots of new tricks up her sleeve! She seems to do something "new" every day! I can't believe she's almost 1 year old!