Happy Birthday Berkley!!

My sweet baby girl is one year old! I can't believe how fast this year has flown by! We wanted to have a sweet celebration as sweet as our Berkley!

The party was so fun! We had all of our closest friends and family there! I had a lot of fun playing with the 'Ice Cream' theme. I think my favorites were the cupcakes. The cupcakes were in waffle cones and the icing looked just like an ice cream scoop!

My camera decided not to work the day of the party but I think it worked out because I was able to download everyone's pictures before they left. Berkley was a busy girl at the party. Everyone wanted their picture taken with the birthday girl.

I didn't expect Berkley to be interested in the cake at all. After all...she only likes baby food and Cheerios. She tasted the cake then went for the waffle cone, which she loved!

It was so fun to have all of our new little friends at the party! The youngest of the crew were Gage and Graham. I think we counted 19 kids! SO MUCH FUN! Everyone was in the picture except Jaxson...he wasn't feeling it. :)

We had some indoor activities and some outdoor activities. Lots of fun for everyone!

We had the party a little early so we celebrated on the 28th as well! Berkley was greeted by her Daddy in the morning, then she experienced her first pancakes. She loved them! We went to the pool, she took a nap, then after dinner we headed to Baskin Robbins to make the "Ice Cream Celebration" complete. She thought she was such a big girl to get to hold her own cone! I think that she loved her fun day of new things.

Berkley we love you so much and thank God for you daily! You have such a sweet, calm personality. You are such a blessing to you mommy, daddy and sister. Happy Birthday!

New Family Vacation

We had a wonderful weekend at the lake for Father's Day this year. I think that Brookelynn and Jaxson had the most fun, which made it so fun for us to watch. Jared, Rachel and the boys came out a little later but Jaxson was ready to catch up on the stuff that he missed out on. He didn't even make it to the house before he was in the pool! They were hilarious! Here is Jax grabbing a quick drink in the hot Texas weather! haha (out of his shoe)

Brooke was SO excited to have a partner in crime!

Brooke and Jaxson had different techniques on entering the pool...Brooke was all about the height and Jax was more interested in the sting of the belly flop!

This is so fun guys!

Got a little tangled

They definitely mastered the Slip N' Slide

Sunday morning we woke up and had a delicious Father's Day Breakfast. It was the perfect finish to a wonderful weekend. Brookelynn and I recorded this cool book for Bailey and it was funny to watch him as he listened to his silly girl's answers. Thank you Bailey for being such a loving Daddy to our little girls! Thank you to my sweet dad for being such a wonderful Dad and Chief! You are adored by all of your girls as well! I love you!

Jared & Jaxson took a little rest on the hammock. A sweet Father's day memory!

Crazy haired boat driver!

Beal Family Vacation

We headed to San Antonio at the beginning of June to have a weekend with the Beal family. It was SO much fun. The last family vacation that we went on with the Beal was the first year that we got married. I guess they didn't like to spend that much time with me! :) Well it was definitely a different vacation than it was 8 years ago! We headed to the Wild Oak Ranch for great family friendly fun!

Berkley got a new big girl car seat for the trip! She thought she was such a big girl and loved watching a movie with Brookelynn. Sad to say that there was not much sleep on the way down there.

The Wild Oak Ranch has a cool lazy river, beach and pool on the grounds and the kids had the most fun in the sand. They got pretty dirty. Terry and Nita were great to sit in the sand with them while the 'big kids' floated the river. (All except Bailey, who was sick in the room.)

Saturday night we headed to downtown to have dinner at Mi Tierra. The food was quite tasty but the wait was a little long. We shopped a bit and we played our guitars, we shook our maracas and we shopped a little more. Then it was finally time for dinner!

Brookelynn loved the mariachi band.

At the end of the day we were all tired but we had a great day. Our little senoritas were all decked out! More pictures to come...I just need to get them off Terry's camera.

Silly Girls

Brynn came over for a couple of afternoons while John and Jenn were out of town and the girls had a great time. (As always) Here are a couple of pictures of them being silly!

Not my baby anymore...

My sweet Berkley has been a 'baby' for a really long time! She started sitting up at 6 months and has been content sitting watching her sister ever since. She was not interested in crawling or rolling... just sitting and laying. She finally got a little bored and started crawling on June 5th. She hasn't stopped yet. On June 6th she started standing up in her bed...it seems so strange walking in to get her now.

Photo op...

Of course Brookelynn wanted to get in the picture! (Doesn't like to be out of the spotlight long)

Happy Memorial Day

We had a great low key weekend. The best part of the weekend was having Bailey home with us for 3 days. We loved it! We went to the pool with the Selfs...

Brookelynn being a sweet sister!

Bailey being a wonderful daddy!

On Monday night we also went swimming and finished the night off with a little sparkler... Here is Berkley with her big bow to let people know that she is a girl. Her outfit made it a little hard to tell.

Family picture.

Thank you to our troops and my cousin, Ben, for all that you do for our country. You are always in our prayers!

Silly Berkley...what a precious smile.

Zoo day

Jenn and I decided to take an adventure with the kids. We wanted to go to the Dallas Zoo, so we decided to take the Dart Rail down there. It was so much fun! We met at the station at 9 and we were off. It took about 45 minutes to get down there and the kids had a great time. I met a lady that was trying out for the X-factor and we talked the entire way down. (Jenn & I had to split up because we had our huge strollers...and she got stuck with both big girls! :) thanks Jenn). When we arrived at the zoo Kelley, Tate & Blakely were waiting for us! The kids were taking it all in!

Berkley rode her first carousel too. She rode with her big sister and Brookelynn did such a great job of holding on to her.

We got some cute pics of the big kids... We saw the gorillas, the elephants, we fed the giraffes, we watched the leopards play, then we headed to the kids area. The girls had a BLAST in the water.

The ride home...We had some tired kiddos. We had to run to the train to catch it. It was so fun! I helped Jenn walk on the wild side a bit...she thought that I was crazy for running to catch the train! :)

At the end of the day...the girls were exhausted...and we were too. We had the wrong kids! :)

Berkley Photo Shoot

We went the park to get a cute pic of Berkley for her birthday! We got some cute one! Here are some of my favorites. Brookelynn was such a big sister and photo assistant.

My sweet Berk

Silly smile

Dramatic pose

Laughing at Brooke