#1...

I can not believe that it has already been a year!!! Wasn't he born yesterday? We spent a wonderful afternoon at the park with friends, family, and flies

(they were all over today) to celebrate my big guy turning the BIG #1.

His favorite thing was playing with the balloons and eating the sidewalk chalk.

Bryce has always been a very serious child. He makes you really work to get him to smile. At this moment his Grandpa Dunkley is singing Happy Birthday to him in his famous Donald Duck voice. We are all cracking up but Bryce was not amused.


Whats a birthday without a good cry



The very first time that Anika had ever had cake was on her 1st birthday. Bryce being number 4 has had more sugar than I care to admit.

We knew he would have no problems









Taking down decorations is always more fun than the presents.



Thank you to everyone who made it such a special day!!!

LIFE IS SWEET...

Or as my sweet Taryn says Shweet!!! Right now anything wonderful or

exciting gets a "Oh Shweet Mom!!"

Playing at the park is always a sweet time.

It was pretty sweet to find a tree full of ladybugs.

Delicious lemon cupcakes are always tasty and sweet!!

But nothing is sweeter than having Great Grandma in town for a visit.

Geodes are...

COOL!!! We have had lots of fun cracking open these amazing treasures with Grandpa G. You never now what you are going to find on the inside. This was the biggest one we have tackled yet, and the kids did it all on their own.








Bryce is officially walking, watch out:) He is my earliest kid yet at 11 months.

Considering it was 100 degrees outside on Saturday it was time for us to cool off.

It's all about *T*A*R*Y*N*

My little girl is getting big too fast. We had a wonderful Birthday Party

for Taryn who is now 6 years old!!! She had the best time and had a

twinkle in her eye the whole day.


These sweet girls where so much fun and had a great time!!!

This was the Place and they did a wonderful job and ran things so smooth.

The dolls were so cute and it was fun to see all the girls so into it. They each did their own individual thing and no two looked alike.

* Twinkling Taryn *

Taryn and her BFF cousin Hailey actually have their b-days only a week apart so we celebrated hers as well.

After the girls picked out their dolls, they stuffed them and had a blast syling their hair,and picking their outfits. They each were given these little pink hearts where they made a wish for Taryn and put the hearts in her doll and then got to do one for themseleves, it was really sweet.

You would think this would be a place where only little girls would be, but you would be wrong, because they have boy dolls as well. Josh had a ton of fun making his boy doll who is also named Josh and enjoyed styling his hair. It was hillarious:)

The girls then marched off and it was time to continue the party at our house!!

Yeah for cake!

And party games like pin the horn on the unicorn

Then Presents, where Taryn got lots of fun things from her friends and family!

The party of course did not end here. We finished off our perfect day with a fun trip to Victoria Gardens!



The next 3 pictures tell a story I do not think I will need to explain :)