Happy Birthday Sweet LuLu!

I have to admit, I totally started crying as I gave Lucy her last 2 year old birthday kisses as I was putting her to bed! I am just so honored that I get to be her Mommy! She is so much fun and so sweet and loving. I love how she gives me the biggest, tightest hugs for no reason at all! I love how easily she gets excited over the littlest reason! Her sweet/crazy smile! I love how she backs up into Mommy or Daddy's lap and just plops down without even looking and wants us to read her a book. I love how much she loves and admires her big sister Sadie. Our family would not be complete without our sweet little Lucy! I cannot believe she is 2 years old! Time sure has gone by so fast. I know it won't be long until Daddy is fighting off all her little boyfriends! And her and Sadie are sharing clothes and make-up tips! I am excited for the many more fun memories we have to look forward to! Come down memory lane with me...I had fun looking at all our pictures of our sweet girl and the fun times we have shared. Here are some of the fun memories of Lucy's Birthdays!

On the way home from the hospital.

Her newborn photoshoot...she was so difficult to take pictures of!

Her first Birthday:

Awww, Averee and Lucy! They are such big girls! It is so cute to seem them really enjoy eachother's company now! They really have a BLAST together! They are crazy yet so sweet!

And since I already posted pictures of her party, here are some from today. We went to an indoor play place called Radijazz with some friends. They had such a fun time! We went home for naps. Then off to dance for Sadie. And of course to Burger King after dance for dinner and to play and then feed the goats our left over nuggets and fries! We had such a fun day. Lucy has loved singing Happy Birthday! She kept singing it to Chris though and pointing to him when we sang "happy birthday to YOU" She is so cute!

I kept throwing her into the "lava" of the "volcano" and she would giggle and then reach for me and say "again!" So by the time I threw her and then got my camera, she would be at the "again!" stage!

I am surprised she is smiling on the canoe...she fell head first into it two times and could not get out! It was so sad! At least it is padded.

Thank you Lucy for giving us so many reasons to celebrate! We all love you completely! Happy Birthday LuLu! We love you!

In My Room

I love the idea of capturing your kids in their room. Them in their surroundings. This isn't totally that, I got one with Lucy IN it, but would like to get more. I needed to take pictures of her room for my sister so I got these. But I love documenting it. Wouldn't you love to have detailed pictures of your room as a baby!?! I still need to take some of Sadie's room...freak I need to put those crazy bubbles in history! I don't want THOSE forgotten! But in Sadie's room there are Strawberry Shortcake pictures that my sister and I had up in our room! It would be so fun to be able to show her a picture of them in my room! I guess since it is Lucy's birthday, my focus is on her! So here is Lucy and some pictures of her room!

Grown up Girls

Okay, this picture is thanks to my friend Lyndsee THANK YOU LYNDSEE - this is one of those classic pictures that you use to bribe your teens! (sorry CP friends who have already seen this but I had to share!) Sadie was playing at Evka's house after school on Tuesday. They were playing in the closet, which is not unusual, but they were being really quiet...so Lyndsee went to check on them and this is what she found:
They were their bras if you could not tell! What silly girls! They left them on all day! Sadie was so proud to show me too! It was too funny! They have so much fun together! We are so lucky to have such fun friends!

Lucy's big Premiere!

Today was Lucy's 2nd Birthday Party. Since she is such a movie buff we had a Movie Premiere theme! It turned out to be a lot of fun! When everyone came in they got to get their "Swag" and then the parents got their VIP pass to escort their "star." They walked down the red carpet and onto the Walk of Fame and found their name! Here are some of the stars that came to Lucy's party.We had fun visiting and playing a few games. One of them was pass the trophy. If the music stopped while you were holding the trophy then you got a prize (so everyone got a prize!). Here's Lucy excited about getting the trophy=sucker!

You know the song, "It's my Party and I'll cry if I want to?" Well Lucy has NEVER heard of it! She was having a blast! I made a CD of different movie songs and had it playing in the background and she was having so much fun dancing around while everyone was still sitting in the circle from the games...she was totally showing off! Funny girl! Here she is in action! Lucy's was most excited about Bekah (our babysitter) coming! When Bekah got here Lucy just squealed and followed her around saying her name and announcing to Daddy and everyone that Bekah was here! Too cute! After games we had popcorn and watched a "movie." I got that Disney/Pixar Short CD with all their different shorts on there for Lucy. So we watched one of them which is like 5 minutes long - it was perfect!

Then we had nachos for Lunch (Lucy's favorite). Look at that smile! Cheesin' it!

Then we did the pinata. It was so funny because it took SO long for the kids to get all the candy! It was really cute!

But then there was Sadie...the only big girl!
Since I totally spaced getting Lucy a cake, we had a giant snickers ice cream bar for her cake. We figured it matched the Movie theme. She blew the candles out all by herself! We were so proud! Look at those cheeks!

We had such a fun day! After the party was over and I was cleaning and Chris resting (he has been sick and he was SUCH a help during the party), the girls were out back and it was so quiet so I went to check on them. They weren't on the swing set, not on the trampoline so I started to walk down the steps of the deck and there they were sitting on the bottom step just having a little snack! They looked so sweet so I quietly ran and got my camera and what do you know, I made it back in time and quiet enough that they didn't hear me and I got the shot! Woohoo!

You know, I thought Sadie might have a hard time with all the attention focused on Lucy but she did really well. She was really excited about the whole party thing! Although she did have a hard time not opening Lucy's presents, but hey, what kid doesn't!?! We are just all so thankful that Lucy is in our family! I could not imagine life without her sweet little face! She is SUCH a joy and is so happy and loving! It's funny to look back and remember the night before I had Lucy. I was so worried about being able to love BOTH girls adequately and couldn't imagine loving someone else as much as we did Sadie. But now I could not imagine not being together! It is so special to see that we each bring something to the family! I am just so thankful for what Lucy brings...Joy and Love! We love you Lucy Jean!

Little Twinkle Toes

Everytime we take Sadie to Dance, Lucy is just dying to go in! She hear's the songs and gets excited as we are waiting in the lobby. Since Lucy will be 2 next week, yes I know!, we decided to sign her up for dance. Her friend Averee signed up too! So we have been so excited. Tuesday was her first day. She was having so much fun when we got there. My friend Lyndsee teaches there and so she was setting up the room for one of her classes and the girls went right in to play and dance around. Then it was time to line up! They were familiar with this from their big sisters doing it! Lucy always waits with her arms behind her back! I LOVE it! She'll hand me something to open for her and then wait looking up at me with her arms behind her back! Too cute!

Once they went inside and shut the doors...Lucy went down hill! She cried and cried and cried! If her teacher wasn't holding her, she would cry. Everytime she tried to set Lucy down she just reached up for her and cried. There were maybe two times when she was okay and realized Averee was in there too. I noticed the first thing Lucy said to Averee was, "Mommy?" So funny! Anyway, she seemed excited about it afterwards so we will keep trying. I think she will be okay with it after she gets the routine of it down. We are so glad she has such a great teacher Mrs. Colleen! She was so sweet to Lucy! I felt so bad for her but she didn't mind at all! What a sweetheart!

Moments Like This!

...are what we live for right!?! You know, Sadie has always been a constant go-er! She is constantly doing something and has a very short attention span. This weekend I got out stickers, glue, scissors, paper, markers...everything for her to help me make thank you cards. Seriously, it lasted 10 minutes! So now we have to spend more time gathering materials and then cleaning them up than we actually spend using them! She hardly EVER lets herself slow down enough to realize how tired she is. But when she does...this is what we get...and boy, do we LOVE it! What a sweetheart!

Christmas fun!

We had such an amazing Christmas! The girls were so much fun! We were extra lucky to have Grandma Stewie come to visit for Christmas too! I still have so many posts to do of all the fun times we had! It was so nice to have a fun time as a family! It's always so hard to get back into life and have Daddy go back to work! We all have withdrawals! I love Lucy's expression on this! Too cute!

We started a new tradition of getting the girls a Madame Alexander doll. Then by the time they are grown they will have a nice little collection! Sadie got Strawberry Shortcake since that is in her room.

Lucy got "Skip to my Lou"

Cute little Lucy riding a fun toy from Grandma Christy and Grandpa Bob.

We have always had the tradition to throw all the wrapping paper up in the air and let it fall on us. Then we lay in the wrapping paper and bury ourselves in it.

Santa spoiled us this year and brought the girls a swing set! They could not believe it! They squealed and ran to it and instantly began having so much fun! We are enjoying it just as much as they do...since it gives them something to entertain themselves on!

Grandma Stewie doing tricks with Lucy!

Sadie got her very own digital camera! Yeah! Now she won't steal mine! She loves it and had to bring it with her everywhere! She'd say, "Oh, I need to bring my camera!" It is so funny to look through the shots and see what her eyes are drawn to!
Grandma and Grandpa Stewie got the girls this doll house! They love it and love to play barbies on it! It's too cute! Trevor got Sadie the cool car parked outside!
Playin'!