little brother's big day

july 2010

mr. and mrs. fair

lara's girlie shower

i finally had my house clean enough and presentable enough to have people over...our first big event...lara beth's lingerie shower...

chocolate cake from another tough bakery...oh my

a little decor...

a very full house...

thankfully, joey knew how to cut a round cake...

banana punch!

the honoree! my future sis-in-law...

ps. she is wearing bertie b

daddy's day!

the mall at johnson city let children decorate cookies from the great american cookie company as a father's day "card"

here is kate and her friend "g" "decorating" their cookies!

this was totally free...

we didn't really take any father's day pictures...i know i am a total slacker!

lara's family came to visit, girls went shopping, kate napped, guys played golf, then we had a bridal shower for josh and lara..s0 it was a busy day...

faux easter

since we were traveling in the car on easter sunday, we decided to have a "faux easter" the next sunday...so kate and i dyed easter eggs on saturday, the easter bunny stopped by and left some goodies saturday night. kate wore her easter dress to church. i hosted an easter dinner and egg hunt out our house.

the loot

kate's favorite things from her easter basket were rubber boots, boots the monkey and the glitter ball...

"lucy" brought kate an easter "basket" with all kind of goodies...and yes, it is a potty, luckily it was clean and brand new. candy in the toliet, i know, a little "different!"

my sweet little kate...21 months old...

quick trip

easter weekend we headed to west tennessee to visit jason's family...here are some highlights from our visit...

aunt charity and i took kate to the park in lexington during uncle mark's baseball game...there is only so much baseball a one year old can sit through...

she had so much fun and played so so hard...the weather was perfect!

notice the blue lips...charity bought her a ring pop, and it wasn't worth the fight to try and get it off...

she adores her aunt charity...

she also loves to play with her cousins...ethan, madison and haven...

we dyed easter eggs...kate really just wanted to play in the water and with the eggs...

this is her egg...can you tell she did it all by herself...

strawberry cupcakes for my birthday...yum yum!

we had an easter egg hunt...

in this picture kate had just found her easter egg...

she looked at me and said..."ewwww"...very dramaic of course! she would not pick it up...ha ha!

after the egg hunt, the "kids" had a silly string fight...kate was less than impressed...and was more concerned with silly string on her shoes!

all in all, we had a really great visit!