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Birthday Girl!

Our Baby Girl turned one on the 26th. We had a small family party with My parents on the Friday before her birthday, Daniel's family had a previous commitment. So it was just the six of us. We did a daisy and ladybug themed party and I think she loved it!

 

 

Then on her actual birthday I decorated a sugar cookie and we had a little celebration with Mama,Daddy and Shelden. Even though it was small I think she felt celebrated :)

 

 



We have a 2 Year-old!

I believe Shelden had a wonderful 2nd birthday. He had been saying "no" to everything to do with a birthday... e.i. "Shelden, you are going to be 2 this week!" "No" "Your going to get to have a birthday party!" "No,No"... But, when he woke up on his birthday and saw the decorations I think he finally decided a birthday might be nice after all. :) 

His favorite part of the cake "Mama" made may just have been the "Crucks" which he had been begging for since he had seen them the day before... although he did seemed to enjoy eating his cake too. ;)

I believe another little highlight for him was the slideshow I made for his birthday, he has enjoyed watching it over and over, he even figured out how to get it to repeat himself , so he could keep watching it :) (if you haven't seen it, you can in the post below).

He also enjoyed having little friends over to play with. :) Here are a few pictures from the day.

Happy 2nd Birthday, Shelden!

Coffee and some Blogging

Since both kids are asleep right now. I deiced to pause in my Thanksgiving baking/cooking to sit, have a cup of coffee and do some blogging.
...Oh, you want to know what I am making, so kind of you to ask. :) So far I have made 2 Syrup-less Pecan pies, 2 Pumpkin pie and a Sweet Potato casserole... I still need to finish my Black-eyed-pea salad and hope to make a Veg-all casserole and a Pumpkin Nut Roll. Does it meet with your approval  Yes? Mine to ;)
It is hard to believe that 2 years ago on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving I wasn't doing any baking... I was in labor with our sweet Little Man. How the time has flown! We will be doing him a little party on Saturday (his birthday) so stay tuned for pictures from that as well as a special birthday post!
But, now back to what I got on here to blog about in the fist place, I guess I am bunny trailing this morning... but, not as much as I could... I could go in to detail about another reason I am paused in my baking while I run the self clean on my oven, You see... Oh, sorry! Let's where was I? Oh, yes! I have been waiting to tell all of you my great many readers (3 of you?) :) about a cleaning schedule that has really helped me this year... I have already ordered mine for next year too. This lady is so thorough at having you clean and yet has it set up so easy and simple that you never have a pile of work to do in an one day. Who is she? The Confident Mom, check her out here. I have only tried her cleaning schedule but she has a bunch of other stuff too. Anyway, I just want to share as it might help someone, like it as been helpful to me! :)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The Pumpkin Patch and Hopefully a Tradition

Last Monday the kids and I went to the pumpkin patch with my mom. We had been wanting to go with Daddy but since it seemed things keep happening on Saturdays, Daddy said it was fine if we went without him. :) Shelden and Jenae seemed to have fun riding in the wagon and picking out their own little pumpkins. It was very sunny and windy, so trying to get a good shot of them looking at the camera was hard, especially with our little Southern Bell seemed to melt in the sun.
They got to wear their little matching Fall shirts I had painted them. I had made one for Shelden last year and had so much fun that I decided to do it again. I put scarecrows with pumpkins and a hay bale on this year making Girly's scarecrow look girly ;) while keeping Little Man's more boyish. I guess we will see if I can continue the tradition I now have started...

The Occasional News

I have had so many posts I have wanted to write, but before I get  around to it, it is old news. We said in our Christmas letter "for breaking news" that you could keep up with us here... Well, maybe we should have said for occasional news :)
We have been having a great summer and enjoying our two precious little ones. We are so blessed! Time has continued to fly by; it is hard for me to believe my Little Man is going to be 20 months old tomorrow and Baby Girl will be 5 months on the 26th!
Shelden is such a great big brother to Jenae and he in return is the light of her world. In the picture below I tried to capture how sweetly Shelden was telling "Naenae" a story, Big Brother looked up just as I took the picture, but I love how it caught her looking up at him listening.

I have been enjoying rearranging furniture the last week. We bought both an entertainment cabinet and a china cabinet on Craigslist for $290! I was so excited to finally be able to display my china.

With getting the entertainment cabinet I was able to fix Shelden more of an actual play room ( just before Jenae was born we had moved his play area out from between the couches to give him more room to play). In doing so you could see toys as soon as you walked in the front door, leaving me feeling like my living room was in the toy room instead of the toy room being in the living room.  I moved my rocker back by his toys so that could sit and nurse Jenae and be near him too. I also moved the baby swing down the wall a little bit, to more the middle of the room so that when Jenae was swinging she could be a part of whatever was going on in the "toy room" or the living room. All in all I am very pleased with how it all turned out!