No More Clowning Around!

Addison on her first day of preschool. September 2009.

The first meeting with Mr. Jolly the Clown!
Addison on her first day of preschool as a 4 year old in September 2010

And the picture with Mr. Jolly!

And now, the clown is on the cake! Addison's last day of preschool was held at Party Central on May 19, 2011!

She received a diploma!

And here is my big girl on her last day of Jolly Time!

We LOVED Ms. Liz and Ms. Karen! Addison loved Jolly Time, and learned so much!

Ansley's Party Pictures

For Ansley's first birthday, we just had her party at home. We invited family, and then Addison's 2 sweet, precious, friends, and their mother. Ansley enjoyed her day! I can't believe she is one year old! Where did the past year go! So at 1 year of age, Ansley was still a little, petite girl. At her 12 month appointment she weighed less than 20 lbs! She wasn't walking yet, and still scooting on her bottom! She was down to 2 nursing sessions, morning and night, with whole milk from a cup during the day. We started whole milk just a couple of days before her birthday. She was saying mommy and daddy, and using some baby signs. She was sleeping through the night, most of the time. She was putting herself to sleep at night, while sucking on her fingers, but still woke up one time most nights, but would go back to sleep after being comforted by her mommy!

I loved her birthday outfit! I bought it off of Etsy, and had someone make her bow to match. Of course, it was just starting to get hard keeping bows in her hair.

Oh how I love this precious, baby girl!
Ansley and Luke were just starting to interact. They played side by side with some toys!

Here are some of the guests fixing plates and visiting!
After eating, we opened presents. Ansley actually stayed with me, and "helped."

Here is G-Dad and Luke. I thought this was such a cute picture!
Little Miss liked her babies that she got!

After presents, we got ready for the birthday song, and cake...

Happy Birthday Ansley!

She looks interested in the cake!

No thanks, mom. Think I will pass on the cake!

OK, its my birthday! I guess I'll try it!

"GAG"

Not impressed!

After cake, or lack of for Ansley, several people went outside. We took some more snap shots!

Grammy, G-Dad and Ansley
Nana, Daddy Dick, and the girls

Overall, I think she enjoyed her day!

Ansley's First Birthday- Cookies and Milk Decor

We celebrated Ms. Ansley Sue's 1st Birthday a couple of weeks a go! I had so much fun planning her party! After looking at several blogs, I decided to do a milk and cookie theme. I love polka dots, and thought I could incorporate them into a pink and brown color scheme.

I made the cupcake toppers (with Mom's help). I got the printables from here, and the cupcake liners (and lanterns, balloons, and plates) from polka dot market. I LOVE Polka Dot Market! It is a store that just makes me happy! I made the cupcakes- chocolate chip cookie dough stuffed, with butter cream icing. I was pleased with how they turned out!

I had Ansley's cake made here in town, and the "1" cookies to match.

I planned on placing the milk bottles all nice and neat, but as I was running out of time getting things ready, I asked Grant to put them in. They turned out so cute! We had strawberry, chocolate, and 2% milk. I got the labels from here, and printed them on sticker paper. I used the cupcake toppers, cut in small circles, on the top of the bottles. My friend Laura drank all the Starbucks, and gave me the bottles! Thanks sooooo much!

Plates from Polka Dot Market!

Thank you sacks for goody bags...fill your sack with cookies!

I lined the cookie jars with scrapbook paper, and then put tissue paper inside. We had Oreos, chocolate chip cookies, no bake cookies, and the 1 sugar cookies.

The birthday girl's high chair was surrounded by balloons from Polka Dot Market. I made the "I am 1!" banner behind her chair. My friend Tara cut out the letters, and I made the rest.

The lamp came from Ansley's room. The picture holder is a canvas made by friends (All for Fun Designs), and is actually a bow holder from Ansley's room.
"Happy Birthday Ansley" banner!
We had a great day celebrating Ansley's 1st birthday! Next post- pictures of the birthday girl!

Disney Day 6

So 5 months later, I finally finish Disney World! The last morning we woke up to cloudy skies! We had everything pretty much packed so mom, the girls and I went back to the Magic Kingdom to ride a few rides we still had not been on- Small World, Peter Pan... It started pouring down rain on us! We bought Addison a poncho and then just ran from ride to ride. We still had fun and there was NO wait time! We headed back to the resort, and then on the airport. We were so glad we took pictures on our way to the Magic Kingdom...My girls on the final day...

Disney Day 5

Friday was suppose to be our no plan day, but since we kinda took that on Wednesday, we went to the Animal Kingdom instead. We had breakfast reservations at Chef Mickey's. This was one of our favorite character meals! The characters spent a lot of time at each table, and the food was great!

So 2 of my favorite things are dressing my girls alike, and shopping at Gymboree! I bought the shirts the girls are wearing late in the summer for them to wear to the Animal Kingdom! I thought they were too cute! They both had giraffes on them.

We didn't take a lot of pictures at the Animal kingdom, but we had a fun day! The Christmas tree out front was neat- the decorations were all animal themed.

We watched the Lion King show...
We were getting ready to leave, and I asked about where we could find Pocahontas. She was at another section of the park where you had to ride a train to get there. We couldn't miss the chance so I strapped Ansley in the Moby Wrap, and away we all went. It was worth it! Addison was so excited to meet Pocahontas!


We were pretty pooped when we got back to the resort. We did a little packing, and then Grant and I took a cab into town, did a little outlet mall shopping, and went to eat at Charlie's- an awesome steakhouse.