So I have been terrible this month and am just now blogging my 1st post! Everything has just been so busy! Tomorrow is my last day of school for the summer, and we are leaving for our 1st vacation in 3 years. We are taking Aylin Jewel to the beach, Fort Morgan, AL (Gulf Shores) to be exact. We have been cleaning like crazy tonight because my mother is going to come house and dog sit for us :) Oh, and I still have to blog about AJ's 2nd birthday party! I am just going to do one big post with a few mini posts:
POST #1: Lets start with the party...
THE CAKE!
We were set up with a wonderful cake lady for Jewel Bug's 1st birthday party, and we decided to use her again. Maureen Fortune of Southaven, MS makes amazing cakes as a side business from her very own kitchen! Everything was edible! :)
THE BIRTHDAY GIRL!
Thanks Mrs. Elaine for our birthday shirt and Ms. Shelley for the Bouncer :)
Thanks to all of our friends who came to play: Mary Claire, Payton, Macey Jo, Danni, Dean, John Stephen, Laney Claire, Alayna, Micah, Easton, Griffin, and Reed!
Thank you Becka Matthews for painting this great photo memory maker!
Thank you daddy for putting up with mommy when she was trying to put this party together, and for helping to get everything inside when it started to RAIN!
Finally, thank you God for this beautiful, healthy, fun, loving, crazy 2 year old blessing!
I love you sweet baby girl!
POST #2: The Family Birthday Party
So none of Aylin's grandparents made it to her birthday party :( Aunt Tessa, my baby sister, had a state twirling competition in Nashville so my parents were there. Bobby's mother recently severely hurt her back while working and was just in too much pain to make it to her party. We decided to have a grandparent's cook out/birthday party so they could see her open her gifts :) Unfortunately, Bobby's parents were not able to make it but my parents came and gave Aylin a pop-up soccer goal!
Oh Jewel Bug, goalie is not in your future...you will not stay out of the net ;)
POST #3: The Mississippi River Flood of 2011
By the time we actually had time to get downtown to see the flood waters, they had already started receding, but AJ was still excited to see the WHAWHA (water) and the CHOOCHOO (trolley).
POST #4: School's Out for Summer
*Well there was a post and a video but the video crashed my old computer and we were trying to leave for our vacation so I couldn't fix it.
We have had a GREAT first 2 days of vacation, but that is all I am going to say because we are heading back out to the bach before it gets crowded :)
