Party til you Drop!

After having a week of birthday festivities, a family party Friday night and a friend party Saturday morning, Anna Beth was absolutely exhausted. Sunday morning after giving her a shower before church, we found Anna Beth curled up on the couch with her new puppy dog watching her new favorite movie "the bees" as she calls it! (The Bee Movie) It was too cute not to share!

Birthday Party at the Park

We had Anna Beth's friend party today at the Duck Park! She had so much fun playing with all her little friends!



Anna Beth and her cousin, Destiny



Anna Beth & Daddy




Strawberry Shortcake

Blowing out her candle

Allie, Anna Beth, and James

Happy 2nd Birthday Anna Beth!

Day 6 of Birthday Week was Anna Beth's actual birthday. We had our family party in Al & Brooke's backyard. Both mine and Matt's families were able to attend. We grilled hamburgers and hotdogs and of course, had 3 different kinds of homemade ice cream and a cake! Anna Beth got lots of cute gifts. She had a ball playing with Destiny!

Mommy & Daddy's gift to Anna Beth was a set of Mickey Mouse books. ***Her big gift this year was an outdoor playhouse, but we haven't put it together yet. As soon as we do, I will post pics***

Modeling her bee umbrella and rain boots from Aunt Brooke & Uncle Bobo. She also got the matching raincoat, but it was too hot and muggy to model!

Destiny got Anna Beth a puppy dog in a carrier. Anna Beth loved it!

Birthday Week Day 5

Elmo Magnet set from Mommy & Daddy and a 2 year old birthday doll from Aunt Brooke & Uncle Bobo

Birthday Cookies At Daycare

Today I took cookies for Anna Beth's class. They had them for morning snack. There were only 4 kids in her class this morning. There are usually 8 kids in her class. She loves going to school!

Birthday Week Day 4

Princess crown, necklace, rings, bracelets from Aunt Brooke & Uncle Bobo and View Finder from Mommy & Daddy



It's hard being a Princess!

Birthday Week Day 3

Tee Ball set from Aunt Brooke & Uncle Bobo & a Strawberry Shortcake movie from Mommy & Daddy


Go Anna Beth Go!

Daddy showing her how it is done!

Sweet Anna Beth

Matt must have taken these the other day when I was at work. I found them on my camera when I was downloading pictures. I thought they were sweet and I wanted to share :-)

This is her "Cute Face"

Anna Beth's Birthday Week - Day 2

Today was Day 2 of Anna Beth's birthday week celebration!


Ariel dress up shoes from Aunt Brooke and Uncle Bobo

And a My Little Pony from Mommy & Daddy

Anna Beth's Birthday Week Day 1

Okay, before anyone sends me a comment telling me how spoiled rotten my child is, I already know! Last year, we started a tradition of giving Anna Beth a present every night of her birthday week. Aunt Brooke & Uncle Bobo also participate in this event. Today was the first day of Anna Beth's birthday week, so she received her first two presents.

Opening Aunt Brooke & Uncle Bobo's gift



A Disney princess purse with sunglasses, earrings, lipstick, and hair brush

Opening Mommy & Daddy's present

Strawberry Shortcake Activity Book

One Happy Birthday Girl

Modeling her pretty earrings

Happy Birthday Kynsley!

Tonight we had Kynsley's birthday party. It was at Jay's parents' pool. All of the kids had such a good time. Anna Beth hasn't been around big pools very much so she wasn't too sure of it. She still had fun hanging out on the edge and splashing. It is so hard to believe Kynsley and Anna Beth are 2 years old. Alicia and I had the same due date so we went through everything together. We also used the same doctor, so alot of our doctor's appointments were the same day. Poor Alicia had to answer all of my first time pregnancy questions since she was experienced in that area! It was nice to have a friend to talk to that was going through the same things. In fact, I almost thought Anna Beth and Kynsley might have the same birthday. On the Wednesday before both girls were born, Dr. Callison scheduled to induce Alicia on Thursday morning and I spent all evening Wednesday with really hard contractions. I thought it would be neat if they were born the same day. Anna Beth had other plans. She waited 5 more days before making her grand entrance. Happy Birthday Sweet Kynsley Ryann!!!

Daddy & Anna Beth enjoying some white chocolate covered marshmallows

Katie Lee showing Anna Beth how to jump off the diving board



Anna Beth thought about it, but decided it wasn't her cup of tea!

Anna Beth's "cute face"

4th of July

I don't know about everyone else, but our summer has been super crazy! My baby sister got married at the end of June, so wedding festivities filled most of that month! Anna Beth was such a sweet little flower girl. She actually walked down the aisle and threw her flowers great, but when she did not see me standing there waiting for her, she went back down the aisle calling my name. Oh well, at least she threw her flowers. Matt ended up standing in the back with her for the rest of the ceremony. At the end of the day, I realized I had not taken a single picture with my camera. As soon as I get some from the photographer, I will try to post them!


Of course, 4th of July was tons of fun! We went to Aunt Brooke's Firecracker Festival at Athens High School and had a ball!

Anna Beth loved the inflatable slide!

She thought she was something riding the golf cart with Daddy & Uncle Bobo

Hanging out in Destiny's wagon