matching suits

I tried to get a picture of Caylee and her cousin Addison in their matching suits.  It didn't work out so then I just took cute pics of her trying to walk in her adorable swim suit11

July 4th

This year Chad and I hosted our 1st July 4th Bash.  Last 4th of July is when we came home from the hospital with Baby Caylee and realized the church right across the street from us was doing fireworks.  I remember that night like it was yesterday.  it was so special for me to come home from the hospital and get to share a special evening with my kids, Carson especially.  Carson was not happy with me when he visited me in the hospital so be able to share the night with him was the best night ever!!

Any whoo, on to this year...

Since we have the best seats in the house for the fireworks show...and I love to host parties...that could only mean one thing.  Yep, a party!!  Looking forward to this fun family yearly event.

The beverage station 

Alicia, myself and Kristi

Cooling down in the pool

the trampoline before the stupid haboob took it out

Chad finally getting some pool basketball in

The kids and their fun glasses

the mommies and the fun glasses

kids sitting outside to watch the 'dads' firework display.  

watching the real firework display

What a 1 year old is up too!

Now that Caylee is one, what is she up too:

* She eats anything, I mean anything - cheeseburgers, pizza, watermelon, popcorn, strawberries and her favorites - mac n cheese, bananas and spaghetti

* She is Chat-tey!  she babbles all the time.  She can say doggie, hi, drink.

* When she's tired she starts humming/singing which is the cutest thing ever

* She has to have whatever the boys are having.  If they are eating something that she isn't, she throws a fit

* Is one tough cookie when it comes to her brothers

* can stand up for a couple seconds and gets super proud

* tries to put bows on her head!!

* loves to play with her toys

* she has majority of her teeth and is just needs four more teeth 

* drinks everything from a sippy cup

* Dr. informed me at her one year she is more like a 15 month old - she is too big for her britches.

Super proud she is standing

My baby turned one!

What?!  It can't be true, say it isn't so, are you for real????  Yep, little Miss Caylee turned one!  It's official she is a big girl.

We had a great time celebrating her 1st birthday at the splash park and her theme was lady bug.  She is blessed with a July birthday in the thick of summer and not to much to do but have something with water.  So off to the ever so famous splash park!!  The party was quick and to the point and Caylee loved every single bite of her cupcake.

Here's my Birthday Girl!!

Scored these cool big kids at the dollar store.  Made cute little lady bug cookies, placed inside and wrapped back up!

 Mommy and the birthday girl

Happy Birthday Sweet Caylee!!

Haboob!!

A couple nights ago we kicked off the start on the monsoon season with a Haboob!!  It was crazy...just crazy.  Chad was outside doing yard work and he called me outside to tell me to check it out.  What I saw was a big, I mean huge, wall of dust coming our way.  I knew we had less than 15 mintutes to bring in what needed to brought in and secure everything else.  

Here comes the dust storm  - aka a Haboob!

The one thing we didn't secure was the trampoline.  The trampoline blew over our fence and landed in the construction site next door.  The boys were very upset about this.  

The next morning the construction workers helped put it back in our yard.  anyone care to come over and jump??  Bulk Pick up is next week so we will be taking it apart this weekend - boo!

A couple nights ago we kicked off the start on the monsoon season with a Haboob!!  It was crazy...just crazy.  Chad was outside doing yard work and he called me outside to tell me to check it out.  What I saw was a big I mean huge wall of dust coming our way.  I knew we had less than 15 mintutes to bring in what needed to brought in and secure everything else.

Family in town

My family came into town to celebrate Caylee's 1st birthday.  My Dad and Cindy flew in from Philly and my brother and his family from California.  We had a nice visit and the boys were excited to see their cousins and grandparents.

Above is Cole zipping down the slide.

Cole and Caylee watching all the fun!

Ben and Cami going down

Ben and his famiily

 Snuggle time with Cami

Caylee being pushed around by Grandpa!!

Caylee, Caylee, Caylee

Bye now some of you may be saying Caylee, Caylee, Caylee that's all Carie talks about.  Well, that isn't the case but she is so much fun to post about it.

Caylee is only 1and I can already see a HUGE difference between her and her brothers.  Having raised two boys...I can truly admit there is a difference between girls and boys.

Caylee loves to play with toys.  She likes to PLAY with them rather then beat them, destroy them, throw them or chop them into itty bitty pieces.  I can barely get the boys to sit and do a wood puzzle and they are 3 and 5.

When the boys play with this bubble gum machine, they get the balls and throw them every where, at each other or just up in the air.  But Caylee...she actually puts them in and likes to see what happens!!

My neighbor and I bought tickets to summer movie fun this year.  Well, little miss Caylee has no desire to sit thru a movie and nor does Kayla.  So, Amy came up with a great idea (light bulb!), why don't we switch off.  Every other week one of us takes the boys and the other watches the girls.  Below is a picture of Caylee and Kayle on their first official playdate!!!

Future BFF'S

Below is a picture of all the boys in my car on the way to the movies.

We don't have many neighbors but am pretty fortunate for the ones I do have.  There are three of us: Myself, Lynlie and Amy and guess what??  We all have two boys and a baby girl.  How awesome is that?!?!

For Caylee's birthday I wanted to get her this step 2 buggy.  Well, it is worth every penny and then some.  She loves this buggy to the moon and back.  The boys love pushing her and she loves being pushed.  She crawls around the house looking for it then climbs in and waits for someone to push her.  Pure Joy!!!