Sunday, October 24, 2010

Party # 2

We tried to make Marley's actual birthday special too, so we had lunch and playtime at McDonalds and had a special dinner for him. He was excited to eat cake and ice cream again and open up MORE presents!!

Marley and his new jammies

Opening his Star Wars card from Papi, Mommy and Gracie.
It played the Imperial March and he opened it over and over again.

His new Woody and Bullseye

A train set!!

Being bashful while we sang the Happy Birthday song

Mmmm....cake

Marley is 3!

I'm so behind on blogging and I'd still like to catch up but I couldn't pass up this special occasion! Our Marley Man turned three this month and we had such a fun time celebrating! Marley has been obsessed with Star W
.ars lately and was so excited to have a STAR WARS BIRTHDAY PARTY! His excitement has been contagious and we all had a blast planning his big day. We had lots of friends and family come to help us celebrate and the party turned out so fun! Most importantly Marley was so happy and loved every minute of it. Happy Birthday to such a special little boy who brings a lot of Joy to our family. We love you!

The bubble wand/light sabers

Douglas made some GOOD hamburgers and hot dogs!

All of us in our Star Wars shirts

Grandma Darlene even joined the fun

Marley and his R2D2/MarleyB3 cake

Douglas, Marley and Tyson blowing out the candles

All of the kids were itching to eat the cake. It was a hit!

Marley tried to eat the whole foot!

Gracie attempted it too!

Douglas made an awesome piniata and light saber to hit it with.
Marley loved hitting it!

Marley chillin' with Grandpa Riley

Douglas had to hit it after all the kids had their turn. It was hard to break!

Marley was so excited to open all his awesome gifts.

Whoa...a light saber!

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Fathers Day

I'm still in the process of catching up the last 4 months and I can't forget a very important part of our family: Douglas (aka daddy, papi, dumpy) Way back in June we celebrated Fathers Day with a very special man in our lives. Douglas does so much to bring happiness and stability to our family. We are extremely blessed to have such a wonderful husband and father. Thank you Douglas for bringing so much joy to our lives. We love you!




Funny faces

A special Fathers Day meal including pecan pie. mmmmmm

Douglas opening some sweet presents from the kids

Grandpa Riley opening presents


Riley and Douglas found Riley's old Navy uniform and they squeezed him into it. It was a special walk down memory lane for Riley.

A visit to Grandma and Grandpa's wouldn't be complete without watering the plants.


Douglas got a kayak for his Fathers Day gift
He loves it!

Trying it out for the first time




Hangin' at the lake

Friday, August 20, 2010

Meanwhile..

While Douglas was at D-day, we were spending time in Oklahoma at Aunt Maria and Uncle Chucks house and in Kansas at Grandma and Grandpa Sessions house and Uncle Dan and Aunt Celeste's house. It was great to see so many family members!
I didn't take very many pictures while we were in Oklahoma and I think it's because we were so busy trying to keep up with the kids. We had a great time with the Edgingtons and the kids loved swimming and playing in the back yard on the trampoline. Gracie had a scary close call in the pool but luckily some little girls saved her and helped her to the edge. She got back in the pool and has been able to overcome her fears again.
My sister Maria and I had such a great visit and got to talk during our time in the car. It's so nice to catch up on sister time!
We had such a fun visit and here are a few highlights from our trip:


Lydia and Marley (Partners in crime) If they were born as twins my life would be insane. They just knew how to push each others buttons and make everyone crazy! Hope fully they'll learn to love each other when they get older:)

Planting flowers with Grandma

Playing in the sprinklers with cousins, trieste, Lili and Ella

Cute girls!

They just loved the splash pad!


Trampoline fun with cousins

Grandma and Grandpa Sessions

Tickle time

Eating ice cream at the Kansas State University Creamery. Yum!

Saving some for later...

Fun in the pool

Grandma has the coolest dolls!

Grandpa has the coolest lawnmower!

But Marley wasn't such a fan.

Picking sugar snap peas with Grandma

Time to take a break. It's nice to be spoiled at the Grandparents house!