Happy 1st Birthday Greer!!!

One year ago today God blessed us with this precious baby boy! We cannot believe it has been a year since you were born, Greer! We love you to pieces and cannot imagine our lives without your sweet smile.

Love, Mama, Daddy, & Sissy

Perfect Weekend

We got an invitation from our friends Jimmy & Mallory to go here with them for the weekend... How could we turn that down? There were 7 adults and 6 kids altogether, and we all had a blast!Ellie's favorite friend was there too. Ellie & her buddy Mason...

This little guy LOVED the bouncey house!

He would dive in, bounce for about a minute, and then peek out like this...

then do this...

and then would dive head-first and slide all the way down!

I lost count after him doing it about 25 times! Rusty and I have both decided our "laid back" little boy isn't so laid back afterall. He is a little more wild than we anticipated! Surely we're not in for it with him too. Only time will tell.

It even got warm enough to break out our swimsuits.

Greer and his friend Maddox lovin' the ice chest. Greer was throwing beer out of the coolor so he could get to the ice!

Greer was one happy boy in the bath with all of these girls...Ellie, Mallory, and Baines...

There is just something about babies in little white sunhats that is so sweet. I am so glad I have someone to wear one this year since Ellie won't be.

He looks so tall standing there like that...

More ice!

What an awesome weekend! We told Jimmy we would be up for it again any time!

Early Birthday Surprises!

The week of March 14th Ellie was out of school for Spring Break. MeMe came up to Birmingham to take her on her very first birthday trip! MeMe takes all of the grandchildren on a birthday trip once they are potty trained so this was Ellie's first one, and she had so much fun! They went to the McWane Center on Monday to meet the Backyardigans, and Ellie LOVED it! She also got to spend the night in a hotel, jump on the bed, and swim in the indoor pool. She told MeMe it was "the best birthday trip ever!" They got a picture of her with the Backyardigans, but it is a little blurry because it was taken with MeMe's iphone...

We've also been enjoying the nice weather and getting outside a lot. Greer's first time in the sandbox, and he loved it!

Then, this past weekend, Lollie and Poppy headed up this way with a BIG surprise for Ellie and Greer! We explained to Ellie that they would have an early birthday surprise for she and Greer. And when they got here, this is what it looked like...

After showing Ellie some pictures, she quickly figured out that it was a new SWINGSET! Woohoo!!! Daddy and Poppy working hard on Friday afternoon...

Poppy was nice enough to work on it Saturday morning while we ran to a birthday party, and when we got back, it looked like this...getting closer...

By Saturday afternoon...walla!!!

I don't know which she likes better...the monkey bars...which by the way she can do them all the way across all by herself...

or the see-saw swing (we don't know what else to call it!)...

Greer has thoroughly enjoyed it as well!

We honestly have not been able to keep Ellie off of it! She woke up this morning and said, "We need to go wipe my see-saw swing off because it's wet from the rain, and then I can ride it."

Thank you Lollie and Poppy for such an AWESOME birthday surprise!!

On Sunday Lollie and Ellie went to church together... and then we made cupcakes!

Even this little one got into them...we looked over and found him like this...

after he figured out he could do this...and reach them on the counter!

"I'm just practicing for my party in a few weeks, Mom."

Ellie "isms"

Our week started off like this...around 8:15 in the morning, Ellie walks into the living room from the playroom like this...

What is this you ask? Look closely...
That would be butter! Greasy, slimey, melted butter! She has gotten very independent and likes to push a stool over to the fridge to get her milk out, and apparently this particular time decided why not grab a stick of butter too! Good grief...just when I think she's maturing she gives me another reason to think again!

Wednesday morning (did I mention how muck I dislike Wednesday and Friday mornings?)...while I am packing lunches for my two munchkins, she grabs my lipstick out of my purse. I had no idea until I got a strong whiff of Burts Bees, and it hit me..."She's got my lipstick again!"

Move over MAC and hello Cover Girl...at least until she's 10. My make-up is all destroyed and in itty bitty pieces because of little stinker here! Notice how she's digging her little finger down as far as she can into my MAC lipstick! Yikes!!! This is all before leaving for school that morning!

She's gotten to where she loves the camera. Especially when she is wearing this...

and let me add that this is a different day she felt the need to pull out the uniform...

This too short, too tight, inside out (I let her put it on herself these days) Auburn cheerleading uniform may seriously have to suddenly disappear soon. It has gotten to the point where we are fighting about her wearing it to school, to birthday parties, etc, etc, you catch my drift! Oh Ellie, life would be just plain boring without you around.

The funniest part is that she's so serious!

Ok...I don't think I have documented this yet, and this is definitely a must for the blog because she does it all of the time..."hanging on the door"

and "hanging on the couch..." She seriously watches tv like this. I will walk in the playroom to check on her, and she is doing this. Or she'll run out of the room and say, "I'm going to hang on the couch!"

Have you ever in your life?????

It's like a challenge for her, and she is holding herself up totally with her arms. You should see her little biceps. You can't really tell in this picture, but her face is red from straining so hard...hilarious.

Enough about my sister...what about me????

I can be crazy too...look at my hair!

I may not be quite as crazy as my sister, but I sure have won my Mama's heart!

Thank you for coming back, warm weather!

I also learned a new trick over the weekend...clapping! My sister LOVES the Laurie Buckner Band song "5 Days Old," and there is a part about clapping, and I just started clapping all by myself!

I clapped all night long tonight except for when Mama pulled out the camera. I decided to just be cute for the camera instead of clap!

I'm getting more and more mature by the day and learning so many new things. I talk jibberish all day, smile and laugh more than ever and just started having a touch of separation anxiety. I am down to 2 bottles a day and am adjusting well. Lastly, Sissy and I are counting down the days until our birthdays around here! We can't wait!!