Lucy is 1!

Lucy actual birthday is not till Friday, but I thought it was getting a little to close to the 4th of July to have her party next weekend so we had the party on the 19th. It was a blast! Everyone knows I am a sucker for a good party! We hosted a carnival in our backyard. We used alot of clown referencing no actual clowns (they are scary) We had their shoes and hats mostly.I hired a professional photographer and her photos won't be in for another week so here are my armature pictures.
Her Cake with a clown hat on top.


Inside the game room. There was bowling, golf, can toss, ring toss, a sucker pull, duck pond, frog game, baseball game and two strikers. The actual booths were wardrobe boxes I cut up and painted white then stripped with red duct tape.


Prizes for the games. I started picking stuff up in January.




"Toddler town" We had alot of children under 3 so I set up a play area for them outside the game booths with carnival related little kids toys, they even had silly carnival mirrors and homemade bubbles!The cotton candy and snow cones were also set up near them.




Lucy loves to play with bubble wrap so I put that out for the kids to walk on.


I made a kissing booth where I cut out lip shapes from foam and people wrote messages to the birthday girl!


Food tents from the deck


Food seating area.


Kids tables were adjustable in height and had homemade "chairs". The chairs were 2 dollar buckets from Walmart, I covered the top in felt and added vinyl circles.


A face painter and balloon artist were set up on the front table.


21 and over striker. The big boys had to hit the bell before they could get beer!


Little people striker.


Food tables YUM!



Pool area



Lucy's throne


I had ALOT of fun putting it together and we had a great time!

Dare Devil

She can't even walk yet, but she sure can work her new early birthday present from Marmee and Papa. She can't get the car up the hill, but once the car is in place she can climb the stairs to get on, and push herself off. SHE LOVES IT!!! It was a nice break to play with it this afternoon, instead of cleaning or getting ready for the birthday party!

Little door

Lucy has discovered the dogie door. Not only has she discovered the dogie door, she has discovered she can exit the house through it!

Sitting with Cody examining the door




Seeing what is going on.


Almost there. Cody get out of my way.


Who me?


We are moving this week, so my computer will be disconnected for a few days. I hope to have pictures up of the new house then!

Invitation Pictures

Today we took pictures for Lucy's 1st birthday invitation. She was a MESS, I could not get her still to take a good picture! Here are some that did not make the cut. It was very entertaining!



It's like she is saying, "really mom".

A quick visit

Andy's granddad (aka papa)came to see the new house and went with us to lunch. It's always sooooo great to see him and Lucy enjoys it. I think he really liked the new house, I know he like the new food choices. We have a great country cooking restaurant by the house, I think I gained 10 pounds in the last week eating there it is YUMMY!

A jolly mother's day

We went to the Georgia Renaissance Fair for Mother's day. It makes for excellent people watching!



The girls had a great time riding together in the stroller. All Lucy wanted to do was grab Evelyn's tutu.



We saw a really good comedy/acrobatic show that both girls enjoyed. Andy had a good time dunking a lovely lady in the dunking booth (on the sign it's says don't play if you are easily insulted... I think Andy might be, he HAD to dunk her. It took him $15 to do it.)







After the festival we took Lucy for her first swim in the pool, or should I say daddy took her, mommy went inside and took a nap! Later that night Andy and I went on our Fourth date night since having Lucy. We went to dinner and say Mary Poppins at the Fox Theater, it was one of the best shows I have seen off of Broadway.

Hey Mom, look what I can do!

This is Lucy's new trick.



When I tell her NO she just looks back at me with one leg up like, I am going to hold it here and hope you change your mind.



She has really been giving me a run for my money, she is getting into EVERYTHING!!!