Lilly's Minnie Mouse Party

Lilly's Birthday party pictures-

Minnie Mouse ears

Her new Elmo she got with birthday money.

Some of the decorations.

Minnie Mouse cupcakes

Lilly doesn't really watch tv yet but she knows 2 characters really well. She knows who Elmo is and Minnie Mouse. I decided to do a little Minnie Mouse party for her 2nd bday. I only invited a few kids her age because I didn't want it to get too chaotic. She had a great time! We had the pool set up, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, swing set, sprinkler, playhouse, Minnie Mouse ears made out of balloons, and balls for the kids to play with. I made pigs in a blanket, rotel and chips, watermelon, cantaloupe, cherries, Minnie Mouse cupcakes, and ice cream. For the party favors they got a fish shaped cup with a crazy straw, bubbles, candy, and a water gun. We only had 2 kids show up because alot of the families were going out of town and some of the kids were sick but I think the kids had a great time!

After the party we went to Galveston to meet Aidan and her family. We had a great time playing on the beach!! We were going to watch a fireworks show with them but they canceled the show at the last minute due to the weather. Of course I didn't get any pictures of it!

June 2010

We didn't really do much in June. It really went by pretty quick! We stayed home, swam, played, and had a garage sale. Lilly turned 2 on the 26th. I can't believe she is already 2! At about 21 months she started asking to go to the potty. So I started taking her and she does pretty good everyday! She could be totally potty trained if I would make the effort to potty train her. She usually has 1 accident a day and I don't ask her to go to the potty she does it all by herself! She wants to be a big girl so bad! She is such a great helper! She loves to get diapers, wipes, pacifiers, or any other thing we may need for Laurel. She loves her baby sister so much! She is really funny with her. She will walk up to Laurel and make funny faces and baby babbles to make Laurel laugh. Laurel just thinks she is so funny!! We gave Lilly her big present a couple weeks before her birthday. We got her a Dora trike. She loves riding it! We had a birthday party for her on July 3rd. More on that in another post.

Lilly and Laurel

Cole, Lilly, Leila

Lilly's new ride

Cole and Leila's lemonade stand at the garage sale! They wanted to help me with the garage sale and this was the only way I could get them to stay out of the way and not play with the stuff we were selling.

May 2010

Roy continued to have meetings in Houston until the middle of May so we were there with him until about the 15th. At the end of May my family had a mini family reunion. My parents, Adrienne and family, Brianne and family, Aidan and family, my family, and Nolan all met up in Slidell. Aidan had her new baby Joey blessed at church that Sunday. That Monday we went to New Orleans to the Aquarium. Tuesday we went back to New Orleans and ate lunch at the Riverwalk then got beignets at Cafe Du Monde. Yumm!! We also got our fix of snoballs!! If you have never had a snoball before I highly recommend getting one. Snoballs are different from snocones in that they have smooth ice and lots of flavoring! They are pure heaven!! Beaumont only has one that I have found and it is horrible! They charge like $2.75 for a small and it is chopped ice instead of shaved. They also barely put any syrup in there. Anyway..enough about snoballs!! We left Slidell on Wednesday morning and headed up to Northeast Mississippi to see my brother Sean and his family. I really love going back to Corinth! Not only to see my family but I just love that small hometown feel! We had a really great time with all of our family!! I can't wait until the next time we can all get together again. I hardly ever took my camera out but here are some of the pictures that I took.


Leila and Cole at the Aquarium

Laurel standing all by herself

Laurel sporting her swimwear

Leila, Cole, Lilly, and my niece Shelby at the aquarium

Cole, Leila, my niece Claire, and Lilly riding the Algiers ferry boat in New Orleans.

April 2010

I am so behind on my blog that I am going to update my posts by month starting with April. April was a pretty busy month for us! Roy had training meetings in Houston on the weekdays. HEB paid for a hotel for us so that we could stay with him and not have to drive back and forth to Beaumont. It was pretty fun. We got to swim in the pool and do lots of other fun things! Roy's parents and Sister also visited. They only stayed their usual amount of time. They got here late on a Friday night and left Sunday around noon. Cole played soccer this year and Roy's parents got to go to one of his games. He did a great job! He really enjoyed playing and making new friends.

Papa, Leila, Lilly, and Madison (Roy's niece)

Laurel chilling in the hot tub!

Leila, Cole, Lilly and Madison's picnic

Cole's soccer team

Here is Cole in action! He is #7. haha!!

I guess that is really all we did. Doesn't seem like we did much but we kept busy!