Kaitlann's 1st Birthday

Saturday I had my 1st birthday party. Mama, Daddy and

Mackenzie decorated everything so pretty. I had streamers and

balloons everywhere. And I really like the theme mama picked

out for me!

This is the picture of my pretty centerpiece that I

kept wanting to get and destroy!

Here is the "everyone" cake that nana had made
to match my plates!

Here is "my" cake that I couldn't wait to eat and destroy.
A girl's 1st Birthday Party is all about the cake!

Oh Boy, Here's my cake. Get this silly hat off
my head and let me eat!!!

Now, this is what I am talking about!!
See my hair? I had to have a bath after the party
to get the paste like texture out! Oh, Well it was
well worth it!


Oh yeah, It was really well worth it!

I think I must have gotten tired of the cake.
What little was left went in my lap and of course in the floor!
Thanks to granny Sears for cleaning it up!



I got this really cool piggy bank from Nana and Papa!
(Mackenzie got one too when she was little!)
There may be some fighting going on in our house about
who gets all of the change!!

Wow, I also got some really cool dolls!
Mackenzie tried to claim a few of them!


I really enjoyed the tissue paper best of all!
I am still not really into opening packages.
But as you can see in the background I had
help from my Big Sister!
She helps me out a lot whether I need it or not!
(Note: Notice the mark on my forehead in some of the pictures.
It's a pot lid mark! Yep, right before the party she
accidently hit me with a pot lid!)


This is Sunday morning after my party.
I got a pretty dress like Mackenzie got at her party!

I just want the camera! Who cares about the pictures!

Thanks, to everyone who came to my party and for all the presents!

I got so many wonderful things.

I missed all who couldn't make it to my party!

But we really understand! And besides to a one year old, it's all about

the cake!! We have about decided to have mine and Mackenzie's party

together next year to make it easier on everyone. Since our birthday's

are pretty close together!

I love all of you!

Aunt Kimmy and Me

Aunt Kimmy and I have the best time together.

She is all the time spoiling me!

I don't think anyone ever told her what the word NO

means! If so, she doesn't know how to say NO to me!

I love her so much becuase she does silly stuff with me.

Can you roll your tongue like me and Aunt Kimmy????

I love doing this trick and asking everyone else if they can too!!

Can my mama roll her tongue? Nope!

I think that is very funny!

Happy Valentine's Day

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Mommy is not even sure why she tries to take our pictures

together anymore. We give her a hard time!

We don't ever look and smile at the camera at the same time!

Kaitlann is having issues!

I have been walking everywhere for several weeks now!

I started at Christmas but just really took off!

I am saying lots of words, dada (of course), mama, nana,

Buddy, dog, tinker, juice, bottle, cookie, no no.

Of course you have to interperate a little.

My favorite word is cookie!

Mama help! Kaitlann is belling out!

I am Kaitlann's little mama!

I was told last night that I couldn't spank Kaitlann

or any other kids for that matter until

I was a mommy and had kids of my own.

Do we really have to do this again????

We would much rather play with the grass, pinestraw,
and other cool things that we find in the yard!


I (Mackenzie) took this picture of mommy and Kaitlann!
This was not Valentine's day (it was damp and cold then).
This was taken a few days ealy when Kaitlann and I were
sporting our Valentine's shirts and it was 65+ outside!!

Enjoying the outdoors in GA

Today we went outside to enjoy the 66 degree weather!

It was sunny and beautiful.

To bad it's not this nice all year long!

I am not sure how we are going to handle the 110 degrees this summer!

I got this really cool Jeep for Christmas from Grandmama and Pop.

I enjoy driving it a lot!

Here I am waiting for Kaitlann and mama to catch up!

My jeep goes faster than mama can walk!

She's slow!

I am enjoying getting pushed around by mama.

We are really trying to catch up to Mackenzie!

Okay, no more pictures just get to pushing!

PLEASE!!!

I decided that I wanted to ride in the jeep instead of getting
pushed by mama. The jeep is much faster!!

We are cruising to our Barbie music!
I think Mackenzie is a very good driver!
No crashes today!

Cinderella

I got this dress for my birthday from my nana and papa.

I wanted to wear it today to church because it is blue like

Cinderella's dress.

Look at me, I am a princess.

Cinderella!!

I wanted to sit down and have my picture taken.
But I do love my dress.
I had to wear it to evening church too!
I usually don't dress up at night.
I wore my dress and trampled the boys!
A dress can't keep me from being a buldozer!

Mackenzie's Favorite Cookie Recipe

ICED THUMBPRINT COOKIES


1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup pecans, toasted and finely chopped

1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons whole milk
food coloring

1. Put butter and granulated sugar into the bowl of a electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium high speed until pale and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Mix in vanilla. Reduce speed to low, and gradually mix in flour, salt and pecans. Wrap in plastic, and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.

2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls, and space 2 inches apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Press thumb in center of each cookie. Bake 10 minutes. Remove from oven; press centers with the end of a wooden spoon. Bake until golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes. Let cool completely on sheets.

3. Stir together confectioners sugar and milk; add food coloring. Fill centers with icing. Let set overnight.

NOTES

I don't always use a paddle attachment. I don't always toast my pecans. And I use 2% milk. We don't drink whole milk and I wasn't going to buy it for 2 tablespoon full's. And it worked just fine with 2%.

Flint River Aquarium

Nana and Papa went with us to the Flint River Aquarium

today, since today was my birthday!

Papa wanted to catch those big fish behind us.

Maybe next time we can take our fishing poles!!

What's that???

I don't know but he's coming over to see me!

I want it!!!!
Give it, PLEASE!!!

Nana and I went in the tunnel in the discovery center.
Nana was a little scared at first but I told her to stop
being a baby! We got to see the giant tank from inside!
The tunnel is one of my favorite things to do at the Aquarium!


I thought I would take a picture with the turtle!
I love turtles!

I took a picture with the turtle too!!!

This is the waterfall outside the aquarium.

I think it is pretty neat.

I am just hanging out with my papa.

I think he is pretty cool!
And I got tired of the stroller!

My very favorite thing to do at the aquarium is to feed the Sting Rays!

I like feeding them with my hands but today they had two leopard

sharks in the tank so they gave us these silly little

sticks to feed them with. I guess the sharks might bite or something!!

I don't know. All I know is that I stuck my hand in there anyway

when the workers were not looking!

Today the sting rays were eating shrimp!

Yum Yum Yum

One of my favorite foods.

But don't worry I gave them all to the sting rays today!

They are fighting over the food!

They splased me!

Which I thought was pretty neat!

More Birthday Cake Please!!!!

I wanted some more of Mackenzie's birthday cake.

I really enjoy birthday cake!

As if you couldn't tell by the pictures!

I like feeding myself.

And am proud of the messes I make!

PARTY!!!!!

We are getting ready for the big party!!!

I was really glad that Grandmama and Pop could come

to my 3rd bithday party.

They helped us decorate!

I am trying to tell Pop how to do the streamers!

We are done decorating the table!

I put the sparkles (as I call them) on the table!

Here are some of the foods I asked for!
I love shrimp, little sausage and those little cookies.
We also had hamburgers and hotdogs.


We all had fun swinging and playing outside.
I am trying to get Uncle Chuck to get in Kaitlann's swing!

My cousin Jake and I are having so much fun together.
Except he forgot to get out of the way or maybe it was me
that forgot to wait. I don't know but he didn't seem to mind!


Here we are again posing for a picture before he goes down the slide!

Here's me in my cozy coupe and my cousin John following behind.
Aunt Janet (grandmama's sister) and Uncle Chuck got to come
from Tallahassee and Burt (daddy's cousin), Lori and John got to come over
from Columus Georgia!


Where's the cake????
The big people said we had to eat real food before cake!
Who makes those rules?


Here's the cake!
Yum Yum Yum

I am making a wish and having a hard time blowing out those candles!
Mama accidently bought magic candles!!!


I think John enjoyed his cake!!

I know Kaitlann enjoyed hers!!

I think she wants more.
She is resorting to eating the plate!

My cousin Jessie is helping me open my presents.

I got this really cool Cars chair!

Thanks Aunt Kimmy for the fishing game!!

I have been waiting all week for this.

I picked it out and she bought it for me and made me

wait until my birthday! Isn't that a mean thing for an Aunt to do?

Yes, I had a pinata!

But the candy didn't fall out

so mama had to help!



Thanks to everyone who drove a long way to my party!

It was so good to have my family at my party!

This is the first year that Grandmama, Pop, Nana, Papa, Aunt Kimmy

and all of my other family got to party with me!!

Also, a Big Thanks for all of the gifts!!

I got so many fun toys and pretty clothes!