"The fundamental mission of motherhood now is the same as it always was: to nurture, protect, and instruct children, to create a home environment that enables them to learn and grow, to help them develop a heart for God and his purposes, and to send them out into the world prepared to live both fully and meaningfully."

-Sally Clarkson from the Mission of Motherhood

Saturday, January 24, 2009

January Birthday Action

We've kicked off the new year with many 3 year old bday celebrations. Here are snapshots from a couple:
Karoline had a perfect princess party with all the trimmings! She's in the middle next to her dashing prince, Watson. Isn't he cute?? hehe

AM with fellow princess, Harper.

Karoline's mommy, Kathryn, was dressed as Cinderella herself! (and Daddy was in a tux as the real prince!)

Birthday girl blowing out her candles!

AnnMarie in the mush pot during the toddler dance party. Hilarious!

AM and Betsy Grace (aka Snow White) had a great time dancing.

The next day we went to a jumping party for Jackson. This was a BIG hit! Here is AM waiting in line for her first big slide by herself. She went down a couple times with Sean, but after that she was on her own!
Look out below!

Whoa---this one was a really steep one!

Let's try it backwards...
After all that bouncing we took a break to sing Happy Bday to Jackson and open some presents. Here is Betsy Grace with her daddy, Bryan.

AnnMarie and Cody working very intently to decorate their "3" cookies.

Here's Jackson!

AnnMarie showing off her finished product while trying to say the official "cheeeeeeeeeeese". :)
And this one I just threw in because it's (she's) so stinkin cute...

8 comments:

Sally said...

OH MY GOSH!! you got some great pics, thank you Katy girl!! love them!
and thank you for your UGG feedback, i loved it girl!!! great tips and advice!!! Josh is going over to the TR house to look at it with me today...ahhh! talk to ya soon!

The Junods said...

she is so stinkin' cute that daugher-in-law of mine! love you and miss you!

jana fleming said...

darling pictures! can't believe these kiddos are turning 3! watson is honored to be AM's prince charming any day of the week...xo!

rackersfamily said...

I love AM's face when she is going down the big slide! So cute! Riley liked the princess party pics the best... imagine that!

Meg said...

thanks so much for your sweet note on my blog!! i will be keeping up with yours now too!! hope you and baby #2 are doing great!!

angie said...

that last pic is just too much!! I just love that sweet girl to pieces:) BTW Melissa had this cool vote boy or girl thing on her blog and I though you might want to add something like that:) pretty cool!

Kelly S. said...

You go to SOOO many birthday parties! I am trying to plan El's 2nd b-day. Any grand ideas?

stephanie howell said...

she is so so cute! and i am cracking up at that pic of her and harper. besties or archrivals? frenemies?!!?!? harper looks very perturbed. HEEE!!! xoxo