Addie Turns 3!

So on Sunday Addie turned 3. I think she has been asking about her birthday for the last six months so we had to make it a big deal this time. She already knew she wanted a cars birthday party so when we went shopping for supplies we had people asking us if it was our little boy's birthday. The pictures are so out of order but here goes.

For the party I got little wood cutouts for the kids to decorate with markers and stickers. I had cars, princess, and just generic stars and stuff. Of course this was Addie's she had to make sure it was all cars and she didn't forget anyone.

Here's Addie blowing out her candles, she didn't need any help this year she knew just what to do...it only took her three tries to get all of them out.

Here are the party decorations, we finally hung pink balloons from our Cars streamers to girl it up a bit.

Now to the presents. Addie got this fun game, she is supposed to jump over the bee. It was a little frustrating for everyone involved to teach her that so now she just runs away from the bee.

Here she is in her princess dress, she was wearing them all over the house yesterday. We have this wonderful pink one....

Sorry random picture of Demzi pulling a weird face while shaking the balloons around.

And then she got this green one (and if you can't tell, my mom got Addie makeup for her birthday...she was so excited, it even had green eyeshadow)

Here she is at her party opening presents.

Sunday, her actual birthday, opening the presents that we got her.

Here she is trying to show me that she is 3....we'll have to work on that one a bit more.

Here's Addie's new Cars sleeping bag (that she was able to take camping with us and therefore threw up on)

She also got some little matchbox cars that look like the characters from cars that she now sleeps with every night. The day after her party she was wired, "Hey mom, lets play cars for a little second, or maybe princess puzzles and then my Strawberry Shortcake since she has a kitty." All the while I was thinking, it's 6 I'm not sure I'm ready for this much energy yet.

It's funny how much I've realized in the past few weeks that Addie is growing like crazy. She says stuff to me pretty much on a daily basis that I just wonder where in the world that came from. My favorite was the other morning when she climbed in my bed (again at 6) and said, "Hey mom, why don't we just talk to each other for a little second because, well, what's that?" Then I have to think if I have ever said anything like that or if this is just her personality that I get to see more and more of. I think I was as excited as Addie this year for her birthday just because she seems to experience things so much more as her understanding grows.

24th of July Camping

I'm not entirely certain that camping agrees with our family. The weekend of the 24th was the Moore family reunion, which was a camping trip, so we made sure to do a test run a few weeks earlier since we haven't tried camping with Addie since she was one and she screamed all night (that was even in Kris's parents' back yard).

Our actual camping trip didn't pull off nearly as smoothly as the test run. With the added excitement of everyone being there Demzi would not go to sleep (there was a campfire outside our tent and some games going on). When she did finally fall asleep Kris and I couldn't fall asleep. Kris had some crazy allergies and I have a hard enough time sleeping in my own bed when I'm 20 weeks pregnant, let alone a tent :) Finally we managed to doze off and Demzi yelled in her sleep waking me back up at 3. Since I then couldn't fall back asleep I was still awake when Addie threw up (I think hers was a congestion problem too) We cleaned her up and then I took her to the car to sleep so we wouldn't disturb those around us. Addie did manage to fall back asleep finally at around 6 but at that point I figured I was just up. I'm not sure we'll try that one again for a while. Even with all that though, we did have tons of fun hanging out with family and playing games the next day so it was totally worth it.

Here's Addie asleep on the front seat of the car when she finally decided to go back to bed.
She was happy as could be the next morning too.

Kris out with his cousins playing kick ball, I totally missed the shot where he was kicking the ball because everyone was laughing at Ryan since he had just slipped in a cowpie (I missed that shot too)

Demzi, loves camping. Once she falls asleep she does sleep pretty well it's just getting her to that point.

First thing in the morning, still waking up.

4th of July

I know these pictures are late, and I intended on posting them when I did my last 3 posts but blogger froze up on me. Anyway, better late than never. For the fourth we started out the morning going to the neighborhood parade. Addie had her bike all decked out and Alicia even painted a star on her cheek for her. She had lots of fun, Demzi had fun too even though it overlapped her nap a bit.

Towards the end Demzi alternated between leaning on the stroller and trying to shove her head in and standing with both hands in the air saying "wee!" (she can stand forever I have no idea why that girl won't just learn to walk already)

It took a couple of tries but Addie did get into the sack racing.

This is one of her and Zoe's first attempts where my mom gave in and hopped with them but the girls loved it.

Just a random picture from right after the parade, of course Addie wouldn't leave my mom's side.

Here's the whole crew walking/riding in the parade.

Here is Addie on her decorated bike. Of course my mom is pulling her bike because Addie still hasn't learned how to pedal.

Then we topped off our day/night by going to my Aunt Joan's for a barbecue and fireworks. Of course I forgot my camera for that part but it was TONS of fun. I'm glad we were able to go up this year it was so fun to see everyone. Hey and what do you know? Addie didn't cling and cry the whole time during fireworks this year, she did tell me afterward that she thought they were scary but she enjoyed them while we were there and as long as she was a safe distance away she did just fine. We did wimp out before the big ones though, I think she would have had fun but out poor kids had had enough fun for one day...we really kill them on holidays with the lack of schedule. It usually equates into three days with no naps and a later bedtime and takes about a week to recover from.

Messy Demzi

Demzi is the messiest eater. It doesn't matter what we are eating at some point she will get it on her hands and then rub it all over her head. This Sunday it happened that I gave her a cracker with some cheeseball on it. She had been eating it fine off my finger, and the crackers off of her tray, but the second I put the two together she stuck it right to her hair. I was laughing so hard I was crying. that's a good thing to put in your hair 20 minutes before church.

New Mexico

Last week Kris and I were able to go to New Mexico. My parents were nice enough to watch Addie and Demzi for us while we were away and we got a much needed break. It was actually kind of a business trip for Kris that I was lucky enough to tag along.

We had to stop and take a picture in Roswell. This is the Walmart there, I don't know if you can see the UFOs and Aliens on it. They also had put little eyes on the street lights to look like aliens.
Here we are just about to head into Carlsbad Caverns. Kris was actually here for a business trip a couple of years ago but I'd never been.

Looking up from the beginning of our walk down, it was quite a trek.

The next few are just some fun rock formations in the cavern.

Bear Lake

About a week and a half ago, we were able to go to Bear Lake with my family. It was a nice little break and we had tons of fun. Here are just some pictures. Out of order, of course, but here they are.

This was later in the morning and poor Demzi had had enough fun for one day.
Demzi's favorite thing was eating all the sand. She'd try to sneak bites whenever she thought we weren't watching.

Alicia and I tried to hard to get both Addie and Zoe looking and smiling at the camera but it wasn't to be. I did manage a couple of them separate though.

Kris had just put Addie in the water, does she look like she's enjoying herself?

Here they are as we first got down to the beach that morning.

Addie warming herself up to the idea of getting in the water.

Demzi starting out slow, just digging in the sand right now, the tasting comes later (probably about 30 seconds later).