Where we have been...

I have not blogged in over a month! Yikes! But now we are back:) We have been too busy doing this:

and this:

and this:

And there is a LOT to catch up on! SO...coming up:

• Chris's NEW JOB!
• Charlie is walking and "talking"
• Caden
• The best new spot to take kiddos
• and WAY MORE:)

Char's Birthday Party

For the boys 1st birthday we like to keep things pretty small and low-key. This past Saturday we had a cookout with family and a few close friends. It was a great day! Good weather; Char got such great gifts and it was just a great celebration of his first year of life! Here he is enjoying:

June 7, 2010 (chars bday part 1)

My baby is one year old today. 12 whole months. I really cannot believe it has been a year! I have fallen more and more in love with my baby Charlie everyday; and (for the most part) have truly just enjoyed his first year of life. 12 special things about you:

1. Nicknames: Char; Char-Char; Char bear (from Tiff:); baby Charlie; sugar booger:)

2. You are happy all the time. Except in Sunday School.

3. Still taking 2 naps a day; but you are super laid back so if we miss the am nap its all good.

4. You love to eat!

5. You can totally walk; but you have not chosen to do so yet:)

6. You are so done with bottles; but you do not seem to crazy about milk yet.

7. You love Caden so much.

8. You Love, love, love bath time!

9. Have been super healthy (up to this week;)

10. 110% mommas boy (WOOHOO- although this is probably because you have not realized how much cooler daddy is)

11. One of your favorite activites is pushing the chairs around the kitchen

12. You are the most loved, cutest one year olds on the planet

and you have the best chubby legs in the world!

Wordless Wednesday

Brothers...

...make the best of friends.

Wordless Wednesday

the Oaks!

Chris and I went to the KY Oaks this past Friday. this is so.not.us. This is SO not our kinda thing that we almost didn't go. (the whole get dressed up- wear a fancy hat- hobnob with the hobnobbers thing always sounds like so much fun but at the end of the day we usually chicken out and just resort to the good ole dinner and a movie). But I am SO glad we did. To make a really really long story short we had tickets given to us...good tickets...owners box undertheroof kinda tickets. We get to Churchill Downs and we cannot find our seats anywhere. It is like they do not exist. Fast forward an hour and a half and we find about a dozen people that are supposed to be seated in our section and they are all fired up because apparently all the tickets in section ___ are invalid. Not in the system; as in we are sorry but you are just going to have to go home. what?! fast forward another 30 minutes; the man who had given us our tickets came and found us; and then tells us that he is so sorry about the problem and here are 2 new tickets...to the Jockey Suites. Which involves; free food, free drinks, real bathrooms, views from the balcony. wow. Not bad for our first time at the Oaks! and it was such a great date! Sometimes it is good to get out of your "usual" and step out in your best dress and fancy hat:)