A Happy Birthday

Kara's birthday went wonderfully! She was such a happy girl all day long. I came home yesterday morning with balloons for her, and she just grinned!

Her first present to open was her ring from Mommy and Daddy. She hollered A RING! And the best part for me was that it fit perfectly!






Yesterday afternoon I took Kara over to the park to take pictures. I've taken her there every year on her birthday with the camera. Sadly, the baby swing broke during a wind storm this year, so we had to use the big girl swing instead.

For her birthday dinner, Kara wanted to have a "crab lunch" at Red Lobster. We ended up being a party of 12, which was a lot of fun for everyone, but Kara's favorite part is always looking at the 'crabs'.

Kara begged to pet a lobster this time, and when they pulled him out of the tank, she really did touch him!

To end the day we went to Miranda's for cake and presents. Uncle Matt baked a cake just for Kara, and you could tell that she was so happy that he had!

3 years ago...

I was just thinking that three years ago today I was already in the hospital being induced to have Kara. A lot of the things that happened then are a blur, but mostly good memories. I remember being very, very tired since I didn't sleep well what with the hospital bed and all the monitors.

I can't believe my baby is already 3. It doesn't seem possible! She has gone from a tiny, tiny baby to a girl. She doesn't even look like a toddler to me anymore. :( She does still act like a toddler though, and if the last few days of fit-throwing are any indication 3, for us, is going to be worse than the so called "terrible-2's"

Tomorrow I'm taking the night off work to stay with my baby girl and celebrate. We will be going out to eat a "crab lunch" for supper. I can't hardly wait! Then the big party is on Saturday. This fullfills Kara's requirement to have 2 birthdays this year.

*SIGH*

Just practicing.

Patti just let me know I can upload photos directly instead of uploading through Photobucket. I didn't know this before, so THANKS Patti!

I missed out on some good photo opportunities this weekend because I didn't have my camera with me. Kara and Matt did a lot of playing outside with sticks. I think she has Uncle Matt totally trained.

And I missed a couple really sweet moments with Landen. Those kids just hug and kiss (and occasionally bite!) each other.

More pictures from this weekend

This weekend was pretty well filled with good opportunities for pictures of Kara and Kenny together. Here are a few more

Kara and Kenny riding the tractor with Uncle Les



And my favorite from this weekend, Kara and Kenny on the back of Blaine's truck

Read a book

Kara is becoming quite the little reader. She pretty well forces people to read to her anymore. Over the weekend I got a good picture of her and Baby Landen being read to by Grandma.

I love it!

Candy, Candy, Candy

Another part of the festivities this weekend was the "big" parade. It's an election year, so everyone running for office was passing out candy. Kara was pretty good at the candy collection.



She even crawled around on the ground for it.



And afterwards her loot covered the bottom of her wagon. And she and Kenny went to town on the suckers.

It's Good to be King

Baby Kenny was down this past weekend for the Walnut Labor Day Celebration. As part of this annual event they have a baby contest. So Kenny was entered and he WON! So now we have two contest winners in the family, since Kara won her age division way back when she was young enough to be in it (ah, the poor aging beauty queen!)

So Congrats to Kenny, and I'm sure it's good to be the King!


Kenny and Dad during the contest!

The winner! Kenny is presented with his trophy:



I did have to laugh that Kenny's first impulse was to taste the trophy, just like Kara did back on her day.