Belated birthday party pics :)

Sorry this has taken me so long. We've been busy and we got hit with a major stomach flu bug that kept all of us home from work/daycare. We're feeling better now and it's time I updated the blog! For Lauren's birthday, both sets of Grandparents came to celebrate. Mimi and Boppa Steighner had to leave early Saturday morning to return to Indianapolis for the Colts' playoff game. Meanwhile, we spent the morning at a nearby indoor waterpark (Country Springs Hotel). Lauren had a ton of fun running around with Mommy, Daddy, Boppa Lucas and her friend Cade from daycare. Mimi Lucas took some cute pictures for us. That's my dad (Boppa Lucas) up there. He's squirting poor innocent children with a giant water gun as they walk by unsuspecting.Following our morning at the waterpark, we had the dinner club over for a party that night. I'm not sure what Lauren loved more....her Elmo's World cake or having her three dinner club baby friends over to play :)Reading her new book with Jackie.
Need I say more about the theme of the party?
Jason and Jackie's son, Braeden. He and Lauren played together for awhile that night and read lots of Elmo books. She also shared all of her Sesame Street stuffed animals with him. I think she's trying to turn him into a groupie too.

Lauren loves babies. Here she was enjoying a conversation with Tyler.

The following pictures are from our attempt to get a picture of the four dinner club babies. We had lots of laughs trying to get all of them to look at the camera at once!

Girls will be girls. "Chatting" when they are supposed to be paying attention!
(L-R: Braeden, Tyler, Sophie, Lauren)

Lauren's friend Sophie (also from the dinner club) came over for their first sleepover last Saturday night. Love the matching jammies....and the almost matching outfit the next day. The girls had a blast playing together. It's so fun to see their friendship begin.Story time before bed.

Sophie loves Westin almost as much as Lauren does. We had to watch them closely because Sophie kept trying to offer her hands to Westin, who was VERY happy to oblige and "clean" them.

Again, making sure her friends know all about Elmo.

Have a good night!

Love,

M & L

What do you get...

when you take an Elmo-obsessed child and celebrate her 2nd birthday???Yep! 8, count them, 8 of the exact same card!!! Plus a giant Elmo card AND a card that has Elmo talking to her. So funny :) This'll be one of my favorite birthday memories for years to come :)

I'll post pictures from her birthday party soon and also pictures from her very first sleepover (her friend Sophie slept over at our house last night). Right now, we've got the flu in our house tonight and I need to get to sleep early so I can hopefully sleep off the bug that I think I got from Chad. Yuck. G'night.

~M

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

We had a wonderful birthday celebration for Lauren. We spent yesterday morning at a local indoor waterpark and then had friends over for cake last night. I'll share those pictures very soon. I can't believe Lauren is two years old now!!! Time has just flown by. I made her a very special book for her birthday. I wanted to share it with my blog readers (unless you saw it on my Facebook page already...). Just click on the link above if you'd like to check it out. It was so fun to make!

For New Year's Eve, we enjoyed our annual Dinner Club NYE get-together at Molle's house. Last year, Lauren was the only little one in the Dinner Club. This year at the New Year's party, there were FOUR little ones and another on the way :) Busy year, huh?

Story time for Sophie and Lauren before bedtime on New Year's Eve at Jason and Jackie's house.Playing Tim's video game drum set. (Sorry Tim, I have no idea what game this is for. Rock Band, maybe?)The above three pictures are of Rob and Carla's adorable son, Tyler. He's fun to photograph :)
Playing basketball with Daddy at the Big Backyard (indoor playground).

(Holly and "Big" Matt, this one's for you!)

Not sure how she climbed in here by herself. I don't think I want to know.

Have a good start to your week. I'll try to add more pictures soon :)

Love,

M & L