More Birthday Pics

Camden's first look at her cake..

My friend Tricia is beyond talented and make this precious princess cake.
http://somethingsweetcakery.blogspot.com/

She got her first Barbie from MOm Mom and Pop Pop.

Happy 2nd Birthday Camden!

Our baby turned two on Wednesday. It feels weird that we are leaving the baby stage for the first time in 6 years. Part of that makes me really sad, the other part of me is hopeful that it will get easier. I will be honest that three kids has rocked our world. But we wouldn't trade it for anything. We love this baby girl! Camden has grown up so fast lately. She is talking up a storm...from full sentences to her favorite thing to say, "Why?"..which she often answers herself by saying "cause." You love anything princess but can already hold your own in a sword fight. You continue to know what you want when you want it but we are starting to be able to reason with you on some occasions. You are consistently sleeping till 6 am and even slept till 7 am twice this month. You love your brothers and also already know how to push their buttons. You love snacks and never eat meat. You love to swing, to be read to, and to play with your toys. We love you Camden Gray!
I got her two dress up costumes at the consignment store and she loved them! She also is holding her princess tooth paste that she took everywhere with her the first 24 hours.

She picked out the pink and purple donut for her bday breakfast. She stared at it for the first three minutes and then had me cut into little pieces to eat.

This was her other dress up outfit. She also is holding her Mickey Mouse, one of her other favorite gifts.

Strawberry Picking, Frogs, and Two

We went stawberry picking on Friday with Gran. Good thing we remembered our boots this year. I think the last time we went I was 9 months pregnant with Camden and I was holding Holt over all the mud puddles. Holt loved it and Camden hung in there most of the time. Next time I will only buy one box instead of two. it was a lot of work!

Thanks Caroline for my sweet dresses you brought me for my bday!

I will do a Birthday post next but this picture just describes Camden. Yes, she is all girl, loves her dolls and princesses but she can also name Star Wars characters. You definately know that she has two older brothers but also thinks she is quite the princess.

The frogs are back and bigger. Last year is was all tiny toads they would catch now they are close to size of their palms. I walked out side to hear Pierce say "1,2,3 go" they were having the toads race down the driveway. Seriously!?

Last update

The garden. Our neighbor and friend across the street had a great garden last year. The boys loved it. We picked there vegetables for them when they were out of town and Pierce and Holt went over there daily to check out their garden. So they begged this year to have one. I have absolutely no green thumb and honestly didn't have it in me after tax season so I let my dad take this one on with the boys. They managed to find a spot in the backyard that actually receives sun light, we are hoping enough. There is a little bit of everything in there so we will see what survives. Pierce checks the garden every day before school and as soon as he gets home and usually again before bed.

The boys did Awanas this year at Sharon Baptist and had their end of the year celebration Sunday night.

The boys other new past time (actually fighting and copying everything the other say is ranking up there right now too) is building with wood. These pieces of wood and container of nails and screws has provided hours of entertainment at our house the past few weeks. The boys have built airplanes, robots, benches, and other creations that we couldn't identify. I ran in the house today and came out to Pierce teaching Camden how to hammer a nail. I know, probably not the best idea, but it was cute.

Our first pepper in the garden, Pierce wanted me to take this picture today.

Beach for Easter weekend

I think this was the first Easter we have spent at the beach. It was great it lined up with spring break and we had a fun long weekend.

The first catch of the season, supposedly on Pierce's line but daddy pulled him in.




This was 'Lizzy." Pierce somehow caught a lizard on the boat when they went fishing. This was his buddy for two days until we convinced him to let him go as he was barely hanging on for his life. He even spent the day down on the beach with us.

We went to church on the beach for Easter Sunday. I can't tell you a bit about the sermon as I chased this crazy girl around the whole time. In this picture she was making a mad dash for the water.

The first day we went to the beach, as soon as we got out there Jason and I sat down and all three of them were playing nicely in the sand. We made the mistake of saying to each other, "Is this the summer we will actually get to sit down on the beach?" Well, that lasted five minutes as that is how long it took Camden to discover the water, and that was the last time we sat that weekend. The water was freezing but she stayed in the water as far as we would let her the entire time she was on the beach, shaking, lips turning blue and all. We will definitely have a life jacket for her this summer.

Our best attempt of a picture of the three of them.

Durham

We went to Durham a couple weekends ago to celebrate Aidan and Brody's 4th Birthday. They had a dinosaur party at the Museum of Life and Science . The boys loved it and had so much fun spending the day and night with their cousins. Mom Mom and Pop Pop took Camden for the night and she did great and enjoyed being spoiled by herself.

Uncle Daniel capitavating the boys. Holt adores Daniel just a little bit as you can see from the picture.

Aidan and Brody know their dinosaurs..they were teaching Camden the names, too cute!

Camden made a friend at the party, they were checking out the dinosaurs. Can you see her eye? She had just a 'small rug burn' as Jason explained it to me when I got home from work that Saturday. It was pretty bad looking in person for a few days. He 'thinks' she fell off the couch, glad daddy's are so much more layed back then us mommies.

I was putting up winter hats and Camden got into them. She thought it was a good look with her sundress.

Updates

Its been forever since I posted so going to try to catch up. Sure it will be scrambled but this is definitely the best account I have of any journal, baby book, etc in life these days. I finished up tax season a couple weeks ago and catching up on life now. Jason and I looked at each other at dinner tonight and said if only we recorded these moments as all three were on the floor wrestling and yelling and being crazy. It feels like it is always chaos at our house, we are more tired when the weekends are over then when they started, we referee, clean up spills, wipe tears, and try our best to love them well. I have to admit many days I feel inadequate at this job as a mommy. but I also fall more in love with each of them each day and they draw me closer to Jesus in my shortcomings as I need him more. I am so grateful, so full of love, and yes so so so so tired.


I managed to get Camden's hair in pig tails one day. This was the last time..now she won't let me do it. If I try, she says "bow", I guess that is the lesser of two options to her.

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

This is Pierce and Elena at the Easter egg hunt. The older kids hung was in the backyard. Jason and I had been keeping up with Camden and Holt in the front so I went to check on Pierce and this is the cute picture I caught. Elena and Pierce are best buddies, such an innocent sweet friendship. I wonder what they were talking about as they stared in the distance together...maybe Star Wars, as Elena shares Pierce's passion for Star Wars.

Camden was chowing on some chocolate, she was in all her glory. The girl loves sweets!