"Can you tell me how to get....

how to get to Bennett Street."

 Time for Bennett's 2nd Birthday Party!  Yay...I worked on this one for a while and had so much fun planning it!  Bennett loves Sesame Street, so it was an easy choice for his 2nd birthday. I once again took so many pictures, and I wish I could share them all...but instead here are about 40 of my favorites!

We had his party a week early, and all of our wonderful family and friends braved the warmest day of 2011 to celebrate with us.  When I say it was hot...it was HOT!

Any party wouldn't be complete with a special outfit made by Mimi (and Papa too)!

 Each kid had a personalized bucket filled with coloring goodies, stampers, notebooks, bubbles, picture frame and more.  These buckets were awesome and I found them in the $1 bin at Target.  With a little vinyl they ended up perfect.

 The parents so loved us!  Each kiddo took home "Elmo's" goldfish...complete with fish food.

                                     
                                     

Oscar had his own Tattoo Parlor...

 Sweet Hana helped all the younger kids put on their tattoos.

Each kid got a trash can goody from Oscar himself!

And their own trash can cup!

                                     

Cookie Monster had his own cookie toss! Lincoln and Cora were pros!

                                     

 Daddy built a bingo wheel for Sesame Street bingo. 

 BB and Coralyne concentrating...

 We had popcorn cones, gumball flowers, goldfish and fruit skewers to snack on.

 Sweetest boy ever!  He had so much fun running around playing with all of his sweet friends.

 Birthday cake and cupcakes.  My friend Lacey and I made the cake ourselves!

 "Happy Birthday to you!!!!"

 When we talked about his party all he would say is "cake please."  Well needless to say he enjoyed every bite!

 Two of a kind.  BB loves his Uncle Kiss!

 And...his Aunt Julie

 Big thank you to our families!  They were tons of help and once again I couldn't have done it without them!

                                     

 Baby Landen came too!  Ava is in love with him!

 Soo many presents from our generous family and friends!

Happiest of Happy Birthdays sweet Bennett Parker!  We hope you enjoyed your special day!

Warrior Dash 2011

 Yep...that's me in a tutu!  Never really thought that would happen unless I was playing dress up with Ava, but I was a good sport and wore one for my girls Brandy and Lacey.  With a little peer pressure from Brandy, the three of us signed up for the Warrior Dash in Mountain City.  Basically a 5K consisting of running, climbing, sliding, crawling, swimming, jumping, fire...and praying all while covered in thick mud.  It was tons of fun and worth every minute.

People dress pretty crazy for this event, but we chose Thing 1, Thing 2 & Thing 3.

 Scoping out the competition...as we strategically placed ourselves at the back of our heat.

 Crawling & climbing over wrecked cars came after we waded through/swam in the swampy muddy water.

 Here, we pulled ourselves (by rope) over the wall.  Freaked ME OUT when we got to the top.  It was high and, slippery from mud and you had to very carefully climb down by little slats in the wall.

 Yay!  We did it!  Picture does not do just how dirty we were!

So glad we signed up and can't wait until Warrior 2012!

Our sweet Ava was named the Student of the month for the primary grades at her school for the month of April.  Each month 2 students are picked by the teachers and staff, and Ava was chosen!  We are so proud of our girl!

Strawberry Pickin

We are so lucky we have a great local farm and great friends to do fun things with!  We met our friends the Durdens at Southern Belle Farms for a warm spring strawberry pickin day!

 She LOVES him!!! And he LOVES her too!

 Thinks he is a big boy!

 Yummy! Nothings better than a fresh, juicy red strawberry!

 Bennett would pick strawberries and walk around with them in his hand.  When we got home he has red juice all up and down his arms and legs.

                                                        

 Sweet friends all looking at the camera.  Brandy was doing something funny behind me, and it worked!

 Silly silly boys!

 They might have their brothers beat!

 Lots of farm animals to see, including goats, horses, cows, pigs, and baby chicks!

 Nothings better than a warm spring day spent outside with great friends!