Walden's Farm 2009

Bright and early Saturday morning, literally 8:00 AM, Baylee and I headed to LaVergne. Alison's mom was visiting from Virginia and we all had plans to take the kids to the Pumpkin Patch. It was COLD and muddy outside from all of the rain that we have been getting over the last couple of weeks. I got to the end of my street and turned back to go get Baylee's rubber boots. So glad I did!

Alison told me she wanted to ride to her local library. They were having a book sale and she wanted to check it out before heading over to Walden's Farm. While Alison was loading two HUGE boxes of books into my trunk me and the kids hung out in the car. Me and AverlyPoor baby is recovering from a funky cold and ear infectionLast year when we went to Walden's Farm the kids were too little to do the maze. Not this year. Although Ray had to do it along with them.

This one is SOOO hard to take pictures of these days! I don't think I got one single picture of her looking at the camera the entire day.Baylee LOVED all of the animals. I swear I could send her to live on a farm and she would be happy as a can be. Me on the other hand not so much!She wanted me to put her IN the pin with the cows! Yeah.....NNNNNO!Baylee's favorite animal was the "cow" (goats) I tried many many times to tell her they were goats but she was having none of it. In her eyes they were COWS!

Picking out her pumpkinWow Mom this is HEAVY!She had to show the "cows" her pumpkin! Suckers for good behavior :)Trying to get both kiddos to look at the camera and smile for me...TAKE 1Take 2Take 3Take 78Close enough! Al and I with our baby girlsI was very proud of Baylee. She is normally down between 11:30-12:00 for a nap. However on this day it was after 2:00 when we left and headed home. 10 minutes later. Notice the orange tint to her lips from the sucker :)

Purple & Gold

I took these pictures last weekend. My Daddy (aka PaPAw) bought Baylee this LSU cheerleading suit and shipping it to Tennessee. I love it!

Baylee grubbin on CheetosShowing off her "hel-yo pannee's" ............in English yellow panties :)

Sleepy Head

Friday night Carl, Baylee and I went to visits some friends at their new house. We didn't get there until almost 6:30 and Baylee is normally in bed by 7:30. I was worried she would be a mess close to bed time but she did pretty well. We headed home around 9:45. After being in the car for about 5 minutes I turned around to find this.

Audrey's Baby Shower 9/26/09

Last Saturday I helped co-host my very first baby shower. It was held at my house so I think that added to the stress level because everything had to be just "so" before the guest arrived. LOTS of cleaning and decorating was involved.

I found this GREAT idea online to use clothes line wire and string it above a room and hang baby clothing. Luckily I had several newborn onesies from when Baylee was a tee tiny baby so it was a cheap and cute decoration.My friend Alisha was the other host. She MADE this BEAUTIFUL diaper cake! She and I are convinced she could start her own business making cakes and DIAPER cakes. And the actual cake. Alisha was going to make an awesome cake for the shower. However, she got sick the day before and did not feel comfortable preparing and baking a cake while feeling under the weather. So the day of the shower she headed to Publix and bought a cake that was already made and she added a few extra touches. When she got home and started getting things together for the baby shower her cat jumped up onto the counter top and knocked the cake onto the floor! GASP! She called me all upset and had to go purchase a second cake. This time she stopped at Kroger in Hendersonville and this was the only cake they had that was pink. The wooden duck was suppose to go on top the diaper cake but when the cake didn't quite turn out the way Alisha wanted she improvised and used it on the eatable cake. :) Sweet Averly is always smiling. The guest of honor herself. 4th time Mamma to be. She is finally getting a girl!Liz use to work at an office in my building. She had baby Tessa back in June. I was so glad she was able to come and bring her sweet baby along. Audrey got lots of great gifts and LOTS of cute girl clothes!Averly modeling Zoe's bib.Ele enjoying playing with Baylee's toys while she was not there :) I asked her "Ele can you smile so I can take your picture?". Her response...."yeah sure." Man I wish Baylee was that easy!Yarn around the belly game. Everyone was WAYYY off! It was hysterical! Baylee showed up after a lot of the guests had already left. She and Ele had a blast running around together and playing with balloons.

I wanted to take pictures of Audrey with each of her friends at the shower. However, I got busy doing other things so I missed about 5 people as they were leaving so I missed those opportunities.

Audrey, Liz and Tessa

with Alison and AverlyOut of 113 pictures taken from the shower I managed to get in one of them :)The shower was a complete success in my book and I was thrilled that my punch and 7 layer dip was devoured!