Happy 2nd Birthday Nina!

May 8th was Nina's 2nd birthday. We went to Georgia and spent the weekend with my Mom and Mark's parents. We had a great time and Nina, of course loved being the center of attention. We were able to have a night out with Chris and Melanie and enjoyed dinner with them while the kids enjoyed getting spoiled by the grandparents. One of the things that Ethan has always looked forward to at my parent's house is riding my Dad's tractor. Mr. Roy is taking care of it now, but hadn't been over to make sure it was running....so we didn't get it out, but Ethan stayed in my Dad's shed for hours playing on the tractor. He even had Ro Ro bring his lunch out there to him and he had a picnic on my old wagon in the shed. It was funny. The kids stayed outside almost the entire weekend - they just love being in the yard playing together!

Nina is quite the 2 year old already! She is such a huge talker and loves to sing and dance. Among her favorite songs are ABCs and Let's Go Fly a Kite. She sings both quite well and it's adorable. She cracks us up all the time - we never know what is going to come out of her mouth. She and Ethan play well together, most of the time, and she loves her Bubba! Nina is a delight to be around and such an amazing blessing to our family! Happy 2nd Birthday, Nina! It only took Ethan 2 days to figure out how to flip himself on the rings.

Here I come, Mommy....watch out!

This is Kaylee from Ethan's preschool class. Let me just tell you, this girl is already throwing off the scent. ALL the boys in the class fight over her. ALL of them! I witnessed it one morning as I dropped Ethan off - Brian and Kaylee were talking and Ethan walked in and put his bag up and then started talking, or trying to talk, to Kaylee. Brian literally stepped in between them and put his arms out at Ethan....like he was telling him to stop. Ethan's teachers say that this happens many times during the day, with all the boys. She is the one that all the boys talk about when they go home. How funny is that? Ethan is going to miss her!

The birthday girl giving someone a dirty look

I'm 2!!!

Ethan on Poppa's tractor

Waiting for her party guests to arrive

How cute are they?

Nona, Ro Ro, Melanie and I took the kids down to the clubhouse to play on the playground there. On the way back, Melanie and I put all the kids in the back of my Mom's truck....evidently they were quite wild driving through the neighborhood - but then again, my Mom does exaggerate a little.....!

The cake

Nina attempting to blow out her candles. She blows up instead of out....so she never can get it. She had several helpers though!

Enjoying cake and ice cream!

Mommy and Daddy with the birthday girl

Melanie with her girlsSunday (Mother's Day), we drove to Chattanooga to spend the morning and afternoon with my grandparents. Here we are with Mema.

Nana and Papa with the kids

Ethan loves to climb on the side of their swing - except this time, he kept trying to use the top of the swing like his trapeze bar. "He's all boy"!

Nana made Nina a birthday cake and a chocolate pie. Ethan had 2 pieces of chocolate pie before we left - everyone loves Nana's chocolate pie!

I just had to throw this picture in here....Mark made these grilled sweet potato fries with cilantro tonight. They were super yummy!