Izzie Turns 3

Izzie Beth is 3! Izzie had a party at the Bouce House this year. Tate loved it this year because he was big enough to bounce on his own. He found a favorite spot and wanted to do over and over. Izzie got a load of presents and did so good opening her presents. Everyone got a ball as a party favor. You know Tate was in heaven. You can tell Izzie Beth is loved!

Tate's first "real" camping trip - Bear Tree

I am really amazed that it has taken us this long to take Tate camping especially since Travis and I enjoy it so much. I call it his "real" camping trip because we all three actually slept in a tent together. That was an experience. It was really hard to get Tate to calm down and go to sleep with his mommy and daddy right beside him. Aren't we supposed to play like we do in our play tent at home?? We went to Bear Tree Campground in Damascus, VA with the whole Street clan. On Saturday we rode the Creeper Trail...well lets say Tate and I started to ride but it fell right at nap time and a down pour so we ditched everyone for a nap. That was an experience because I didn't have a car seat and I had to drive papaw's truck in the pouring rain with Tate's head on my lap. Oh..but what a memory! We had a great time and hope to do more camping in the near future!!

Mommy's Day 2010

This is my second official Mother's Day and my Tate was so sweet to me. He got me some beautiful yellow Gerber Daisies (my favorite) and a gift card to go get my toes done. Girl time...yeah! We have a tradition to go the park with the whole family and this year switched it up and went to a park in Fountain City to stay a little closer to home. We ate KFC and just played, played, played. We had a good day celebrating mothers.

Doing the "Thumb Dance"

This was Tate's first wedding that he actually busted a move on the dance floor. He was hilarious doing his "Thumb dance." Him and Izzie were so cute. Izzie was actually a flower girl in the wedding and she did so good. We had a great time but left the party because we thought the music was starting to hurt Tate's ears. We found out a couple of weeks ago that Tate needs tubes. He is getting them the Friday before Memorial Day. I guess he has his daddy's ears!

Kitchen Cabinet Project

Travis gets these wild hairs every once in awhile and he pulled through this one with a win! He has been talking about painting our kitchen cabinets...well...since the day we bought the house over 4 years ago. We didn't have much planned last weekend so he decided to get into a project around the house. We (when I say this I mean Travis with my input) started on Friday night sanding and taking the cabinets and drawers so we would be ready to start painting on Sat morning. We decided to use Travis's dad's paint sprayer to make things go a little faster. This was a nightmare at first. We couldn't get the thing to work and had to clean it out delaying our project until mid day. We had a schedule because we had the Dye/Milas that night and anyways it was supposed to rain. Travis finally got the outside painting done just in time to leave Sat night. On Sunday Travis's dad came over and helped finish trimming the inside and they hung the cabinets. Beautiful! We celebrated by eating Mexican with Travis's parents. Throughout the next week Travis touched up and put the knobs on. We decided to do handles on the drawers to mix things up. Let me know what you think...

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Tate helping...ha!


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Bunny Day 2010

What a fun holiday this year! The Easter bunny made it to our house. Tate got a bubble mower, puzzle, and some other goodies. He must have been good the past year...ha! We have a tradition that we started last year with Abbie and Izzie where we go to get pictures at the Mayo in Powell. They have live animals that the kiddos can pet. Tate looks so scared in his picture. He did not make a move with that large bunny beside him. We went to a couple of egg hunts this year....one at the Shular's house and then we went to Beaver Creeks'. Tate was a pro at hunting eggs. He got lots of candy that mommy and daddy can eat!! We also colored eggs at Mamaw and Papaw's house on Saturday and then at our house when dad came over. It was a blast this year and of course mommy likes getting all new clothes for the family!!

Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays

My Mom's, my Mother-in-Law's (Carolyn), and my Father-in-Law's (Ray) birthday are all really close so it seemed like we were getting together with family a lot this month to celebrate. We had Mom's and Carolyn's birthday dinners at our house. We had a good time. Ray's birthday we decided to go out to eat so we picked a Japanese steak house so Tate could be entertained. Well...this didn't go as planned because Tate was sick. He slept through the entertainment and actually threw up for the first time on the way home. He was so pitiful!