Crazy Cousins!

My Dad turned 50 on August 20th and we had a quite celebration together. It was a lot of fun - Alayna was lucky enough to be able to open all of Grandpa's presents.

Getting ready to blow out the candles - Alayna is always practicing, but when it comes right down to it - she is just a little scared of the fire. Speaking of fire - if we would have used 50 candles - our delicious ice cream cake would have been an ice cream puddle by the time we got all the candles lit up. We love you Dad (and Grandpa)!

Alayna is thrilled whenever she can have a "tubby" - since we don't have a bathtub - and nightly baths with Madeline made it even better. Madeline usually would get a little fed up with Alayna pouring water on her head...and have to get out before Alayna was ready to.

Enjoying an ice cream cone around the fire together.

Here is Grandma and baby Moira - about 2 weeks old. We were so lucky that Tifani let us hold her pretty much 24/7. I don't think she was ever put down while she was here.

Alayna loves Grandpa's fire pit and is always begging for a "hot dog on the fire" - which she always loves. Madeline loved it too!

Alayna meets her new cousin baby Moira...she loved her and wanted to give her lots of kisses...she'll be a great big sister. Alayna is all potty trained - Happy Day! She is doing great -the first couple of days after I took her diapers away and she wore her big girl panties - I took her to the potty about every hour and we had very few accidents and now she tells me when she has to go and we even made it through church and nursery yesterday! What a relief - now we will just hope and pray that everything continues to go well!