Jackson and Bailey's Double Birthday Party!

 Happy Birthday Bailey and Jackson!!  Our first double party was a big success & a huge thank you to everyone that came out to celebrate with us and made it so special :)

 I was pretty happy with how her shirt came out, I made a bow too, but it was too heavy for her thin hair :)

 Our little man :)

 Some of John's life long friends and their wonderful girlfriends/wives :)

 Opa and Nana!!

 We ran out of time and we didn't even open the presents in front of anyone!

 You can tell Bailey liked her cake! They kept looking at each other and saying, "mmmmmm"!

 Some of our good friends from our Sunday School group!

 Some of my best girls, Ash, Me, Mer, and Kayla...and Jackson snuck in of course! Thank you again to Ashley for taking such wonderful pics!!!

 Daddy with the birthday girl!

 Em and Robert came all the way from Birmingham to celebrate with us!

 Nana and Jackson

 Me, Tomi, and Jessi.  We usually put our kids in the picture, but it was just too much for this party! LOL  Tomi is due in January!

 Opa with the birthday girl!

 The is the first picture we have gotten with us and our girls!  If you can believe it, Camden is actually 4 months younger than Bailey!  Look how sweet she is!!!

 Everyone enjoying our top deck that John rebuilt (I will post pics of new projects he has completed soon!).

And this is "Mama Karen" and "baby Karyn".  Baby Karyn is our babysitter, and the best one in the whole world if you ask us!!  They live across the street from us and have become our good friends over the years. We really don't know what we would do without her, she is just so wonderful with the kids!!!

You know you have a little boy when...

You find these at the bottom of your washing machine after doing a load of laundry :)  It just melts my heart, he loves to put things in his pockets :)

3 Years Old!

 Jackson's cousins came over to celebrate his birthday with him and it was his favorite present!

 As Dan said, "That was all nose!" LOL  His was super cute blowing out his candles :)

 This is Aunt Amy and Uncle Dan's cool present for Jackson and he loved it!!

 We have gone to the fair for the past 3 years (Jackson even went a day before he was due in my belly one year & Bailey went in my belly last year!).  And we always have a great time!

 Of course, we HAD to get a funnel cake!! 

 Bailey was ALL business when it came to eating the funnel cake~she LOVED it!

The years have gone way to fast and I can't believe Jackson is 3 today.  He brings so much to our lives I couldn't even begin to describe how amazing the last 3 years have been.  Jackson changes so much everyday and it is so fun to see his personality really shine though.  He LOVES to dance, sing songs, chase other kids, paint, have snack, eat yogurt (seriously, he probably eats 2 things of yogurt a day~at least!), watch movies, say goodnight to the moon with Daddy & read a book, take a bath, do anything outside, fixin' things with Dad, and his best friend is our dog Cooper.  Don't get me wrong...he is definitely a typically 3 year old and has his moments everyday. But, John and I usually go to bed laughing about something he said or did that day and smile thinking about our next day with him :) 

And she walks!!!!

 Bailey officially is walking more than crawling this weekend :)  She started taking more steps at the beach and then as soon as we got home to her comfort zone she started walking across the room and all over!  We video taped her and as soon as John puts it on the computer I will post it too!

We joke around that she looks like E.T. when she walks and Jackson imitates her and it is hilarious!  He is just fascinated that she is walking :)

 My Mom came over to visit on Monday and brought the kids their birthday gifts b/c they will be out of town for their party.  We all had sooo much fun and the kids LOVED their presents!

Allie's Engagement Party!

The future Mr. and Mrs. Hayes!!

                           

 Our group of girls, minus Alijeh :)

 The Groomsmen!

The Bridesmaids!

Valerie had the best party for Allie, it was so much fun and the food was so good too!!  Can't wait for all that is to come this year :)

Gulf Shores 2011

All the Ballard Grandkids :)

 We love the new pool the State put in, it is awesome!!

This is how they were all week! They loved to chase each other!!

Bailey's first boat ride!!!  She seemed to like it :)  Jackson is like a zombie when he rides the boat and basically has that same expression the whole time!  LOL  However, he did learn to drive the boat (daddy steered while he determined what speed we would go!) and he LOVED that!

Mimi and Diddy with their grandchildren!  I LOVE William in this picture...so sweet how he is leaning on Diddy!

And here is a picture of the whole family!!  We get bigger every time we go! We had a lot of fun and John and I would have loved to do more, but it does get more difficult when you have a little one still taking two naps and you can only drag them so many places in one day ;)  We had both of them sleeping in our room and they both had colds the whole week.  So we didn't get the best sleep b/c of their coughing and Jackson trying to sneak out of the room a million times, but it was well worth it~the kids had SOOO much fun playing all day together and we loved hanging out with the adults after bedtime :)