Happy 2nd Birthday Paige!

Paige turned 2 yesterday and in some ways it is hard to believe it has been two years since she was born but in other ways I feel like she should have turned two months ago. She speaks and acts so much older and maybe that has something to do with learning a lot from Avery. Either way, my baby is growing up and I really wish it wouldn't happen so fast. We didn't do a party this year. After our late night wedding on Saturday we were content to spend the afternoon at home as a family. My good friend Nicole (Miss Cole, as my girls call her) and her husband came for lunch and cake and ice cream. Here is tired Paige making a pouty face in her birthday princess shirt - not wanting Avery to help her open her gifts.

Wedding fun

Adam was a groomsman in his friend's wedding this past Saturday night. We ended up taking Avery and Paige with us and they loved it! Avery is just so girlie that a wedding is the perfect place for her. She danced the entire night - from the moment we got to the reception until 12:30am! Paige had a great time too but she was more interested in the great food than dancing. They love to get dressed up and even insisted on wearing tiaras!

So sweet to dance with Daddy

Little Fish

When will the heat end??? This is supposed to be the time of year when the temps finally start to cool down and you can spend the day outside without being sweaty and miserable. Not this year, my friends. We have had record highs the past week or so and they are going to continue for a few more days. They girls' school was closed this past Friday to teacher training so I decided it was a great excuse to take the day off work and enjoy a long weekend. Since it was too hot to play outside we spent the day swimming at the pool in Noni's neighborhood. The girls and I had a blast. Avery has been swimming on her own with her water wings for a while now but this was the first day that Paige was able to do it on her own. She even fingured out how to float on her back. She's a lot more adventurous than Avery and also loves to jump from the side of the pool, go underwater and swim her way back up. It was so nice to be able to enjoy the pool and not have to hold onto one of them the whole time.

Enjoying a lunch break.
Paige is showing off her floating skills.

Italian ice on a hot fall day

My friend gave us coupons for FREE Rita's Italian ice so we took the girls this weekend. They both chose cotton candy flavored but I think that was only because it was blue. It's still pretty hot around here and the cold treat was just what we needed. I hear cooler (mid 80's) weather is on it's way so here's to fall!

Who's excited about dance?

Swing!

Paige loves to hit the baseball. Anytime Adam goes outside she wants to follow and hit baseballs. She definitely gets that from the Salley side of the family. And she hits it everytime!

Beautiful rainbow I saw on Sunday. It always reminds me that God keeps His promises.

Disney on Ice

This past Friday night we took the girls to see Disney on Ice at the Lakeland Center. I saw that it was coming a while ago but put off buying tickets until I knew what was going on around this time. I then completely forgot about it until the night before when my friend called to tell me that she heard about a discount code to get FREE tickets. At first I was skeptical about it but I tried it and it worked! They were even the more expensive seats. Well the girls LOVED it! They were so excited to see the Princesses mostly but enjoyed the entire show. I must admit, I sang along a few times too. What a great time we had!