Happy 1st Birthday Alison!

CHEESE!!!!

And the party begins...

Kylie and Ali

Tasting the cake

Screaming with excitement over my presents!

Ali's booty

Saturday we celebrated Ali's 1st birthday with all of our friends and family (about 50 kids and adults to be exact!). We had a beautiful day and enjoyed spending time with everyone. Alison HATED her cupcake so much she started shaking and screaming while pushing it away. It was very dramatic and hilarious!

Fruits of our Labor

My early Birthday present
Mission complete!

After many hours of cleaning gutters, mulching, pruning, planting, and purchasing a new table set, I believe the frontyard is finally complete. Memorial Day?...More like Labor Day if you ask me (although Jon did most of it in 90+ degree heat, thank god we have a pool to go to now!)

Memorial Day Weekend 2011

Playing trucks on the beach

Last one out...imagine that

Silly Ali

Sunscreen Face

Hot Mama

It was the first "summer" weekend in the new neighorhood and it was AWESOME! We kicked off the weekend with a cookout with the Panetta/Hardick family Friday night, then topped it off with a beach party and community pool over the rest of the weekend. Our neighbor across the street has a beautiful beach and invited us to join in on thier annual Memorial Day festivities and we quickly agreed! Brody spent 6 hours non stop in the water/sand and all of the younger teenage girls took turns taking care of Alison while Jon and I enjoyed some adult beverages from the beach. We had a BLAST! The four of us also walked over to the pool and enjoyed watching Brody play with tons of kids his age in the small 2 ft. part of the pool, I think he died and went to heaven. Ali and I played in the toddler pool while Jon watched B from the sidelines. We truly had a fantastic weekend!

New Shoes

Alison already has more shoes than Brody (as it should be!). The newest addition to her wardrobe are pink sandals from Nana for her Birthday. She also got a white pair but it was hard enough getting a picture of her with the pink ones on!

Best Buds

B and his Tomahawk and Ash with her wand
Enjoying the flick

Friday night we celebrated Mandy's birthday with dinner at our house. After Alison went to bed the big kids stayed up and watched Cars. Brody got "tucked in" with Ashley and they shared pretzels. It was SO cute! Brody even gave Ashley driving lessons on the gator (which didn't end so well for him as he fell out of the back!).

New Ali videos

I especially love the video of her trying to put on her sunglasses!

Bad day