Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Summer Fun!

Well, I am combining a few posts into one because the title to this post pretty much sums it up. We have been enjoying summer to the fullest the past few weeks and that means lots of fun in the sun and water!! We are starting this summer off with lots of trips to the pool to get our little fish ready to swim. Actually, maybe a few too many trips because we just got our first dose of medicine for swimmer's ear!! (So maybe it is time for a break for a few days.) Here are some pictures from the past few weeks.

We went to the pool one day in Arkadelphia with my friend Caron and her kiddos. It was so much fun!! It is just too bad they got something that cool after I had to leave. I would have loved lifeguarding at this pool so much better!
Carrying on the Fowler family tradition of lifeguarding, my cousin Lindsey is one of the lifeguards there and does an excellent job if I do say so. It is a good thing since my child was the one running wild.
I don't know if I can even count the number of times Addie Blaire made it down this frog! She loved doing it herself, but even more she loved to cheer for the other kids as they came down. Too funny.
She loved these little sprinkler things. I couldn't get her away from them.There is nothing like a good icee after a hard day of swimming!
I got these pictures of Addie Blaire and Griffin the other day. This is the shirt I brought her back from Las Vegas for well, just read the shirt and you will know why...
Buddies.. these two crack me up.
I took Addie out to the farm the other weekend and while we waited on Pop we had some fun in the dirt.
Once again, as you might remember from an earlier post about Addie Blaire finding a flower in the middle of an ant hill, she was able to find this tiny flower in the middle of all that dirt. I found a sign that I put up over her room that reminds me of this and how she brightens my world it reads "My days are always happy and bright." -truer words were never spoken:)
This was our first trip to "G's" pool.
She and Griffin just started screaming one night and I just loved the way it played out in the pictures of the two of them.
I was watering the flowers one day and decided to let her join in on the fun. I guess that was a mistake though because she had so much fun that know watering flowers is a 30 minute ordeal followed by a bath for a very muddy baby!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Flowerbaby!

I decided this year to do Addie Blaire's second birthday party with the theme of a flower party. So in keeping with this theme I decided to have her on the invitation with a hat full of flowers. I found some flowers that I attached to a hat for her to wear. She and I had so much fun during an afternoon photo shoot while dad was away (because as you would guess he probably wasn't as into the flower hat idea as I was!) I had to show a few of the many shots that I got that day. It is pretty obvious how she felt about it too, by the range of emotions that are in the following pictures! I actually by the end found that the best way to take them was to put her in her favorite chair in front of the television and put the Care Bears (her favorite.) on. I then sat in front of the television and started taking shots. It was a brilliant idea because I had her attention and she reacted to everything on screen so I got some pretty cute pictures. Isn't it amazing what a desperate mom will do for some silly pictures!
It started out good, then gradually it went downhill, time for a nap!
This is the finished invitation (minus some personal info) thanks to a little help from a friend of Brandee's. She is great to work with me and can really do anything I can imagine which is sometimes a very scary thing!