Slide Party

William's birthday party was today! We had so much fun! Lots of sweet friends and family came to help celebrate! We have way too many pictures to share, so here are a "few."

Happy Birthday to you!

William & Eric
Birthday Boy
William, Jackson & SamWilliam, Aunt April & Griffin Grammie & Poppa
William, Grammie & Claire
Grammie & Poppa

William & Jackson

Harrison & William

Sullivan Eric, Uncle Tim, Mr. Speaks and Pete

(no doubt reviewing the LSU/AU game)Ansley

Calli Ann
Kirkley & Sarah

Jennifer & William
Eric & William
Darcy & Jennifer
Claire's cake

Jennifer & Emma

GeAUx Tigers!

William & Eric
Telling Mr. Shonesy "Go Tigers!"
Mr. Mike, William & Eric
Mr. Mike, William & Jennifer

We are a mixed marriage of LSU & Auburn. (Even though Eric is officially an Auburn Grad, too...he still grew up with LSU!) With William, we will wait and see which Tigers he loves!

We had a fun day tailgating with Jeremy, Darcy,Claire & Emma, The Rollins, The Cobbs & The Shoneseys. Tailgating sure changes when you have children...it's much more eventful! Eric cooked up a yummy shrimp boil for everyone and we had a great time! After some drama, (check out Tara's blog), we headed to the game. Eric was extremely quiet the first half, but turned it on the second half.

This is always a fun game for us. Lots of great memories from watching this rivalry together. My favorite Auburn/LSU memory is going into labor right after Auburn beat LSU in 2006! Our little tiger was born the next morning!

Darcy & Emma, Tara & Kade, Jennifer & William

The Rollins Family

Loving on Emma

William & Claire

William tried to go for a swim. Thanks for watching out Darcy!

Maddie Cobb & Claire

Emma

Darcy & Emma

Tigered out!

William's Birthday!

We had a fun day today! We started off at Panera for breakfast & coffee. William ate every last crumb of his chocolate chip muffin top and then proceeded to eat all of my pumpkin muffin top, too. He's a growing boy! Then we headed next door to get some new shoes. He loved showing Mrs. Rhonda how fast he could run...(that was the only way we could get him to try them on).
We joined Alyssa & Caroline for our weekly lunch date and they brought a sweet cookie cake for us. William enjoyed blowing out the candles and holding Caroline's hand!

After a marathon nap, we opened presents with Daddy and ate more cookie cake! (We didn't eat very much of it at lunch, so I passed on making a cake and took a nap with William...thanks again, Alyssa!)

William is not really ready to tell us how old he is. We ask him if he is two, and he laughs and says, "No...Willwem." But ask him his name, and he says, "Name."

Happy Birthday William!

Presents
Make a wish again!

Seriously? Not a toy! Blocks "Aminals"
New Keds "Ooh, cool." Catch this!

Happy Birthday William!

It is really hard to believe that William is 2! Everyone promises that these years will fly by...and they really do. In the last few weeks, William has done so many "new" things and started to really talk up a storm. His favorite phrase is "I did it!" and "Daddy's home!!! Yeah!"

Last week, William learned to open the refrigerator...I found him drinking our vanilla caramel coffee mate yesterday. He proudly looked at me and said, "I drink. Coffee. Yummy." He usually drinks coffee (coffee milk) with us every morning, but I'm quite certain this tasted really good.

This weekend, he learned to open our doors...inside and out. Thank the Lord for deadbolts. We might have to deadbolt the guest bedroom, too...at least he still believes the sewing machine is "hot" like the iron. Please continue to forgive us if we look wrinkled!

We are moving to a big boy bed next week! But for now, William just thinks it's a trampoline.

I'll post some birthday pictures soon, but until then, here are some pictures from last year and the day the Lord blessed us with this sweet boy!

Mommy's Birthday

September 1st has always been special to me because it begins my birthday month. Since I went into labor on my birthday, I had to give up celebrating "my birthday month" and begin sharing with a certain sweet boy. Now I just celebrate one day, and the rest is for William! On Monday, Melissa, Alyssa, Freida & April took me to eat at Amsterdam. We laughed so hard and had a great time...wish I had a picture! On Tuesday night, Eric and William took me to dinner and then we grabbed some Marble Slab for dessert. Thank you to my sweet family and friends for making it a special birthday!

Watch this!

My guys