30th Birthday Beach Trip

May 30th & 31st, 2011

Mommy turned 30 on June 4th and her present from Daddy was a couple of days at the beach.

We enjoyed some really good local food, the beach, pool and Festival Park. It was a great trip.

Here are some pictures of Caroline enjoying the beach.

Caroline LOVED the beach, but the water was incredibly cold. She walked with Daddy to fill up the bucket with water and in the 2nd picture, you can see that she quickly retreated as they got close because she did NOT want to get near that water!

Ready and waiting for Mommy & Daddy to be ready to head to the beach!

I was trying to get a good picture of Caroline and Daddy, but she couldn't take her eyes off the waves. Oh well!

On our way out of town, we went to Roanoke Island Festival Park.

I think it's a little too big! ;)

Caroline LOVES ducks!

She was so cute playing with all the vegetables and "working" in the general store.

David, thank you for being so thoughtful in planning this *surprise* trip for me. You knew exactly what I wanted and I had a blast being with you, Caroline and Abigail! I love you so much!

Belly Pictures - #3

More pictures of the belly:

28 Weeks ~ May 4, 2011

I put my wedding dress on one day for fun and we took some pictures. It was fun to wear it again and so funny to see me in it pregnant.

30 Weeks ~ May 18, 2011

Caroline had to get in the picture. She's too cute!


31 Weeks ~ May 25, 2011

22 Months Old ~ May 30, 2011

Photos from Caroline's 22nd Month

Caroline dug in her bag and found her extra set of clothes and decided to try to put them on herself. She's not too bad at it. My big girl!

Wearing Mommy's shoes


Caroline reading to her Minnie. She loves her so much!

We decided to put my wedding dress on. It was fun! Caroline loved hiding under it!

Loving some snuggle time with Daddy!

Mother's Day picture with my TWO girls!

My mother's day dinner: steak, rice casserole, fried corn and bread along with some homemade strawberry cake...YUM!

Caroline got this out of her bag...she sure knows what to do with it.

Hanging out in bed with Daddy playing with her Easter basket.

My sleeping baby. She really does very well in her new bed!

She likes reading in her bed too.

First time in her new swimming pool. She loves it! She was having fun in her pool while Daddy was doing landscaping. He was jealous!

"Painting" for the first time except there is no paint, only water.

I love to watch my sleeping baby! She rarely falls asleep in the car these days and if she does, she wakes up when we stop. She must've been exhausted this day!

So ready to swim!

First time eating a banana whole

Loving some M&Ms

More of my sweet, sleeping baby! I just love to watch her sleep!

All dolled up

Mommy getting to enjoy some snuggle time with her 2 girls!

Here are a couple of fun videos:

This is a video of Caroline enjoying her Big Al doll that her Aunt Carrie gave her. She loves to dance to it while it sings. I guess we are training her right!

After bath, Caroline loves to "be a duck". She likes to put on her duck towel I made for her and sing "Six Little Ducks". It is so cute to see! I hope you enjoy this video!

First Strawberry Picking Trip

May 24, 2011

We went to Vollmer Farm to do our first strawberry picking with Caroline!

Caroline loved picking the strawberries herself.

She usually doesn't like strawberries, but she LOVED the ones directly off the vine.

I made strawberry cake and the icing from scratch from the strawberries we picked. It was SO good! It was definitely the best strawberry cake I have ever had.