Happy Birthday Caleb!

Yesterday we attended the First Birthday party for Caleb. Kate and Luke got him a little puppy dog and it was very hard to keep Kate from tearing the spider man paper open and playing with it. At the party, she wanted to open it and play with it there.

Caleb is so cute! He is a very loved little boy. His mommy went all out, she decorated the yard, had good food and the cutest cake! Caleb's daddy took lots of pictures and videos. Happy Birthday Caleb! Enjoy your next year!

Birthday Boy

Mmmm, Birthday Cake

The phone gift was very popular

Check out Kate trying to get the doggy toy out of the box.

Kate's Birthday gift

We finally got around to putting up Kate's birthday gift last night. John got her a 50's diner. On one side it has a kitchen and the other side is a booth, so cute. She was so excited to play with it. This morning, she got up and wanted to go right in there. John turned on the tv for her and when I went in to see her, she was sitting in the booth, drinking her milk watching mickey mouse. So. Cute.

Here are some pictures from last night.

Kate's first customer, Luke, she's giving him some coffee. No wonder he's so short.

The gift I got her was a backpack. Yep, every girl's dream for their birthday! I thought she would like it. She carries stuff over to my parent's house, to school so she needed it. It is really cute. It is really a lunch bag, but big enough to carry her apple juice and her doll named Kate.

Happy Birthday Rachel

Last month was my friend Rachel's birthday. Rachel and I met when I first started Wal-Mart. We sat back to back in the same pod - literally, every time one of us got up we bumped the other one. We have been through a lot. She is a great leader at Wal-Mart - she's in HR - and a even more fabulous mommy to three kids. She had twins in May!

We took her to dinner last night at Table Mesa in Bentonville. It is a new restaurant in Bentonville. The food was good, the service was overzealous in taking our order AND kicking us out. What I mean is that they gave us the check without asking us if we want dessert - which we did - it was Rachel's birthday. I hope it stays around, we need more restaurants. Here are some pictures from last night:

Kirk, Sissy & Birthday girl Rachel

Me & Kirk

Happy Birthday Rachel!

Birthday Bash

On Saturday we had Kate's birthday party at Gymboree. We had gone to a party there one time before and Kate really had a good time. The kids get to jump and play and sing songs for an hour. Then they do the cake (in our case, cupcakes) and then they go home. It seems like they should do the cake first, then play, but oh well.

Kate took a nap on Saturday and slept right up until we were suppose to leave. She was not dressed for her party yet, but I had her new outfit laid out and ready to go. She had other plans - she wore her heart tights I got her, but that's all she wanted to wear. I finally, talked her into wearing a dress, but she did not match. People thought it went together, so I didn't care. This look is really her - kinda mis-matched, but still fun. She also wanted her hair in pigtails - this is the new thing and I like it.

We had about 15 children show up. Kate was overwhelmed. I don't think she enjoyed it as much as she did last time. I don't think she liked all the attention. She did have a good time and I think the other kids enjoyed themselves. Here's the pictures to prove it:

Mommy & Kate

Kate & Stone

Maddie

Daddy & Kate

Guy

Caleb

Kate & Meme

Jenny, Laura, Jasmine, Aubrey & Nicholas

Nicholas & Amy

Jacob

Peanut Gallery

Aunt Nana, Grandma Pittman, Luke, Pappaw, Kirk, Aunt Sissy

Cupcake from Rick's Bakery

Kate

See the rest of the pictures here.