Our beautiful baby girl!

I Can Crawl!
Caroline in our backyard!
I love to play "SOO BIG" even when I should be taking pretty pictures!
Caroline in her fancy dress! So sweet!
This is Caroline's FAVORITE animal Pinky. She sleeps with her every night and drags her around all day! Our sweet friends, Meg and Erin, gave her this precious gift!

These are our most recent pictures of Caroline. Our sister-in-law, Staci Perez, has a very talented and SWEET father who loves photography! We are so blessed that he uses his talent to give us gorgeous pictures! Thanks Alan!

Sleeping through the Night

So Tony and I have tried everything to get Caroline to sleep through the night...and I mean EVERYTHING! She has cried it out many times, she has a bedtime routine, she has had cereal in her bottle, cereal off of a spoon, stayed up late, gone to bed early, we have done every song and dance to make this happen. So about a month ago I just gave up and got up once a night to feed herand figured that's just the way it was going ot be for a while. Well, the last night we were at the beach, she slept through the night in her pack and play. We get home and she does it again last night...12 hours! Wow...so hopefully this will continue! I guess it just goes to show you that when they are ready, they will sleep through the night....no matter what the parents do! ha!

My Favorite Week Of The Whole Year!

We went to Ocean Isle Beach this past week and had THE BEST trip! Caroline was showered with attention and learned a couple of new tricks! She is now making noises and hitting her lips with her fingers while she babbles and it is just the cutest little thing! Carole Simpson taught her that and she does it everytime she sees Carole. She had tons of people to play with and a few people her own size too (Ella Manning, Emma Grey, and Reilly Turner). She crawled on the beach and played in the sand. I was prepared for her to eat lots of sand but she only did it once after playing on the beach for about 30 minutes! Tony and I had great babysitters all week and it made for a REAL GOOD time with all of our beach friends (The Lomax family, The Mitchell Family, The Simpsons, my family, and a few brave others who decided to take a few days to vacation with us!) We ate and drank WAY to much but even more than anything else we LAUGHED! What a wonderful week. I'm already counting down the days until next year! I will post pics soon!

Well, Caroline is offically crawling forward and EVERYWHERE! I think this is when mother's really lose that baby weight! Ha.
We had a pretty big fourth of July party and ,of course, the social butterfly was passed around to all of our friends and neighbors. It was really nice. Gave my hip a break for the evening and gave her a chance to see some new faces (You know she must get tired of seeing me all of the time!) She stayed up and LOVED the fireworks! Needless to say, she crashed very hard for the night the second she hit the crib! We will def. make that an annual party!
So, now this week Caroline and I both have a a cold. I tell you what, a cold in the summer just stinks! Caroline got it first and you know me, I get everything!!! So now she is feeling better and I am feeling kinda crummy! Hopefully I'll be 100% by tomorrow. We are going to 2 birthday parties this week. It's just too cute getting invitations in the mail for Caroline to come to a party.
So between parties and our everyday stuff, I am packing up the family for our big family beach trip! We go with about 25 people to Ocean Isle for a week. We stay in the same beautiful house every year. It is such a rowdy, fun group...I was pregnant last year and had to be a spectator...def. not as fun!!! So this year will be great..Caroline will be there and I bet Grandma and Grandpa will not put her down all week! Aren't grandparents the BEST! We are also very excited because our friends Lindsey and Shawn Turner will be at the same beach all week. Baby Reilly and Baby Caroline will get to hang out at the beach!! Fun times! I'll post pics as soon as we get back!!