For Your Viewing Pleasure

Here are some videos from the past few days.

Singing Happy Birthday, playing with new toys, and showing off a new trick!

Camp's First Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Camp's first birthday last night. His real birthday isn't until September 26th, but we tried to work around everyones schedule so we could have as many people as possible celebrate the precious boy's birthday!

We had almost 40 people at our house and it was a blast! I think Camp had the most fun....

The food was so tasty! My mom made sausage stars and they were a HUGE hit! I'll post the recipe soon because I think every single person at the party asked for it!

Cake Shop cake.....primary colors with a splash of puppy!

The Cake Shop was able to draw the puppy from the birthday invitation. I thought it turned out precious!

Party favors

Elsa and Camp. Camp sure loves the ladies!

In his adorable romper from Initially Yours Monogramming

Enjoying black beans, watermelon, and cheese!

Cake time!!

Camp did not disappoint! He had so much fun eating his cake.

Barrett was able to get in on the cake action too!

Camp's new 'silly' face!

Sophie & Camp loving on eachother.

Camp came inside after eating his cake and discovered that he had lots of presents to open!

Camp wanted to play with everything instead of opening more presents.

He opened his Tow Mater truck first and couldn't really be bothered with anything else! He loves that thing! Thanks Meg, Billy, Ginny & Trey!

Lollie and Popsie got Camp this awesome tractor and trailer with farm animals. It drives across the floor and makes animal noises. Camp loves this too!!

I forgot to put Camp's birthday hat on when he ate his cake so we decided to put it on him while he opened his presents.


He got so many wonderful things! I think I might pack half of his gifts up and bring them out in a few months!

Bless his heart....everytime we stop pushing the car, he'll break out in hysterics. He wants to keep moving.

Now on to the cool dump truck from the Meyer family....and wearing his new hat and t-shirt from Uncle Trip!

It's hard for me and Adam not to get a little touch of sadness as Camp hits this 1st birthday milestone. We can't believe how fast this year has gone by....it really just seems like we were bringing him home from the hospital. I can't say it enough, but he is the best baby. We are so blessed to have him and we are looking forward to the new memories and milestones of his 2nd year!

WE LOVE YOU PRECIOUS CAMPER!

Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate Camp's birthday! He has so many people that love and care about him.
And special thanks to my mom and Fred for all of their help before, during, and after the party!

Happy 90th, Nina!!

We just got back from a lovely evening in Thomasville. We went to The Plaza Restaurant to celebrate Nina's (Fred's mom) 90th birthday! So many friends and family were in attendance and I know she was thrilled to have everyone there for this exciting occasion!

Vicki, Fred, & The Birthday Girl

Yummy 12 layer yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Camp ate most of my mom's piece of cake and all of Fred's. He's getting practice for his cake eating extravaganza tomorrow evening!!

I dressed Camp in a beautiful smocked jon jon....he looked precious.

Right before dinner, Camp had a poopy schmoopy blowout....got all over his outfit.

And you know what? I did not have ANY change of clothes for the poor child. My mom and I stood in the bathroom of the Plaza laughing hysterically at my naked baby and had no idea what to do!! I looked out the window and saw a Rite Aid across the street and thought I might get lucky.

I ran to the baby aisle.....I saw blankets, washcloths, and bibs. No article of clothing!

I finally found a rack of souvenir t-shirts and I got lucky with this "Someone in Thomasville, GA Loves Me" onesie. How awesome that they had his size!!! :)

I learned two lessons tonight:

1. NEVER BUY CHEAP DIAPERS (I learned this lesson a few months ago, but still have a pack of CVS Ultra Thins in the closet that I wanted to use up.)

2. ALWAYS PACK A CHANGE OF CLOTHES! (This precious onesie will now serve as Camp's change of clothes and it will never leave the diaper bag. The child has not had a diaper malfunction in MONTHS and I can't even tell you the last time I've had to change his diaper in public....)


But Camp never missed a beat. Here is playing peek-a-boo with a napkin......see all that cake smeared on his face??

Me, Nina, Adam, and Camp in his Rite Aid couture.

Oooohhh and I'm going to have to say that my hubby was lookin' mighty fine tonight!

Little Boy Blue

This is Camp's new face...usually when he does it, he also says "ooooohhhhh".


He kept lifting up his leg because he didn't like the feel of the grass!



Taking some steps to Daddy!

Look at that big boy!!

Labor Day Weekend at the Byrdnest

We just got back from a fabulous weekend at the Byrdnest.
Everyone was there.....Mama Byrd, Cap, Trip, Chandler, and the three of us.

Camp started the weekend with a low fever and it had us worried to pieces. It never got over 101.8 and he didn't seem to miss a beat, but Adam and I were so nervous.

Camp also decided to take a few steps this weekend!! You can tell that he's super proud of himself when he does it. He got up to five steps......he's on his way!

All in all, we had some beautiful weather. It rained a bit on Saturday, but cleared up quickly.

Aunt Vicki and Trey (my cousin) were at the beach too!

Aunt Vicki brought Camp his birthday present because she didn't want him to be overwhelmed at his birthday party. She wanted him to have the present early and enjoy it now! She got him a precious stuffed Salmon and a book about Salmon that she got from the Vancouver Aquarium.

Camp loved them both and was pretty excited about that ribbon and wrapping paper. I'm so excited to see how he reacts to his birthday presents. :)

Brother and sister

Saturday was Trey's 23rd birthday. Chandler and her friend Sarah made him a cake.

Trey was so surprised!

We have a lot of family birthdays in September (Trey (5th), ME! (20th), Nina (10th), Camp (26th), Popsie (28th))

On Sunday we headed to the beach for the day. It was pretty warm with NO breeze.....not my favorite combination, but we had lots of fun.

Camp fell asleep in my arms and I put him under the umbrella to take a little nap.

That sand and sun wiped him out!

What a fun weekend! It's so nice to all be together.