Happy Birthday Daddy and Lilly!

Daddy turned 35 this year and we unfortunately weren't able to do much, but his favorite girls did bake him a homemade birthday cake...

The icing was a hit!

I promise they licked the spoons after we iced the cake...

Adding the sprinkles...

Voila!  Have you ever seen anything so pretty!?

For Lilly's 2nd Birthday we had a "Pink Pirate Party."  It was a BLAST!

Ashley made the girls special shirts and hair clips...

We made homemade cupcakes (that weren't that pretty so you won't see a close up of them)...

All the guests received a pirate hat, sword and eye patch...

And we had buried treasure with candy, jewels, tattoos and gold doubloons hidden around the house for the kids to find (Olivia was in charge of hiding the treasure chests - which was a problem since she went and found them for everyone rather than letting others hunt.  That girl cannot keep a secret...)

Aargh Mateys!

Pictures with the birthday girl!

Pink Pirate Cakepops courtesy of Christi Hayne - YUM!

A family of pirates!

Even Grammie and Grandpa got into the fun!

Sword fighting!

Finding the buried treasure...

Octopus for dinner anyone?

This girl loves to sing Happy Birthday and eat birthday cake!

She loved her presents - thanks everyone for coming!

So Thankful!

I am so thankful that God gave me my two crazy, wild and beautiful giggling girls!  Somewhere along the way I must have done something right!

Transy Pumpkin Mania

This was so cool!  Transylvania University, our alma mater, set out over 400 pumpkins on the steps of Old Morrison and lit them over Halloween weekend.  The carvings were so intricate - clearly many talented artists at work.  The girls so enjoyed taking a look at all the "pumpkin pies" as Lilly calls them.  I would highly recommend checking this out next Halloween!

Halloween 2011

Cake pops by the immensely talented Christi Hayne - they are incredible!

Clearly Lola and Olivia liked them!

Olivia as Scooby Doo and Lilly as a Strawberry

Scooby-Dooby-Doo!

Alice as a Watermelon

Joey, Ellen and Alice

Lola as a an adorable Pig!

Mac, Laura, and Lola (and baby Charlotte too!)

Heading out to trick or treat!

A fruit basket!

This house was so neat - an actual shipwreck in the front yard and pirates everywhere!

The Halloween 2011 Crew! 

Go Fighting Pioneers! Beat UK!

Future Transy student!

Still tied...

But unfortunately not for long.  We were a little outmatched :(

The Alumni Party

John and Kara

The Chi-O Girls!

Lilly's First Haircut

Please excuse the complete lack of pictures for this epic event.  I went to get my haircut and Ashley brought the girls so Liv could get a trim.  When they walked in, Amy, who cuts my hair, bluntly told me that Lilly needed a haircut.  Really?  I thought the mullet look was in!  So I relented and Lilly got her haircut for the first time.  Obviously I wasn't prepared so Ashley took a picture on her phone.  I wish I had told her to cut me out of it.  Oh well...