Happy Birthday To ME!!

Look at those handsome husbands! Are we the luckiest girls or what?!
The boys are twice as lucky!
Opening presents was pretty funny too, Matt and Debbie thought it would be funny to wrap my book in the new toothbrush box that all the first year dental students got. For a minute I honestly thought it was a toothbrush! Aren't they clever? ( or maybe I'm just a little slow?!)
I seriously couldn't get enough of little Kylee. She was just the most precious thing! I think I hogged her a little through most of the evening, sorry about that Debbie and Matt, but she's too cute!

As most of you know my birthday was on Sunday, August 3rd, I was feeling a little bit bummed since this was my first birthday away from home and all my family and friends so I thought I would throw myself a small birthday party! In attendance were Andrew and Annie Duncan along with their two darling boys Andrew and Landon, and Matt and Debbie Stafford with the newest and cutest member of their family, Kylee. We had dinner and a tasty chocolate eclair cake. ( I want the recipe Debbie!) Thanks so much to our good friends who came and made it such an awesome birthday!

CHECK THIS OUT!!

Gooooo Camri! She is standing for longer and longer periods! We are so amazed by her! She is also officially a stair climber. I try to keep her away from them but she knows they are a quick way to get my attention, the little devil. She will crawly up and put her hands on the first stair and give me the " come and get me" grin. It is a game to torture and scare the daylight out of mama these days. ( anyone have a good idea on barricading a set of stairs that only has one wall and the other side a metal banister? A baby gate doesn't work.) She climbed all fourteen of our stairs yesterday in about a minute and a half. She's incredible! She is completely fearless, which scares the crap out of me! Thanks and we hope everyone is doing good. Oh, and I weighed the chunky monkey today and she is 17 lb 15 oz!

A New Hobby!

Camri has found a new hobby. Destruction! But seriously, she loves to crawl over to the bookcase and tear every dvd she can get her hands on. Then she crawls around on them and slips and falls. She got a cut on her nose doing this just the other day and I was freaking out because she was bleeding. Her first boo boo was more traumatic for me than her I think, but she is doing fine and it is healing. She has been into everything lately, her favorite thing to do is get in the kitchen drawer where I keep the ziploc baggies and tear them out of the box and distribute them about the house. She is keeping me on my toes, but we are all having a lot of fun!

Camri Goes Swimming!

When we took her to the ocean, she didn't like it much so we were pleasantly suprised when we took her to the pool and she loved it. She was kicking and moving around like a little frog. Until Mommy accidentally dunked her. OOPS!

Virginia Beach!

On Tuesday we went to Virginia Beach, which is about two hours away from us. Camri was a total angel and slept the whole way down. Once we were there we thought we would see how Camri liked the water. She didn't. She would shriek at the top of her lungs if even her little toes touched the water. Oddly enough, she prefered to sit on the beach and eat the sand. I didn't catch the first handful but I got what I could out of her mouth. That turned into a game and the rest of the afternoon we played "keep the sand out of Camri's mouth". She thought it was hysterical, as you can see if you enlarge that last picture, she still has sand all over her mouth. It was about a hundred degree's at about 100% humidity though, and Steve and I got a little sunburned. Ouch. All in all it was a wonderful trip and we love it out here!

Our Trip to VCU!

On Monday we went to VCU to see where Steve would be spending the next four years. We were able to meet a few of his professors, and see his class rooms. The one with Steve in it is the place where he will do his clinical work! Doesn't he already look the part? We are so proud of him, and he can't wait to get started!

Go Yankees!

Uncle Brandon bought Camri the Yankees bucket hat, so of course we had to take pictures. Thanks again, Debi.