Three C's Birthday Celebration

On Saturday we celebrated Coyt and Crew's first birthday!!! The real birthday isn't for another week, so I get to deny the fact that they are almost ONE YEAR OLD just a bit longer. Kacey and I decided that the "Three Cs" as we have nick named our cousin triplets, Coyt, Crew and Caroline should most definitely celebrate their December birthdays together and what better theme than, The Letter C. :) You know I am a nut for a theme and alliteration just makes me happy so off we went conspiring and creating (don't worry I'll spare you any more C narration).

The Invitations: (Brooke with brookedesigns.com designed the invitations and all the food, activity & favor labels - she is awesome!)

We sort of lucked out that there just happen to be all sorts of sweet treats that start with C. :)

Special seats for the guests of honor:

"Clara Caterpillar" was the perfect birthday book overflowing with C alliteration.

Month by month pictures of the Cs, crazy to see how much they have changed from those early days!

A few pictures of our three Cs from throughout their first year:

The buffet of C foods:

A few C activities:

After waking up from morning naps our three birthday babies made their first appearance and got the party started!!
As a shout out to the Cs favorite snack and dietary staple we made "Cheerio Concoctions" with all different flavors of Cheerios.

"Christmas Crafts" in full swing.

OK, who wants a birthday hat!?!? Just Caroline, al-righty then.

Then is was time to sing...Happy Birthday to Crew...

Happy Birthday to Caroline...

Happy Birthday to Coyt...Yes, I made everyone sing three time (Kate Gosling may not have taught me much but she did have a few little nuggets of wisdom...I think?) ;)

Now dig in...or not?

Apparently Caroline's just looked a little bit better.

I guess it's not so bad.
Coyt thought some cherrios were just what his cake was missing.

Forget the cake we just want to play with Honey and Nannie.

And our new toys!
Caroline getting serious about unwrapping.

Caroline and Kacey
This picture makes me laugh the boys shirts are soaked with drool, Coyt is attacking Crew and my hair looks like a baby toupee on Coyt's head, but such is life!

The Smiths

The Purdys
The cousins, it was really fun for us to have both sides of the cousin crews together!
We ended the party with a Champagne or Cider toast thanking our sweet family for all their support over the last year. We would not have survived without it!!
Such a sweet day for my sweet boys. :)

Thanksgiving 2011

We kicked off out Thanksgiving hosting Wyatt's class party with Lauren. Don't you LOVE the turkey she made!

Not sure if this was the nina the pinta or the santa maria? ;) But I am pretty sure snacks were better on this ship.
Edible teepees and acorns for snack.
My Wy-guy. His sticker says he is thankful for Bob, Jack, Ella (our dogs and my parents dog) & God.
Lauren is a teacher and is so great with the class. She had them sew their own cute little ships and the kids loved it.
Charley and Wyatt hard at work.
Once school was out and Stacey was finished with work we headed to Aunt Cassie and Uncle Teddy's in Jacksboro. The boys have been begging to go to "the country" for months and were very excited.

Once we arrived glow sticks lined the road to the house. The boys were already in hog heaven.
Debbie and Cassie make holidays so much fun!! For starters they send us to a hotel at night and they take care of the kids - I KNOW!!! A mini vacation for us. And as if that wasn't enough once we arrived in our room there was a gift basket with drinks, magazines and candy waiting -I KNOW!!!

They have activities for the kids and more food than we could ever eat. This year some new TRIOs entertained the kids for hours!

Getting some love from Aunt Sarah.

We all did some of this. :)

Hunting hogs

We got crafty and made wreaths.
Kimberleigh painted Brylie's nails - B-E-A-UTIFUL!
VERY tall towers were built.

Unfortunately, all the kids ran fever off and on and just weren't 100%. Which meant less sleep for the their caretakers at night, :( but more snuggles for me during the day!




Can't thank these two enough for all they do to love and serve us.
Despite the sickies and the wind we attempted some cousin pictures and as usual Shelley captured some sweet faces.

Crew was a little more accommodating than Coyt who wasn't feeling too well and was not in the mood for pictures.
Stacey - 6
Wyatt - 4
The whole bunch
Brothers!!
We loved our time together and know it is no small undertaking when our circus comes to town!
After we wrapped things up in the country we headed back to Big D for the Tech vs. Baylor game at Cowboy Stadium.
Stacey takes his sports very seriously! Poor thing wasn't feeling 100% but he would have been devastated to miss this.

Wyatt, on the other hand, is just there to party and could have cared less that we got killed. :(

He just loves playing with Ally.
After shaking off the Tech loss we wrapped up our Thanksgiving holiday with lunch at the American Girls Bistro celebrating early birthdays for Lila and Ally. Santa brought me Kirstin way back when there were just three dolls and I am pretty sure that had this store existed when I was little my head would have literally exploded with sheer delight at all the precious tiny little doll details!
I am so grateful that God blessed me with these precious nieces and that my sisters let me tag along for girly outings such as these! Heaven knows my band of brothers will not be hitting up the American Girls Doll store anytime soon.
Such a good Thanksgiving, with so much to be thankful for!!

Turkey Trot

Hi blog!! So many posts to catch up on!

Just before Thanksgiving Woodway Christian held their annual Thanksgiving Feast and Turkey Trot. Families are invited to lunch followed by a very serious race. Stacey had been looking forward to this day for weeks.

On your mark...get set...GO!!!!

Then the real runners took off! HA, more like moving spirit squad relocated ;).

They have a one mile and a three mile run, III insisted on running the THREE miles and came in 12th in the whole school. The fact that he can run three miles at age six sort of baffles me, I was SO proud to see him cross the finish line!!
And so was he!
Ryan (who btw got 2nd in the whole school and first in his division!!) and Stacey with their finishing numbers.
A super fun day that I know these boys will be looking forward to with great anticipation until it rolls around again next year.