Did I Forget To Mention...

So while I have been enjoying life and neglecting Fig & Ruby, lots has happened!! Allow me to catch you up!!

On April 29, Caitlyn Hope entered the world.

Here she is, just minutes old, meeting her big sister Mikayla.

Here she is in all her sweetness!

Oh, okay, just one more!

...which brings the kid count in my family to 5, count them, 5 children!

girls:4, boys:1

In May we traveled to California (yes, with a 2 week old) for my cousin's wedding.

We were all in it.

My girls were in awe of the beautiful bride.

Yes, I curled all that hair, yes it took forever, thank you :)

Just two weeks after the wedding, we traveled back to California to my hometown to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa.

We even fit in a trip to Disneyland!

Lastly, while I was in California, I got an email from Shannon over at Creative Parties and Showers informing me that the Ice Cream Social party was featured!! What a treat! I'm telling you, her site is fantastic. I love checking out all the creativity that's out there. So much inspiration!

I think that gets us caught up for now. Good thing because I hear Caitlyn calling...

Construction Party

Here are some pictures from my son's fun 2nd birthday party. We had just moved into a new house so he was obsessed with construction. The park across the street was the perfect location for the kids to dig and dump to their hearts' content!



The invitation said "come dig and play at Caleb's 3rd birthday!" and I asked them to bring their favorite diggers and dump trucks to use in the "gravel pit".

The birthday boy wit his "I love Dirt" shirt. I always try to find or make a shirt to fit the theme of the party.

Because my son is a younger sibling, a lot of his friends have older siblings. I chose to include all of the children so I kept the favors simple. They each got a construction hat, a bucket and a shovel with their name on it.

One of the games involved the daddies...there was a prize buried in the gravel that they had to search for! The kids loved seeing their dads get competitive.

The cake! mt son wanted a digger and a dump truck...I opted for making the digger out of cake and purchasing a dump truck to fill with cake "dirt". It was a hit, he loved it!