Two Year pics

A few weeks ago, we met up with our favorite photographer, Allie Burns , for Presley's 2 year pictures.She has been taking Presley's pictures since she was 5 months old. Allie does an amazing job and she's so fun to work with. I wish we could take pictures every couple of months!

We decided to meet up at the Wichita Botanica Gardens because the tulips were in full bloom and it was beautiful!

I'll have to say, getting a 2 year old to pose for pictures is a little tricky. I was worried we might not have any good photos but Allie always manages to catch some great smiles.

This is Presley in a nutshell. FULL of energy!

Love this girl. She's growing up before my eyes!

So happy.

Happy Easter!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter celebrating with friends and family! Here are a few snap shots of our Easter egg hunt! Presley had fun. There was no shortage of candy, plastic eggs or stuffed bunnies at our house! Little to her dismay, we didn't let her eat the candy!

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Two.

My sweet little "baby" is now 2 years old!

Time flies.

Not quite sure how we got from this:

March 2, 2010

To this: 

1st Birthday

To this, so quickly!

2 year check-up last week

Dear Presley, 

At 2 years old, I'm afraid you're acting much older than your age! The conversations we have are hilarious. You say EVERYTHING that we say so we have to be careful. You're up to almost 10 word sentences now.

You've known the alphabet and how to count from 1 - 20 for a couple months now and can even do some numbers in Spanish! (thanks to Dora the Explorer!)

You love to play outside, color and read books. You are so busy, it wears us out but we love it. 

Most of all, I love it when you come up to me and say "Hi Mommy. How you doin'. I wuv you". It melts my heart.

We love you so much and can't wait to see what this next year brings!

5 years.

Happy 5 year anniversary to us!!

It's hard to believe that it has been that long. Time flies when you are having fun!

A lot has happened in the past 5 years: weddings, funerals, moves, new jobs, a baby,

dog, cats and a whole lot more. 

I couldn't ask for a better person to be beside me through it all.

Fall Fun!

Whooaaa. I'm not very good at this blogging thing. Here it is, October and I just noticed my last post was July. Whoops.

Anyways, Fall finally arrived and the 100 degree temps have gone away! We can actually get outside and do things! We had a busy weekend. Saturday was the annual "Booo-tanica" event at the Wichita Botanica.

This was a fun event but there were TONS of people there so it made it a little hard to just let Presley walk around by her self. I was afraid she'd get trampled.

Smelling the flowers. (She loves to do this!)

Next up on Sunday was the pumpkin patch. There are quite a few here in Wichita and we picked Cox Farms. I wasn't too impressed to be honest and next year we'll try something else. Regardless, Presley had fun picking out her pumpkin!

Lost in the corn maze!

Checking them all out. 

Happy Fall to everyone! I can't believe October is almost over!

Future Vet

I think we may have a future veterinarian on our hands! Or maybe a zoo keeper!

This weekend we took Presley to the Sedgwick County Fair in Cheney, KS. It's just a 20 minute drive from Wichita. It reminded me of my 4-H days growing up. It was a really nice fair; clean and not too many sketchy carnival people! She LOVED the petting zoo. We couldn't get her away from the goats. As you'll see in the pictures, just just plopped right now in the middle of them and sat there and watched them eat.

Needless to say, after all the animal fun, we had a good bath! I can't wait to take her to another petting zoo.

I like goats!

This looks like a comfy chair!

First time on a horse/pony! She was a little scared at first.

First time on a carousel! 

Water baby.

This past weekend we took Presley swimming in a regular pool. We have a little baby pool she's been playing in occasionally but were excited to see what she would do in a big pool.

Needless to say, she LOVED it. She giggled the whole time and even put her head under the water all by herself. I'm pretty sure she thought she could swim all by herself and was squirming for us to let her go.

Luckily our neighbors have a pool so we just have to walk next door and take her which is nice. Also, they've switched over to salt water and I feel more comfortable about her being in that versus a pool full of chlorine.

Looking forward to more swimming this summer!