Chase's First Birthday Weekend

Chase's First Birthday was a memorable one...Both sets of Grandparents and Logan and Gina traveled to Orange County to celebrate with us. We had a BIG party....which took lots of planning and cooking (thanks to Grandma Carnekie) but it was all worth the effort. Everyone had a wonderful time and Chase is a very lucky boy to have such wonderful family and friends that love him so much :)

His new lawn mower...

and Uncle Logan teaching him to use it!

His first birthday cupcake...courtesy of Brittany

1st Birthday!!

The beach ball goodie bags were a hit!

Mia and slaved all morning over these "beach" themed cupcakes..

Mama and her little man.

The kids playin at the water table

Yummy food courtesy of Grandma Carnekie

The men with their babies.

My sweet little boy.

Mia & Amanda

Chase and his Giant cupcake

Chase with Grandpa and Grammy Armstrong

End of the day...enjoying his splash pad.

Chillin @ the River with the Browns...4th of July

We are lucky enough to have made many good friends here in Orange County...one of our favorite set of friends are the Browns....We met in childbirthing class when our babies were in our tummies! The Browns have a vacation home on the River (near Lake Havasu) and we were lucky enough to join them there for the fourth of July!

Dad and Chase on the River

Hanging out on our private beach with the boat!

The Brown Family

Mama and Chase on the water

Chase and Paige...friends forever!

Ahhh...the life of a baby

Playtime on the boat

Steph and I in the water

Chase inspecting Dada

Chase...4th of July

Cooling off in the water...beer in hand

He loves his Daddy sooo much!

The days of summer 2009

I've really been very lax recently when it comes to blogging and now I am trying to play catch up...so far we have had a very busy, yet AMAZING summer! We are very blessed to live in Orange County where our summers are filled with sunshine and good times. Here are a few snippits of our summer so far.....P.S. Birthday pics are coming!

MAMA....let me in!

BELLA...come inside and play!!

Chase and his girlfriend Rylie....aka "the twins"

Chillin with his water table

Chase and Daddy @ the Lagoon in Irvine

Chase and Adisten @ her 1st birthday

Chase and Mama in our backyard

My sweet little boy in his party outfit!