Family Photo

Family Photo

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Addison's second birthday party with the Markley family.

Mom and Misti taking a break for a picture! Mom always made our birthdays special by making our favorite meal and dessert. She made our cakes when we were little but as we get older our requests go to pies and other goodies.
Brook is enjoying her Care Bear cake that Misti made for her. She will be 3 on Thursday. Happy Birthday Brook!

Aunt Holli is getting her baby time in with Miles.

The men in our family just don't want to get their pictures taken. Of course I am getting all their pictures while they are trying to eat.

Uncle Matt wouldn't even look at the camera. Shame on you Uncle Matt!

Grandpa had to have both kinds of cake even though he said he was so full from supper.

Holli and I wanted to get a quick pic too.

Holli got dad to give me a smile.

Here is Lucas chowing down on his ice cream but never got to his cake.

Dad is helping Addison with her cake and ice cream while mom is taking the pics.


I wanted to get a picture of all the kids so everyone can see how full mom and dads house is when we are all there. Talk about crazy. I brought balloons for the kids to play with, soon after we blew them up I realized that was probably not a great idea after all.


When we have more than one birthday in a month we try to have one big party for us all the get together. So this month Addison and Brook are the lucky ones. Addison had another Elmo cake, but it was chocolate this time. Brook had her Care Bear cake and it was white. Misti is always good at making her kids cakes. I hired mine done. I am not talented that way.
Addison is really getting into the opening presents thing. She gots some dress up clothes, books, and other exciting things. She did well for not feeling the best.
Aunt Holli puts pics of the kids on top of their presents so they know which one is theirs.

Mom wanted to get a quick pic of Addison in her birthday hat. I got a hat for Brook too. They are made really well so the girls can play dress up in them for the rest of the year.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Addison's second birthday

I was very excited to make Addison's birthday banner and birthday invitations.


She couldn't quite blow out the candles so Maddox had to help.



Arika was nice and read her cards for her.

Daddy helped Addison open her gifts. She got lots of fun things to play with!

Addison loves Elmo. So I guess that is why we decided to have an Elmo party. We had grandma and grandpa Caywood, Jeff, Shivawn, Arika, Alyssa Garcia, and Maddox, Alexis, and Kayli over for cake and ice cream.


She is showing Lucas her Elmo cake and Lucas is trying keep her from getting in the cake. All day she kept saying, ""I want my cake. It was hard for her to wait. Lucas left right after his game to come home and help Addison celebrate her special day.

She is snuggling up with Brayden in the chair before her party!

When she gets up from her nap she always says "mommy I wake up" and is jumping up and down in her crib.

Look at my party hat. My mommies friend Melissa made this cute hat. She dressed up in it all day long.


This is Addison on her 2nd Birthday. She loves her Elmo shirt and loves wearing crowns.










Saturday, January 3, 2009

Crazy Hair


I can't believe I am posting these pictures, but here they are. Addison and I decided we needed to beautify ourselves for daddy. This is us before we are beautified of course. She left the curlers in for quite awhile.

Lucas and Addison


Just playing around

Dad going off for his run! Don't freeze dad.


Addison loves to play with her brother Brayden.

Addison's favorite thing to do is play dress up. She loves her sunglasses. Aunt Janell got her this lovely purse for Christmas. And of course lets not forget the hat. All we're missing is the shoes.
She always says "look at me momma"!



Markley family Christmas










Christmas was filled with fun and lots of games. We all enjoyed the games. Aunt Misti brought her Touring card game for us to play. Grandma Jean used to play it with us when I was a kid. Lucas tried the whole weekend to beat me at speed (a card game). Kids and adults alike enjoyed the wiggle car. We were so glad all the aunts and uncles could come down to join the fun. Grandpa Markley enjoyed watching the kids play.