Caroline Brooke Garner

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Jake's 30th Birthday

Jake's 30th birthday was Monday July 13. Caroline and I picked him up form the airport at 7:00 and then headed home for a nice dinner with Jake's parents.

Debbie cut out over 100 30's out of construction paper and then came over to decorate our house. The 30's were everywhere!

That's a lot of candles!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

The first week in July, Caroline and I flew to Houston to visit my friend Summer and her daughter Chloe. We had a great time and we can't wait to see them again! Here are pictures from that week.

Day 1: Summer lives in a great neighborhood that has many amenities including 2 pools. We went to one of the pools the first day and let the girls play together. *We went to the pool most every day because the girls had a great time swimming together.

Day 2: We were busy from the get go. We took the girls to a bounce house place close to Summer's house and they had a good time. They especially loved the slide.

Day 2 (cont.): Summer and her husband Chris play on a co-ed soccer team together and they had a game and we took the girls out to watch.

Day 3: Summer's Neighborhood had a children's parade for the 4th of July so we decorated the waggon and showed our spirit. At the end of the parade route there was a small "fair" like atmosphere with rides and games for kids.

Day 4 (4th of July): We traveled to Lake Livingston (about 1 hour outside of Houston) to visit some of Summer's friends at their lake house. The girls got in the lake, but weren't thrilled because it was quite rough. They had a great time playing in the swing despite the rough water.

Day 4 (cont.): That night, we went to a fireworks display in Kingwood. Caroline pronounces fireworks like "walker-works." Not sure where that came from.

Day 6: We went to the Woodlands Mall this day and the girls rode on the Carousel and played in the kids area of the mall. Summer and I both spent way too much money on kids clothes that day!

Day 6 (cont.): This was also Summer's birthday so she had all of her family over for dinner. We had a great meal and both Caroline and I enjoyed spending time with their relatives.

Day 7: We caught a plane back to Tallahassee this day so all we did was pack. No fun pictures of that, sorry!

Chloe, Summer, me and Caroline.

Chris, Parker, Caroline, Logan, Chloe and Summer.

Off to visit the Mathis Family

We went to visit my sister Michele and her family in Alabama before we went to Houston. We had a fun time with the boys and we got to swim at the Grubb's pool while we were there.

Snow Cones...yummy!

Walker, Jarrett and Mikaela.

Will and Michele

Will and Caroline hanging out

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

ISR Swimming Lessons

Caroline has just completed 5 weeks of ISR Swimming. It is a great national program taught locally by Patty Thompson. Caroline learned to float on her back and then roll over and swim to find an exit out of the pool. Here are some pictures and videos of her last day of lessons. (Yes, she is swimming in a dress and shoes. The last 2 days of lessons they swim in Winter clothes and summer clothes so they know what it is like to have real clothes on. Normally kids do not fall in the pool with a bathing suit on.)

Press Play to watch the 2 videos of Caroline swimming.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Happy Doo Doo...

Let me explain the title of this blog. We are trying to teach Caroline how to sing Happy Birthday. We sing when she is sitting on the potty, when we wash our hands, and pretty much anywhere else. She is doing very well with the tune, but puts her own twist on the words. She sings "Happy Doo Doo to you!" It is soooo cute!

There are many of our families birthdays this time of year. It is great to get together to celebrate!