Happy Birthday Bud!

At the beginning of the month Conley turned 2!!!! He didn't quite understand everything, but was really excited about the gifts, cake and ice cream. We had a small family celebration for him. He got to celebrate again when more gifts arrived from grandparents and cousins via Aunt Sasha, Uncle Scott and Brandon, (more on that later). I don't have his two year stats yet, but he has his check up in a few weeks. He is one happy kid and we have had so much fun these past two years with him in our family! Happy Birthday Conley!

his face is priceless

These are new cars, which he has carried around the house with him everywhere he goes. In fact he always has cars or trucks in his little hands.

Auburn helped Conley blow out the candles.

I think it is pretty safe to say he loved his cake, which was chocolate of course!

Comments

faith said…

Two?! Time sure goes fast. I think Conley looks really cute and quite grown up in the blowing-out-candles picture.

PS I will email you back soon! It's been really busy lately.

May 30, 2012 at 6:45 AM

Actuary Mom said…

Awesome cake Jodi!

May 30, 2012 at 4:51 PM

Bradley L. Hill said…

The cake was pure genius, Jodi! We were so pleased to get little peeks into your travels these past two weeks. We hope you are soon back to your normal lives.

May 31, 2012 at 8:05 PM

Boyd Box said…

Happy birthday, Conley!
BTW, did I give you an invite to my blog since I made it private? If not, email me at ell7boyd at gmail dot com. =)

And apparently I'm part robot. It always takes me two tries at those characters

June 10, 2012 at 12:38 PM

Prague

So this week Simon's parents were in town visiting, and we decided to take a little weekend trip. The night before we left we decided on Prague. None of us had ever been there, we didn't have to drive over the Alps, and it was relatively close only about 3 and half hours away. Before we left we had to make sure that the rental car could drive to the Czech Republic, because apparently not all rental cars can, they have to be a certain type. I still don't know why. To make our adventure even crazier, the bag with Simon and my stuff in it somehow didn't make into the car. We did not make this discovery until we were at our hotel. Luckily, Auby's stuff made it and we had our coats and gloves. We did however, miss our thermals it was very cold. I'm sorry that there aren't more pictures of Auburn. She was bundled up in her stroller. Prague is a really neat city and has a lot to explore. Here are some of pictures..... St. Nicholas Church, where Mozart once played t...

reading

Auburn has been asking me to teach her to read. So, I decided to try and just see what would happen. She just barely turned four and I didn't want to push her, but she was excited so we started. I am also not a fan of German Kindergarten (preschool here) and I know that she needed some extra stimulation. Thank heavens for the internet and a knowledgeable sister-in-law. We have been doing word family crafts, a sight word caterpillar and working on phonics. There are so many wonderful resources out there to make learning to read fun. She is really reading now and loves it. She picks up books and reads the words she knows and asks us for the ones she doesn't know. She is sounding words out and totally amazes me. Right now she will read to anyone that will sit down with her. reading to Uncle Seth and Conley This is a common scene at our house, and makes me so happy.

movie of our trip to Mexico

Simon made a video of our trip to Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Since I haven't gotten around to posting about the rest of our trip (that happened a year ago), I am just going to post the link to the movie on youtube. Hope you enjoy!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnUgh7HfbM

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