Birthday at the Lake

For my birthday I choose to spend the day at the lake. It was a beautiful day! Sunny and hot, with the lake to cool off in. Wonderful and relaxing!

We brought a picnic and ate out under the trees.

Our sweet baby is sitting up! I think I can officially claim that since she can now last over a minute before toppling...sometimes more. K didn't sit up until six months...which I guess isn't that far off, but it seems a little early for Boo to be sitting up so well.

I got so many wonderful presents!

A bunch of the family went together and got me this beautiful James Avery necklace and earring set! It's a butterfly made up of two hearts...one for each of my girls. I love it!

And I also have something to put it in...T made me a jewelry box! He had been busily working away in the garage this week and I figured he might be making me something and he sure was! He does such a good job! The lid looks really big in this picture, but I think it was because I was taking the picture from above. He made two snug little trays to hold everything. :)

Our little Boo bear taking a snooze in her PeaPod at the lake.

It seems like all my pictures of K lately end with her crashed out in the car! We have had a jam-packed summer so far! But we're also having tons of fun!

Here's Boo crashed on the other side of the car...well her reflection at least. We need to work on bringing the thumb to the mouth, not the mouth to the thumb. :)

We spent almost the whole day at the lake and then came back to our house for dinner, cake and games.

My mom and aunt made me this yummy cake. I got the recipe from my sister-in-law. I think she called is German Chocolate Upside-down cake, but my aunt said she makes the exact same cake and in the south they call it Earthquake cake. Whatever you call it it's delicious!!!

We played Chicken Foot before it was time for the girls to go to bed. I had to get this picture b/c I can't even begin to count how many memories I have of sitting on someone's lap while the grownups played cards or Dominos. My family has always been big game players and the kiddos always got to sit in laps and watch until we got big enough to play.

My grandma smoked us all, but we had fun losing! Haha :)

Thanks for all the wonderful birthday wishes, cards, presents, and fun times everyone!