Rilynn turns TWO!

On September 19th, Rilynn turned two! I cannot believe how quickly the past two years have gone! It seems like only yesterday that we were anxiously awaiting her arrival! To celebrate her birthday, we had 2 parties! On her actual birthday, we had a "Last Blast of Summer" party in Peachtree City with some of our closest friends (and grandparents and cousins of course!). On September 26th, we had a joint "Bugs Life" birthday party (Coen turned 4 the day before Rilynn turned 2) in Atlanta with our family. Both parties turned out very well and, as you can see from the pictures, Rilynn had a blast!

LAST BLAST OF SUMMER PARTY - SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The cupcakes I made - they were decorated with blue frosting for the ocean, brown sugar for the beach, and a gumball beachball that I decorated with frosting to match her cake

The Beachball cake - surrounded by sand (brown sugar)

eating goldfish with Kylie & Gabbie

Her princess birthday chair

CHEESE!

patiently waiting to open gifts

showing off her new princess shoes!

playing in the sand/water box with daddy

playing with Kelsie & Coen

BUGS LIFE PARTY - SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

riding Coen's bike before the party

The Caterpillar cake - Kelly and I baked 3 cakes to make up the caterpillar

We also made dirt cake and decorated them with gummy caterpillars

hanging with daddy

ready to party!

Coen & Rilynn

swinging with Peyton & Gabbie

the inflatable caterpillar - the beginning

the inflatable caterpillar - the finished product

Rilynn could not wait to get in and slide!

playing with her cousins (Gabbie, Coen, Kell & Jake)

putting on a puppet show

opening her presents

mom & Aunt Shirley

what a wonderful family?!

exhausted after a big day!

Mommy and Daddy in Maine

Every year Matt and I take a trip just the two of us to somewhere we have never been before. This year it was Bar Harbor, Maine from September 9-12. It was such a beautiful place and we had such an amazing trip. Here are pictures from our trip.

The Bar Harbor Inn - our hotel

Sunrise on Cadillac Mtn - Cadillac Mtn is in Acadia National Park and is the highest point along the North Atlantic seaboard. It is also the first place to see sunrise in the United States. This is where we were supposed to open our card to see if this baby was a boy or girl, but as stated in an older post, we decided to open the card in Atlantic City overlooking Poppop's lake.

Lobster Bake

Harbor Cruise aboard The Margaret Todd

It was rather windy out on the water!

Matt helping hoist the sails

look closely and you will see a bald eagle

a lobster boat collecting buoys

Brunch at the Jordan Pond House

Jordan Pond

23 weeks!

Sites around Bar Harbor and along Shore Path