Birthday Bash.....Cowboy Style!!!!

WARNING: This post may be long and drawn out -- but hunker down Cowboys and Cowgirls and enjoy the pictures!
This past weekend we had a HUGE birthday bash for Wilson, his fave cousin Stirling, and his good buddy Thomas. It was a Cowboy/Cowgirl themed party with ponies galore! Alot of there sweet friends came out to help celebrate and I think they all had a blast. I wish I could have gotten a picture of every little cowboy/cowgirl that came -- but I think I spent a lot of my time chasing my cowboy hat that kept blowing off my head --- did I mention we had typhoon type wind blowing us around all morning. It was pretty amusing. Ok, Ok....enough typing/talking. On with the pictures!

The guests of honor!!! I think one of those little cowboys must have done something to little Stirling to make her cry ;)

Thomas and Wilson --- Birthday boys!

Wilson's cake -- they each had their own little cake and their friends got fun cupcakes with stick pony cookies!


Birthday Boy #1

THE Birthday Girl on her princess pony

Birthday Boy #2

Cowboy Nathan -- loved the horses until he had a bit of an allergic reaction ( eyes got really red and itchy)

Cowboy Barrett -- isn't he a doll!

Catching a ride in the carriages with my little men!


Little Cousins -- great picture of how windy it is! Can't believe my hat was actually on!

Cowgirls Mally and Claire with their mom Julee!

Cowgirls Sara and Megan ( also our cousins)


Pony riding with a little help from daddy!

Even our cousin Luke came up from Daphne!

Cowboy Prather


Cake Time!!!!!

Pretending to blow candles out --- thanks to all that wind!


Cowboy Spence


Cowboys William and Ford enjoying the goodies!

And that's all folks!!!!!!!

The Greatest Show on Earth

Last night we took these little munchkins to the Circus in Montgomery. They had never been to a "real" circus before so you can imagine the twinkle in their eyes when the show started. It was 2 hours of magic, amazing acrobatics, animals of all kinds and clowns! What more could a kid want?!?!?!? Our pics were limited based on the "no photography" rule instituted once the show began. Seeing how the elephants and lions were literally a few feet from us (our seats were on the front row), Ali and I were on our best "picture taking" behavior. We didn't want to make a hungry lion angry with our flashes :)

And of course, you have to get a fun souvenir at the circus. The boys (and Stirling) picked out these fun glasses that have flashing lights all around them. They thought they were SOOO cool!

ONE FISH, TWO FISH

RED FISH, BLUE FISH!!!!!

That is exactly what we saw all day on Thursday!!!! Off we headed to Atlanta with some sweet friends (the Cleggs) to check out the Aquarium. Little did we know that everyone else in the southeast had the SAME IDEA!!!!!!! It was so much fun and the kids did great--Jennifer and I were the ones that were stressed out by the end of the day. Keeping up with 4 kiddos in a crowd that big about put us over the edge. If they had had a drive through margarita bar in ATL we would have definitely stopped! :)

Matthew, Wilson, Nathan and Brantley

We Survived!!!!!! Thanks Cleggs for a fun adventure ---we had a blast!