Wheelbarrow Race

Here's the video of Maggie doing the wheelbarrow race that I promised. She wanted to try it, and then we were amazed when she picked it up on her first attempt!

Camp Meeting

Before I return to birthday blogging, I wanted to post some pictures from Camp Meeting last weekend. We had a great time, as always, and Maggie loved it! Be forewarned, we took a million pictures!

Maggie loved the Saturday afternoon games, even though she was too little to participate much. Here she is trying on a sack:


She didn't do any actual sack-racing, but she caught on to the wheelbarrow-racing right away. We have a funny video of that and I'll post it soon.

Gnawing on a fried pork chop!


She LOVED running around at night with glow sticks with her cousins!


Coloring and playing with stickers in our tent:


Playing with the pine straw:


Lots of family pictures to share, too. Here's Aunt Louise and Uncle Allan:


Uncle Bryan and Rex:


Maggie and Haleigh relaxing a bit:


Kevin sporting some crazy Clemson pants:


Amber:


Aunt Edna and Michelle:


Maggie digging in to Sunday dinner:


She wasn't the only one. :)


Her cousins were very sweet to include her in their play:


Outside our tent:


Walking to the candy store:


Waiting to make her selections:


Enjoying her treats with Hannah:


Maggie discovered that she LOVES lollipops!


Sharing with her grandpa:


Wade brought his little girl, Rebecca, to her first Camp Meeting. What a cutie!


Rebecca with her proud great-grandma:


Maggie had fun with her Uncle Wade:


Getting some practice kissing babies. Is this sweet, or what?!


Rebecca and her grandpa:


Wade and his little girl:


Four generations!

Baby #2

We have a new baby on the way, due March 12, 2011:


And we found out today that it's a boy!!!

Now that her birthday is over...

....Maggie's ready to skip directly to Christmas!

(note: this outfit is ridiculous both because it's October, and also because it's 80 degrees here today! It's awfully cute, though :)

Happy birthday to Maggie!

Maggie is 2 years old today! I'll have a longer post about her birthday celebrations at some point, and a 2-year-old update, too, but I wanted to go ahead and put up these pictures from her birthday breakfast this morning. We had a practice run for the cake with candles in her muffins!


You may notice that the candles are now yellow, and the muffins a little nibbled on, in the two pictures below. I sang happy birthday and we lit the candles 3 times! And she wanted more, but I cut her off after the third time through. :)


Trying to blow out the candle...she successfully blew out one of six, I had to do the others.


Happy happy birthday to our Maggie-Mags!


Update (Patrick): For contrast, last year's pic:

Visit and early birthday fun!

Despite all good intentions, I'm woefully behind again! Grandpa Bob, Aunt Patty and Uncle Tom came for a visit almost 2 weeks ago and I'm just now putting the pictures up. We had a great time! It was Bob's birthday, so we celebrated with cake....and lots of presents for Maggie. :) We celebrated her birthday with them a little early. What a lucky girl!


Aunt Patty taught Maggie how to dunk on her new basketball hoop:

Sharing a moment:


Maggie and Grandpa Bob having some lunch at the Pendleton Fall Festival:


And working on her new puzzles:


Maggie "helped" Uncle Tom put together her new wagon:


Comfy!


We tried out the wagon with a walk down to the park:


Swing time!


This lasted all of 2 minutes!


We had a wonderful visit. Come back and see us again soon, guys!

Denver Downs

Oops, I meant to post this days ago! Well, hopefully it was worth waiting for....

Last week, we went to a local farm, Denver Downs, with the Moms Club to take a hayride, pick pumpkins, explore the corn maze, and enjoy their other fall festivities. We had a great time last year, and even more fun this year!

At the entrance, waiting for the fun to start:


This "maze" was just Maggie's size!


Goats!


Maggie loved this horsey tire swing:



On the hayride to pick our pumpkins:


Maggie picked a cute, tiny one:




Once again, she LOVED the cow train:


Faster, faster!

We had a wonderful afternoon!