The Pruett Place: March Madness/Carly is now 2!

Is it just me or did March fly by? It seems like we were crazy busy in March. I must say I am so happy about this beautiful weather, though. What a great springtime we are having! On March 27th, Carly celebrated her second birthday. She likes to think that she is turning four like Kate. She wants to do anything and everything that Kate does! She loves her big sister so much. While Kate is in preschool, Carly will often ask for Kate. At the same time, those girls can get in some fights, but I guess that comes with all siblings. Carly amazes us with her determination and her vocabulary. She has been talking in sentences for awhile now and she is pretty determined when she puts her mind to something. The Pruett's seem to produce happy, and busy girls. They both are go, go, go!!!! Our cup runneth over with the joy they bring us. We will see what happens this third time around.

Below is some of the fun things that we did in March.

On Carly's actual birthday, we went to Amazing Jakes and the four of us had a great time.

After Carly's birthday celebration, we got to enjoy a couple more days with Zack's sister and family. It was so fun and nice to have the Pruett cousins together. My girls look up to them so much! Sweet picture of Lauren and Carly.

Carly, Emie and Lauren having fun with Window Art Markers and crayons.

My parents after the birthday party

Carly loves Sesame Street! Her favorite characters are Elmo, Abby and Zoe. So, I went with a Sesame Street themed party and pretty much narrowed down to Abby and Elmo.

Some of the kids playing in the playroom during the party. What fun and what a mess! Luckily, we had a beautiful night for our party and most of the time the kids were outside. We had her party from 5:00-7:00 pm.

Dad Dad, Uncle Brett and Uncle Michael visiting

Aunt Kamara and Uncle Rod

Aunt Sheri and Uncle Chad

Sweet Harper loved the Elmo cake!

Aubrey and Kate

Justine found the bubbles!

Some of the Pruett cousins sitting together: Cole, Olivia, Bree, Emie and Georgia

I cannot take credit for the cakes this year. I have a friend that makes cakes as a side business and she is incredible! She made an Abby and Elmo cake.

Some family visiting in the living room.

Breanne and Aunt Keari

Carly actually did a perfect job blowing out her two candles. I was impressed!

Sweet Ellee who is just 2 months older than Carly.

Cale

The cakes and the vegetable trays. Unfortunately, I did not get any pictures of the yummy fajitas Zack grilled. We also had cheese, sour cream, queso, salsa, chips, beans, and tortillas of course. My Mom brought some yummy fruit dip and fruit to go with it all. Zack's Mom and sister did an excellent job grilling some onions and peppers on the stove as a bonus.

Kate in her Elmo shirt to go with the theme.

The birthday girl in her Abby shirt.

Aunt Lauren and Mom Mom

Here was the sign-in table

Pictures of Carly throughout her second year along with Sesame Street figurines.

Over spring break, Zack's parents were so generous to let us drop off the girls for a couple of days in Abilene. We came back here and enjoyed sleeping in, relaxing, going to movies, and eating out. It was so nice! The girls seemed to have a great time, too. It was a wonderful gift!

At the start of spring break, we enjoyed a night stay at Embassy Suites in Grapevine with the Cox family. Our room was connected to their room which was really nice. I was so jealous of the hot tub. The pool was soo cold! I got in for a second just to warm up, but it would not be good for baby peanut inside of me. As you can see, Carly wanted to sit in the hot tub for awhile too. It just shows how cold she must have been!

Kate and Carly loved it!

Zack started the amazing project over spring break of taking out our hot tub. We had some good memories in it, but it was costing us too much money to fix it because it was so old. Plus, it was a constant worry with the girls playing outside. I was so impressed with Zack's hard work and his ability to take this on all by himself. He managed to finish it within one week. He will have to go back and paint it, but I was so pleased with how it looked! It is so nice to now be able to let the kids play outside and up on the deck without the stress of the hot tub. I have a great husband! He saved us so much money doing this himself!

Before

Here it is with just the small part of the hot tub at the bottom. He had to cut that out and then layer the wood to fill up the hole before nailing the wood down on the top. It was a long and tedious process of measuring and cutting wood.