Let's Bake!

We went to a super fun birthday party tonight! Olivia had a cupcake baking party for her 4th birthday and I'm not sure who enjoyed it more? The parents had a great time helping the kids eat all of the cupcakes! The girls helped to bake and decorate their cupcakes in their cute little aprons. Lots of sugar and lots of uncontrollable giggles! Happy Birthday Olivia!

 

 Their personalized aprons are just about the cutest party favor that I have seen!

 Love, love, love them!

 Ready to bake.

 Loading up with lots of sprinkles!

 

Wild Animals

We had our first free Saturday in a while, so Sam and I took Kate to the zoo. She was so excited and had a ball on a beautiful Saturday morning!

 

The new giraffe exhibit was really neat!

 I think the lions entertained Sam & I more than Kate. One of the lion cubs was playing with the mama lion and she was not amused by the cub's antics. While we couldn't get enough of watching the playful lions, Kate wasn't quite sure about it. She thought the lions were attacking each other and was ready to move on to the next exhibit.

 

We ran into Kelty & Keene while waiting for the trian.

 

Just Another Morning....

...in the Compton house. As I was getting ready for work, Kate was playing in the den. She had put all of her babies in a circle for nap time, then put on her "teacher" ensemble. It comprised of white gloves, sunglasses and jewelry.

War Eagle!

Kate and I met up with Aunt Haley and Grandmama to head down for a day on the Plains. Hands down, Kate's favorite part of the football game was spotting Aubie,  the "Sparkle" girls (the majorettes), and watching the eagle land on the field. Auburn managed to eek out a win which made for a happy car ride home!

Birthday Month

We got together with the James family to celebrate Gran & Papa's September birthdays. After lunch, the kids had a ball playing outside in this nice, early fall weather. Happy Birthday Gran & Papa!

Fun In The Sun

After constantly checking the weather and the track of Hurricane Isaac for the past week, Gulf Shores was spared and we headed down to the beach to kick off the first weekend of college football. We ended up having great weather, good food, and caught up with some friends over the Labor day weekend.

 

Kate is definitely our little beach bum. She could have stayed out there all day if we let her. We didn't make it to the pool one time over the weekend because we spent the entire weekend on the beach. Between building sand castles, collecting sea shells, jumping waves and trying to catch fish in the ocean, she had an absolute ball!

Thanks Sam for taking a good picture of us..... if only the camera lens hadn't fogged up from all of the humidity! Oh well.

Catching sea creatures

We met up with the Fergusons on Sunday. Kate & Egan were thrilled to see each other.

Dancing Queen

Kate started dance classes again two weeks ago and she is beyond thrilled about it! She asks almost every day when I pick her up from school if we're going to dance class today. There's several other little girls from her school in her dance class and when they all get together, it's lots of laughing and silliness. Their teacher, Miss Laci, has her work cut out for her!

It took me what seemed like forever to get Kate to stand still for a quick picture. She kept trying to pose for the camera. Here's a few outtakes below...

This seems to be her favorite pose lately....

A Visit to Houston

Kate and I headed to Houston to visit Grandpa & Linda for a long weekend back in July. Sam stayed back in Birmingham since he developed a little bout with pneumonia. Kate was excited to get to Houston and do a little swimming in the pool.

We took a ride at the country club around the golf course in hopes of finding one of the resident alligators. Unfortunately, we didn't see any 'gators, but we did find lots of cute little turtles!

We took a trip back to the Houston Aquarium as it is always a favorite spot for Kate.

 

Well Hello There!

I have been horrible this summer about updating the blog. I'm not sure how the past two months have gotten away from me, but July & August have been a blur at the Compton household. I have also been lax about bringing my camera with me these days.  With all of the fall festivities coming up, I'm sure there's going to be lots more pictures and will work on keeping the blog up to date! I hope everyone has had a great summer!