The Easter Bunny Finds Us At The Beach 2012

Eden was so excited about going to the beach for Easter this year!  We packed our car and took off on the Thursday night before Easter.  As we were driving down, Eden asked, "How will the Easter Bunny find us all the way at the beach?"  Good question for a three year old!  She also wanted to know how "she" would get into the condo.  She knew Santa came down the chimney but wasn't quite sure how a bunny rabbit would get in.  I told her that I thought "she" would hop right down the beach and up onto our porch and to not worry because the Easter Bunny was very good at finding children!

We celebrated all weekend long!  We baked cupcakes and colored eggs! We visited our friends Becky, Ron and Ian Sale.   We are having the best time watching this sweet little girl grow up!  It seems she is growing right before our eyes!  Today I looked at her as we were playing and saw a beautiful sweet little girl.  I still cannot believe that God chose us to be her parents out of everyone on this earth!  We are truly blessed and thankful! 

We Dyed Eggs!

Fishing In The Tub With My Fishing Pole

We Made These Cupcakes!

Fishing With Daddy

The Easter Bunny Found Me!

Our Atlantis Vacation In The Beautiful Bahamas!

Our bags are packed and we are headed to the beautiful resort Atlantis in the sunny Bahamas for five days! My Daddy earned this trip by working so hard this year! Thank you Daddy!  This trip is even more special because Ms. Johnnie is traveling with us!  This is her first trip to the Bahamas and we are thrilled to take her with us! 


We arrived on Sunday and headed straight to the pool right after looking at all of the wonderful fish swimming right there in the lobby!   Oh my goodness, the Atlantis is so grand and big!  Probably the biggest place that I have ever seen!  There are so many pools to choose from!  We explored so many  aquariums and natural sea life areas while we were there.  I got a chance to feed the sea turtles, stingrays and starfish!  I was chosen with four other toddlers to participate in the AquaTots toddlers program.  We also headed down to the beach to play in the sand.  It was beautiful!  The water was as blue as the sky!  I even got my hair braided by a nice lady! I am so excited about my braids and I cannot wait to show them to my classmates when I go back to school!  I never sit still for my Mama to brush my hair but I sure did sit still for those braids!  Amazing!


Ms. Johnnie took me to the movies, including Puss and Boots, right there in the resort while my Mama and Daddy went to several dinners. One of their special dinners was at Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill restaurant. They said it was wonderful! I don't think it was as good as my movie and pizza down by the marina with Ms. Johnnie, though!  We saw all the beautiful yachts. We even ate one night at Johnnie Rocket's!  We also went to a pool party where I got to go on stage with two other little friends named Katy and Riley.  They are both Chinese like me!  We sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for everyone!  My Mama and Daddy were so proud.  I think they took a hundred pictures! I even got a chance to build a dolphin at the build-a-bear store.  It was a baby dolphin and I named it "Baby". 


Oh I forgot to mention that we had the best suite ever!  It had three balconies with views of the entire Atlantis resort!  It was so beautiful that I didn't even want to live the room when we first got there!   I thought the room was the vacation! 


I hope you enjoy all of the wonderful pictures! 




Eden, Mama, Daddy and Ms. Johnnie!

Taken From Our Room At Atlantis

"The Leap Of Faith Slide" - Taken From Our Room"

Eden On The Slide At The Children's Pool

Ms. Johnnie In The Giant Chair - Picture Taken By Eden

Eden Loves To Take Pictures With Our Camera.  She Has Been Taking Pictures Since She Was Two!

Beautiful Art Work In The Casino - Blown Glass

Eden Smiling A Little To Much! 

Ms. Johnnie & Eden playing with our new IPad

Eden looking At The Big Fish!

The Famous "Michael Jackson Bridge Suite"

Sea Turtles

Eden Holding A Starfish!

Eden Feeding Starfish!

Running On The Beautiful Beach - See My Braids!

Having Fun On The Beach! 

Giant Sting Ray!

Fish & Sting Ray

The Royal Towers Lobby

Our Beautiful Bedroom In Our Suite

Singing Karaoke With My New Friends Katy and Riley

We sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Eden's First Father & Daughter Dance!

Eden and her Daddy got all dressed up this Saturday evening to attend a Father & Daughter Dance at Marbles!  They both looked stunning!  Eden was so beautiful in her formal white and pink gown!  Her daddy was so handsome in his black suit with his pink shirt that matched Eden's dress!  Mama couldn't wait until they got home so that I could hear all about their special evening together.  They ate wonderful food and danced to music!  They also got to play at Marbles!  We go to marbles a lot to play!  This time it was all little girls's playing in their formal dresses as their proud Daddy's stood close by!   How cute is Eden playing hockey in her white gown! 

Eden what a special night to remember!  Your Daddy loves you so!

Happy Chinese New Year! (Year Of The Dragon)

We had a wonderful time celebrating the Chinese New Year!  This is the Year of the Dragon!  The Chinese celebrate the New Year by cleaning their house, preparing lots of food and visiting with family and friends. Children are handed red envelops filled with coins! We took Eden to an all day celebration at the fairgrounds.  We saw beautiful dances performed by both girls and boys!  We ate all kinds of yummy Chinese food including some beautiful deserts.  Eden got her face painted like a tiger!  She was adorable.  We were able to obtain information about area Preschools that focus on teaching Chinese.  We want Eden to learn and be able to speak Chinese! 

What a fun festive day!  Happy New Year Eden Olivia!



Eden Meets Snow White!

Miss Eden Olivia and Snow White!

Snow White gives Eden a makeover!

Eden & her good friend Bridget

Snow White reads a story!

Daddy & Eden (Eden has on her Belle Princess Dress)

Eden was invited to her friend Lucy's 4th Birthday party! Lucy had a special guest show up named Snow White! Everyone had the best time! Snow White read them stories and then she gave every little girl a special makeover. All of the little girls including Eden wore their princess dresses for this special occassion. It was a fun birthday party! Eden, your Mama and Daddy are having so much fun with you!

A Wonderful Christmas!

Santa has finally come!

Looking at all my stuff!

Eden was more concerned with Santa eating his cookie than what he brought her for Christmas! That's our Eden!

Christmas Eve dinner (beautiful cousin Cady and her mother Aunt Cindy)

Daddy slicing the rib roast for Christmas Eve dinner with family!

Christmas Eve morning! Don & Eden decorating Gingerbread Cookie! Getting Ready For Santa!

Our Chrismas Party Spread! Friends starting to arrive!

Our Christmas Tree This Year!

Ms. Johnnie and Eden before they head next door to a Secret Santa Party! Ms. Johnnie helps us with Eden! She was her baby room teacher and Eden's only sitter! She is wonderful and we are so blessed that she is part of Eden's life. Ms. Johnnie takes Eden out to eat and all over town! Eden adores her!

Eden's Christmas Party! Bouncing with her friends!

Eden's Christmas tree in her room!

Eden helping decorate the tree!

Eden helping pick out our tree! She got into Mama's make-up and painted her face for the occasion!

Looking At Chrismas Trees! This is the fellow who helps us every year!

Eden Doing Christmas Crafts (Three Years Old) I love her pigtails!

Shortly after Thanksgiving this year we set off to pick out the perfect Christmas tree at the Farmers Market! We go to the same place every year and have gotten to know the people who bring their trees down from the North Carolina mountains. They pretty much know what I am looking for and usually start bringing trees out that have not be set up yet. The ideal tree for us is tall to the ceiling and starts wide at the bottom and then tapers off towards the top. After we get our tree we go home to start decorating, not only the tree but pretty much the entire house!

This year we had two Christmas parties at our house! One that Eden had for her friends from school and the other that Don and I hosted for our neighbors and close friends. Christmas is the perfect time of year to spend some time with your friends! I wish that Christmas occured more that once a year for this very reason! Both of the parties were a lot of fun! I made special Santa bags for Eden's Christmas party and we made wonderful food and drinks for our other Christmas party!

We also had a nice wonderful Christmas Eve dinner with family and close friends. We decided to make a rib roast this year. Don cooked it and it was perfect! We have not quit talking about it yet! After our dinner we went to the live Nativity at Hayes Barton Baptist Church. We have made this visit to the Navity somewhat of a tradition. After church we hurried home to put out cookies and milk and to wait for Santa to come! Oh and I forgot to mention that we got a new Elf On The Shelf this year that Eden named Cookie. Cookie would visit Santa every night to report back if Eden had been "naughty or nice"! Every morning when she returned she would always be in a different spot. We had so much fun finding her every morning! Cookie is now back at the North Pole with Santa and Eden misses her!

On Christmas morning we all went downstairs to see what Santa had brought and to see if he had left the train set and train table that Eden had ask for. Well he did, so Eden must have been nice! After playing with all the new toys that Santa had brought, we went over to Uncle Kenneth, Aunt Cindy, Jamie and Cady's house to eat Chrismas dinner! What a great Christmas!