Birthdays!

Well, I'm only a couple of months late giving an update on birthdays! Better late than never! I will start with Miss Carter, since her birthday was first. She had so much fun celebrating her 1st birthday! She loved getting her hands all in the cake, and eating some of it too. The presents were a definite hit as well, but she would open one she liked and forget about the rest. I'm sure it won't take long for her to figure out the whole opening presents thing.

Yummy cake!

My favorite present! It was from Jordan.

Now on to our second birthday, Miss Jordan! Carter and Jordan's birthdays are exactly 3 weeks apart, so we are really partied out by the end of February! For Jordan's birthday I wanted to give her the best surprise ever! I set out with her best friend's mom (and a great friend of mine) to meet at Great Wolf Lodge for the weekend. We hatched our plan in January, and we wouldn't let the girls talk for the entire time. We knew that Allie would spill the beans if they talked. Jordan's dad and I convinced her that we had to go to Dallas for a conference for school, but we would find a hotel with a pool to stay at. As we drove up to Great Wolf Lodge, she said I sure wish we could stay there, and then we turned in and she was so excited! Little did she know that she had another surprise waiting inside. After we had checked into the room (I had arranged for the birthday package so Jordan had lots of fun stuff to go through when we got there), there was a knock at the door. We had Jordan answer the door, and she was utterly speechless when she opened the door and saw Allie standing there! I don't know that I have ever seen her speechless. The girls were inseparable the entire weekend. Of course all my pictures of the girls together are on my phone.