It's coming...

Get excited, my friends...

Birthday Girl

We started the special day off with a birthday banner, of course:

Tyler helped me write the letters, and Jamie unrolled half a mile of ribbon around the living room, and I let her, because, you know, it was her birthday.

We had a lovely morning at Sprouts, picking up THREE pints of blueberries for our freshly turned one-year-old girl, and sampling all the bulk yummies.

Birthday Lunch! (Diapers following this feast were unusual.)

After naps, and after daddy came home, we started a new birthday tradition (thanks, NieNie)

Balloons!

We wrote birthday wishes on all the balloons:

and then let them go.

Our wonderful friends had us over for dinner, cake and games. We brought (what else?) a blueberry topped cake for Jamie:

Tyler couldn't help himself, and he helped Jamie blow out her candle.

Jamie picked off and ate each blueberry very meticulously

before diving into the cake-y goodness and demolishing it.

Happy Birthday Jamerson, we love you!

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Happy Birthday to my beautiful baby girl:

Our family would be lonely without you. (I'd say less crazy too, but who are we kidding, Tyler is the crazy king)

Tyler's Car Party!

So, I think the lesson here is to never, ever have a birthday party on a Saturday morning, because if you do, everyone you invite will have a soccer game, a play group, or a babysitting job to be at. Thank goodness for cousins and grandmas, or we would have had a very empty park!

Even so, we had a really fun morning:

We had cars from Cars:

A Pinata:

And so much FOOD:

Jamie was such a good sport and stayed in her Car seat the whole time:

Well, we had a lot fun anyway.

And we all got like five cupcakes a piece, so not a bad day.

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How have three years gone by so fast?

This boy is silly,

But he owns our hearts.


Happy Birthday, Bubbas!

Sundays are for:

1. Beautiful children in their Sunday Best

2. Apple Basket Cakes and Birthday Wishes

3. Grandma Griffin hugs (and bribing her with ice cream so she'll let us in)

Did you know...

...On September 7th:

• 
  
  Buddy Holly was born
  


• 
  
  The German Blitz began
  


• 
  
  Evan Rachel Wood was born
  


• 
  
  Atlanta, Georgia fell to Sherman in the Civil War
  


• 
  
  Gloria Gaynor was born
  


• 
  
  Queen Elizabeth I was born
  


• 
  
  Tom Everett Scott was born
  


• 
  
  Guillaume Apollinaire stole the Mona Lisa
  


• 
  
  Julie Kavner was born
  


• 
  
  Tupac was shot

Tyler, Jamie and I sent McKay on a TREASURE HUNT with all these fun birthday facts:

And he won the best prize ever, to be redeemed if it ever stops raining here!

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Happy Birthday, you crazy man.

Kristen Marie

Today my baby sister is seventeen. Kristen is:

Classy

Fashion Forward

Athletic

The Favorite Aunt

A little crazy

She's also smart, and also hilarious. She doesn't call attention to herself, but if you sit by her, you'll hear the funniest commentary on whatever is going on.

Plus, she steals your camera, takes pictures of herself like this, and lets you discover them later.

What a nut.

Happy Birthday, girl! I love you!

Introducing...

Jamie Addison Claire Hinckley!

Born June 24, 2010

7lb 3oz, 17 in.

Katie was scheduled to be induced at 7:30am. We dropped off Tyler with Grandma and Grandpa the night before, I took the day off work, and we were up at 6:30 after staying up late getting things ready. We get it, check in, get Katie all set up in a bed, and they start her pitocin to get contractions started. On our way to having a new little baby. 20 minutes in, they inform us of a tiny little previously unmentioned detail- you have to wait 6 hours after eating to get induced.

Since Katie had had a few bites of oatmeal on the way out the door, the doctor decided to send us home to come back the next morning. Fortunately, he ultimately changed his mind and decided to keep us around and resume inducing at 1. Whoo!

3:45 Katie is dilated to a 5-6 and gets her epidural

4:15 Epidural is ready, and she is now fully dilated to a 10

4:36 Pushing begins

4:41 (3 contractions later): Baby!

2 1/2 years ago, Katie spent 2 hours pushing Tyler out, and it has clearly paid off.

Some more of the pretty girl...

We're now in the hospital, Mamma and Baby are both doing so well, and we should be checking out Saturday morning. Speaking of Tyler, he was very unsure what to make of the new baby.

What's more interesting- McFlurry or Baby Jamie? :

McFlurry!

He finally came around, though (albeit spoon still in hand):

Tyler is still trying to understand that "Mamma's Baby" was never just a funny name for "belly button."

Good job Mamma and Baby Jamie!