The Leviners

Monday, November 14, 2011

Cooper's 1st Birthday!

Our friends and neighbors, Amy and Brandon, just celebrated their son Cooper's first birthday! C absolutely loves Cooper! She has always called him AmyCooper for some reason and thinks that his daddy's name is just B instead of Brandon! Cooper is precious and we love him so much!

Cooper had a wagon birthday theme and his mommy along with his aunts made the decor, down to the wagon pinata!

Happy 1st birthday cutie pie!

Cooper and his mommy!

I love party decorations! They complete any party!

Here's Cooper's birthday banner that his mommy made!

Smash cake!

This is just the cutest...a radio flyer birthday cake!

This is one side...

and here's the other!

The Leviners helping celebrate his big day!

C absolutely loved this circus tent...

and this marshmallow goody!

The wagon pinata!

C getting her turn at helping get the loot out!

Ah, getting her share!

Cute! The party favors!

Rice Krispie wagons! Loves!

Cooper taking C on her first date in his new wagon!

Happy 1st Birthday Cooper we love you!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Saturday before Halloween we attened a halloween party at the Callahans! It was a lot of fun! I think I told you earlier how I am not a big halloween fan partly because of the dressing up part. I don't like to draw attention to myself, I don't know what to dress as, etc. Do I dress my family in a theme, what would it be, and so and so on! Even though this is not my first halloween party (we just attended our neighbor's 8th annual party where we have been to every one), it was the first halloween party that I went to where I dressed up! It was fun and I'd do it again!

Like I said the party was fun! It was complete with halloweenish appetizers and finger foods, dips, mummy drinks, and smores! My favorite part was the hayride! I absolutely love hayrides! Every year at Thanksgiving and at Christmas we go on a hayride at my parent's! C also got to help break open the pumpkin pinata and she decorated a very cute mini pumpkin! I sure hope Heather, Travis, and Morgan Kate make this their new tradition!

Mommy as a fairey! C as a cupcake!

The Flintstones, AKA The Callahans, Heather, Travis, and MK!

MK as Peebles, Raven as a zookeeper, and Nolan, the lion!

Festive!

Mummy drinks!

The pumkin decorating table! So Halloweenish!

MK with her silly glasses!

The hayride, round one!

C liking her mummy juice drink!

Pumpkin Pinata!

Eating her loot!

The BFF's and their babies! Love them!

C grinning about stealing someone else's loot!

My absolute favs!

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Triplet Birthdays...

Not really but our niece, Samantha, and nephews, Silas and Christian celebrated their recent birthdays with one party! It was a lot of fun celebrating their birthdays this way! Samantha, the oldest cousin of Sam's siblings' children, has an August birthday. Silas and Christian are a year and a day apart with their birthdays being Oct. 20th and Oct. 21st! We have never celebrated their birthdays this way but I think their parents should make it a tradition. As C gets older and with each of their birthday parties, she has so much fun celebrating and seeing them!

Silas! He's so photogenic! He's a cool kid!

He's also very cute, too! He's loving and oh so sweet!

We can't leave his house without giving him a hug first!

Silas just turned 7!

Franklin is 4! Although we celebrated his birthday

in April, he still had a great time celebrating his big

brother's and cousins, Samantha and Christian's, birthdays!

He loves Caroline. He is like his big sister, Anna, in that he

sees after Caroline and he plays with her! Franklin likes to

play and he loves explaining things!

Anna! She is the big sister of Silas and Franklin!

Anna is 8! She is nurturing and always sees about

Caroline when she's around! She is absolutely presh!

C with Aunt Missi!

C with Uncle Jason! Jason is also a pastor!

Don't know if I've shared this part about him before!

Recently, he preached at his and Sam's home

church in Orangeburg, where their grandfather

started 53 years ago. His sermon

was phenomenal!

Caroline throwing darts to pop a balloon!

This little girl wants to be big just like her

first cousins!

Samantha wearing part of the pinata as a hat!

She is 9 and gorgeous! She loves to read and

she loves her cousins! She adores her

Uncle Sam, too!

Samantha and Caroline!

They are hilarious wearing

their funny hats and glasses!

Silas!

Christian! He's 8! He's sweet and very

sensitive! He loves to read like his big sister,

Samantha! He enjoys drawing! He's very smart, too!

C being sneaky! She thought no one saw

her climbing up the steps of the swingset

to sneak a piece of the pinata candy that she grabbed!

This might be what those "sneakcrets" are all about...HMMM!

C the littlest Leviner cousin! She is 2.5!

She is spunky, delightful, and smart!

She is busy, strong willed, and precious!

She is loved by all of her big Leviner cousins!

Samantha!

Silas!

Christian!

Anna and Samantha!

The Leviner First Cousins!

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

The South Carolina State Fair was in town just a few weeks ago! My mom, stepdad, Sam, and I have made a tradition of going every year together! This year Caroline's Granny and Granddaddy joined us and we had so much fun! My favorite part about going to the fair is eating corndogs, seeing the animals (the little chicks going down the hill into the water is my absolute fav), milking cows, racing pigs, show horses, etc, the exhibits (especially the one where they give out the Coburg vanilla milk however this wasn't there this year), the student art exhibit, the science exhibit, the sand sculpture, the food exhibit where others get to show off their beautifully decorated cakes, then all the selling vendors who try to sell their latest fad from toys to food gadgets, and then getting elephant ears (still can't call them funnel cakes) before heading home! This year I can add kiddy rides to my fav list. I have always loved the carousel. I can ride it as an adult and still have pride! Besides the carousel C has a new love for other kiddy rides. Last year she was only able to ride the carousel. This year she rode a mini tilt-a-whirl, the carousel, and race cars. She even wanted to ride some twice! I think my girl is going to be like her mommy and enjoy the slow and low rides!