Introducing...

Olivia Jae MacBride
Baby Girl #3 arrived on December 31, 2009 at 2:38 pm, weighing in at 6lbs, 11 oz and 19 1/2" long. We are doing well and adjusting to life as a family of five (plus 2 dogs!). I'm surviving on coffee!

Christmas 2009

Caelyn's Belated Birthday Trip to the Zoo

After being postponed twice due to the swine flu, we finally made our trip to Lowry Park Zoo for Caelyn's birthday. We took a couple friends and had a great time. It was awesome weather and all the kids seemed to enjoy themselves.

Halloween 2009

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. McKinley's school hosted a fall festival, which was lots of fun. We got to see her in action with her new best buds from kindergarten. She's really growing up fast! I was able to go trick-or-treating with Caelyn and her class around Bartow, and then they had a party back at school after they'd successfully gathered hundreds of pounds of candy! Then on Halloween night we trick-or-treated around our subdivision, which has become a tradition with all of our neighborhood friends.

Stuart's Wedding - Charlotte (Oct 10th)

Okay, long overdue but I'm trying to catch up...AGAIN! The weekend of October 10th, 2009 brought a wonderful trip to Charlotte, NC for the wedding of our beloved Uncle Stuart to his sweetheart, Miss Allie (now Aunt Allie). It was an awesome weekend. They are both the ultimate party planners, so no detailed was left untouched! We had a great time. It was a beautiful ceremony in a beautiful place, joining two beautiful people. The kids had a blast and it was great meeting all of Stuart & Allie's extended family. Congratulations (sorry it took so long) to Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Kaul!

Marty's Wedding - North Georgia (Oct 3rd)

The entire MacBride clan made the trek to North Georgia for Uncle Marty's wedding (Jay's best friend from college). He's finally tied the knot and we're very happy for the new Mr & Mrs Marty and Katie Weatherford. It was a great weekend and a good time was had by all. The girls were quite excited about wearing their fancy new dresses. At the wedding reception, we saw Caelyn's metamorphosis to Dancing Queen. We've never experienced this before. She stayed on the dance floor by herself for at least an hour. Somebody mentioned that she gets it from her momma...but I have no idea what they're talking about.

Caelyn turns 4...

Our soon-to-be middle child is now 4 years old. It's hard to believe. It seems like we just brought her home from the hospital in TN. She really is coming out of her shell now that she's taken over her big sister's old preschool campus! She had an understated but special birthday weekend with some visitors (our old neighbors from TN), a party for another friend's birthday, and a trip to Rainforest Cafe. Her party has been postponed twice due to illness, so she'll finally be taking a few friends to the zoo for her belated birthday celebration in a couple weeks. Trouble is...next year, how do we explain that her birthday doesn't really last a month and a half??