Happy Birthday Karisse!!

Yesterday our baby girl turned 2. I can hardly believe it has been 2 years already. She was soooo funny yesterday. She walked around all day singing "happy birthday to you". She is a mess.

Karisse Rose Dickison May 25, 2006

Karisse Rose Dickison May 26, 2008 (party day)

Karisse sing Happy Birthday!

Today was her birthday party. We had 23 people here for the party. It was a beautiful day so we spent most of the time in the back yard. Last night I blew-up and filled Karisse's swimming pool because it was supposed to be really warm today. The three little kids had a ball in the pool even though the water was pretty cold. We moved Karisse's slide so the end of it was in the pool and Thomas and Karisse LOVED sliding into the water. Finley was not too sure about the sliding. Shortly after they got out of the pool it started to rain so we decided it was time to go inside for birthday cake and presents.

Karisse and Finley in their swimsuits!

Fun in the pool!

Karisse and Thomas sliding into the pool!

She had an Elmo birthday, so I made her an Elmo birthday cake. It was a bit stressful getting it decorated this morning. I am pretty proud of the way it turned out though. A BIG THANK YOU to our friend Beth for sharing her fabulous icing recipe and her decorating tips and to our friend Ronda for the use of the Elmo cake pan.

The ELMO cake!

Blowing out the candles! Karisse had a GREAT BIRTHDAY, but she was one pooped kiddo be the time everyone left.

SUMMER VACATION!!!

NO MORE SCHOOL!!!
Summer vacation has officially started. I had to go in this morning and pass out grade cards. Now vacation has started. Karisse went with me to school. She was a hit. The teachers loved her and she made friends with Jill, one of the other teacher's little girl. They were running all over the cafeteria. I am loooking forward to spending one last summer with Karisse, before Callie is born. I get an extended summer this year. Since Callie is coming the week before school starts back in August I am taking a month leave at the beginning of next school year.

8 days

In 8 school days school will be out for the summer. I can't wait. I love my job, but I also love staying home with my kiddo and getting to do all the summer stuff I get to do with my beautiful wife. Some of my kids at school have been kinda crazy the last few weeks. They have Spring Fever in a BIG way. I have the feeling that this is going to be a long 8 days just for that reason.

I am really looking forward to this summer as we prepare for the arrival of our little Callie. I will be getting an extended summer vacation since she is due to arrive on August 7th and I am supposed to go back to work on August 12th. I am planning to go in for registration day and then not be back until September 15th. I don't have the leave approved yet, but that is what I am hoping to get. I will not get as much time as I did with Karisse, but it will have to do.

It seems like everyone we know is having a girl. Our friends Kristen and Teddy are having a girl and we just found out last week that Christy's sister and her husband are having a girl too. There is going to be a lot of estrogen in my life.

Baby update

We went to the Doctor again today. Everything looks good and Christy passed her Glucose test. They scheduled the C-section for August 7th, but it is not scheduled with the doctor we really want. We see the doctor we want on May 23rd and he will hopefully say that he can do it on the 7th or he will move it to the 5th when he has an opening.

Photo Shoot Proofs Online

The proofs of all of the pictures we had taken last weekend are now available on Julie Roberts' proof site. Thought you might want to check them out. Click on Julie's name and then click on Dickison Family.

Saturday's Photo Shoot

Here are a few of the pictures we had taken on Saturday. They are pretty great Thanks to our amazing Photographer, Julie Roberts.

Busy Saturday

Yesterday was our nephew Thomas's 2nd Birthday. Since his Party was today we decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and so also scheduled a photo session with our AMAZING photographer, Julie Roberts click her name to see a few of them. So today we drove to Knoxville for the photo shoot and party.

We took some Karisse pictures and some family pictures and some maternity pictures. It was a great shoot and we feel sure we got some really good pictures. There should be some of them on Julie's site soon.


After the photo shoot we went to Thomas's party. He and Karisse had a great time playing outside. They are outside kinda kids.

This was Karisse's first time in sand since the beach last summer. It took her a few minutes to warm up to the idea.

She Loved Thomas's big slide!


And this was her first time in a "big kid" swing too!

It was sooo funny to watch them share Thomas's car.

Grandpa made Thomas an awesome workbench for his birthday!