A fun night out with old friends!! Jacob babysat Claire so that I could take a break and spend some time with some good friends! We ate dinner and sat outside on the riverwalk at The Goose's Acre in The Woodlands - Good times!! :)

more friends at the park!!

Playmates at the park....

Today while we were at Northshore Park on Lake Woodlands we ran into Gary, Allison and Emma Short!! What fun!



Here are a few pictures from the rest of our Sunday afternoon at the park...
Emma loves the slide, almost as much as Claire loves to swing!!

Northshore Park with Atti!

We took Claire Catherine to the park today to get out and enjoy the SUNSHINE! Atti was here after babysitting for Claire on Saturday night...
What a great way to enjoy a Sunday afternoon! Claire loves the swings , almost as much as her Atti!!! She's a great grandmother....

A night out! Fun with friends!

Good friends & good times...
Saturday night we celebrated Rob and Tim's birthdays by going out in Houston - it's been too long since we've had a fun night out with our friends!! Jacob, Gina & Tad, Suz & Rob, Jen & Tim, we had a FUN time --

Grand Bob's Birthday party with "Aunt" Susan Smart at the Lively's Ranch

A trip to East Texas to visit Mamaw Allison and Grand Bob for a birthday surprise party! We went to Lufkin today to see the Lively family for Susan and Bobby's birthday party...

Pictured here: Susan Smart, Eloise Stephens, Allison Lively

It was a great time with good food and beautiful weather!

4 friends 4 ever! LINDSAY GINA MONICA and SUSAN

Playing, and having fun-- Monica was here from North Carolina last week to visit with family. She was able to come over to Susan's to hang out with us for while and catch up while she was home...Gina brought Noah down and I snapped a few pictures of our favorite kiddos playing together...all we are missing is our boy, Matthew! Check out Claire, Caroline and Noah having fun! :)

Who needs the Pavilion when you have Papa?

Papa's playing is music to Claire's ears >>>

Jacob constantly plays his guitar for Claire and she just loves it - she will watch him and play along on the table as she keeps the beat!! :)
She also sings...

Lively Love :)

A night out......

Lively Love Jacob and I headed out for dinner and fun - We ate at AMERICAS restaurant on The Woodlands Waterway riverwalk -- very cool place!! Good dinner and great date with my husband!
Happy Valentine's Day!!
Thanks to Hootie and Peepaw for babysitting Miss Claire too!

Valentine's 2009 I've got more LOVE to share...

Claire opened each of her little Valentine gifts and cards and we read her little messages... she had a great time checking everything out...She LOVES the flowers we got from Papa!! Thank you Jacob - we love you!! - The Lively Ladies

Some more pictures of Miss Claire Catherine enjoying her Valentine's card and fun :)

Valentine Oh-Nine!

So much to love....

Our Sweet Valentine girl - 2009 -- Miss Claire is loving her first Valentine's Day holiday in her little love outfit...she was surrounded by cards, loving lions, and flowers from her Papa too! My Funny Valentine >>>

Wes Meets Claire!

Wes comes to see Claire....
Jacob's best buddy from HS, Wes Patton was in town visiting his family - while here he was able to have lunch out with Jacob, and finally meet Miss Claire!! A few pictures of the guys with Claire Catherine -- she loves the attention from these two guys!!

Gina and Noah come visit & get some lunch

Gina brought Noah down today and we were able to get out and enjoy this awesome weather...took advantage of the patio at Berryhill - YUM! Here are a few pics of us before we headed out....
Jacob was able to be at home for lunch and meet Noah! Claire's face is cracking me up in this pic below...

Uncle Jacob holds NOAH D!

KISSY MISSY

Fish Face! MUAH!! Kissy Kissy - Claire is doing the "fish face" and blowing kisses at us - she's captured here making funny faces at us from her play yard area :) CUTIE! :)

Little Miss Sunshine

I took advantage of this beautiful weather and also used Claire as the model for 3 bows I made for our friend's little girl :) I just loved the way these turned out...our princess, for sure!

Miss Morning

Happy in the morning - Claire woke up all smiles in her sunny crib :) I love that she's so happy and joyful! These make me smile....

Okay - so she's not always this happy, but she's a smiley girl lately -- we are having more
and more fun! Check out the video below...