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Kaylen has been begging me for so long to get her hair cut. I have been resisting because I absolutely love long hair. In all honesty, she is too young to take care of it. So everyday it is full of tangles and all kinds of mystery stickiness. Now that I am back to work, no one else can really fix it all that well. one more reason is that her bangs are never going to grow out and catch her long hair so this way they will be gone quickly. So I am thinking that if I cut it short now it will grow back out by the time she is in kindergarten and I will be able to fix it in the morning then. So here is the end result:

Kaylen's turns 4!!!

We celebrated her party at the Little Gym. It was such a blast! I made capes for the kids and put their names on the back. I also got crowns from Burger King and spray painted them gold and let the kids glue jewels on. The theme was sort of superheros but mostly capes and crowns. K picked her colors to be red and pink and I went with it. She got a big girl bike this year and has been riding it around in the garage a little bit. The party was tons of fun! Here is an assortment of pictures from the party:

Christmas and December Catch Up

I have all these pictures left on my camera from the past month and a half. So I am going to do post for December and one for January.
Tripp is almost crawling here. He has been a big rocker. He will propel himself forward like an inch worm.

Here he is saying dada. He hasnt made the correlation between the word and its meaning but he babbles it all the time. You can also see his two teeth sparkling through.

Here are some of the cookies I made for Kaylen's Christmas party at school. I enjoyed being able to do things for her parties while I was off. I always hated missing out on those things when I was working.

This is after church on Christmas Eve. We took a few pics of us and K took the picture of me and Allen at the end.




After the photo shoot we all put our christmas pj's on. (Well, me and the kids did.)
Here are the cookies, milk and letter we left for Santa.

And this is what he left the kids in return:

Kaylen woke up about 8:30 Christmas morning and was so excited to go downstairs and see what Santa had left.

Kaylen got walkie talkies this year so her dad is showing her how they work.

Kaylen on Christmas morning. She was so excited!!! This was a really fun year and the first thing that she was crazy over were some pink flamingo slippers. Go figure!

Tripp really loved his toys as well. He played with everything and wasn't sure which thing he wanted to play with next. They were both in such good moods this day.

Emily got a new camera and I got a new lens so we got together and took a few pics of the kids. I am just putting up one of each kid. We didn't stay outside long as it was freezing!!!

Snow Day

We recently got a day and a half added to our break due to snow. It was awesome! Kaylen got a sled for Christmas so we put that to good use. She took a while to warm up and preferred being pulled around on it as to actually sledding down the hill.

This is when we got home early. :)

Aunt Nikki was still at home when we first got there. She is ready for snow with her big ole jacket!

Allen and I had a snowman contest. The first picture is of Kaylen with my snowman. (she said I won)

This is Kaylen with Allen's snowman. :)

Catch Up! 7 Month Tripp

I am going to be playing catch up over the next few days. Now that I am back at work, I can post more often. Tripp turned 7 months old on Dec. 21. So Here are some pictures from that. He is so smiley. He really is such a wonderful addition to our family.



This is me and Kaylen on Christmas morning. She was so much fun this year!


My actual Christmas pictures and K's birthday pictures are on my other camera... I brought the wrong download cord this morning so I will have to update with those events tomorrow. Hope you are all having a great day!!!

Christmas Pagent and Opryland

Kaylen was a sheep in her Christmas Play this year. She was so cute. She sang extremely loud and did a great job! She looked so darling and I loved the words to the songs she would sing. It wasn't exactly correct. :)




Opryland was fun this year. I have more pictures than are on here but they are on my other camera and I haven't gotten to them just yet. The kids were both so good. The trip was really relaxing and enjoyable. We saw Santa and both kids loved it. Last year was the best with Santa and Kaylen because she was thrilled. This year she just talked to him and had an enjoyable time. Tripp got a handful of beard and just stared up at him. We saw the Princess and the Frog, shopped, ate lots of wonderful meals and hung out on our balcony. We also had a great view this year from our room.

Tripp loves his toys. He is such a busy baby.

K looks so precious in this shot. The kids were sitting on our balcony right before Santa pictures so I got some shots of them. Too bad Tripp always has his hands in his mouth these days. :)

Sweet babies in the room relaxing. I really love my family. These are good days.


I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

A fun weekend

This weekend we didn't do anything grand but we had a blast. Friday night we just went out as a family. Just the four of us. We don't attempt that nearly enough. Our kids can surprise us with such great behavior sometimes! We went to the Panda and had some sushi and "chicken flied lice" for K. After that we walked down to the Dollar Tree aka the Toy Store. We let K get 2 toys and then we went on home. We awoke on Saturday to snow! That is such a rarity down here that we had to go out and enjoy it! Here are some pictures to recap our weekend:

The three most important people on this earth. So sweet.

My boys.

Look at that incredible smile! This boy has won me over with his amazing personality. He is the coolest kid!!!

Me and K. I just love how sweet she is. We are starting to have great conversations about God. It is wonderful to see her little mind process so much. I was trying to explain Heaven to her last night and she was having a hard time grasping it all. She decided that she would go live with Jesus when she dies if she can take her own furniture. She loves her new bed. (Well her refurbished bed that was so graciously given to us by Allen's aunt)

This is K throwing a snowball at her daddy. She has a great arm!!!

Here they are with their snowman that they built.

Here is their snowman up close. K named her Flower.

She is so sweet in her snow get up.