Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All things are going pretty good here. RC, the kids, and I are all in Tampa. We are staying with RC's parents for a couple of weeks. I have to say its really good to be home. I miss here alot but I know we are were God wants us to be! We drove here last Friday and Saturday (stopping for a couple of hours in New Orleans to visit RC's brother). We will stop and stay with him on the way home. I pray all of you have a very Merry Christmas and remember the true reason for the season!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

This card is being sent out to all my bloggy readers out there! My sweet SIL Tasha came across this blog that was hosting a Christmas Card Carousel! Well I have decided to participate, especially since I will not be able to send out a Christmas letter until next month. So for now this is my Christmas Card going out to all!



Go here to see more beautiful Christmas Cards (but remember they are more talented than I am so be nice!!!)

My Little Ladybugs Birthday Party!!!

Here's my little Birthday Princess! You can see her little Ladybug earrings she got from Grandma and Grandpa!My Little Ladybug just standing there, she is getting so big!!!

Andrew just loves his little sister!

Her party decorations came from her Nana in Florida. They showed up in a package as a surprise from them. She said she just couldn't resist! Too cute! Thank you Ede!!!More decorations!

The people from Walmart Bakery were super! They changed their Ladybug cupcakes from red with black dots and black head to pink with white hearts and white head so it all went together!!!

We had both white cake and chocolate cake flavors.

And they even threw in a little individual cake for my birthday girl which they personalized by adding a ladybug to match the big cupcakes!Which all in all makes a lot of cake!!! We had invited more people than showed up but we had a great party and the kids loved all the cupcakes!

More Decorations!

The birthday girls throne!

The birthday loot! Love the bag with her name on it:)

Aunt Nyki :)

Grandma and Trace

Great Grandma Mary and 2nd cousin Joel Wayne

2nd cousin Stephen and Emily with little McKennah (Emily was my best friend in High School who married my cousin)Great Grandma Mary holding Kailey Bear!

Opening her first present from Nana (she had already opened part of it and got a Happy Birthday Dog for guests to sign and a 1st Birthday princess sippy cup)

She got a beautiful red dress that will definately go into her keepsake box!Her brothers were very interested in what was in the bag and she was very interested in what her brothers were doing!She got a really cute microphone from Aunt Nyki, Uncle Jeremy, Rylee and Jakob

Time to get to Present number 3!

She loved pulling the presents out!

She got a gloworm from Grandma and Grandpa!

She got some books from her Great Aunt Janice, Great Uncle Joel and Great Aunt Carol who all weren't able to make it.

She really loved to check out the books!Checking out her very own laptop from Mom and Dad!

Sorry Kailey the book can't see the laptop!

She got a really cute bumble bee from Mom and Dad as well!She got a Xylophone from her brothers. Not that she has gotten to play with it much... Andrew its your sisters!!!Got a great card from Great Grandma Mary!

She got a First Birthday candle from Nana and PopPop as well!

Fun to Be ONE!!

At first she was a little hesitant about the cake.

Then she got a little braver!

MMMM Mom this is good!

She got a whole lot braver with the cake!

OOOH and there is lots more there!!! Yummy Yummy Yummy!!!!!!

Anyone want some!

Only a Mom would kiss a face like that!

MMM finger licking good!

Daddy couldn't believe it but I just couldn't resist putting the cake in her face!
More decorations!
The party was too much for Andrew he just pooped out!
He is such a cutie!

Friday Fill-In

1. The last band I saw live was _my church band (my hubby's the guitarist!)_.
2. What I look forward to most on Thanksgiving is _time teaching my kiddos the importance of giving Thanks!_. (if you don't celebrate thanksgiving, insert your favorite holiday)
3. My Christmas/holiday shopping is _started but far from finished_.
4. Thoughts of _cupcakes_ fill my head.
5. I wish I could wear _a smaller size_.
6. Bagpipes _hurt my ears (no seriously not because I don't like them but because they really hurt my ears)_.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _finishing the laundry, cleaning house and waiting for family to get in town_, tomorrow my plans include _celebrating the fact that my little lady turned 1 Tuesday (hints the cupcakes filling my head)_ and Sunday, I want to _go to church and praise God then come home and relax and spend time with my family_!

Want to participate go here!

Picture update!

My Kailey Bear turned one on Tuesday November 18th! She is just way too cute. Her birthday party is tomorrow so I will be updating again either this weekend or Monday but for now here are some pics of the kids that I thought were really cute.

Here is my little Ladybug. She fell asleep playing with her brothers toys. Ignore the unmade bed and focus on the cute little bug in the floor!Here is an upclose on my little bear sleeping! Oh my goodness she is sooo cute!!!Kailey Bear seems to really love her sleep. She had been playing in her crib and her Daddy came in and found her asleep just bent over. Me being Mom couldn't resist taking a picture!This picture was taken on Grandma's Birthday (October 25th)! We were heading to my Grandma's (Dad's Mom) family reunion. She is so sweet! I love getting to dress her up! Girls are so much fun!
Grandpa spoils her rotten! He even comes to her rescue when she is about to get herself in trouble. Sorry Grandpa but I gotta tattle on the little miss Attitude, she does get herself in trouble! At the family reunion the boys got to take a short trip around the field on the dirt bike! They loved it. I was shocked to see Trace be the first one to climb on. He has always been kind of cautious around things and people he doesn't know.
As you can see on AC's face it was very exciting!

Even Andrew went around for a lap! He couldn't quit smiling!

He wanted to even try and do it himself! Even Kailey got to sit on the bike. NOOOOO she did not get to ride just sit!!! Here is a picture of all 4 of my little monkies. I gotta tell you it is a real pain getting all 4 to cooperate for a picture! But I do have some really cute kids don't I!As you can see my Kailey Bear is very curious. She has also started walking. She only takes steps when she wants to but she has finally (sorry Nana it started Sunday after you left) started taking multiple steps and letting go and just standing there!She was getting herself in trouble again heading towards Daddy's side of the bed. She loves to try and get into Daddy's stuff!Here is my little princess and her big brother on her birthday. She loves to get Trace. Trace will be just laying there and she will come crawling up and tackle him and just giggle and giggle! Its really sweet! She loves the stairs! Even though she has a few bruises from the stairs she still absolutely loves the stairs. I love that smile its big enough you can still see it around her binkie!
Her birthday just pooped her out. She finished her dinner and while I was upstairs getting something her daddy found her all pooped out like this! Poor baby I can only imagine how she will feel come her party! This her Daddy took yesterday! Oh my gosh my little lady is just way too cute. She kept crawling back and forth yesterday to anybody who wasn't looking at her and "aaaaa" and smile and it was such attitude that said "Aren't I just the cutest little thing you have ever seen!"

So thats some updated pics, yes I know it was primarily focused on Kailey but it was her birthday this week.

I can tell you a sweet story of my little man Andrew. He has been sick (it has gone through our entire family) but anyhow I finally got him feeling a little better and he wanted a snack on Wednesday afternoon. We went downstairs and he started crying! He stood in the middle of the kitchen crying. I asked him what was wrong and he said, " Somebody stole the kitchen, they broke it!" I just wanted to cry with him. You see I had to mop after lunch and so I hadn't put all the chairs and everything back in the kitchen. So you see he really thought someone had stolen and broke the kitchen. Oh poor guy!

He still doesn't feel really well. This morning he woke up and was losing his little voice. It is really kind of sweet listen to him try and talk because his little voice cracks. Well I just got interrupted from writing this really long post (sorry but you wanted pictures) to go and see what he was up to. Well he has fallen asleep on the stairs. Poor baby just doesn't feel good!

Well anyhow that is my picture update! Please pray for us as our schedules are kind of crazy for the next couple of months. Also that we get Andrew feeling lots better and everyone else in the family. Oh and you know how it goes this time of year with all the sickness going around, and in my household if one gets sick we all end up with it. Oh and also if you will pray for me. A couple of ladies and I feel called to start a woman's bible study for us stay at home moms! So if you could pray for that as it comes along.