Kinsey goes Fishing with Uncle Ashley

This week we are in Searcy for Uplift at Harding. Last year we brought a group of kids from church and since they absolutely loved it, we're back again this year! Ashley received a promotion and moved to Hot Springs a couple of months ago and since it's not that far from HU the girls and I drove down to spend the night with him and hang out! I'm not sure who had more fun....Ashley or Kinsey : ) They are quite a pair!

Love this one!

Sharing watermelon (aka: making a mess)

Uncle Ashley bought Kinsey her very own fishing pole! She was soooo excited!

Headed to catch a big one...

Reeling him in....

Kinsey's 1st fish!

Playing with Khloe

Uncle Ashley and his girls!

(Kinsey insisted on holding her fishing pole for the pic!)

Thanks Ashley for the great time! We can't wait to see you again soon!

Come and catch up with us!

It's been almost 2 months since I've blogged and as most of you know once you get behind it's so hard to catch up but I think I've done it! YAY! So come catch up with us and check out all the new posts!

6 Years!

On President's Day weekend of 2004 I went out on a date with the most amazing man! Someone was actually trying to set him up with my HU roommate and I well...kind of intervened! (That's a whole different story!) After our first date I knew there was something different about Ryan and went home and told my girlfriends that I was going to marry him someday. A little less than a year and a half later I was lucky enough to become his wife! It's hard to believe that it's been 6 years! God has truly blessed me with an amazing Christian man and partner to share my life with and I am so thankful for him--the wonderful husband that he is to me, the amazing daddy he is to our girls, and the provider his is for our family!

Where it all began....Harding

May 27, 2005
Seeing each other for the first time before the wedding!


My handsome man!



The KISS!




In October 2008 God blessed us with our sweet Kinsey Mae!
And then Thanksgiving Day 2010 our family grew by 2 more little feet with Khloe Lyn!


God has blessed our marriage more than I could have ever imagined and I look forward to seeing what else He has planned for our family over the years!



Ryan surprised me and bought a Nikon D5100 camera for us! I have really enjoyed using it and know that we will be able to capture lots of memories for many years to come!

Chuck E Cheese

Kinsey has been wanting to go to ChuckECheese for a while now. How she knew what it was I have no idea but I guess it just looked like a fun place to go! Anyway, Ryan and I told her when she started using the potty all of the time and could wear BIG girl panties then we would take her. I guess between that and the Dora panties we bought something clicked and we are so proud that Kinsey is potty trained now! YAY! We've been working off and on for about a year now and I'm so excited to only have 1 baby in diapers! She still wears a Pull up to bed (who wants to be changing sheets in the middle of the night? not this mama!) but other than that she has done great and we couldn't be prouder!

We'd been meaning to take her for about a month so on the way home from Valdosta we stopped to take a break from riding and Kinsey LOVED playing! In fact she was so excited about playing the games she wouldn't eat any pizza! Silly girl!

Dancing with ChuckE

She even made it on the big screen!



Ryan had a good time too....isn't the saying "where a kid can be a kid!"

Memorial Day Weekend in Valdosta

We got to spend Memorial Day weekend in Valdosta with my family! As always we had a great time visiting with everyone and just catching up! Kinsey was so excited to get to play with her cousins, Kayden, Brecken and Ella; that's all she talked about for the entire month of May! Khloe had fun watching the big girls play, wishing she could join in on the fun!


Now to the pictures, in no particular order....

Kinsey and Papa

Cousins


Helping Nana in the kitchen!

Playing with the new toys Nana got her...a princess castle with princesses!

One morning we woke up and I asked Kinsey if she wanted to go wake up Pete and Nana? She politely declined and told me she needed to go check on her princesses! : )

Driving Ella around in the Barbie Jeep

(another thing Kinsey talked about nonstop before going to GA!)

The big girls had so much fun playing in the pool together!

And we can't have a visit to GA with a little photo shoot! It is pretty much impossible to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time much less smile. We gave it our best effort and it was well...probably pretty comical to anyone who was watching!

2nd cousins

Brecken, Ella, Kayden, Khloe, and Kinsey

Sweet girls!

Brecken took her job seriously--not to let Ella escape!

I love all of their expressions...especially Kayden's!

and a close up...hilarious!

Khloe sat up for as long as she could before she wiped out! Don't worry she popped her little head up and was all smiles!

My new favorite pic of Kinsey! I love those sweet curls!

Ella Bella

Granny Horne and the girls

Pete and Khloe

While we were in town I had my 10 year class reunion! I met a few of my classmates at the park to let our kids play! The kids had a great time and the adults had fun catching up! My picture from the reunion didn't turn out but it was great to see everyone and reminisce about high school!

Kinsey played for a while on the toys at the park until she found the real fun....

DIRT!
The finished product!

Kinsey wasn't the only one who had a blast!!

All about Khloe at 6 months!

May 25, 2011

My sweet Khloe Lyn is 6 months old already and growing like a little weed! Where is the time going??!? She truly is such a sweet, happy little girl who loves to smile and who brings us so much joy!

Here are a few of the things she is up to these days...

-Khloe smiles ALL the TIME!

-She coos and talks to us a lot! We love all of her sweet baby noises!

-She loves to look at herself in the mirror!

-She falls in love with big sister Kinsey more each day! Khloe gets the biggest kick out of just watching Kinsey sing and play! It is so fun to see them interact! I was unloading the car one afternoon and put Khloe in her exersaucer to play and when I came back inside she was just chillin' in her sun glasses! Guess who helped her put them on??? Thankfully Kinsey didn't poke her eye out! : )

This was some of Kinsey's doing too! As you can tell Khloe wasn't crazy about it!

-Khloe loves playing in her exersaucer.

-She is sitting up on her own now...for a little while anyway. She's learning to balance and stay up longer!

-I think she's outgrowing her playmat...these days it turns more into a wrestling match! I'm not sure who won!?

-Everything goes in her mouth but I think one of her favorites is her toes!

-Khloe loves to be outside and loves being in the pool!

-Khloe eats like a little champ! She gets a veggie at lunch and some fruit for dinner or vice versa and loves EVERYTHING! She is nursing 3 times a day now and we're working on taking a sippy cup...such a big girl!

-When it's eating time as you can tell she doesn't play around! She is always ready for the next bite!

-Khloe's still not on a great sleeping routine, or any routine for that matter, but that is totally my fault. She is a very light sleeper and wakes up at the slightest noise very unlike Kinsey who could sleep through anything but we're adjusting! She is sleeping better at night usually from about 8pm-4am when I nurse her and then she goes right back to sleep for a couple of more hours.

Nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby!

-She still likes to be swaddled with one arm in an one out. When she gets tired I just swaddle her up and lay her down and usually she'll go to sleep on her own. Occasionally she'll let me rock her but she likes to be able to stretch out!

-She still doesn't have any teeth but they are definitely coming full force!

We love our sweet baby girl and have really enjoyed watching her grow! Hopefully the next 6 months will not go by so quickly but I know all too well that most likely they'll come and go even faster than the last! We'll just enjoy every moment the good Lord gives us!