Way overdue!!!!

Sorry the pictures are before. I did it backwards.


Mel, Meredith, Kalee and me in New Orleans for New Years


Excuse how we look but this is the only picture I had of all
of us with K's new swingset!



Us in Canton during Christmas



Us with my parents at the Deviney's Disco Christmas party! It was hilarious!

K at her birthday party with her owl cake! Loved it!

Wow... I haven't blogged since November. Our lives have been a whirlwind. We had K's birthday then Thanksgiving... then we finally moved... then parties and Christmas... then New Years then sickness. So it's been wild. But so glad to finally be posting again and hope to do better this year at keeping it up! Kaytlin is keeping us busy for sure, but she is so much fun. She is talking like crazy. I am gonna try to get a video posted of her singing. That is her new favorite thing to do all the time. Her favorites are Jesus Loves Me, The ABC's, Deep and Wide, Jesus loves the little Children, but there are alot of songs she likes to sing for sure. I love hearing her sing about Jesus. It's so precious. I want her to always love to sing about Jesus. We moved in our house December 5 and we were so glad to finally live in our new home. We have been so very blessed to be able to have such a great home, and we thank the Lord so much for blessing us. Christmas was so much fun this year. K was all into it this year. She loved all her gifts... especially her bicycle and her swingset. Santa worked LONG AND HARD on that swingset. It took him many hours. But he told us it was all worth it to see how much she loved it. :) Then on New Years Eve Drew and I got sick and both had to get shots, then we headed off to New Orleans to spend the weekend with some of our college friends and their kiddos. It was so much fun to get to hang out and catch up. Then I actually never really got better. Had to go back to dr again and get more shots and more meds. But I think I'm finally better now. It was so frustrating. Just the crud, but just wouldn't let go. Tomorrow is my birthday!!! The big 29! I think I'll hold on to that number for a while. haha. Drew is taking me to Shapley's tonight for a date then we'll celebrate with all the family tomorrow. Posting a few pics over the last couple of months. Still gotta figure out how to do a slideshow. Just gotta find the time to sit down and do it. Hope y'all have had a great start to the New Year!!!

A Little Piggy and a 2 year old

Well I know this is a little late... but I needed to catch up on my blog. Better late than never huh? And not too late. Just a little over a week old on the Halloween Pics. But Kaytlin was a little piggy and she was adorable. I figured I better pick one more year because she'll definitely have an opinion next year. Some princess I'm sure. That's what all the other little 3 year old girls were. But we went to the church's Fall Harvest and played games, rode on a hay ride, saw a fire truck and ate hot dogs. It was alot of fun. Kaytlin was actually into it all this year and she had fun with her friends Case and Mason too (and we saw Murphy too). Well this past Friday... my little baby turned 2!!!! She's not so little anymore! I can't believe how big she has gotten! She is saying almost everything, making sentences, and definitely has the 2 year old attitude. haha. We are working on getting rid of the paci. Trying to just stick to nap and bedtime right now. Then hope to take it away all together soon. I'm trying Susan!!! We also welcomed a new friend into our house... THE SPANKING SPOON!!! Alot of my friends use it and say it works soooo well. So far it's helped a ton. We'll see if this continues. Our house only has a couple more weeks until it's done hopefully. Will post some pics when it gets a little closer. We are loving it all. Here are a few pictures from Halloween and Kaytlin's actual birthday. Her party is Saturday so we'll have more pictures to come of that.



Her present from Mommy and Daddy! The tag says Princess and oh how it is true!



K with her balloons we got her.



Blowing out the candle! Daddy, Mommy and K had a little celebration on our own.
The big cake will be this weekend!




Kaytlin and Case having fun at the festival. Know this isn't the
greatest pic but wanted Kaytlin's whole outfit to show! Love
the hoofs




Mommy, K and Daddy on Halloween! Love that little piggy!

Passed out

This picture says it all. The other day before nap... Kaytlin wanted to watch Elmo before she took her nap so I said okay, but just for a few minutes. So I walked into my room for a couple of minutes and looked down the hall and couldn't see her so I walked in the playroom and this is what I found. Hilarious. She was conked out in the chair after maybe 5 minutes of watching Elmo. So cute that I had to post. More so for the grandparents.

Class of 1999

So I'm actually on time for posting something this time. My reunion was really fun. It was so good to see everyone. Everyone pretty much looked the same. Friday night we had a Meet and Greet at the High School before the football game. Then we took Kaytlin to the game. (which we won!) Then Saturday we had a get together at Kids Towne. Everyone brought their kiddos and it was fun for them to all play together. Saturday night was our big event. We had great food and music from when we were in high school. All in all it was a ton of fun! I'm sure our 20th will be fun too... can't wait to see everyone then!



Bunch of girls from our class!



Me and Drew on Saturday night



Jerrie Ann, Sarah Beth and me at the party

Ava, Kaytlin and Emma... they are all so cute sitting together!

Susan and Ellen Claire, Kelly and Taylor, Me and K,

Brandi and Ava, Amye and Aidan, Angel and Emma

IT WAS SO GOOD SEEING EVERYONE!!!

Summer Fun and Slacker

Well once again I know I haven't posted in a while. It's hard to find time to sit down and post since I'm not very good at it and it take me a little while. But we've had a fun summer, but hopefully we'll be getting back into more of a schedule now. We went to Ross Bridge a few weeks ago with our friends The Thomases. It was so much fun and we weren't ready to leave. Kaytlin had so much fun with her "boyfriend" Case. We played at the pool and around the hotel. We had some good food too of course. Last week too we went to the zoo with some girls from church and all of their kiddos! It was alot of fun and we'll have to go again soon... hopefully it will be a little cooler next time. This weekend is my 10 year High School reunion so that should be alot of fun. I can't wait to see everyone that is coming. I'll post some pictures from that after the weekend... I promise. Now off to get dinner ready!! Here are some pictures from our trip to Ross Bridge and from our zoo trip!




Our group of kiddos minus Peyton, Cole, Mati Claire, and Brady.
Jordan Ann, Jack, Cooper, Walker, Kaytlin, Sarah and Sam



Mommy and Kaytlin on the carousel at the zoo



Mommy and Kaytlin at the pool at Ross Bridge




Kaytlin and Case. They held hands everywhere they went.

Me, Kaytlin and Drew at Brio in Birmingham.

It was YUMMY!

The Kelly's

Big prayer request here!! Please pray for our friends Scott and Angie Kelly and their children Holt and Blaire. Holt and Blaire were attacked by a dog at someone else's house yesterday afternoon. Blaire has had stitches and was released from the hospital tonight, but she will be staying there since Holt will be there. Holt was attacked worse. He has had two surgeries and has some nerve damage in his face, but should get some or most of the feeling back. They do have a long road of recovery ahead of them so please keep them in your prayers over the weeks to come. I know they would truly appreciate it!

Catching Up

Our life has been extremely crazy this summer. Probably part of the reason I haven't posted in over a month. We are in the process of building still. Hopefully I can add some pictures of that soon too. They are almost done framing and hope to be bricking it in a couple of weeks. Our goal is to be in by Thanksgiving so we're keeping our fingers crossed. Kaytlin is keeping us busy as well. She is 20 months old now and into everything. She is such a girly girl. She loves shoes as you will see below. She walks all over the house in whoever's shoes she can find. She loves makeup and lotion and everything girly. If you are putting it on... then she wants some too. She is talking up a storm too. Saying so many things now that I can't list them anymore. She will try and say everything we do. Which is hilarious when it comes out of her mouth, but we really have to watch what we say now too. Just today I said something was crazy and of course she was like "Cwazy". So cute, but I better watch it or she'll be calling people crazy. So we are having a great summer which is now almost over. We've been swimming and to the zoo and playing with friends and trying to stay cool which is hard to do these days. Here are a few random pictures from the summer.




Kaytlin in her Strawberry Shortcake crown that came with
her DVD. She's loving Strawberry Shortcake right now. So girly.



Here she is with my Granny. Granny was asleep at
this point, but Kaytlin was brushing her hair. So cute.
Granny has Alzheimers and for the most part doesn't know
who we are, but Kaytlin lights up her day when we go. So we try
to go often. We have more pictures from Granny's birthday that
I will post soon.



Here she is in the shoes like I was telling you... She loves it
and I think she's just adorable in this pic... don't you?



Here she is with her "boyfriend" Case. Drew says she can't have
a boyfriend yet. haha. But me and Jerrie Ann say they are.
This is after a morning of playing in the rain. They do love playing
together though. Such a cute pair!!!