Thats Life...

Gardening Momma

Just like her momma Katelyn likes to play in the dirt and plant pretty things! She is a little confused however as to what the shovel does. She likes to stick it in the dirt and pull it back out (like a million times) but when it comes to actually transferring the dirt she prefers to use her hands :) Apparently an hour is not long enough because she sure threw a fit when she had to go inside and clean up. She had such a good time "helping" that if left on her own she probably would have been out there all night. And just like everything else she does she fully committed herself to her task. So much so that I am still finding potting soil up her nose...

Happy Fathers Day

For the last 15 months whenever I had to work the weekend and Stephen would take care of Katelyn he always took the pink flowery diaper bag. Poor guy would get teased (mainly by me) but never complained! So this year for Fathers Day Katelyn and I got him a new messenger bag to double as a diaper bag on the weekend. It came fully stocked with a diapes and wipes container, sippy cup, pacifiers and a new Bible. Now he is styling and can carry everything, including Katelyn, all in one bag...

Weekend at Crystal Beach

Keeping up with my tradition of blogging things a month late here is our trip to Crystal Beach :) We were so blessed to be able to spend a weekend at this beautiful beach house with wonderful friends and 15 crazy teenagers! The house was amazing and because Crystal Beach was hit hard by hurricane Ike there wasn't much around which meant that the beach was empty. Below is the picture from the deck of the house looking out to the beach...
My fearless little girl has apparently met her match! She was so scared of walking on the deck she wouldn't get off the welcome mat (kinda nice cause I didn't have to worry about her falling down the stairs). She kept bending down to look through the slats at the ground below and would go back in the house whenever someone walked by her because it made the floor shake. By the end of the weekend she would careful walk on it if forced but here are some pics of her initially...




This trip was also Katelyn's first official trip to the beach. I say that because even though we have been to the beach in Cali we never went into the water. Katelyn may have been born in Fort Worth Texas but with the way she loved playing in the water she is defiantly a Southern California beach girl at heart!