Farewell to Summer

We sure enjoyed summer this year! Between swimming at Grandma and Grandpas, staying at the beach house and visiting the lake with friends we had our fair share of water time and Katelyn loved every minute of it. As the cooler weather of fall settles upon us we realize we must bid farewell to summer, we hope to see you soon friend :)....

Katelyn playing in the water "one last time" with her Daddy

Katelyn's imitation of J Lo (gotta love soggy diapers ;-)

Happy 4th of July!

Here are my top four reasons why the 4th of July was so fabulous this year!

4) The Urbanovsky's (I know I totaly spelled that wrong, sorry!) rented the coolest jump house and slip-n-slide ever! The jump house was HUGE I couldn't believe it. It was "Cakes" first time in a jump house so I wasn't sure how she would like it but she quickly assured me that she loved it more then jumping on mommy and daddy's bed :)

3) We have truly been blessed with wonderful friends out here and it is always nice when we all get together. I just love the "big family" vibe that there is when everyone is enjoying each others company. 2) I wish my literary skills were adequate enough to portray just how hilarious Stephen and I found the firework "show". The fireworks themselves were awesome and once again Ricky and the boys really out did themselves. But what I found so hilarious were the sounds of laughter (some might even call it cackling) that came from the pitch black field before they lit the firework! I don't care how "grown up" a man might seem, give him an explosive and something to light it with and he instantly turns into a little boy!

1)Katelyn. I have heard it said before "Holidays are more fun with kids" and

now that we have Katelyn all I can say is how true that is! I love seeing things through her eyes and the joy she finds at trying new things just melts my heart!!

Happy 4th of July!

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!

My Average Week

Let me start off by apoligizing for my silence in the bloging world. I feel so bad that I only post about once a month even though I check everyones blog weekly. With that said I was wondering where in the world all of my time goes so I sat down and figured it all out. The break down goes something like this...

60 hours chasing after Katelyn

38 hours of sleep

36 hours of work

25 hours doing house work while Katelyn naps, including but not limited to dishes, dusting, vacuming, moping, mowing the yard, taking care of the animals and laundry

there are a few odds and ends that I didn't add in such as time spent at church and so forth but thats pretty much my week in a nutshell. It doesn't look that busy now that I have written it all down but my point is that its enough to keep me from blogging and I am sorry :) and to show how sorry I am the following blogs are to catch you up on our life...