We have had some great fall weather in the past two weeks! MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR! We spent as much time as we could outside! Kennedy loves kicking the leaves, "crunching" them on the driveway and she helps rake them up too! She is such a great little helper!
Kendal has been gone for 12 weeks today, I can't believe it has been 3 months already! Time is really flying. I hope I'm still thinking that when spring rolls around~ lol. Only 7 more weeks until he is home to visit, we are really getting excited! Kennedy & I will be traveling to Iowa for Thanksgiving again this year! We are excited to take my sister, Carli, along with us! I asked Carli to come along with us so I could have a little help during travel (which is a major pain in the butt, especially on the busiest travel day of the year!) Should be a good time and we are really looking forward to it!! This weekend is Halloween and I'm so excited to dress up Kennedy and take her trick-or-treating for the first time. She was really sick last year at this time and too young to really enjoy it! Just bummed that Kendal is going to miss it! Hope everyone is doing well, lots of love!

"Her Kitty" saw us outside and came over to say hi!
I can't even explain how much she loves Cats...she drags around her 2 stuffed cats ALL DAY LONG saying "meow, meow, meow" So funny!

Look who's back! lol

Building a scarecrow with Grammy

Scooping up the loose hay

Aunt Elizabeth came over to help

Stuffing his legs

Our finished product! We named him Charlie! lol

Sending Mommy & Papa off to the Browns game!

Grandma Tripp made her these adorable Pjs! I LOVE EM!

I took Kennedy to have her Halloween pictures taken this afternoon. She is growing so fast I can't stand it! Just wanted to share a few of the photo's with everyone! Love u all!

Another week down! 40 more to go! Well, the sick bug got into our house this past week. My sister was first, then Kennedy and then me! Thankfully we think it was only a 24 hour bug and not the full blown flu! Since we were all sickly this week I didn't do a very good job taking any pictures. We have been meaning to take Kennedy to one of the local pumpkin patches this month but we just never seem to make it out there. However, my bestfriend, Lindsay & her family have a little pumpkin patch set up at their home. Lindsay's cousin sets up a stand every year to sell pumpkins, so we just headed over there this past weekend to pick up a few! Other than that we have been in the house trying to get better. I have to take this opportunity to wish my wonderful hubby a Happy 2nd Anniversary! I wish he was home with me to celebrate but he wasn't here last year either so I've learned that a good chocolate candy bar will always make me feel better! Anyways, we miss u all so very much, hope everyone is having a great week!

My beautiful "sick" baby:(

We all think she may have a slight case of OCD. All day EVERYDAY she finds things around the house and then lines them up just perfectly and in this case was getting frustrated because she was trying to match every pair and Uncle Cody kept messing them up!

Ooooh momma, look at that one!

I just love that face!!!

Same Old~Same Old

Nothing much to report this week. Just life as usual. It was pretty chilly out so we spent a lot of time playing inside. Kennedy turned 16 months old on Saturday and I can't stand it...she is growing up WAY too fast! Kendal will be in shock when he comes home in December to see how much she has changed. Hope everyone is staying warm~ we are thinking of you guys who got snow this past week and praying it doesn't come our way anytime soon! lol!

Helping Bring in the Groceries

A very tired little girl who refuses to go to sleep

At the farmers market

My little rockstar...she walks around the house with these sunglasses on because my mom,dad, & sister wear glasses and she wants to be like them...so funny!

Running from me because she didn't want to go inside =)

Another week down on the calender! Kendal has been gone for 9 weeks now~ time sure is flying, 10 more weeks and he will be home for 10 days~ such a crappy trade off when I think about it~19 weeks for 10 days=(
The weather warmed up a bit this week so Kennedy got to spend a few days outside (which she loves) She spent the weekend helping Grammy decorate for Halloween and helped Papa work in the yard...she's a busy little helper! She is also quite the clumsy klutz these days. This child falls over and walks into more walls than anyone I've ever known. She has so many bruises it looks like I beat her. Her latest bruise is when she walked into the wall while talking this past week. She has had the biggest bruise and bump on her head possible. Then she busted her nose playing in the kitchen the very next day. So much for taking her to get her pictures this week! lol! Well, I hope everyone is having another terrific week. love to all!

Her morning routine...
Talk to daddy for about an hour
&
then Jack's Big Music Show!

Silly Daddy!

Everything in her world stops for 30 minutes a day
I was trying to capture her many bumbs and bruises but you can't really see them!

Papa was taking a nap and Kt wanted to play..She piled every stuffed animal she owned on top of him~ this was only the beginning! lol!

Helping Papa break up sticks
"Gimmie that, Papa"

I'll put it in the bag!

She loves my mom's singing skeletons and we watch them over and over and over again! It was Aunt Elizabeth's turn to enjoy "I got you babe" for the 100th time that day! lol

Kennedy has been showing signs of getting ready to start potty training recently. Mom & I found this adorable potty this past weekend! So stinking cute! Almost too pretty to go in! lol

I've been to every game this year w/ Dad (my favorite part about being home)
Now if only we could win a darn game!

I'm super late on blogging this week but I have a good excuse! I started watching my bestfriend, Lindsay's, daughter, Aubrey this week. Aubrey is 8 weeks old and a little cutie pie! Chasing around a toddler and taking care of a new baby is keeping me pretty busy! Kennedy is adjusting to the baby slowly~ when Aubrey is here, Kennedy is very clingy to me and isn't quite sure how to act when the baby is crying. But she is a big helper, she throws away diapers for me and gets me Aubrey's bottle and pacifier and rocks her bouncer and tells her "shh,shh" so sweet! The weather has been miserable all week. We stayed in the house for 4 days straight. It was windy and rainy and very very cold. My parents finally turned on the furnace yesterday...it his 29 degrees last night and its only October 1st! OH MY! I forgot kind of forgot what its like to live in the north! I love this time of year though! Crisp air, leaves changing, and FOOTBALL (even though my team breaks my heart weekly) As for Kendal, 8 weeks officially down! I can't believe it has been 2 months already! Time really is going by quickly and we are so thankful! 76 more days until he is home.....better get to exercizing! lol! Hope everyone is having a great week! Love and miss you all so very much!

My mom thought it was so cute to put her on this at the toy store...except NOW, I can't make it through any store with out her screaming and pointing at these silly rides!!

Her new favorite spot, she sits up on the hearth of the fire place and reads every book she owns =)

Helping Grammy clean out her garden and getting ready for winter! She loves playing outside!

My parents have had this stray cat that hangs around the neighborhood for the past 3 or 4 years. Kennedy is sooooo in love with him. She screams MEOW everytime he comes around and gets so excited! We go on hunts for him in the afternoons and find him just about everytime. He's so comfortable with us now that he comes right up to us.

He sat outside the window with her for over a 1/2 hour

He walked around the entire block with us one evening...halarious!

Look who's back again!

My sister needed to study for a sterile dressing change exam and Kennedy was her practice dummy! She just layed there and let Carli do everything she needed to. My dad and I were cracking up so hard!

All Bundled up on her walk with Gram!