I'm Back! I've been pretty lazy about posting lately but I promise to try and get back to blogging once a week. We are all doing well in the Tripp household! Kennedy has been spending her days outside soaking up the sunshine! The weather has been in the high 70's for almost 2 weeks now and we've made sure to spend as much time outside enjoying it! Kendal has been working a lot and has been spending his evenings studying for his upcoming promotion test! Throw up an extra prayer for him this year if you will:-) Carrie's belly has been getting bigger and bigger everyday and will be 29 weeks pregnant as of Thursday. Baby brothers birthday has now been scheduled. The Doctor has decided my c-section will be on May 5th at 12:30pm! She is taking him a week and a half early because she will be on vacation the following week! We couldn't be more excited!
We finally ordered Kennedy a new bedroom set this week. Fingers crossed the transition to a new bed and an entirely new bedroom go smoothly!! Colton's nursery will get put together shortly after that and then we will be all set for his arrival!
I have to admit I have been absolutely horrible about remembering to bring my camera along with me, so a bunch of cell phone pictures will have to do for this post!!! Hope everyone is doing well and keeping warm~ we are thinking about all of you while enjoying our sunshine!!!!

For some reason I can not arrange my pictures how I want this week so here they are in no particular order...

Washing the car...notice Kendal's outfit~ He spent all day outside "working on his tan"!

My 2 favorite goof balls!!

She missed her water table! Spent 3 hours playing in the water!

Afternoon walk:-)

Picking out the bedding for her new bed! OF COURSE it had to be HOT PINK! LOL!

At Monkey Joes with one of her Best Buddies

Outside Chalking~ waiting for Daddy to get home from work!

Baby Brother at 27 weeks!!!!

Happy Valentines Day Smoochie!

Playing at the park!! Enjoying some fresh air!

On their Valentines Day date to the ice cream shoppe!

Our month full of travels has ended~Have to say, I was pretty excited to get out of the snowy north! I sure missed my 70 degree sunny Charleston weather! Kennedy & I had a great time while in Ohio~ We stayed super busy visiting with family and friends! We were home to celebrate Papa's 50th birthday at Chuck -E-Cheese of all places and we celebrated Aunt Carli's 22nd Birthday! We went to Great Wolf Lodge for a sleepover and spent a whole day swimming with our friends, we visited The Cleveland Zoo's Rain Forest, We went to Disney on Ice, We played at playground world, went out to eat at some of the most delicious restaurants and we even managed to squeeze in a little shopping :-)
However, one thing never seems to fail when we visit Cleveland~ Kennedy ALWAYS gets sick! Our last week in Cleveland was spent laying around in our pajamas watching tons of movies. Our flight home last Wednesday was canceled due to the weather and was re-scheduled for Friday. Good thing, because we ended up in the ER on Wednesday evening. Kennedy had an ear infection and a sinus infection! After a week of rest and some antibiotics she is as good as new!
Only 97 more days until Baby brother is due to arrive and we are now in crunch time! We are working on a new bedroom for Kennedy. Putting together the babies furniture and decorating his room, selling our old spare bedroom furniture and down sizing to something new and smaller, organizing and preparing to sell Kennedy's obnoxiously large wardrobe from seasons past, and digging out all of our old baby gear for a good scrub down! Needless to say~ we have plenty to do in the next 3 months around here!! Hope everyone is staying warm~ lots of love to all!

Someone was caught eating the cake batter!

On our way to Disney on Ice! I forgot to take my camera so this is the only picture from that day:-(
She LOVED it!

At Great Wolf Lodge with her best buddy Aubrey!
Another day when I forgot my camera!
Kennedy had a blast swimming ALL DAY long!

At Chuck-E-Cheese to celebrate Papa's Birthday!

Happy Birthday Papa

Our good friend Stephanie always brings over tons of toys for Kennedy to play with while at Grammy's house! This time she brought over some games which Kennedy LOVED!
She had to run around tagging different animals

Out to dinner at one of our favorite places
BUCA DI BEPO!
Celebrating Aunt Carli's graduation from Nursing School!
Way to go sister! Super proud of you!

Belle dancing with the Beast!

The Rain Forest

Grammy Talking to the Orangutan,
They made Kennedy nervous! haha

The Orangutans wanted me to show them everything in my purse!
They would lick the glass whenever it was something they seemed to like!
They loved Lipstick and Goldfish crackers! Too Funny!

With Uncle Bub and "Wind-sey"
(Lindsay)

Breakfast with Papa!

Getting the cake ready!

Happy 22nd Birthday Aunt Carli

Playing another game:-)

So Excited to see Papa come home from work!

And then....my sick Smoochie :-(

Watching movies and reading stories in our pajamas is what we did for 6 days in a row!

Since she was so sick she refused to eat...so Grammy pulled out the fine china and they had a "princess breakfast" together~ guess who ate her entire breakfast that day!