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!

SURPRISE!!!

January has been a VERY busy yet VERY fun month for us! We started out with a trip to Iowa to surprise the Tripp side of the family! Super Fun! The only person who had any idea we were coming was Kendal's dad! The look on everyone's face when we showed up was priceless! Especially Kendal's Mom! Kennedy had a blast visiting with her favorite cousin! She spent 3 whole days following him from room to room playing & giggling :-) Couldn't have asked for a better time! After 5 days in Iowa it was time for Kendal to get back to work, he got on a plane back to Charleston while Kennedy and I hopped on a plane headed to Cleveland to spend the rest of the month with Grammy & Papa:-) I'll have pictures of our trip to Ohio up next week but for now I am enjoying a look back at our trip to the VERY COLD mid west!!

Our 1st evening in town the whole gang went out to dinner at Quaker Steak & Lube...

While at dinner a few of the boys decided to try the "triple atomic wings"
They had to sign a waiver before taking a bite and eat the darn things with rubber gloves on!
I think from the looks of these pictures~ they were all feeling the burn!! Haha!

Working on the tractor with "Pa"

Racing Daddy around the house:-)

We surprised G-ma and G-pa Ty too with a pizza party!
Grandma demonstrating grandpa's new piece of equipment~haha!

Kennedy playing dress up with Grandma's stuff~

3 Generations of Tripp men!
(should have gotten Jared & Gaige in there and then we would have had 4 generations)

The Tripps:-)

The following day was Gaige's birthday and A SNOW DAY!!
The 2 of them had a ball playing outside:-)

Mommy stood inside the warm house taking pictures through the windows! haha!

Out to dinner!
MMMMM!

Kennedy & Daddy enjoying some sweet treats as well!

The Birthday Boy and his awesome cheeseburger cake!

Early morning picture~ lol
I LOVE HIM!

Craft time with "Nana"
They made snow flakes!

Serious business!

Going for a ride:-)

A little squirrel hunting~ hahaha

A little Snuggle time with Nana!

and some tickle time with her Uncle and Cousin!

The Cousins:-)
Family!!!
I'm a week behind with these but here is my 23 week picture!
Colton is moving like crazy these days! Everyone loves feeling his little kicks including me!!
Only 15 weeks to go!

Happy New Year 2011!

Can you believe it is 2011?? I sure can't! We had a great weekend full of friends! New Years Eve we all stayed up way too late playing games and watching fireworks, New Years Day was spent playing at the park and enjoying 70+ degree weather & hanging out with some old friends we hadn't seen in quite a while. On Sunday we headed over to our "frien-emy's" house (friend/enemy..they are steeler fans) and watched the Browns vs Steelers game! Of course my beloved Brownies got creamed so instead of watching we played board games all afternoon:-) We had a wonderful weekend and are sooooo excited about the year ahead! So many exciting things to look forward too!! Hope everyone is having a great start to the New Year! See you all soon :-)

Her favorite part of NYE
The Cupcakes!

1am and still awake
Poor baby was so tired but couldn't miss a minute of the action:-)

I GOT TO KISS MY HUSBAND THIS YEAR!!!!

The Next Morning...
My two sleepy heads refusing to get off the couch!

Such a beautiful weekend:-)

Hanging out at the park:-)

Playing with her new playdough kit...

UGH! So miserable...
Surrounded by PittsPUKE Colors

Even Kennedy was bored...LOL

Week 22!!
Already sooo uncomfortable...swollen, gaining weight like crazy and super emotional:-(
The good news~baby Colton is kicking like crazy and I'm loving every second of that:-)
18 more weeks to go!