Squeelers Suck!

I know, I know, they won the Super Bowl...but they are still the Shits-burgh Squeelers in my eyes and I knew Dad would get a kick out of our awesome "Hater" shirts, so I had to post!

Say Cheese!

We took Kennedy to get her pictures taken AGAIN this past
weekend! Kennedy was all smiles as usual, and we got some really
great shots! Thought I would share a few of my favorites! As for our
little family, everything is going well! Kennedy has finally finished all
of her antibiotics and is back to her old self! (Thank Goodness) Kendal
is away this week in Virgina for work. He should be back tomorrow,
but we'll see. They drove up there and the weather isn't really
cooperating too well. He will be home for about a week and then he
is leaving again for about 10 days. Only 24 more days until Disney World!
I can't wait! Other than that, we are all doing great...
Hope everyone else is as well! Love to all!

Poor Baby

Our little peanut is sick again. We took her to the doctor Friday and
after several tests and a chest x-ray were told she has Croup. She is on
four different medications including an inhaler (which she hates)
It breaks my heart to see her so out of sorts. Yesterday afternoon she
wouldn't let me out of her eye sight and spent almost the whole day
laying on top of me. Today she woke up and wants nothing to do with
me (of course) because daddy is home. She spent all day in her pj's
clung to his hip! I just can't wait for her to start feeling better...

On a brighter note: Kendal and I discovered a great deal through the
military on Wednesday and by Thursday afternoon our trip was booked!
WERE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD! We called my mom & dad to tell them
about it and guess what??? They're coming too! We are driving down on
the 21st of Feb. meeting mom and dad there and then spending four days
in the happiest place on earth! Needless to say, I'm bouncing off the walls
and can't wait to get there! I know, I know, Kennedy is way too young for
Disney but this trip is more for K & me. why else do you think we asked
Grammy and Papa to come along with us....LOL! Let the countdown begin!

Aquarium!

So I know I'm a weekend behind but I wanted to make sure I got
these pictures up, last weekend we headed downtown to the
South Carolina Aquarium and Kennedy had a blast!
Everytime Kendal pushed her up to the glass of the tanks her eyes
would get HUGE and she would start babbling on and on! It was so sweet!

Daddy & Kennedy in front of the big bridge!

Telling mommy all about the fishies

So fascinated by a bald eagle, she wouldn't even look at me for the picture!

Even Daddy was having fun!
He's such a goof!

7 Months w/ Chardpanzee!

7 Months??? I still can't believe that Kennedy has been with
us for over half a year already! She is growing so quickly,
sitting up on her own now, rolling back and forth, grabbing
at anything she can get her hands on, full of energy and smiles!
Kendal and I couldn't have wished for anything more, she is the
biggest joy in our lives and we fall more and more in
love with her everyday!

I can't believe how much she has changed in the past 7 months...
it just amazes me. Where did my itty bitty baby go?

6 months

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3 months

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1 month

I'm Back!!!

Happy New Year Everyone! My apologies for not writing in a while,
but we haven't had too much going on in the past couple of weeks!
After we got home from Grammy & Papa's we've done our best
to just take it easy.
So far this year Kennedy has been pretty sick on and off.
She has an upper respiratory infection and is starting to cut
her first teeth
(yippie) and mommy has been
fighting a cold and sore throat for almost two weeks now.
Kendal is the only one in the house not sniffling and coughing and is
starting the year out right, he has been exercising and running
again and preparing for his annual PT test coming up next month!
Kendal's co-workers threw their annual New Years Eve Party,
but with Kennedy and I being so sick, we opted to stay home this year.
Kendal just didn't know what to do with
him self...he kept saying "I can't believe we are in bed at 10:30,
life has definitely changed" We stayed in our PJ's all afternoon on the 1st
and I took down all of the x-mas decorations.
Not too many exciting stories to share so far this year....
but we hope everyone is having a great start to 2009 and we are
so excited to see what this year will bring! Love to all!

Her new favorite thing! Just about every morning while I am getting
ready for the day and gathering laundry upstairs she sits in her crib
for an hour playing with her new friends! She talks to them, starts
giggling at them, hugs them and one morning I found her laying
down almost asleep with her little lamb! So funny!

The rest of her toys from Grammy & Papa arrived this week,
it was like Christmas all over again! She just watches that
train go round and round and round...Only one problem,
it only plays one song...Mommy and Daddy are ready for
its batteries to disappear and tell her "it must be broken!"

Kennedy's First Christmas

For the first time in three years...It felt like Christmas!!!!
I have been without my family on Christmas morning for way too long
and it felt so good to be home with everyone and I was really
excited for them to share in Kennedy's first Christmas as well!
Just as I remembered as a kid, mom went over board with the
presents and food, we spent the day playing games and telling
stories of Christmas' past! Thanks for everything Grammy and Papa....
We love you so much and are counting down the days until February!

Mom's obnoxious 10ft tree

Opening her first gift! She was so excited!

Loves her new choo-choo train!

What a BIG box!!

Such an excited little girl!

Playing with Grammy and her new toys

Playing with Papa and her train
Keeping warm with Aunt Carli

Eating Breakfast with Uncle Cody

She loved tearing threw that paper! So Daddy threw her in a pile of it!

Kendal teaching Ma how to use her new Wii! Very entertaining morning!

Merry Christmas!

Hanging at the airport trying to get home!

Home For The Holidays!

Well, after two broken planes, a four hour delay and an hour
long drive we are FINALLY at Grammy & Papa's house!
I haven't had too much time to upload all of our pictures but I'm sure
I'll be in full blown blogging overload by the time we get home.
Here are a few from the first three days~

She has almost mastered patty cake. She can clap her hands and
pat her thighs but she's having trouble with the rolling part!
She laughs so hard while Grammy and her sing it about 50 times a day!

Grammy's bathtub is pretty fun~

Papa and Kennedy all bundled up, heading out into the freezing cold snow!

Her first Santa picture...and much to our surprise she did great!

playing catch up!

This past weekend was spent running around, wrapping last minute gifts
and trying to get ready to fly up to Cleveland. Among all of my stress
surrounding the weekend, Kendal decided to use the gift card he won
on a radio contest and go rent a Harley Davidson for the entire day on
Saturday and drive it all the way to Myrtle Beach and Back!
Needless to say I was a nervous wreck and had to spend the day
keeping extremely busy. But he made it home in one peace...
not before he swung by the house to show off his cool new ride!

Sunday Morning we celebrated our own little Christmas at the house.
We decided it would be better to open our gifts at home, rather than
lug them up to Ohio w/ us and then back down again! I thought for
sure Kennedy would care less about opening her presents but she
LOVED tearing through that paper! While Kendal was opening one
of his gifts she sat next to him screaming and reaching for his present
until he let her help him! I just can't wait for Christmas morning now!

Should have known, out of all of those toys she got, all she wanted
was to play on Daddy's present. We got Kendal a new creeper for when
he is working on his car and he put her on it and rolled her all over the floor.
She spent probably 15 minutes playing on it, and of course when he
took her off she started whining. I can't believe the personality on this kid already!
We are definitely going to be in trouble during those toddler years!