Happy 1st Birthday Kennedy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR PRINCESS!! I can't believe how fast this past year has gone by. We have enjoyed every second of watching her grow and learn! It amazes me how quickly babies change, every month brought something new and exciting! Today is so bitter sweet for us, we feel like we are loosing our baby but we are so thrilled to see what the future holds!! We had her pictures taken this evening at a beautiful park with a great photographer and can't wait to share the photo's with everyone...in the meantime~here's a video Kendal took while the photographer took some shots of her with her birthday cake!! So cute!! .... Love you all!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMOOCHIE!!!

Air Force Base Picnic & Bryce's Birthday Party!

This weekend was a blast.We started out on Friday afternoon when we met up with our usual gang for the Air Force picnic! The picnic was held for all active duty/retired military and their families! They provided food and drinks, rides, and jump castles for kids & adults! We were there for about three hours before the rain ruined our fun!!

Having Lunch w/ Mommy

Hanging out with her friends...minus 2 or 3

I just love those blue eyes

Sitting in a jet with Kylee

Riding her first carnival ride which she thought was the greatest thing in the world! She was laughing & giggling & clapping her hands...while Mommy tried her best not to throw up!

Then Kendal insist I show everyone what a brat I can be...I tore a whole in my pants while on that stupid ride and pouted for the next 20 minutes...I even drove from the picnic to the mall to get another pair because I was so mad! LOL!

The Three Amigos!
I am going to miss these two SOOOO much:-(
Thankgod they'll both still be here when we get back!!

Then daddy gave her ice cream which started an all out screaming hissy fit when it was gone:-(

Chocolate..MMMM~ just like my momma!

In the boxing ring (she kicked my butt)

Saturday afternoon we headed out to one of our local county parks for one of our good friends, Bryce, first birthday party!! Bryce & Kennedy are only 5 days apart. The park has a sprinkler system for kids to play in and I wasn't sure how Kennedy would do with all of the screaming & yelling of the little ones while being sprayed in the face with water....SHE LOVED IT! Daddy and her played for about 45 minutes and had a ball!

Nothing good

Hey everyone...so I was going to blog all about our weekend and then I remembered...haha I did not take any pictures at all!! I have gotten really bad about remembering the camera all of a sudden. I'll make sure to take a bunch of pics this weekend so I'll have plenty to share. We miss everyone so much and hope you are all doing well! Love Ya'll

Happy Memorial Day!!

We hope everyone had a great weekend! We were very busy as usual. I was not very good about taking pictures this weekend but my wonderful husband thought to capture some on his cell phone so I do have a few to share (even if the quality of them isn't too great.) My apologies!
We started the weekend at my very favorite Greek restaurant with our good friends Chris & Jess and then hung out at our house doing our usual...watching cops & eating ice cream! (Boy are we exciting...lol) Saturday we went out to a Luau birthday party with all of our friends from Kendal's work! It was the only day this weekend that we had decent weather. It has been raining in Charleston for a little over a week now!! Sunday was spent with some really good friends of ours having a cookout and playing games all night. And Monday we headed out to Chris & Jess' Mom & Dad's house for another cookout! We had a blast with everyone!
Kennedy will be 1 in about two weeks now...So birthday party planning is underway. She is having two parties! One here with all of her friends and then one up at my parents with all of our families! What a spoiled little princess! The countdown to Kendal leaving has begun. Officially two months until the dreaded day:-( We have started packing up a few things here & there and trying to be as prepared as possible! Other than that, its life as usual! We hope you all enjoyed your weekend! Love to all!

Saturday Morning we woke up with a serious case of bed head!

A friend of ours just got a new bulldog puppy. He is 8 weeks old and I tried my darndest to steal him...but it just didn't work out- lol! If you know anything about me, I've been begging Kendal for months and months to get a puppy and a bulldog is my dream dog...So I was in doggie heaven!

Hanging out with her boyfriend! They love each other so much!

OHH, her and that tounge

While Mommy cut coupons, Daddy & Kennedy read the Sunday paper together! lol

11 months with Chard-Panzee

Let me tell you...all of this crawling is exhausting work for Mommy & Daddy. Taking her 11 month picture was nearly impossible. Now that she has figured out how to move around on her own, getting her to sit still for 30 seconds is a HUGE task. I tried taking her picture by myself the other afternoon and quickly realized that it was a two man operation. as you can see in the following photos she is constantly busy. Her stats are...20lbs, 28 inches, and full ball of energy! I can't believe she is about to be the BIG #1!! Where has the time gone??!

"Kennedy, look @ Mommy"

"Put Chardpanzee down"

"No Baby, Sit down"

"Kennedy Elyse Sit on your Butt!"
"KENDAL, HELP!!!!!!!!!!!"
Thank God Daddy was standing by with his cat like reflexes!!

The only decent one I got!

Splish Splash

This week marked the end to Kennedy's swimming lessons. We are kind of sad about it to. We really enjoyed watching all of the babies progress over the past almost 3 months, and of course we loved having dinner with our friends twice a week for the past 11 weeks or so. Kennedy has learned so much in this class & had a blast too. She is now kicking and using her arms, she goes under the water no problem, she float with only one hand under her and she has almost mastered bubbles! I am very impressed with all that she has learned we thank you Miss Ruth-Ann and we will surely miss you!

Floating

Climbing out of the pool

Swimming w/ Miss Ruth-Ann

Grammy & Papa Came to visit!!

I know, I know, I've been pretty bad about blogging in the past two weekends but we really didn't have anything going on until this past week! Ever since I moved away from home about every 6-8 weeks I start to get pretty homesick. So I knew my dad had some vacations days he was about to loose if he didn't use them up and my mom had a couple of extra days off this past week so I begged them to come down and see us since we haven't been together since Disney World in Feb! We had a great time, and the best part is that Mom, me and Kennedy all got to spend Mother's Day together!! As usual we stood in the driveway this morning hugging and crying while saying goodbye! But we only have to wait 5 more weeks until we are all together again, this time we will be celebrating Mom, mine and KT's first birthday's together (we are all June b-days) Thanks for everything Grammy & Papa we love you so much!

My parents arrived at mid-night on Wed. so Kennedy was already in bed for the night. So the next morning (when she decided to wake up @ 6am) we snuck into Grammy & Papa's room to wake them up too! Kennedy talks to them every night on the web cam, so I think she was stunned to see them in person! They spent the morning reading books and watching cartoons while Daddy & Mommy got to sleep in, WAAHOOOO!

We spent a lot of the weekend outside, where bubbles were the main attraction!

Then as most of you know, she figured out crawling....SO EXCITING!

We hung out at the beach for a day!

Happy Mother's Day

Then it was time to say goodbye, Papa tried to fit KT in his suit case but she just wouldn't fit!

YAAAAY! She's finally crawling!!

Well its official, my baby girl has finally joined the crawling club!!! She has been going from her butt to her knees for about 2 days now but then would just flop to her belly and start going backwards like usual. My mom & dad are in town this week and after spending almost all day on the floor with her~ she just hopped up on her knees and took off after my moms camera! I was in shock and just so happen to be holding the video camera in my hand taping her playing with them~ So excited to be sharing this moment with everyone! Hope you enjoy!!!! Love to all!

Fun in the Sun!

We could not have asked for a better weekend! Kendal got off work around 10:30am on Friday morning so we headed down to Isle of Palms (our local beach) We had lunch at the restaurant where Kendal & I met, we always love going there. We ate outside on the patio and Kennedy just loved being in the sun. Then we walked out to the beach where we met up with my girlfriend Aubrey & her two little ones. We hung out on the sand for a good two hours, then decided to pack up and head home because mommy and daddy were a little red. Friday evening we had some friends over for dinner and watched a movie. Saturday afternoon we went out to our local outlet mall and did some shopping, We bummed around the house for the rest of the day until around 6. Our babysitter had come over to watch Kennedy for the evening while Kendal and I went out for our date night! We SOOOOOO needed it! We headed downtown had an awesome dinner, walked the old market, had ice cream, walked to the pier and then headed home! It was only three hours, but it was perfect!! Sunday morning we woke up early and Kendal asked me what we were going to do for the day....we couldn't come up with anything exciting so back to the beach we went. Another great family day in the sun! We hope everyone else had as nice of a weekend as we did! Only 10 more days til Grammy & Papa get here! YAY!

Eating Lunch!

She wouldn't stop looking at the water long enough
for me to take a picture

Sunday Afternoon...and yes she is wearing a different bathing suit, Kendal can't believe I bought two bathing suits that look so much alike. But that's what happens when you shop as much as I do! LOL!

Burying her in the sand. She thought this was so funny!

Wish you were all here with us!