Muleshoe Memories

This past weekend, Kenna and I made a quick trip to Muleshoe to stay in my childhood home once last time. My parents are moving into a new house "in town" and are leaving our house out on the farm. I am very excited for them and can't wait for them to get settled in the new house, but I am also a little sad that they are leaving our old house!

We had a great trip and Kenna did really well on the flight there. We spent the day Saturday playing, resting, and looking around their new house. I can't believe they will be moving in just a few weeks! (I also can't believe that I didn't take any pictures of the current house....guess I will have to took back through my old pics...I know there are some somewhere!!) Miss K has always loved their new house. Even when it was just in the framing stages, she would run through all of the framed walls, just having fun. Just because the house is finished doesn't change that any at all....she kept playing and playing! She convinced her Uncle Cade to show her how to open the windows and then he sat her out onto the back porch and she took off! She loved being able to run and run.

Abbye and Kenna both had fun playing in the new 'backyard.'

Can you see the tiny hot pink speck in the distance and the lighter colored pink speck following behind (but a little closer to the camera)? That would be Kenna running from her Mommy (because she thought it was funny....she was giggling like crazy!) and Abbye trying to catch her. My sister took the picture from the back porch. I'm the one going after them both. Those two are definitely going to get into some trouble in the future!

Sunday was my mom's birthday and we spent the day celebrating before we had to come back home...and I didn't take any pictures of that either (I didn't do a very good job with the camera apparently!).

Kenna did great on the flight home as well...especially considering our flight was extended by quite a bit! Because of weather/heavy rain in the Dallas area, we ended up circling in the air for about 15-20 min before being diverted to Oklahoma City for fuel. We were lucky and were able to refuel and take right back off toward Love Field, but that still meant that our flight that was supposed to land at 5:05 actually got to Dallas around 6:45. Thank goodness my daughter is a good flier!! She just sat in my lap, ate animal crackers, and read books the entire time.

Thanks everyone for a great weekend!

Kenna's favorite chairs

There are several places in our home that Kenna has decided are a few of her favorites. The first is the chair in our living room. This is the same chair she was playing with the pillows in in the last post. Last night she was very content to sit, eat her dinner, and watch "Mi Mouse" (Mickey Mouse). She actually very rarely gets to sit in the living room to eat (she is usually in her high chair at the table) but there are some nights when daddy is at work that a grilled cheese that she can feed herself in the living room is about all this preggo mommy can handle! :) Her other favorite perch is the back of our couch...yes, the back of the couch, and, yes, her daddy taught her this one. She loves to climb onto the back, hang out for a while leaning against the wall, and then go down the "side" (slide) onto the seat to then start all over again.

She was so excited I was letting her do this last night while Daddy was gone that she did it over, and over, and over. I loved how her little jean skirt kept getting all up around her waist....it was too cute!

She is always so full of energy and so much fun to watch!

Hide-n-Seek

Kenna has recently gotten into playing hide-n-seek...well, kinda! She loves to cover herself up and then pop her head up every now and then to make sure that we are still looking for her. I kept trying to take her picture when she was completely covered because you could still see her feet sticking out, but she always looked out right when I snapped the picture.

We have so much fun with this precious little one!

Happy Halloween!

Kenna had a blast last night, getting to dress up like a monkey again. She doesn't really understand the concept of Trick or Treating, so we dressed her up to pass out candy to people who came knocking on our door. She thought that was so much fun! Several people that we didn't know made 'he' comments at Trunk or Treat last weekend so we decided to add a bow to her outfit! She loved giving all the kiddos the candy that came out of her basket. Even after they walked off to go to another house, she would stand at the door holding out candy.

In between visitors, she would take her hood off and run around playing, but as soon as the doorbell rang, she would take off running toward the front door yelling "canny, canny, canny." It was so cute!

My two favorite comments of the evening came from some 8-10 year old trick or treaters. One ran off yelling to his mother - "There's a little monkey giving out candy!". The second was very impressed with our candy choices - "You are good people. Y'all give out real candy."

Glad to know that we are good people!

Hope everyone had a fun, safe Halloween!

Big Sister Kenna

That's right...Kenna is going to be a big sister!!

Baby #2 is officially due June 2nd, but will probably make his/her appearence sometime around the end of May.

We are SUPER excited and can't wait for the new little one's arrival!!

Monkey Time

Miss K has recently developed a fascination with monkeys. Her favorite song to listen to in the car is "Five Little Monkeys" and she loves to use her little plate that has monkey faces and bananas on it...so for Halloween we were sure she needed to be a monkey....or in her words "monney, ooo, ooo" (she always makes the little monkey noise after she says it).



We got to get all dressed up on Sunday night for Trunk or Treat at church and Kenna had a BLAST! She loved her costume and held on to her banana basket all the way to the church building. She also liked the banana in her pocket! I loved the back of her outfit...but I really loved the picture of her walking by her daddy!!

Kenna has not had much candy in her young life, but that all changed on Sunday! At one of the first few cars we stopped at, she found a bubble gum dum-dum and fell in love! She wouldn't even move as long as she had the dum-dum in her mouth....

Of course, after that, she just wanted more and more. The funniest part was that she kept getting mad at us for taking the candy away from her to take the wrappers off before she put it in her mouth...she wanted to eat it paper and all!

We did pose for a photo op with JD the train conductor...quite a change from this time last year!

Thanks to all the people who helped plan this great event...we had fun!!

Random Pictures

Kenna and I spent a great day together at home (for the most part...we ran a few errands). We had a lot of fun playing - both indoors and out! It was a beautiful day!!

Kenna must have decided that she needed a chair to sit and play with her table...she doesn't really fit inside the Bumbo any longer but she still loves to play with it! When I was cleaning up after she went to bed just a few minutes ago, I found her milk balanced on a block...that's talent, I tell ya! :)

Hope everyone enjoyed this beautiful fall day!!