Books and Toilet Paper Rolls

Kenna has always loved to look through books, but she has now found a favorite. She loves to sit in "her" rocker and look at one of Daniel's books - something about construction and fire fighting I think. It doesn't even have that great of pictures to look at, but she keeps crawling up into her rocker and grabbing that book!

A little side note: she has decided that this is her rock-rock. If anybody else sits in it (it is in our study) then she will try to push you out so that she can climb in...and don't even think about trying to hold her while you sit in it...it's her chair! :)

Miss K has also discovered the joy of empty paper towel rolls. Of course, she has still as small, toddler hands and apparently the empty roll makes a great addition to her arm!

She loves to walk around the house like this...too funny!

I guess she was in the mood to show off the other night...all of these pictures were taken after her bath and right before bed on Sunday. She was a wound up little girl!

Samuel James

Kenna has a new cousin! Samuel James arrived on October 9th and gets to share a birthday with his Uncle Dan! Baby Sam weighed 8 lbs 3 oz and was 21 in long. Sam's parents are Daniel's sister Hannah and her husband Chris.

We can't wait to meet Sam!!

Southwest Classic

Saturday night, we dropped Miss K off with my aunt and uncle and headed to Cowboys stadium to watch my beloved Aggies take on the Arkansas Razorbacks in the Southwest Classic.

Cowboys Stadium is amazing! We had to stop outside for a pic with Tom Landry. Our seats were a little high :) but the screen in the center made it all okay! I found myself tempted to watch the screen instead of the actual game because you could see so well! The A&M side was packed with fans and Arkansas wasn't too far behind!

Mom, Dad, Mama, and Papa (Papa is a huge razorback fan....we still let him sit with us :)
Me and my hubby

A&M started the game off great - 10 to 0, but then the tide quickly turned the other way... :(

Oh well, it was still so much fun to go to the game, and we always win halftime - nobody can out perform the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band....Whoop!

I made a video of the band...but it has not uploaded for two days now...sorry! You will just have to take my word on how incredible they really are!

A&M and Arkansas have signed a 10 year agreement to play at Cowboys Stadium....can't wait until next year!!

Photo Shoot

Saturday morning, Daniel and I took Kenna to Portrait Innovations for some updated pictures. She was not exactly in the mood to take pictures when we first got there (which really surprised me) and it took us a while to get her to cooperate. Even then, it was hit or miss. She didn't seem to like the lady who was supposed to take our pictures...who knows why...and would frown at her or cry every time she came close. If someone else was in the room, she would act a little better...very weird!! Of course, the lady did keep trying to get her to sit on a log and cross her feet at her ankles. She's 17 mos old!! She doesn't sit still at all, much less with her ankles crossed! :)

Even after all of the tears we ended up with some really good pictures. Here is a little preview. The actual printed pictures are cropped/zoomed a little closer and are rotated a bit to make it look like she is standing straighter.

Fall PrincessThe one below is one of our favorites...it is the one that we had zoomed/straightened and then enlarged for us.I love her little finger in this one...she's concentrating!She really got excited about the picture taking session when we pulled out the 'rock-rock'. She just made herself right at home! Love this pic.

Of course, we had a few funny faces as well. These two were some of Daniel's favorite pictures.

This little frown was the way she looked at the photographer every time she tried to get Kenna to smile by doing something silly. I love the pouty lips!

Overall, we have some great pictures and I can't wait to pass them out!

Blog stalking?

Okay, this is really weird...

I have a friend on Facebook who is going to Mexico with her husband in a few weeks. They are staying at the Dreams Resort in Cancun Riviera but their resort is not completed quite yet. Melody has spent the last few weeks scouring the internet for pictures of other Dreams resorts, looking for reviews and such. She found a random blog about Dreams resorts and their goal is to find blogs about their resorts and post them in one place....one of those blogs was mine!!! How crazy is that!! I think it is weird (but a little cool) that my blog is one of the two that are featured!! Check it out here.

Sandbox Fun

Saturday evening, JD came over to play while Jon and Mandy were at the Wilderness Trek dinner. (Jon cooked). JD spent the night last year for this same event. It is funny to me to see how much they have grown since then!!

The kiddos did really well together. I was worried about how well they would share since they are both kind of in a 'mine' phase but they did great! Their favorite time of the evening was when the got to play outside in the sandbox and on the slide.

JD also spent a lot of time chasing the ball. Uncle Dan would throw the ball onto the roof of "kenna's house" and then let it roll into the yard...JD would be after it in a flash!

I am so glad that these two play so well together!

First Pigtails

Yesterday Kenna got to have pigtails in her hair for the first time! I don't think she really cared all that much but her momma thought it was fun! :) Her cousin, Abbye, has had pigtails for a long time, but Miss K is just now getting some hair that is thick enough and long enough to pull up like this. I definitely need more practice though....it wasn't exactly straight and even! My little princess has never had a haircut! I think she at least needs a trim, but her Daddy keeps saying that 'she is not in the mood.'

I just had to include this last picture because Kenna looks soooo grown up! She loves to lean into things (like the couch) and play with her "calcuwa" or look at a book, etc. She is getting so big!