Kamryn and family

Just thought I would post a photobomb post of all of the people who came to meet Miss Kamryn while we were in the hospital.  In no particular order....

Gran (Great grandmother)

Mama (Great grandmother)

Papa (Great grandfather)

Uncle Cade and Aunt Kyla - gotta love that football hold!

Aunt Mandy

Uncle Jon

Uncle Nathan

Grandpa, Aunt Mercy, and Grandma

Aunt Amy and Abbye

Poppy with his youngest two granddaughters - Kamryn and Audrye

Aunt Sarah and Uncle Michael

Mimzi

Mommy with Kamryn and Audrye

Poppy and Mimzi with their 6 grandkids - one more to come in August!

Napping with Poppy

We are so thankful to have such a loving family!

Kamryn Harlye

I would like to introduce you all to the newest member of our family, Kamryn Harlye!  We are so excited to welcome this sweet little blessing into our lives.

 Kamryn was born on July 11th at 7:58 AM and weighed in at 6 lbs, 7 oz - the exact same weight as both of her two older siblings.  She was 18 inches long and is a petite little thing!

 We kept her name a surprise, just because Daniel thought it sounded like fun and convinced me to go along with it! Kamryn was a name that both of us loved. All of our children have middle names that are from someone in our family and Kamryn is no exception.  My grandfather's middle name, and his mother's maiden name, was Harless and (as most of you know from my middle name) the -ye is a common thing on that side of the family. And from that you get Harlye. :)

 Kenna and Dane are in love.  Every time that Kenna came to visit at the hospital, the first thing she wanted to do was to hold her little sister.  She would just look at her and kiss her cheeks.  It is so sweet.

 Dane just wants to keep trying to tickle her. :)

 My two older ones, who are convinced that they are super heroes most of the time, were most impressed that their baby sister got them a new present.  Kenna could not believe that Kamryn was "zero years old" and had already gone shopping!  If you are in trouble, watch out for SuperKenna and SuperDane...they may be on the way to rescue you!

 Our new family of 5 before leaving the hospital.  Kinda hard to get everyone to look at the camera at the same time!

 Sweet Kamryn (poor thing...mommy forgot to get her bow out of the suitcase before we started the journey home)

 All my chickadees ready for the ride home.  Kenna is excited that she gets to be the one who sits next to Kamryn.  She told me that she is going to take good care of her anytime we are riding in the car.

 We had a nice welcome home party as well.  We were greeted by a stork in the yard announcing her arrival (Kenna kept telling me that we had a rooster in our yard! :))

 And everyone enjoyed the Welcome Home cupcakes and cookies!

I need to get my mom to send me some of the pictures that she took on her camera - I know that she has some more closeups of the newest princess in our family.  I have a lot more pictures of all of the family members who came to help welcome Miss Kamryn into the world....those will be coming soon in the next post! 

We are so thankful that God has blessed us with this sweet little one and can't wait to see what God has in store for her (and us)!

Dane is 2!

I absolutely CANNOT believe that my little boy is 2!  He is such a special blessing to us!  We started the day with the obligatory picture still sleeping.  Kenna tried to take a picture of him after he woke up that day and he was not having any of it!  He kept yelling no and pointing his finger at her.  It was actually quite entertaining! :)

  Daners had cupcakes at Ms Tara's and got to come home and swim in the pool for the first time this summer.  Too bad I don't have any pictures of either of those....but he was more than happy to open another present before bed! 

 He LOVES "bay-ball" and was very excited to get a new t-ball set from his sister.  Daddy even let him try it out in the middle of the living room that night.

 And he was very excited to end the day by crawling into his new big boy bed in the room he is now sharing with his sister.  As soon as we asked him if he wanted to sleep in his new bed, he took off running!

 He got all tucked in with his "necessary sleeping items" - his 2 blankets, his stuffed cow, and his pillow.  Apparently he thinks he needs it all! :)  Hey, whatever it takes, because other than one trip to put him back in bed, he slept all night!  And is now on night 4!

 We had a birthday party for family on Saturday at a local playground/spray pad and the kids all seemed to have a blast!

 Dane is in love with "The Backyardigans" and squealed when he saw his cake decorated with his friends.

 And, once we cut the cake, Dane decided to dive in!

 After he licked all the icing off his fingers, he went straight for the spatula.  His piece of cake and his fork were sitting right in front of him, but I guess that was just not good enough for him!

Despite all the sugar, Dane was asleep 5 minutes after we got in the car.  He is such a sweet, funny boy.  I am so excited to see what else is going to come from this special guy!

Kenna is 4!!!

Look who is 4!!  Kenna has been talking about turning 4 for WEEKS and couldn't wait

for her birthday.  I had to take a picture of her before she completely woke up this morning.  She was already asking if it was her birthday before she even had her eyes all the way open.  I can't believe she was once such a tiny little girl!

 Showing off her new age!

 And what birthday would be complete without cupcakes and candles with her friends at Ms Tara's!

 I think everyone else enjoyed it as well! :)

 Kenna was quite excited about opening some presents tonight.....

 .....but was a very sweet big sister who let her little brother help tear off some of the wrapping paper (and just in case you have read on facebook and are wondering, yes, the big box does have drums inside).

We actually had her birthday party two weeks ago when we were in Lubbock.  Both Kenna and Abbye had (separately) requested a Tinkerbell party for their 4th birthday so we decided to take advantage of the fact that we would have lots of family in the same area at the same time and did a dual party.

 My Tinkerbell!

 The girls had a blast with the huge sandbox at the restaurant where we had dinner....

 ....and a bounce house is always a hit!

 The girls had fun opening tons of presents and then we took turns singing Happy Birthday so they each had their own song and candles.

We had a great time and Kenna is still talking about how much fun her birthday party was "yesterday" (everything in the past is yesterday).

I love spending time with my precious little girl.  She has so much personality and is always full of life.  I cannot wait to see what the next year brings!