Showering Baby Emily

Our cousins Nichole and Tim are expecting a baby girl. Yesterday all the ladies enjoyed a shower for baby Emily. It was great to see all the family. Nichole is so cute with her little belly. Congrats Rapp Family!!

Happy 1st Birthday Hanna

Our niece turned 1 last week! WOW has this year gone by so fast. It has been such a joy watching her grow. She has the sweetest personality. Happy Birthday Hanna!!!!

We love you!

Happy Turkey Day

We enjoyed a great day with all our family. First having a Thanksgiving feast at my parents house and then to Jeremy's moms for dessert! We have SO much to be thankful for...

Introducing...

Our good friends JR and Nicole welcomed a beautiful little BOY early Sunday morning. Congrats to your family of 4!!!

Cannon James Reynolds

Born: 11/23/08

7 pounds 19 inches long

Cute Pictures

Just some cute pictures I found on my phone...

Hanna & Kaylee love the swings

Kaylee's favorite new ride... I got this as a shower gift (Thank you Gale Family) and started using it about 2 months ago. She LOVES it!!!

The cutest little monkey I have ever seen!!!!

Thankful

Yesterday I was not feeling well at all... I was so weak I could hardly hold Kaylee! So I called my mother in law and she took care of Kaylee ALL day! I got to rest and not worry at all. Thank you Jan for being so good to me and our baby girl. I am lucky to have you.

Weaning

For those of you who are not into the breastfeeding thing this may not be of interest for you...

Kaylee is now almost 10.5 months and I have started the weaning process (stopping breast feeding). So I have been looking forward to having my body back and not having her be completely reliant on me, but now that the time has come I am a little sad. I had a girlfriend tell me about a month ago "be sure that you are ready it is harder on you then the baby"... well she was right. When she told me that I decided to wait a little longer. Kaylee is just not interested anymore (has not been for a couple of months). It makes it hard on both of us. She is doing great with it. I love that she is FINALLY taking a bottle and a sippy cup. Daddy even fed her last night!! We are down to 1 and 1/2 (a little snack) feedings a day. This is just another sign that my little girl is growing up. I am so thankful that breastfeeding worked for us this long but am ready for all the new things to come (well kinda)... LOL :)

Happy 5th Birthday Conner

My nephew Conner turned 5 last week. I still can't believe he is FIVE!!! We were not able to go to his birthday party so we celebrated yesterday instead. Kaylee and I got to spend the whole day with my mom and Conner which was a great treat... my mom is in school and rarely has spare time. So it was wonderful to spend time with both of them.

Conner with his new puppy CJ from Build-A-Bear
They love each other! Happy Birthday Conner we love you SOOOO much!

Camping

We went camping to Refegio near Santa Barbara this weekend. It was the 5th annual trip with a bunch of family and friends. This was our 3rd year going and a little different with our new additions (Kaylee & Harley). Kaylee and I drove up Thursday with Grandma Spike then Jeremy and Harley joined us Friday night. It was a blast and the weather was absolutely perfect until last night when a wind storm hit us. It was a great weekend Kaylee had a blast with all the other kids, dirt, rocks and anything else she could find to put in her mouth...

All bundled for the cold night

Playing in her cousins Barbie Jeep
Kaylee and I in the morning still in our jams

Jeremy and Harley
Lovin the dirt

She loves her tongue...

Halloween Fun

We have had so much fun this week. I am like a kid when it come to any holiday so this year has been SO much fun for me. It is only going to get better as Kaylee gets older. Here are a ton of pictures of this weeks festivities... Pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins and Halloween night!

All the pumpkins

Hailee the unicorn at the pumpkin patch
Hanna the flower

Our Family

Kaylee trick or treating... she actually took candy out of the bowls!

Kaylee and Hanna in the wagon

Daddy and his little butterfly

She is excited...

Our Butterfly

All the kids ready for the parade... we went to Josh and Megan's neighborhood. It was so much fun all the kids do a little parade and then trick or treat.

And of course we can't forget Mattie the Turtle!!