LOVE these guys!

We got to see some of our favorite people in whole world on their trip back to the states. We met these guys in language school and Vic and I were pregnant together (the first time around). She got to be at Kead's birth and I got to be there when Josiah was born. I feel like God gives everyone a precious few life friends that you know will just be around no matter what, that you can always relax with and that no matter how much or little you get to talk everything just picks up when you get to see each other. For us one of those couples is John and Vic. It was great to hang out, catch up and see little Josiah, even though it never seems like enough time. :)

gotta love west texas

when we moved to the middle east everyone kept telling us how bizarre and different it was to experience a sand storm...but after living in west texas for a couple years it just felt normal. maybe someday we will live somewhere that doesn't get more inches of sand per year than it does water.

Drew got this great shot of a sand storm moving over our house a couple days ago:

back in business!

Horray for Cyber-Monday! We finally bit the bullet and got a new computer! Drew is so sweet and will be taking the old one to work and I get to keep the fancy new one with me. Although I must admit that I am kind of stressing out about having to re-learn how to work my computer after having the last one for 5 years (which is really long in computer years!)

I am looking forward to being able to keep in better contact, and update the good ol blog more often plus help my rockstar sister with our kojo blog more than once a month!

all bundled up

and ready for the cold!!!

(for those of you who don't know- I LOVE cold weather!)

happy birthday to you...

happy birthday to you...


happy birthday my kirsty...


happy birthday to you!


happy birthday best friend, big sis, awesome mama, craft buddy, Godly woman...I love you so much!

thankful

we had a great thanksgiving/christmas with drew's family in dallas. I am so thankful for them!

three things

1) sayla is looking forward to a career as a gansta

2) as of thursday she is 12.2 pounds and is in the 85% for weight!

3) i love this little raider outfit from julie. (the first pic is sayla at 10 weeks, the second is Kead when she was almost 6 months. yep- same oufit!)

NOT amused

haha! girls with at-ti-tude!


sayla is still not into it...i don't think she likes hats.

beautiful

I love every picture of Kead in this fun hat that Evette made. It just makes her eyes pop. I am also excited that it is getting cold enough for hats!

october

As promised, here are some pictures of the last month (or so...)

carving pumpkins with roman and kead. about half way through roman was done (he wanted to play the wii instead) and kead was throwing pumpkin goo around the kitchen. fun times.

the finished pumpkins...minus the "double t" pumpkin that roman took home.

more pumpkin fun...we carved TWENTY pumpkins for the yummy seeds.

we got to surprise keje in denver a couple weeks ago. I love this picture of sayla. (is it weird that I love pictures of my girls crying??)

same trip...burkey baby hanging out with sayla.

the cutest little lion I ever did see

visiting the ranching hertitage center with dave and kate

baby k and uncle dave

family pic at james and janna's wedding (kead was the flower girl...she walked down half the ailse and then cried...)

excuses

for not blogging lately:

1- sayla grace.
2- we are down to one computer and drew takes it with him to work.
3-me and the girls have had a nasty cold for a couple weeks- it just keeps getting passed back and forth.
4- road trips to denver (two in the last two months)
5-weddings and showers. though I LOVE helping with weddings and throwing showers, both take time.

I am sure I could come up with more- but those are the big ones. Sayla turned 2 months old this week and I am just now getting to the point where I don't feel like my first thought every free moment is to sleep. I hope to get some pictures up of the past month soon.

sorry I have failed you (all 10 of you who read this!)

check out the free goodness

I know I haven't posted in over a week- but the whole fam came down with a cold and has been out of commission.

This post is actually just to point you to the kojo blog where we are giving away a set of free stationary! The give away ends next tuesday- so make sure to check it out and comment soon!

colorado

As I said earlier, we got to go on a quick trip to Colorado earlier this month. Here are some of the highlights:

moving mom and dad into their new home

seeing chach( aka chels), my best friend from...well all of childhood really

seeing family and introducing them to little Sayla

I have to mention the mountains in the fall again, it was just that beautiful

going to the zoo- twice

spending time with burke, the sweetest nephew in the world. seriously. (p.s. notice how burke at 4 months is paying attention to the book...and then look closely at keadryn... oh dear)

spending time with the gentrys

little chunky la-la

Sayla is now 5 weeks old and still doing great. She has such a sweet disposition (although she isn't a fan of photo shoots!) and is still doing wonderful eating and sleeping, which is pretty much all she does! As you can see she is also gaining weight like a champ and is quite the little chunka. I LOVE it! Her nickname around here is La-La...which is what Kead calls her.

bff

I have posted about our sweet friend Hays before...I use to watch him 4 days a week. I stopped watching him in May- but him and Keadryn have a bond now that is just precious. Every time Keadryn is talking on her phone she is always talking to Hays (I know because she always says "bye Hays" when she hangs up), she gets giddy when she sees him, and he is one of the only people she will hug and kiss on cue (it's cute for now....)

Yesterday we got to hang out with Hays twice and it was a happy happy day for Keadryn, until we got in the car to leave, that is. :)