Kayla looks so grown up these days. It is difficult to believe she is my baby-girl

Grace and balance at 2 1/2 years old? Very nice.

Angel to Angel

Jenna Leaning on her Angel

I see trouble brewing

Tastey, Juicey, Summer

She looks so tiny

Here comes my baby

First Haircut

Last month Jenna had her first official Haircut. David's Niece came over and cut her hair at our house which was just great. Jenna sat real still and didn't wiggle around. She looked so cute with her haircut. I have been cutting her bangs since she was small but it's just not the same as having a professional cut it.

Summer Passes

We treated ourselves to passes this summer for Great America. The best thing we have ever done I think. I think we have been to Great America just about once a week since we bought the passes and have had a blast every time we have gone. I think the favorite for David and the girls is Buccaneer Bay, it's a water ride that you get soaked and you get to shoot water guns at people outside the ride as well.

David, Kayla and Becca are out of town this weekend so Jenna and I went to Great America yesterday, she loved it, we did all the things she wanted to do.

Grams

I lost one of my best friends a few weeks ago, my grandma passed away from complications of conjestive heart failure. Grandma had struggled for many years with Asthma and loosing her eye sight from Macular Degeneration but she never let it get her down. She still gardened as much as she could, she could turn the most wilted plant into a great big green one with her touch. She wasn't able to read but that didn't stop her, she was able to get books on tape from the center for the blind and when her asthma kept her inside she listened to her books.

I have many fond memories spent with "grams", as I spent many summers with her in Batesville and at Carter Cove (Arkansas). I spent a lot of time with grams outside in the yard, in the kitchen or even fishing. I'll never foget the time I filled grandpa's cowboy hat with small frogs about 2 dozen or so, I had them in the truck to take back to the house but somehow the hat spilled and there were frogs all over the inside of the truck, grandpa wasn't to happy but grams and I laughed so hard we had tears rolling down our cheeks as we cleaned up all the frogs.

Several years later my grandma was fortunate to find true love again. She met Bill, they met at the senior center in town. One day I heard that grams had a boyfriend, a few days letter I hear that grams is engaged and just a few days after that I hear grams is getting married Sunday after church (wedding picture to the right). They were so cute together and it was nice to know she found her soul mate so late in life.

I was very fortunate that grams was able to meet Jenna almost 2 years ago this month, she took her from me the minute we got to her house and held her the whole time we were there. I only wish Jenna was able to have memories with like I did.

When I went back for the service it was so strange being there without grams, something was definatelly missing. The hardest was going to her little house in Carter Cove where we spent so much time, everywhere I looked I saw her.

I will deeply miss my grams but at least I have comfort in knowing that she found love again in Bill and that she will be able to breath without trouble and will be able to see again. I love you grams and I will miss you every day!

Jenna Turns 2 (a few months ago)

Ok so I'm playing catch up, Ithought I would start with pictures from January of Jenna's 2nd Birthday. She had a great time and and lots of friends and family round her to celebrate. She even decided to grab a handful of frosting and take a taste. We gave Jenna a Geo Trax set and she played with it for a long time after everybody left. These are the last fee pictures where the pacifier exists, shortly after her birthday the pacifier went away.

Easter 2009

We had a nice Easter this year. We spent the day with Mother, the Luff family, and the Cagle family.

We love our family but our family is as diversly seperated in opinions and viewpoints as any family could be. But that is what makes us....well, us!

It was a fun time. We enjoyed each others company, and everyone went home.

For once it was a fairly uneventful holiday....mostly

Nothing really new

Not much going on around here, I've been back in the mortgage industry since the beginning of the month and it's never changed, even in these trying times. We are so busy that there is more work then people. With the economy in the trash people with stable jobs and homes are taking advantage of the low rates and high credit scores and the conforming market is booming. I'm not sure if it will last or if my job will but I take advantage of the hours and pay while I can.

David is loving his job, I think the detective side of him wants to come out more then it can but he seems to have fun searching out the bad guy. He has been a great help with Jenna, he has been dropping her off at daycare and picking her up everyday as we don't have daycare near home yet. we are still searching but not much luck so far.

This past week we have been hit with the flu bug, first hit Jenna really hard then me and lastly David who is upstairs still recovering. Jenna and I still can't really eat much but hopefully by the end of the weekend we will be back to normal.

Jenna is 2 now and man is she learning how to push our buttons. She is talking like crazy and coming up with new words every day and just today has started to sing the "la la" song. Look for video as soon as we can get it downloaded, it's pretty cute.

Kayla and Becca are doing great in school, Cheer is over for Kayla so now it's band, choir and a school musical coming up. Becca is in Karate and loving it and even had a spring concert where she got to play her recorder.

I still have pictures to post from Jenna's 2nd birthday and Kayla's belated birthday sleepover weekend. Just wanted to let everybody know I haven't forgotten about you.

I GOT A JOB!!!!

After several months of looking I finally got with the right agency that was able to find work for me. I am back in the mortgage industry, working in a different position then before. I will be working on the closing end rather then the processing side, hopefully it will be a nice change of pace but from what I understand this company is extremly busy with room for OT even. It all happend so fast that I start tomorrow, that's how bad they need people, so for my friends that read this and are still looking for jobs in the mortgage industry just let me know and I will be happy to pass on the info.

David loves his job, he's on I think his 3rd week and is getting his team of people together to get rolling.

I hope that this will be a good start for us, we need something good to happen for us! I'll let you know soon how the job is going.

Happy 2nd Birthday Jenna

Today our little one turns 2. I can't believe it, it seems like I just brought her home from the hospital. She is growing like crazy but still a peanut at only 23 pounds and barely in 18 month clothes. She has quite the personality now and very stubborn just like daddy and mommy. She loves to watch Dora, Cinderella, Meet the Robinson's, and a few others. I would have to say her favorite toys right now are Becca's Woody & Jessie Dolls from Toy Story 2, she has to know where they are at all times. She is starting to use 4-5 word sentences now which surprises us most times but her new favorite is "I'm doing somethin" when you ask her to do something.

Everyday I look at her in amazement as it took us 3 years to bring her into our lives.

Happy Birthday my precious little one!

We love you!

History

I sit today and watch history being made with the inauguration of Barack Obama and I do it with a heavy heart. You see today would have been Stosh's birthday and as many of you know he is not here any longer to celebrate his birthday so we celebrate it for him.

I think of him him often, I hear a song, see a picture pop up on the computer or I watch Jenna as she carries a picture of him around and says "uncle Sosh" as best as she can say it. I only wish he knew how much he would be missed. We love you Stosh and Happy Birthday!

Kayla's first cheer competition

We are proud to report Kayla had her first cheerleading competition today. Her team took 5th place! We are so proud of her and her team. They did not get a lot of time to practice like most cheer teams do so 5th place is awesome.

She was so excited and had smiles on her face the entire time!

To much snow...

And now it's really really cold. Uggg. The kids are enjoying the snow, we all went outside on Sunday to play for a bit, even Sable went out too. She loves to roll in the snow and play. Jenna got to ride around on the sled too until she was ready for a nap.

The news reports have said that we have already exceeded snow fall for the year in just a few short weeks. I think I'm done with the snow now and ready for spring aren't you?