Kaitlyn's 9th Birthday Parties!!

Kaitlyn celebrated her 9th Birthday on Dec. 17th!! I cannot believe that my oldest is nine years old already it seems just like yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital, a little black haired 6lbs. 4 oz. bundle of joy!! She is a very special little girl who is turning into a little lady faster than I want her too! She is also a very big help to me, watching her little sister and doing things around the house!! She loves School and softball and gives 100% of herself doing both!! She also loves to go shopping and she is a Daddy's girl!!:) Her Birthday is so close to Christmas and sometimes I feel like I don't spend very much planning it but we do try to make it special for her!!


To celebrate we had 3 different parties!! My pictures are once again backwards so I'll start with the family party.....we went to Mr. Gattis the evening of her Birthday...
Kaitlyn with her Tweety Cake that Grandma Kemp made!

Paul, Calvin, & Kyann

Gina, Adison, Karsyn, & Austyn..

Janice, Kaitlyn, & Claire Kendall & Ethan

Grandpa & Grandma Kemp

Lisa, Karsyn, Koen, & Joanna

Jason, Nate, & Grandma Graber

Ellen & Baby Jayston

Josh, Eric, & Jeremy

Logan & Kendrick

Koen & Ashley

Bryant & Kyann

The Birthday Girl....She had a Hannah Montana Ballon & Tablecloth!!

Kaitlyn has two classmates that have Birthdays really close to hers so we started in Kindergarten having a little party at School for them and it has kinda became a tradition!!:)

Kaitlyn's teacher, Mr. Graber...

The Boys...

Kaitlyn & Erin.....Erin's b-day is Dec 28th!!

The Girls....

Kaitlyn, Erin, & Josh....Josh's b-day is Dec. 19th!!

Kaitlyn with her gift from us!

Kaitlyn wanted to have a party with her friends. She wanted to go to Evansville to Gatti Town and go to the Mall shopping. So on Tues. before her birthday, I picked them all up at after School and we headed to evansille! Julie went along to help out and Kristen met us down there!

All the girls........

playing "Deal or no deal"....they had so much fun lpaying this game!!

.........getting ready to bowl

..............riding the bumper cars

Kristen & Kaitlyn

Are they cool or what!!:)

HaPpY nInTh BiRtHdAy KaItLyN!!! I love you VERY much!!

Christmas pictures

The last to part of November, we had Marsha Knepp take the kids' pictures for our Christmas cards. She did a really good job!! Here are some of them.....

~ KAREN ~

Playin in the leaves and Playin with the puppy!!

The kids helped me clean up the leaves in the front yard. They had more fun blowing each other with the leaf blower than using it to blow the leaves!!:)

Kaitlyn got the camera and had fun taking pics of Kendrick & herself!!:)

Playin in the pile of leaves....

Kyann didn't want to get in the leaves with them...you can tell by the look on her face!

Playin with one of our puppies...

Daddy's Lil Helper!!

Kyann found this little white bucket while we were feeding the calves one evening and decided that she wanted to help. We put a little bit of feed in "her" bucket and she carried it to the calves! She didn't forget about it either because every evening after that she would get her little bucket and it had to have feed in it then she would carry it back to feed the calves!!
Helping Dad auger the feed out of the tank...

The Little Miss....

Kaitlyn & Kendrick...they like to get in the pen with the calves!!

Kyann & her Daddy!!

Getting more feed...

I love this one!!

Big Girl....she wouldn't let anyone help her!!

Feeding the calves...............

...just bein silly!!

~ KAREN ~

HaPpY 40tH BiRtHdAy CaLvIn!!!

Calvin 40th birthday was Oct. 21st....when I was in FL!! We celebrated when we came home. He wanted to go to Red Lobster with friends so that's what we did!:)
Calvin & I

The whole group! Nate & Lisa

Calvin & MIke acting silly as usual!!:)

Mike & Patty Raymond & Mary

Bryant & Kristen Wendell & Tamara

Trip to Florida and much needed update!!

It has been about 3 months since I've updated so I'm going to try to get everything up to date! I'll start with our trip to FL. On Sun., Oct. 18 my sisters, Linda & Judy and Kyann & I flew to FL to paint Mom & Dad's house! We painted Monday & Tuesday and cleaned and put everything back on Weds. and then went shopping Weds. afternoon. We flew back home on Thursday! We worked hard and got a little stiff and sore but we also had a lot of fun!!:) We missed not having Jan with us but she wasn't able to go!:(
My pics are backwards.....Linda & Kyann...ready for takeoff on the way home. this just minutes before Kyann had a TOTAL meltdown. She started screaming and wanted to get off of my lap. Anyone who has been on a plane knows that there is NO room between the seats especially when you are trying to entertain a one year old! Anyway, while Kyann was having her meltdown, Judy overheard the man sitting right in front of us lean over and tell his wife "enjoy your flight"!!:) She went to sleep almost as soon as we got in the air and she slept all the way to Indy!!:)

Waiting to board the plane in Tampa.....This is a pic of our plane....not very good but it was all I could get of it through the window!!

Kyann playing while we were waiting....I didn't get a pic of her but she carried or should I say dragged Linda's purse around while we were waiting....it was so cute!:)

We put new lights and garland above the kitchen cabinets...

Kyann getting into the candy dish!

The dining room finished!

....and the living room!

Mom kept everything washed up and her and Dad entertained Kyann which was pretty much a full time job!:)

The dining room all tore apart...

....and the living room!!

Linda hard at work!

Judy painting while standing on the bed!!

We kept Dad busy doing odds and ends...he wasn't very happy with us...he said his job was to boss and take care of Kyann!!:) He did a pretty good job of that, I don't have any pics but he took her to the park to play and gave her rides on the 3 wheeled bike!Playing outside....

Grandma filled this tub up with warm water for Kyann to play in....she loved it!!:)

STAY TUNED FOR MORE UPDATES....HOPEFULLY IN THE COUPLE OF DAYS!!!

~ KaReN ~

My baby girl is growing up way too fast!

This post is an update on Kyann. She is growing up so fast!


She fell asleep with her baby doll and blanket on the laundry floor...this very rarely happens! I usually rock her to sleep which I love!

Here she is playing with her doll. She is really into dolls right now! She likes to feed them and carry them around. The other day I found her trying to feed the doll a smartie!:)

Another milestone is learning to feed herself!! She refuses any help and eats mainly with her hands!!:)

Eating a cookie after finishing off two soft eggs! They have to be soft, she won't eat them any other way!!:)

Kyann is now 16 months old.

She weighs 22 lbs. 6 oz. and is 33 1/4 inches.

Some of her recent accomplishments and interests:

She can climb up on just about anything...the kitchen table, the countertop, the coffee table.

She loves being outside!

She loves exploring and tearing everything out!:)

Some words she can say are: Dad, Mom, "Katy" (for Kaitlyn), Pup, "Bob" (for her cousin Bryant), "Bo" (our dog), "baby".

She dearly loves her new cousin Adison and sometimes gets a little rough with him although she would never mean to hurt him!!:)

When you ask her something she nods her head and says "yeah" it looks hilarous!!:)
All her food is UMM!!:)

The love of her life is still her Daddy and this Mommy hopes it stay that way for a long time!! She has figured out that when he comes in the house with his shoes off that it means he's staying home so she always looks at his feet when he comes in and if his shoes are off she starts giggling!
We took her bottle away and she has done very well in fact I think it was harder on me than it was on her...it's just another sign that she's growing up!! She is still very attached to her"um" (that's what she calls her pacifier)! I STARTED THIS POST ABOUT 3 MONTHS AGO.... I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I HAVE NOT POSTED FOR SOOO LONG!!:( ANYWAY I DECIDED TO POST IT AND HOPEFULLY I WILL GET CAUGHT UP ON THE LAST 3 MONTHS IN THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS!!:) SO STAYED TUNED IN!!!:)