Our life-

We went outside today to attempt to get a good picture of the two of them together. Ha! This is the best picture that I got of them both together! :) It does make me laugh!!! Brody loves Kaylee and since she was not to sure about the leaves when she first sat down he decided to put them on her head so that she would get used to them! What a silly little BOY! :)

I do not have a fancy camera (one day I will ) so getting a good picture of this little guy is hard to come by! However I really like this one!

I have noticed that lately Brody and Kaylee have been playing a lot with each other! He will "come and get her" and when he does she will just laugh the whole time and try to get away from him. It is very cute to watch! I pulled out Brody's old house so that Kaylee could play with it and they both have been having a ball playing with it! I love any toy that will entertain both kids at the same time! :) I pray that they will be best friends their whole lives!!

Our little girl is now 9 months old! Wow! She has learned so much and is getting to be a big girl! She is now on the move and is crawling everywhere! One day she just got up on her knees and decided to come after me into the kitchen and the rest is history! :) That has been a big change around our house, not only for Ja and I but for Brody as well. He is learning really quickly that he has to pick up his toys or she will get them! I always knew that she would start crawling just in time for her to be really good at it when we put up our Christmas tree. :)*

She is also standing up a lot and pulling up on everything! She can sign "all done" and sometimes "more". She is eating everything and anything that we give her and has loved everything that she has tried except cranberry sauce! :) She loves to read books and can turn the pages on her own and really likes the books with the flaps. She is now saying dada and waves bye bye, she can also say hi, all done, baba, gaga. She knows the meaning of no and will look at you when she knows she is not supposed to do something. She loves to play patty cake and clap her hands!!

I have had many people ask me if she pulls out her bows. She will not pull them out if she is wearing a head band, but if I just put the bow in her hair then she will pull it out eventually. She hates getting in her car seat unless Brody is already in the car distracting her with whatever he is doing! She is now drinking most of her milk except at night, out of a sippy cup and is starting to really enjoy dropping her cup and letting me pick it up at meal times! :) She now knows what some of her toys are like: book, ball, blocks, doll, and house and will crawl to get them when we ask her to. Seeing her learn all these things is so exciting and at the same time a little sad knowing that our baby is growing up!! :) We praise the Lord for giving her to us!!

If you are looking for a fun toy to give your little one for Christmas I recommend this one! Yes it does take up some room, but it has some fun things for them to play with on it!

Last weekend our nephew Traber Jackson was born. We were able to go up to the hospital when he was born! I just love this picture of Lilly and Brody watching Traber get weighed and have his first bath!

Here is the proud daddy holding his baby boy. :)

Here I am getting to hold him for the first time! Let me tell you he is a cutie!

Brody and Ja are checking him out. Brody wanted to give Traber a toy so of course we had to get him a train. It is a fun toy that makes all kids of train noises. Brody wanted to keep it as his own...... I know that when Traber starts to play with it Brody will want to play with it with him. :)

Kaylee is getting a good look at Traber here. She really wanted to reach out at him and grab his face. :) I guess it is her way of saying hi welcome to the world! :)
We are so excited that Traber is now in our family!! Congratulations Jeremy and Brandy!

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween this year Brody was a UPS man and Kaylee was Tinkerbell (or a fairy). It was a lot of fun dressing them and letting Brody pick out his own costume. Brody went through a stage of getting really bored while riding in the car. So I started pointing out all the different trucks that went by and we would talk about them. This way it kept his interest and he would (and still does) look for all the different kinds of trucks. So when we let him pick out his costume we were not surprised that he picked the UPS man outfit since we always see the trucks drive by! It is my favorite outfit that he has worn and I think his as well. :) I loved being able to make a tu-tu for Kaylee! I found the wings at a sale and thought it would be fun to make her a fairy. I added some tulle, some iron on hearts to her shirt, and a fun little head peace to make her outfit complete. :) I love how it turned out!

We went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house to let them see the kids outfits, spend time with them and to see Lilly. It was fun making a day out of Halloween.

Here are all the kids wearing their Halloween outfits. Lilly is a cute little cat!! Holly made her outfit and did a really good job on it! I know that all the kids are not looking at the camera, but you take what you can get with three kids! :)

I think this picture is so cute of Lilly! She is purring like a kitty cat! :) It is fun to watch her and Brody because they are noticing each other more and more every time we see them.

Brody and Kaylee with Grandma and Grandpa. :)

We then made our way to my Grandparents house to show them the kiddos. Here is Gammy chasing Brody around. :) I think this is such a sweet picture!

Gammy comforting Kaylee on her lap. :)

After the kids took naps we went over to my parents house for a yummy dinner and some trick-or-treating. :)

Marmee and Pops with the kiddos before Pops and Ja took Brody trick-or-treating.

Aren't these fun pumpkins that my mom has! They look so cute from the road!

Brody was so excited to go trick-or-treating and came home ready to look at all of his candy. It brought back memories of my sister and I always coming home and dumping the candy on the floor so we could see all that we got and let my parents go through it to make sure nothing had been opened.

I just love this picture!!

Brother and Sister! We had a great Halloween!

Our Little boy turns 3!

Well I can't believe that my baby boy is now 3 years old!! It seems like just the other day we were bringing him home from the hospital, and now we are celebrating his 3rd birthday!

This is a picture of Brody when he was just 1 week old!

Here he is at his 1st Birthday party. I have always loved this picture and when I look at him I see a lot of resemblance between him and Kaylee.

Here he is at his 2nd Birthday party.

Here he is in his Birthday hat that we made on his 3rd Birthday. He is getting so big and so smart! He talks all the time at home and from what we have heard is a little shy when he is at school or church. Right now he loves to pretend play and will make Ja and I play like we are at school. It is so cute! Most days I look at him and think when did he get so big! Everyone says the years go by so fast and I am here to tell you they really do! How has 3 years gone by already!?

Brody got to celebrate his Birthday with his friends at school. We took up some yummy snacks and were able to celebrate with them. It was fun to see him in that environment!

In our house Birthdays are a big deal and I like to make it a special day! Brody woke up to find streamers hung from his doorway and the house decorated for his special day. I used pictures of some of his favorite things he did while he was 2 years old to decorate with. (Thanks Julia for that great idea!) We stayed around the house and did all of his favorite things, played with play-dough, finger painted, colored a party hat, played trains, and played lots of other fun things! It was a good day and he seemed to enjoy it!

Marmee and Pops were able to come over and celebrate his Birthday with us on his Birthday.

Here is a family pic of us before we sang Happy Birthday to the little guy.

Here he is opening some of his presents.

Kaylee enjoying the Birthday celebration.

Marmee reading a new book she gave them. I think this is funny because you can tell both kids are really interested in this book. She has a captivated audience.

Pops was showing Brody all the different things his new boat can do!

We had Jason's family over the next day to celebrate with us. This is the fun cake I made for that party. I found this recipe online and thought it would be perfect to make for him!! It was so much fun to make and so easy!! All you do is make a cake, ice it, then put kit-kats around it and M&M's on top! Easy as that and really pretty and fun looking! Brody's favorite part of the cake was eating the M&M's. :)

Here he is while we are all singing Happy Birthday to him. He is so funny!!

Lilly thought Kaylee was so funny when she was jumping in her jumperoo. :)

Brody received lots of great presents! He was so cute after he opened each one, he would go and tell that person thank you for the present! What a nice little boy!

Brody with Grandma and Grandpa

We had a wonderful time celebrating our little boys Birthday! We love you Brody and can't wait to see all the fun things you are going to learn this year!

Silver Dollar City-

We were able to go to Silver Dollar City again this past weekend. This time we went with my parents and stayed in a trailer next to their camper. It was a lot of fun sitting by the fire and walking around SDC with them. Ja and I also got to make a quick stop by the outlets while the kiddos stayed at the camp site with my parents!! Thanks mom and dad for letting us do some quick shopping!! As you can see by the picture above it was quite chili outside and we were all bundled up! However that did not stop us from having a great time!

I don't think the poor girl could move her arms because she was so bundled up!

We ate lunch inside and she was so excited to be able to get out of all her layers and be able to move around for a little while! :) I think this is a cute picture! She is such a happy little girl and very content doing whatever! I wonder if she will always be like that.

of course we had to ride the train and after we rode it we had to stop and watch it leave the station again! :)

Kaylee getting ready to take a nap in my arms on the long walk back to the car.

Brody loves riding all the fun kid rides that they have there. One of his favorites are the frogs that they have there. You can tell in this picture that he is having a great time!

While we were out shopping Brody made this fun pirate pumpkin! Cute!

Like I said it was really cold! Luckily our camp sites were right by each other and Kaylee was able to go to bed while we stayed up out by the fire. I think this picture is really funny! She can't move and yet is still looking at the camera!

Pops, Marmee, Brody and Kaylee in the Silver Dollar City jail. This is kind of a tradition with my family. I remember having a lot of pictures taken in here with my sister! It was fun to look back on those pictures and see how much we had changed from year to year. When we were there I was thinking about this time last year and how I was pregnant with Kaylee at the time and had just found out that my sister was pregnant with Drew. Wow where did the time go and look at how much has changed in one year!

When you ask Brody what was his favorite thing he did while we were there he will say riding "Noah's Ark". That is what he calls this ride and boy howdy he loved it! It was fun riding this with him and hearing him crack up when his stomach "tickled".

We had a great time while there and loved being able to go with my parents! It was a great little get away!