Katherine’s 2!

Happy 2nd Birthday to my happy, care free, adorable, so incredibly funny, smart, pretty, sweet baby girl. I can not believe she’s 2 years old, it has gone by so fast. She is still my baby and has brought so much joy to our lives. Jason and I joke about “what did we do before her?” She constantly makes us laugh and we are so blessed to have her.

Christmas x 3

I love how fun a child can make Christmas! We had a very busy Christmas surrounded by family. This is really my favorite time of the year and it gets better every year!

First, Jason, Katherine, and I had our own little Christmas on Christmas Eve morning. Kate would open a present and be so involved with her gift that she wouldn’t want to open any more.

After, we went and hung out at my parents. Every Christmas Eve we sleep at my parents and have Christmas morning at their house. It’s so much fun, even Jason gets really excited over it. Kate patiently waited until the rest of the house (Jennifer, my Dad, Adam) woke up then dug into her gifts. She had the hang of it now and loved unwrapping gifts. She would hold clothes up and say “Cuuute.” 

I asked Kate what was in her mouth and this is her showing me :)

Could she be any sweeter?

Jennifer and Adam

“All Done”

They all left to go to TN (our off year) and we headed down to Columbus for Christmas #3. Kate has so much fun playing with all her cousins. She also loved to say PawPaw over and over.  She can’t tell the difference between Drew and Brady so they’re both Drew to her and she keeps asking about them.  Columbus is so fun because Jason has a big family and we all get together. It is so nice being able to spend time with all our family, definitely the best part of the holidays!

Kate’s our little entertainer

This picture makes me smile….

Wow 12/18/2009

Happy 5 Year Anniversary to Jason and Me! I can’t believe it’s been 5 years, it’s gone by so fast! Our little family has grown and a lot has happened in 5 years.

Married, lived in apartment in Sandy Springs, had ghetto neighbors, I taught 7th grade, Jason graduated from GA Tech, bought our first home in Johns Creek, Jason’s had 2 jobs, Kate was born one month after 3 year anniversary!, baby girl  2 will be born in 12 weeks! I love my husband and I love that we still have so much fun together! Jason was sick on our anniversary so we’ll be celebrating another day, though I feel like we already celebrated with our Grand Teton trip.

We were so happy on our wedding day, practically giddy and we’re blessed to still be so happy together.  

~I love this last picture because Jason can’t stand icing so the piece I fed him was pure icing :)

Thanksgiving in Columbus

   

We spent Thanksgiving in Columbus with EVERYONE! The whole family was there, all 22 of us which made for a full house but also made for a very fun time! Katherine had so much fun playing with all her cousins and running around and jumping on the trampoline. She was exhausted every night.  Thanks to Jason’s Mom we ate amazing food all weekend too!  We have a lot to be thankful for this year. I’m so glad we live near family. My side and Jason’s side. We just need to get Jennifer to move back now :) I’m thankful for a healthy family and a healthy pregnancy. I’m excited for this baby to join our family!

Family Portrait

  

 

 

 

 

Kate has to keep up with all the boys!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She’s such a happy child!!!

Making s’mores, singing songs, hanging out

One month short of our 5 Year Anniversary

Kates Bedtime Routine

Kate goes 100% all day up until she goes to bed. She will be jumping in her bed as I leave her room at night. Before I can get downstairs she’s out. To prove it I taped Kates typical bedtime routine. You can see for yourself how she turns it off like a switch:

A Little Too Helpful

I realize this makes me sound like a serious complainer but it’s been annoying me for awhile now. I grocery shop mainly at Kroger and sometimes Publix. I love them both.  When I go to check out I put my items on the conveyer belt in a certain order.  Cold items together, pantry items together, squashable items together, bath items together…. This way they’re bagged in that order too.  However, lately every time I walk up to the line an associate hurries over to unload my groceries. Nice right? Well they never do it right! They put eggs next to bread and milk next to toothpaste…  I’ll even try to shoo them away by saying “Oh I can get it.” It doesn’t work, they insist. And then I feel bad and can’t start rearranging their hard work while they’re still standing there. I’m afraid it would insult them, so I’m stuck with a bunch of groceries that are all bagged incorrectly.  Thank you Kroger/Publix for being so helpful but please lay off a little!

Trick-or-Treat

We really drug Halloween out this year. It started with our ward Trunk-or-Treat.  There was food, candy, games, and tons of cute kids. I didn’t know how Kate would do with trunk-or-treating but by the third car she was holding her bucket out saying “trick-or-trick.” It was probably the cutest thing I ever saw. Jenny came with us so while Jason manned our trunk we took Kate around to all the cars.

Dalmatian Dog

Katherine is still obsessed with dogs so I had to dress her as one!

Jason and I went to a Halloween party which meant we used an actual babysitter for the first time! When Kate was little we just toted her around with us and put her to sleep in a spare room/BR/closet, or we left her with my parents.  Kate’s older now and I knew my parents would be busy so we asked a girl from church that we really trust and everything seemed to go fine. 

Jason was a Cobra Kai and I was his Pregnant High School Girlfriend

Actual Halloween was kind of a nasty day but we still had to take Kate trick-or-treating.  We went to my parents then went around to a couple of homes in their neighborhood. Kate really has the hang of the whole trick or treating process.  After awhile though she was over it and became kind of scared to go up to the doors, so we went home and handed out candy to the kids in our neighborhood.  We were left with a ton of candy and I have been eating HANDFULS every day!

Too Cute!

“Trick-or-Treat”

Kate with chocolate all over her mouth – she definitely had a sugar high!

About a week ago my sister came home to visit and Kate went straight to her and even tries to say “JenJen”