Meadows Family: 04/01/2007

Monday, April 30, 2007

Swim Fun!

Ok so I guess I am in Blog Overload now that I have started back up again. But today was such a fun day that I couldn't resist putting pics up. After I picked up Kendra from school her friend Abby came over and I took all 3 girls to the pool to swim. Kaylie loved the water, I mean LOVED the water, she didn't want out.

After we got home from the pool, Spencer brought home pizza for dinner so we ate that. Then the school had sent home this letter about teacher/staff appreciation day. They were asking for the students to write a note to their teachers and any staff they wanted to...Kendra and I spent over an hour writing notes, in scrapbook form...they turned out really cute, for her 2 teachers, art teacher, music teacher, 4 PE teachers, librarian, computer teacher, principal and assistant principal! It was fun doing that with her and she is excited to hand them out on Wednesday.

Anyway, after that was over we had Family Home Evening and then to the bath for the girls...we had a long day, but it was such a fun one! Oh yeah and this morning I took Kaylie to the park, but it was so hot...which was the reason for the pool trip after school. Well here are all the pics from today!!! ENJOY!

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I like to eat grass!!!

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Kendra & Kaylie got new swim suits...totally love both of them!

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Nice butt cheeks....

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Time for Sunscreen...

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The Walk to the Pool..........

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And the Pool FUN begins!!!
They were supposed to jump in at the same time, Kendra flaked!

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Kaylie had a blast playing in the water.

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Snack Time!

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One Last Show before we go Home...

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And the walk home...

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Scrapbooking!!!

Ok so I finally got around to getting my scrapbook stuff out after over 2 years...well more than that, but 2 years since I have been here in Florida. I had such a great time doing this. I did it alone and Spencer was sort of taking care of Kaylie so it was relaxing. Kendra got home from her mom's and she is totally excited to get started helping me with hers. I need more pictures of her when she was a baby, so hopefully I will get lucky and Spencer's fam bam will be able to find me some. I was able to scan some from her mom's photo album that she let me borrow, but I wasn't able to get a ton...only about 10 or so. Anyway, here are a few of my pages that I did today...I wanted to get at least one for every book we have. I have a wedding one, our family one and one for each of the girls.
So here we go....
OUR FAMILY SCRAPBOOK

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OUR WEDDING SCRAPBOOK

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KENDRA'S SCRAPBOOK

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KAYLIE'S SCRAPBOOK

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I'm not super great yet, but I also don't want to waste a lot of money buying extras that I don't need for my pages. I want to do with what I have until I have extra money to spend on extra do-dad's!

Anyway, on another note. Kendra took her Spring pictures at school. I was totally not planning on buying them. I was in California when they were taken...Spencer was in charge, but thank goodness my friend Shanna did her hair...I loved it! She looked adorable. Here is that pic and her class picture, which was the reason I had Shanna do her hair...little did I know they would be so cute!

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Normally I would put a picture up of the girls in the bath together, but this is just too cute to pass up, I told Kaylie to say cheese so she looked up and said "cheese"...then I got the cutest pic!

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Here are some pictures of Kaylie for the week, Kendra was with her mom so I will have more of her next week.

I always find Kaylie just chillin' in her Bumbo, I love that she can get in & out of it on her own now.

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Kaylie played dress up today with Kendra's dress up clothes and her new shoes that are too big still, which works out perfect for dress up.

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And on to the next outfit...

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This girl climbs on everything...tonight, she ended up on our kitchen table...serioulsy. If I wouldn't have wanted to kick her little bum, I would have taken a picture, but I also didn't want her to think it was ok...that's scary!

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Best Friend of Naomi & Owen...(inside joke, Laura)

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And she walked around like this the rest of the day...

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Oh but I do have something of Kendra, her most recent ballroom practice video.

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Anyway, I have to go now. I had my wisdom teeth pulled (only 2 of them) on Friday and I am feeling some pain now...gotta go take some meds...

Luv,
Kate

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

It's been a....LONG time update!

Ok well I know I haven't posted lately, but sometimes I feel like not too many people read this thing. Especially since only 4 people have accepted to join my blog...then again I guess I did give them my log on info in case they didn't want to join google...etc. Anyway, if you are reading this, please leave a comment...it will keep me writing more often.

So for our update. Gosh, I really don't know where to start. I haven't written since Kaylie turned 1 in February.

Let's start with Spencer. His is continuing to work in Louisianna and that still stinks, but he is still a pretty great hubby when he is home. I know he has got to be so tired from all the travel, it's 10 hours from home to LA and he does it almost every week. I don't know what else to say about him... We did however celebrate our 2nd Anniversary on March 25th. We went to the restraunt that he proposed to me at, it was yummy...especially dessert. Here are some pics from that.

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As for me...gosh I have been so crazy busy. I am getting a ton of dental work done, my teeth really suck. But I am looking forward to having pretty teeth. Kaylie & I recently went to California and Nevada to visit my family. We had a great time and were able to be there for a week and a half. I will post some of my fav. pics...then move onto the girls updates.

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Ok so I guess I have a ton of favorite pictures, to see them all go to my dropshots....I have already given everyone the log on info...but if you still need it, email me.

Oh & here is a quick picture from Easter. The girls had matching dresses and they were so cute!!!

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Kendra, sweet Kendra. Well this girl has been busy with school, ballet and now ballroom, my favorite. She is such a great dancer. Things with here though have been pretty routine...she is a great kid and we have been doing some fun things lately and she loves more than anything going to Disney World...any park, but she loves it! Here are some pics and videos so you can see what she has been up to.

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Ok, now for Kaylie. I won't go too much into details until I can explain more, but here is a brief update. Kaylie's doctor has continued to worry about her not gaining much weight. It was mostly more of a concern when she got diarhea from milk and then it continued with soy until she broke out in hives...then they put her on rice drink, which the GI specialist said was just as good for her a juice...so not really! So they put her on a drink called Vital Jr., which would cost us about $850/month...so I told them I needed an alternative...then put her on Enfamil Kindercal, only $300/month (yea right!) So...they told me to come get some free samples until we at least know what is wrong with her, hello...I can't afford to pay that much for a drink we don't even know if she needs. Anyway, we had her blood taken on Monday night, so hopefully we'll have results back soon. They think she might have celiac disease, but we aren't too sure about that. Anyway, other than all this stuff, Kaylie is doing great. She is saying more words every day and is such a fun and entertaining baby girl! Here are her pics.

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So this is probably my longest blog every, but I hope you all enjoyed the pics of our family. I will for sure to try to update more often...since updating for 2 months wasn't easy.

Lots of love,

Katie