Happy Birthday Kaylie Michele!

My baby girl is 5 years old today. 

Kaylie Michele

Kaylie is a funny girl.

She loves to laugh and play.

She loves playing outside with her friends and siblings.

Bedtime stories are now something she will not go to sleep without.

Pink is her favorite color.

She loves Lalaloopsy Dolls, Littlest Pet Shop & Barbies.

Kaylie makes me smile every single day. 

She is a girl so she can be very dramatic, but she is the funniest little girl ever. 

She can be sarcastic like an adult, which is scary.

She has a huge heart.

At 12:46pm on February 3rd I gave birth to my first born.

I can't imagine my life without this girl!

Mommy loves you Boo Boo!

The day Kaylie was born waiting to finish registering!

February 3, 2006, 12:56pm,  6lbs 14oz, 19" long, 

1 year old

18 months old

2 years old 

3 years old

4 years old 

My big 5 year old!

Gotta hurry...

Ok it's bedtime! Actually, it's way past bedtime. Bedtime was about oh say an hour or two ago. Yet I am sitting here at my computer with Caroline running through my mind. Yes, you! You have inspired us all to blog more often. I don't know if I can do it daily, but I sure as heck plan on pulling my camera out to take more pictures.

Today I had some friends over to craft with me. You see, I need friends over to help me...that way I actually do what I set out to do. Today....Turkey day shirts for the kids. For the girls, turkeys and for the boys, pilgrim hats. Thanks girls for a great day!

After everyone was gone for the night I went to get Lucas, who was playing in the bathroom on the counter. All week he has been showing me a boo boo he has on his knee. Tonight the cutest thing ever, he was trying to wash it off in the sink. I had seen him use a baby wipe, but this was so much more priceless, I love this kid!

I am so proud of Kaylie and how much she is learning in school. She surprises me daily with the new songs and things she has learned. The other day she came home with a paper that had her first and last name written on it...I asked her who helped her spell Meadows...no one :) She already knows how to spell her first and last name by herself. Tonight she decided she wanted to learn how to spell her middle name. I love just sitting there watching her do homework!

Chaz is all over the place. Tonight he climbed into the ottoman, which I use as a diaper caddy! Such a goof...and yes I have been feeding him too much orange baby food!

My baby girl is 4!

What a month this is going to be for our family! We have been going non stop since November and things just aren't slowing down. Our sweet Kaylie turned 4 years old yesterday and she had a great birthday with our little family. She gets to have a fun party on Saturday with our friends and family and she is really excited about that. She kept asking to have a party at the park, good things that's what I was planning on doing :)

I also just realized because we left on vacation I never posted about Kendra's birthday. Our big girl turned 10 years old on December 12th and her day was made even more special by being baptized by her Daddy that day. It was an amazing day that we had been waiting for, 2 years later it happened thanks to our amazing Bishop!

Two weeks from today I will be holding my new sweet baby boy! I can't believe it is almost here. I feel like this has been a fairly quick pregnancy, but it has been a painful and unpleasant one also. I'm just looking forward to getting past the delivery and having all my babies in my arms at once.

Pre-School

We signed Kaylie up for preschool at Discovery Zone, she starts on August 25th and we are really excited. We were invited to her school the other night for story time and to see Curious George...oh and to get us to purchase some books from their book fair.

Kaylie loves playing at "her" school! She had a really good time roaming around the room looking!

In the car headed to school!

It was really loud in there with all of the kids playing with the musical instruments!

And then Curious George...she didn't care for him at all!!!

Happy 3rd Birthday My Little Love!

My little baby girl turned 3 on February 3rd. We had a super fun party for her at the park again this year. Thank you to everyone that was able to make it and for her wonderful gifts, she had a blast!

Talking to Daddy on the phone after she woke up so he could wish her a Happy Birthday!


She is so grateful when she gets gifts...I love it!


I love my presents!

Kendra & Boston looking on as Kaylie opens a card.

Wow Wow Wubbzy! She LOVED her cake!

I just had to post this picture of Kendra & Andrew, my friend Kathy's hubby. Kendra got home and said "Andrew is just so funny, he kept making me laugh" My kids just love Kathy and Andrew!

For Kaylie's birthday I took her to get some special cupcakes at Sweets by Good Golly Miss Holly in Waterford Lakes in Orlando. They were yummy, we ate them all that night. She loved them!

Time to Bake

Kaylie loves baking and loves being a helper so when we are with my mom she loves it. My mom let's her cook cupcakes whenever and pretty much let's her do what she wants. Kaylie made cupcakes and cookies and decorated them all on her own!

Happy Early Birthday Kaylie & Makayla!

Well since we were in town my Mom wanted to celebrate Kayile's birthday at her house, it was a lot of fun. Since my aunt Deb and cousin Makayla were there we celebrated Makayla's also since it's 3 days after Kaylie's.

The most fun probably came with the cake so I'll start with that.... You probably had to be here for this, but this pics should be enough!

So my mom went with Kaylie to order the cake so Kaylie could pick it out. My Mom came home and said they got a Tinkerbell one, that's what Kaylie wanted. The next day we were going to be out ice skating so we had Joe (step dad's brother) pick up the cake for us. When we got home from ice skating I looked at the cake and asked my mom if this is what the picture of the cake looked like. She about died. She had ordered a cake where the kids picture is added and the put that printable sugar paper on the top of the cake...she asked for it just without Kaylie's picture.

This is the cake that was on the table...




I told my mom there is no way I was going to let her pay $20 for that cake (even though that was a cheap price), but whatever. So since we had to run to the store I said I was going to bring the cake back and we'd ask them to re-do it for the next day and we'd have the party then. So we did. I went to the bakery (my mom wouldn't come with me) and I showed the girls at the counter the cake. They were suprised at what a mess it was so they went and talked and came back and said to give them a few minutes, they'd fix it for us. I figured, no big deal......Well 40 minutes later and after them telling us about 25 minutes into making the cake that they weren't actual cake decorators...they were sandwich makers, this is what we came home with. The girls there were very nice, but they should have never attempted to make a cake and should have never forgotten to mention that they didn't do it for a living....We gracefully took the cake home and just laughed! The did give us half of the money back and are supposed to call my mom to give her the remainder of her money back for the mess! It's funny though because those girls thought they had done such a great job, they were so proud they did that for being sandwich makers....seriously? I could have make a cake look like this with the tools they have, I hope I could have done a better job and not sprayed so much green that it actually looked like grass was growing on this cake!
Sorry the pic is sideways...I can't help it!





Oh yeah and this is what the cake was supposed to look like :)

Happy "Way Early" Birthday Girls!!