Saturday with Grandma and Grandpa

K and her cousin got to spend the entire day Saturday with Grandma and Grandpa, while their parents were able to enjoy a day trip to College Station and catch an Aggie basketball game. We all had a very nice day.

Happy Birthday K!!!!

K turned 1 year old on New Year's Eve. We had a celebration in Corpus Christi and Austin. She liked the icing on her cakes but not the cake. But she loves cake now,though, which we just found out at her daddy's birthday. She got lots of presents and she also really likes tissue paper. I love it that she gets so quiet when she plays with tissue paper because she thinks she is doing something bad. Silence is generally a good sign that nothing good is happening somewhere in our home. Anyways, I can't believe I don't have a little baby anymore. Last year went by fast. We grow more and more in love with our sweet little girl every day.

First Christmas

K had a fun first Christmas. She was as busy as can be squealing and crawling after her cousin. They entertained each other so well. I know the books say that kids don't learn to play together until 2 years old, but K and her cousin love being around each other. K will squeal really loud as she crawls after her walking cousin, C, while C will run away squealing thinking K is playing chase with her. We got a good laugh out of it every time. Having small children around for Christmas really makes the holidays more special and fun. We are so blessed!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving

Sorry it has taken me so long to get these pics up. We hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving. We had the opportunity to go to Pine Cove for our Thanksgiving. It was great being with family and we always love being with Pine Cove family, too. Granted it was very cold and it rained an entire day, but we still had tons of fun. K did pretty well. She didn't sleep very well at night. For some reason she got mad at us for sleeping right next to her and not getting her up at 2am every day. Thankfully, Deedee and Papa would take care of her early in the morning, so we could get a little more sleep. K wasn't too sure what to think of all the people in the dining hall, but she loved Cove Kids and loved getting so much extra attention.

K now pulls up onto any piece of furniture and is a bigtime talker. The other day I took her to the church nursery and for the first time she started giggling and jabbering with such excitement. I think it was really encouraging to the nursery workers. I just love that she is so excited to be around other people and especially loves being at church. I love watching K's personality come out. I think she is gonna be such a people person.

Having Fun!

K's cousin, C, came over last Saturday. The girls had a ton of fun together. They really like squealing back and forth to each other. There were only a few incidents where K got mad at C for playing with a toy she wanted. She especially got mad when C had the book, "Pat the Bunny". But the minute C put it down, K didn't want it anymore. Oh, the difficulties of being a baby.

When K got up from her nap, C joined her in the bed for some fun playtime. C tried running back and forth across the bed, and K was just so happy to see everyone in there waking her up (as you can see from the picture below). Thanks, Uncle Jeff for all the fun pictures you took!

Happy Fall!!!

We took K and her cousin to a pumpkin patch here in Houston. They weren't quite sure what to think of everything. K just wanted to eat and lick any pumpkin she could get near.

We also dressed the girls up for some cute pictures. K is a pumpkin and her cousin is a flamingo. I was surprised that K let us keep the head piece on. What a good little pumpkin!

Go Mavs!!!!!

A story was written last week in the Houston Chronicle about Adam and his Cross Country team. Here's the link if you get a chance to read it.

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2007_4439528