Our New Neighbors

Well, not exactly our neighbors, but George W. and Laura Bush are moving about 6 miles from us. They are putting a gate in at the entrance of their street, so Mikey went by there last week to take a picture of their house. They are doing a lot of renovations. Mikey said the house was full of people working. They move in this week!

Kiley's 2 Month Onesie Picture

Recent Kiley Pictures

Here are a few recent pictures of Kiley that we wanted to share with everyone. Her eyes light up and her beautiful smile warms our hearts!





Kiley loves to stand up and she loves to bounce. Mikey got her bouncer down from the attic and put it together. Once we put her in it, we realized that she still has some growing to do. She will love it once she gets a little bigger.

Girls Night Out

On Saturday night, Kiley and I went over to Tricia's for our annual Christmas Party. Yes, we know that it is January. It has become tradition for us to celebrate Christmas together in January. There is always so much going on in December and it allows us to extend Christmas just a bit longer. Kiley was such a good girl. She slept most of the time. I woke her up around 930 and gave her a bottle. She was awake and played with the girls for a while and then went back to sleep. We had so much fun eating yummy food, catching up with the girls and opening presents. Here are some pictures from the night.

Kiley with Stacey and Ashley.

Kiley with Tricia and Shannon.


Shannon, Stacy and me with our new 2009 planners. It is a big joke between the 6 of us. We are the organized ones of the group and love our planners. We get them out each year to record big dates going on in each other's lives for the upcoming year.

Texas Weather

On Saturday, it was about 80 degrees, so we decided to take advantage and have a family picnic. Mikey went to get Freebirds for lunch and brought it back. Freebirds is the perfect picnic food. We set up a blanket and Kiley's little Baby Einstein Gym. Kiley was such a good girl the whole time and she even fell asleep. We covered her gym with a blanket to block out the sun. It was such a beautiful day and felt so good to get out. In the last couple of weeks, we have had a few days with the weather in the 70s and we have taken Kiley out for a jog in her running stroller. She has done really well and it is a start to get Mommy back into shape. Less than 2 months until I have to be in a bathing suit for our Hawaii trip! I need to start those New Year's Resolutions!

So, most people have heard the saying that if you don't like the weather in Texas, just wait 10 minutes. Well here is a perfect example. After our picnic on Saturday, the temperature dropped 40 degrees on Sunday and here is a picture of icicles on our back porch on Monday.

Daddie's Girl

Kiley is 8 weeks old today. I can't believe it. She is almost 2 months old. I know I say this all the time, but she really does change every day. She is getting more alert and more curious. She is holding her head up great and she is acknowledging us more and more. When she hears our voices, she looks for us. She is definitely a Daddie's girl. He is so good at calming her down and putting her to sleep. She feels so comfortable in his arms. When she hears his voice, she looks all over for him until she sees him. She is gaining weight also. Her 2 month checkup is later this month, so we don't know exactly how much she weighs, but our arms are getting sore holding her. She is getting more rolls on her little legs too and has upgraded to size 1 diapers! Our little girl is growing up.

Mikey put together Kiley's Baby Einstein Gym over the holidays (Thanks Aunt Tamra!). She is getting close to the age where she can start grabbing for things, so we thought we would start to stimulate her brain. Here are a couple of pictures of her in her new gym.

If you look closely at her outfit, it says "If you think I am cool, you should meet my Dad." Kiley definitely enjoyed her time with her Daddie over the holidays while he was off. He went back to work today and we sure miss him!


She looks so curious in this one. Oh, and you can't see, but her little socks say Daddy's Princess on the bottom of them!

Happy New Year!!

Wow, 2009!! We had such a great 2008 and we have so much to look forward to in 2009. We hope you will be receiving your New Year's Card in the mail from us in the next day or so. This year we put our blog information on the back of them, so hopefully we will get some more readers! We had such a good time ringing in the new year with Kiley. It was our first New Year's Eve as a family of 3 (5 with Buddy and Boo!).

Unfortunately my first blog of the year has started out disastrous. My ability to multi task has back fired. I am so sad. I was copying our New Year's Eve pictures from our camera to the computer and trying to calm Kiley down at the same time. When I came back to the computer, I deleted the pictures from the camera like I always do after I download them. As soon as I deleted them, I turned back to the folder I was downloading them to and it wasn't finished. We had a few videos of Kiley that took much longer to download than normal. I lost half of our pictures. I am so upset at myself. I definitely learned a valuable lesson from this. I will post some of the pictures that we still have. So sorry Mikey, Kiley, Gretchen and Ben. At least we have the memories.

Since Kiley is so young, we decided to stay home and have a low key New Year's Eve with her. Our friends Gretchen and Ben were also looking for a low key night, so they came up to spend the night with us. We decided to start the tradition of Fondue on New Year's Eve. We made all 3 courses: cheese, steak and chocolate. They were all delicious. To make things more exciting, Mikey decided that we should have a theme for the night. We decided on a Cinderella theme. Gretchen, Kiley and I all dressed up as Princesses and Ben and Mikey as Princes. Gretchen and I actually wore the bridesmaids dresses from my wedding (I wore Mycah's). Kiley wore her Juicy Couture dress that we brought her home from the hospital in. We were all pretty in pink. The guys dressed up in bow ties with a few special touches that made their outfits fun. We all wore house shoes with our attire. We had so much fun with each other. Dinner was great, we spread it out throughout the evening. We ate the cheese fondue around 730, the main course around 930 and then the chocolate after midnight. We counted down at 11pm with the Time Square celebration and then at midnight with the Victory Park Celebration. The Victory Park celebration sure is getting big. There were so many people there. I thought it was neat that Ryan Seacrest showed Victory Park on his Time Square Party!! We were party animals and didn't go to bed until almost 3am!

On New Year's Day, Mom, Dad and Mycah came up for New Year's Dinner. Mom cooked our traditional good luck dinner: Pork Roast & Sauerkraut, Mashed Potatoes, Black Eyed Peas (made from scratch by Dad), Squash and Rolls. It was delicious!!

We wish you all a very healthy and happy 2009 from our family to yours!! We hope you enjoy reading about our 2009 adventures on our blog!