Wedding Weekend Bonanzas!

We haven't been invited to more than one or two weddings a year for many years now.  This June we have 3, three weekends in a row....and Alan and I are in one of them! 

It started off the weekend of the 8th with my friend Brittany's wedding.  We celebrated at the Kickapoo Creek Winery and it was a beautiful wedding.  Lots of fun with friends!

The Bride & Groom!

Me & my hubby

Me, Christel and Kristin

Kristin & I

This past weekend was my brother-in-laws wedding in Chicago.  I worked Tuesday, Wednesday and then we left Thursday-ahhh, craziness!  Alyvia and I did pedicures with the Cowser girls on Thursday morning, we went home and packed and then left right after noon.  Thursday evening was the rehearsal and dinner at The Snuggery-yummy, good bar food!

Livi & Reagan at The Snuggery

My boys

Me & My Guy

Cowser girl cousins (minus baby Kendall!)

The next morning we went to Liz's Aunt's house to get ready for the wedding.  Livi came with to get her hair and make up done too :)  The girlies all looked so pretty!

My beautiful girl & I

 Alyvia & Kinsley

Flower girl Rylie

Flower girl Kinsley

My beautiful new sister in law!

A little before 3 the trolley picked us up and we headed to the church!  Poor Colson was having a hard time because he couldn't go with Mommy & Daddy :(  Nana & Papa helped us out so much and shuttled the kids around all day!  They sure looked cute!

My other beauty

It was a full Catholic mass so it was a long ceremony, but very nice and we are happy to have Liz be an official part of our family now!

 After the ceremony we did some pictures and then the trolley took the wedding party to a park and the reception.

The reception was held at The Beau Jolie-BEAUTIFUL!  The reception didn't start until 7, so all the kids were tired, but they did so good and had lots of fun!

Alan, Reagan & Alyvia dancing!  Too fast for my camera :)

Uncle Adam spinning Livi around!

Mamaw & Alyvia`

Our (tired) Family

 We had such a fun time celebrating Uncle Adam & Aunt Liz!  We wish them the best for a lifetime of love and happiness <3

Next weekend we have my cousin Shannon's wedding and that will wrap it up!  It's been crazy this month!

Kendall is 7 months old!

7 months!  This sweet baby girl is getting so big.  She is honestly the happiest baby...90% of the time :)  She is sleeping so well and sleeping in her crib, finally!  After Livi got done with school, "Operation move baby into her own bed" began.  She did so well.  We had to "plug her in" (with her pacifier) a couple of times around 4 in the morning, but now she is sleeping 10 to 12 hours a night!  Yay Kendall! 

She has finally figured out eating too.  She now eats fruit & rice cereal for breakfast, fruit & veggies for lunch and a baby food dinner & rice cereal for dinner.  She has bottles before nap and bedtime too.  She has a hard time eating when she's not home.  In a restaurant, forget it!  Way too much to see to spend time eating :)   She has grown like a bad weed the last 2 months too.  She now wears 6-9 month clothes and some of her 6 month clothes are getting too small :(  I think she wears a size 2-3 shoe, but she really never wears shoes yet!

Miss Kendall love toys and she will sit on the floor with a pile of toys or her play mat and just occupy herself for quite awhile.  She definitely plays with toys a lot more than Livi or Cole did.  She still doesn't like to be on her tummy much, so I don't see crawling in her near future!  Mommy's o.k. with that though ;)

Kendall, you truly are the sweetest girl and we love you so much!  I'm so curious as to how you will be when you get older.  I hope you are still our laid back & super loving baby girl!  We love you so much!

My Poor Neglected Blog :(

It's so hard to blog these days!  I have so much stuff I want to write down and not forget, but apparently we are too busy-ha!  I am so stinking tired by the time the kids are in bed, I have no energy to even blog.  But, I can play catch up, so here goes....

On May 19th Anne, Lindsey, Amanda and I ran in the inaugural River City Marathon Relay.  It was a beatiful, sunny and HUMID day!  I ran the 2nd leg of the race and went 6.9 miles in about an hour and 20 minutes.  I was good until about mile 5 and then I thought I might throw up....but I didn't :)  Poor Anne ran the last leg, 7.1 miles in the heat of the day :(  We all ran the last 0.3 miles together and finished our marathon in under 5 hours!

Alyvia had her last day of school as a kindergartener...

We celebrated Memorial Day by just looking our cutest :)

The first weekend in June was Alyvia's dance recital.  I was terribly nervous being a first time "dance mom". There were so many rules and instructions on how exactly the girls were supposed to look!  It ended up going great though, it was obvious this wasn't the studios first "rodeo".  Alyvia did her ballet dance first to "A Whole New World" from Aladdin. 

Then we had to do a costume and hair change for her sassy tap dance to "Personality". 

Rehearsal night was great so we were prepared the night of the actual recital.   Alyvia was a little nervous before and after the first dance, but once we found each other after her performance she was good to go for the rest of the night! Uncle Chris, Aunt Anne, Finn, Uncle Shane and Lindsey came and watched on rehearsal night. 

Aunt Lindsey used to dance at Kim's too & gave Livi flowers after her performances! 

The morning of recital night was Alyvia's first t-ball game too!

Little brother was excited to go cheer sister on....until we got there, then he wanted to go home!



She hit the ball every time up!

That afternoon we went to Shannon's bridal shower and then it was recital time!

Mehala, Mekaya, Kaitlyn, Ilah, Ava, Alyvia, Morgan

Emily, Ni, Kaitlyn & Alyvia

Nana, Papa, Mamaw and Daddy were there for recital night. 

Daddy and Mamaw both gave Livi flowers after her show!

Alyvia was so excited after the recital.  She is set on doing dance again next year!  And more catching up for my next post!

Fancy Nancy's Mothers Day Tea Party

The kindergarten class had a mothers day program at school today.  The theme was "Fancy Nancy" and everyone was supposed to wear their faaanciest clothes to the party.

Didn't my girl look beautiful?  The kids all went up on stage and performed a few songs for the moms.  The first song was my favorite.  It was an alphabet song, and I have the video, but it wouldn't upload :(

After the performance, the students and their moms each were announced and walked out on stage to have their picture taken.  Each class had made Mothers Day gifts too.  Mrs. Schaffer's class had potted flowers and the pots had pictures of each child modge podged on it.  I love it!  We had cookies and lemonade to end the party.  I was so thankful that I was off work and able to be there to with Alyvia.  What a great Mother's Day gift!

1/2 Birthday!

Miss Kendall is 6 months old!

And could she be any more beautiful?!  This baby.....I want to eat her up!  We went to her pediatrician appointment today and she weighs 15 lbs. 10 oz. (40th percentile) and 26 1/2 inches (71st percentile!).  This girl is growing!  She still takes mostly bottles, but is finally starting to really like eating baby food.  She eats cereal and fruit in the morning and cereal and veggies at dinner.  We've started to try a sippie cup and she is catching on to it too!

Big girl is sleeping better and better each month (knock on wood!).  She goes to bed around 9 pm and gets up around 6:30 am (waaay too early for this mommy).  She is doing so much better not waking up and needing her paci during the night.  I finally got her on somewhat of a napping schedule too.  She eats her breakfast at 8:30 and then takes a small bottle before morning nap.  She usually sleeps 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the morning.  Then after lunch, she naps again but that nap is usually shorter.  We're getting there for sure! 

Sissy is rolling both ways, although she still doesn't really like to be on her tummy :)  She is starting to sit up too, for a couple minutes she can balance....as long as she's not distracted or surprised!  My favorite new things she does though, is "give love".  She grabs your face with her chubby little hands (and sometimes her sharp little nails) and pulls you to her.  She burries her face in your cheek and gives baby love.  It's so very sweet <3. 

We love you baby girl!  You are the happiest baby (most of the time) and you complete our family in every way!