LIFE

well, life is just a whirl wind around our house these days. everyone is doing great! kyleigh is loving kindergarten and is doing so well! she definitely knows more timelines of world and biblical history than her dad and I and she has been learning a bible verse a week which is neat to see and hear. brayden is enjoying his school too.....we took him for his fall fest last night and i think he enjoyed staring at everyone more than playing games.. he LOVES watching and playing football and baseball with his daddy...he is turning into such a little man. miss karsyn is getting so big! she will be 5 months old in just a few days...man, i just want to push the pause button and stop her from growing up....she is just SSOO sweet! she rolled over from her back to stomach today and loves talking/jabbering and grabbing at toys. she is such an added joy to our family.

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Man, i don't know why i even have this blog anymore! its too hard to keep up with it and do facebook too! poor karsyn, i haven't even posted pictures of her since she was born and even then it was just a link to facebook! honestly, the only reason i got on here tonight is because nothing exciting is going on on FB, ryan's at practice, the kids are all asleep, and well, i would be asleep except that I have to wait until 10pm to turn the crockpot to LOW. lol.

Karsyn is doing great....hard to believe she is almost 10 weeks old!! i only have 2 weeks until i go back to work. :(. She is SSSOO sweet! she is sleeping through the night. usually from around 9pm to 6-7am and then she wakes up, eats, and goes back to sleep until usually about 10am! man, if i didn' t have two other kids to keep up with I could really be sleeping in! she is smiling and cackling and i just love soaking all her love up. she is precious.

Kyleigh starts kindergarden a week from tomorrow....not so sure how i feel about that. excited. sad. nervous. happy. depends on the moment. brayden starts back at the CDC next week after having the summer off. i have talked it up that he is starting school just like kyleigh!! he seems ready to go back and play with all his friends.

today we made a trip to longview. super one was having a 5 for $20 meat sale so i took an ice chest with me so we could still run some errands. we went to children's place, went to see aunt sheila and uncle "gene", then i took the kids to Chik fil a because we had free kids meals coupons. ended up its kids night anyways, so you get a free kids meal with any combo....gotta reamember that one! the days and evenings are long with two a day football practices....ryan's working about 16 hour days.....so any time we can get out of the house is nice...

and i am proud of how i handle three kiddos by myself out in public!!lol only today it was a lil hard when we were at chik fil a and i was at a table by the play area holding karsyn, brayden was playing and kyleigh had gone to the bathroom back in the very back of the restaurant and suddenly i hear her hollering MOMMA!!! at first i thought i was hearing things until she did it again... everyone back by the bathrooms was just looking around......evidentally she was poking her head out the door hollering it. so i ran back there......never mind my wallet, phone, diaper bag or middle child still in the play area............AND ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO TELL ME HER POO POO WAS HUGE!!! seriously!!!!!!!

anyways, life is fun , isnt it? we have enjoyed a summer home together, although ryan wasn't home near as much as i had hoped he would be. we are looking forward to this football season....not really expecting great things on the field, necessarily, but a good year none the less...hopefullly.

i think i may post a few of my fav pics of karsyn since i haven't posted many. OR NOT.....BLOGGERS NOT LETTING ME DOWNLOAD OR ITS JUST TAKING FOREVER...crockpot is on low....i'm going to bed :) good night!....so only one downloaded..o well, ill try again tomorrow



karsyn in her bling bling bulldog onsie :)

i was going to wait until i mailed these out to post this but i love it too much and couldn't wait!! Thanks so much to my friend Emily and her sister Meredith for putting it together for me!!

Newborn Pictures

Thanks to my friend Emily's sister Meredith for experimenting with me and taking these sweet newborn pictures of Karsyn. We decided after the shoot that newborn pictures are probably easiest the first 1 or 2 weeks. Karsyn is past the point (she will be 4 weeks old tomorrow!!) where you can twist and turn her and she'll sleep through it but she still did great and allowed us to torture her anyhow! She is such a sweet baby and we love her so much! As you've noticed i post most pictures to facebook instead of the blog because it got too hard downloading them to both, so i am sorry if you view my blog and don't have a FB account......that is why i am trying to get on here and atleast put a link to FB albums when i can. Hope you enjoy the pictures.....be sure and view them all!! there are lots and several of my favs are towards the end!!! :) i will try to post some of my favs once i have the disc.

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Karsyn Faith

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for"...Karsyn Faith joined our family today at 11:51am, 7lbs 6oz. She is beautiful!

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Kyleigh and Karsyn's new room!

Well, Kyleigh and Karsyn's room is ready for Karsyn's arrival. We had most of it done over Spring Break but the final touches have been made!! A special thanks to my sister for painting the toy box and to my friend Emily for doing the letters for the wall! They are both so talented!

I am 33 weeks today and ready to meet little Karsyn in a few weeks! I am feeling well, just 3rd trimester aches and pains and of course always being tired. The kids are very excited and enjoy talking to Karsyn and hugging and kissing her!





Sheila did such a great job!!

I have a feeling my friend Emily was sick of seeing zebra by the time she got finished with these letters!!

The changing table storage bins were a result of my own craftiness for a change ! ha! I bought the bins at target and I couldn't find any pink ones to I just got black and then got pink and zebra ribbon to wrap around them.... atleast my 5 year old was impressed!

kyleigh's first soccer game

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