First Day of School

2013-2014

Kelton: 3rd, Taylor: 1st, Crew: Pre-k

I'm 4!

Crew is........

We celebrated on his birthday at Chik-fil-a! We had a little party with his friends that are home during the day and then that night we celebrated with the family. I don't think he was excited at all! Haha.

I love my little baby. The time has gone by way to fast but I love this little Crewser Bruiser. He still loves to cuddle and tells me he loves me at least 10 times a day. He is definitely a momma's boy and I enjoy it. He's sweet and caring and very funny. I love you Crew and Happy Birthday!

Daddy/Daughter 2013

This was Taylor and Ryan's 2nd time going but this time we got a group to go. They had a blast! The mom's made dinner for them and we took pictures before the dance. 

left to right:

Juliette, Hallie, Afton, Taylor, Issa, and Delanie

They all such a great time. Ryan said when they got to the dance, Taylor saw a bunch of friends from school that all wanted to dance with her.

Ryan was actually on-call this weekend and got called like 5 minutes before they had to leave for the dinner. I took Taylor over and she ate and played with her friends and Ryan, thank goodness got there in time to hurry and eat and leave for the dance with her! Whew!!!! Hot stuff though! 

The Dads

Peace, Love, & Happiness 2013

Our Valentine's Party this year was make love not war! The 70's. Everyone dressed up so well and we had a blast. Of course we had food and fondue for dessert and our newly wed game, but we also played a game called "Stack". 

We asked a question and however you answer it you have to move a certain number a spaces to the left or right. Which in the end will be a bunch of people stacked on eachother. 

It was hilarious!

The guys! Look at all that hair, or lack of for some.

We also went roller skating in a very sketchy part of town but it ended up being fun.

Winter Fun

We finally got enough snow this year to build a little snowman and go sledding.

It has been a very mild winter here in Indiana.

Flood

Our first flood!

We woke up on Jan. 30, Kelton's birthday, to the kids telling us that we had water down in the basement. Oh the joys of owning your home. The water was to the top of the baseboards and through out our whole basement. Half finished with carpet, no padding underneath, so that was a little help in getting it cleaned up. Most our stuff was washable or just old papers that probably needed to be thrown away anyway. Boxes got ruined, some yearbooks, but for the most part everything was ok.

Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012

I gotta say, I miss being with all our family during the holidays, but having Christmas at home with just us is great. I love being able to watch my kids get so excited about what they got from Ryan and I and from Santa. Yes, they all still BELIEVE!! I love it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Kemp Weekend in Chicago

Weekend of Dec 1, 2012 we got a surprise from Ryan's parents. Part of our Christmas from them this year. The family came down (adult's only) to Chicago and surprised us. We stayed downtown with them and did a little walking around saturday.

Then Sunday we had tickets to the Bears vs. Seahawks game. Our first NFL game ever! It was alot of fun. We were all geared up to go to the game.

Then later that night we got to go see Andre Bocelli. AMAZING!!!

We had such a wonderful time with everyone. It was sad to see everyone go.

We don't get to see them often but what a wonderful weekend we got to share with you all.

Decorating

 Decorating the christmas tree

The kids loved helping put all the ornaments on this year.

You can see we had to a little switching around. Didn't want the tree to fall over from to many in one spot.

Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving 2012

We had thanksgiving this year with Annie and Caleb in Ohio. We had alot of fun. We did a hike which was very pretty and the kids did great and we went ice skating. Ryan got to go play football with some guys from their ward, sad Caleb had to miss out.

The turducken! That's right, turkey, duck and chicken with a filling of some sort that was not very good. Well, it was all right but I like my traditional turkey. Everything else though was delicious.

Halloween 2012

Halloween 2012

Our ward Halloween party.