New summer 'do...

We are settling into the summer routine and everyone seems to be enjoying it. It has been a little rainy so we haven't been able to get to the pool but I'm sure soon enough we will all be checking out our wrinkled, water-soaked fingers and toes in the pool.


The most recent excitement around here is Jessica's new 'do.


Here is a before photo from a few days ago:

And here is an after photo








She cut about 4-5 inches off. She's been wanting to cut it off for a while now and when she was still in school she cut several inches off. At the time she wanted to go shorter but I wasn't quite ready for that yet (and I didn't want her to go into shock!). Well she has asked multiple times since then so we finally did it today. Kevin and I weren't prepared for how much older she looked all of the sudden! I do love the cut on her though!

Jett is doing well. His most recent accomplishment is keeping a plate on his tray during meal time and actually eating his food instead of throwing it! We found the secret is to make sure he has something to dip his food in...ketchup, mayo, ranch, etc. If he has something to dip he will eat like a champ!

Many firsts...

This has been a busy past few days for Jett:

• He's learned to blow on his food
• Point when asked where "Nana, Papa, Layne, Daddy, etc" are
• Says Daddy now (he hasn't been doing this...anytime we would say "Daddy" he would smile and say "Mommy!")
• He knows and can point to his belly, eyes and nose.
• He's attempting to go down the stairs backwards now instead of trying to just walk down them.

It seems like there was something else but I can't remember it right now...hopefully it will come to me again!

Memorial Weekend

We had a great weekend with friends and family. Saturday we spent the day at McDaniel's helping them get the pool open. Jett had a great time since he was able to spend the day with Neva. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me so I didn't get any pictures but they were very cute together.

Saturday evening we went to Gardner to watch the hot air balloons. Jett was facinated with them and started pointing and saying "balloon!" Here are a few pictures:

We hope you all had a great weekend as well!

Never Enough Time

It seems lately that time is moving much faster than ever before and more and more things are getting put on the back burner to get to later. I'm starting to think that later will never get here!


I have a stack of photos sitting on my desk that I need to do something with, I have an entire hard drive full of photos I would like to print and get put into albums, I have several half started photo books on my shutterfly account waiting to be completed, I have half of Jett's milestones in his baby book and half on his first year calendar...and since he has turned one the rest are on facebook. I am thankful that at least they are documented somewhere!

Does anyone else feel like you can't get it all together all at the same time? If my house is clean (I mean really clean not just picked up) then we end up eating out or eating quick "junk" food at home. Or if the laundry is all finished then the sink is full of dishes. I thought this comic was all too true! Well I just killed almost 60 of those precious naptime minutes, you know...the ones where you have both hands free to get things done....and guess what...there are still dishes in my sink and laundry that needs to be done but...the world is still spinning! I guess I'll go do the dishes and get off the computer and stop wondering where all my time is going! :0) Have a great day!!!

Did you miss us?

We're back...I had given up on our blog for a while, I got hooked on Facebook and most of our friends and family are on there so I stopped updating this. Anyway, I decided I missed it and it is a great way to keep track of milestones and keep records for the baby book etc.

Jett is almost 14 months now and Jessica will be 8 in just a few weeks. I can't believe how quickly they are growing!

Jessica had her birthday party with her friends this past weekend. She's off traveling the country again for a few weeks so we had her party before she left. Here is a picture of all the girls together.

Jett is no longer walking, he's running....fast....everywhere. He definitely keeps us on our toes! His favorite things include: running, balls (basketballs, baseballs, ping pong balls, beach balls, footballs, soccer balls), yelling, and reading. He's working on his molars still. He has two of them but the other two just seem to be taking their sweet time torturing all of us. Poor guy isn't sleeping well (which means Mommy isn't sleeping well either), he's not eating all that great either. He did just have a great lunch though, we fixed him all his favorites, beans, blueberries, strawberries, black olives, grapes, and crackers.

What else is there to report....Kevin is out of school for the summer. His last day was yesterday and he was pretty excited to call on the way home and say he was officially finished for the year. He is doing baseball lessons this summer however, so if you live in the KC area and need lessons let us know!

I hope to start posting again regularly so stay tuned!