Baby Caroline!

Baby Caroline is finally here! We got to visit the Hick's family this weekend and see the newest addition to the family. Caroline is precious of course and Shelley is doing great! She is one busy lady and luckily Kenny's mom has been staying with her this week to help her adjust to two kiddos.

Carson is all of a sudden a toddler! She is running around and saying several words. We had a great visit and Kaleb loved spending time with his little cousins. Both little ladies are too cute for words so I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Those are 3 adorable kids! It was great to see the family and how well they are adjusting to their ever growing family. Shelley of course looks great and is a natural juggling the girls.

We also got to spend a little bit of time with Michael. It was great to catch up with him and hear all about his upcoming semester of grad school at SMU. Jason and Kenny both have plenty of insight to dealing with the challenges of grad school and I know he will be very successful as a SMU Mustang!

Between the business with the girls Nana was nice enough to take Kaleb to heaven...otherwise known as the Lego Store.

To say he had fun would be an understatement and he finally received the final Lego Set to complete his Toy Story Lego collection.

Thanks Nana!

It was great to visit the Hicks and I can't wait to see those girls again!

Houston!

I was lucky enough to take a weekend trip to Houston to visit Ms. Lauren.

Lauren has been a best friend of mine for a few years and she has been living in Houston for a little over a year now. It was great to see where she is living and explore a new city. The weekend was filled with good food, good drinks, and good conversation. It was great to catch up and see how well she is doing in the big city! Surprisingly Houston is really nice (at least where she lives).

Thursday night we had a great dinner and then went out for some drinks. I got to meet some of her friends and it was a great night reliving ladies nights at OU. A favorite past time of our Norman days.

Friday was a great day seeing some of the Houston sights. After a power breakfast of Mexican food and margaritas it was off to a house covered in beer cans. A house seriously covered with beer cans. I can't imagine the time it took to do or why anyone would do this but it was really cool to look at!

Next up was a brewery tour at Saint Arnolds. It was a really neat place and the beer was delicious. It was my first brewery tour and actually pretty informative!

I had so much fun and can't wait to visit again! Thanks for having me over Lauren!

Easter

We had a very fun Easter this year. It was filled the usual dying Easter eggs, Easter egg hunt, and family. Saturday night we went to Kenny's mom and had a great dinner. Kaleb was happy to get an Easter basket a day earlier.

Easter cupcakes from Nana

Courtesy of the Easter Bunny

Later in the day we headed to Mom & Dad's for another great dinner the family.

My parents hid some eggs for Kaleb in the backyard and he had a great time finding all the eggs. My Dad is an expert egg hider but luckily I remembered some of his tricks to help the kid out :)

Yes this is a pink basket...it was mine when I was little

Hopefully everyone had a blessed Easter!

February

The Month of love...

It was a busy one as always around here but February held some fun events!

Valentines Day of course...although I wouldn't say it was a romantic one we had a great time taking Kaleb to Disney Live! He was glad to spend a little time with Audrey and was so excited to see the Toy Story gang perform!

It was a perfect day and so much better than a traditional Valentines Day!

Next up was celebrating my parents 28th wedding anniversary. We had a great dinner we are all happy that they are so happy after all these years!

Here's the happy couple!

Lastly February was the start of Kaleb's first soccer season.

Although I don't think he's the next Pele he has a great time with the other kids and I am sure eventually his interest in soccer will pick up. For now it's playing with his teammates and shooting the opponents with his imaginary Buzz Lightyear laser.

I hope everyone else had a great month and is looking forward to Spring as much as we are!

Christmas

Christmas this year was one to remember!

We had Kaleb's first White Christmas and then some.

Traveling the streets of Tulsa Christmas Eve was reminiscent of a zombie movie. Abandoned cars were everywhere and it was quite an adventure to make it home for Santa's visit.

Kaleb decorating cookies for Santa.

All the goodies for Santa and his reindeer

The Tree

Finally Christmas morning came and Kaleb was so excited to finally open his presents.

As usual Santa and family were very kind to Kaleb....

After opening presents at home and having our wonderful maintenance crew shovel our car out we headed to Grandma's and Papa's.

More presents to open and more food to eat....

After visiting Grandma & Papa's house it was time to head to Nana's

Kaleb loved seeing Baby Carson and his aunts and uncles from Dallas.

Saturday night we went out to celebrate Kenny's birthday.

It was great to get everyone together to end the holiday weekend!

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Holiday and we're all looking forward to the New Years and all that it will bring!

Halloween!

It was a pretty lowkey Halloween here. Kaleb had a little bug so we just took him trick or treating in Papa & Grandmas neighborhood. Kaleb had a blast despite being a little under the weather.

He wanted to be Buzz Lightyear again and had fun running around in his suit.

After trick or treating Kaleb stayed with Papa & Grandma and Kenny and I went out to watch some football.

Kenny decided to dress up sexy for the night...apparently I wasn't impressed.

All in all it was a great night. Kenny's Yankees won, OU won, and OSU lost. Hopefully now the mouthy Cowboy fans will be silent.

I hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving

Kaleb had fun carving pumpkins this year but apparently he didn't like the smell!

And the final result...an ok looking Buzz Lightyear!