Birthday Party for Kaleigh

We had a birthday party for Kaleigh and yes it was a princess theme and yes you are looking at shoe on a pillow cake and yes Michael made this cake. He is the one who makes all the kids birthday cakes and does a great job at it, they always come out awesome.

Posing in front of the castle.

Playing Simon Says.

Playing Princess and the Pea.

Fun with Daddy

Michael is doing some landscaping in our front yard so he got a wheelbarrow and the girls wanted a ride around the house before he took it out side, the older ones were having a ball but Madison was not too sure.

The Birthday Girl - Oct. 10, 2007

OK so this is crazy my Kaleigh is 4 - FOUR can you believe it FOUR! It seems like only yesterday I was watching her doing the army crawl and moving furniture to climb things it's
so wild to see this beautiful girl turn 4. She is so smart and funny and impossible. She has
a ton of attitude and love it's incredible. I hope that I am worthy of being your mom and
that with God's help I can shape you to be an amazing young lady, woman and daughter in
christ.

My almost walker

Can you believe it she's standing all by herself. It's incredible

she's not even 9 months in this picture, we went from crawling

rocking to crawling to pulling her self up to standing alone all in

the span of 6 weeks. It's awful, my baby is going to be walking

before we know it.

The crazy month of September

So this has been the craziest September EVER and that is no exaggeration. We are all exhausted and worn out. Between the start of school, ballet, girl scouts and Awana, Michael has done more traveling in the last month than he has in his entire life. It started out with him going away for the Men's Retreat at church to going to South Carolina, Miami and then St. Louis and finally away for a golf weekend that was planned three months ago with his dad. In between all of this we had Madison dedicated at church. YES! he owes me big, and sometime in the future we will discuss my time away for the weekend.

Pictures from Madison's Dedication

Yes this is very cutesy. I have to do it while I can.

AWAKENING FEST

We managed to squeeze in Awakening FEST (christian rock concert) with 15,000 people, it was a beautiful day, a little cooler than we thought but we had all had a good time just spending the day together.
Of all the people in the world we managed to sit right next to my friend Felicia

who I haven't seen in over a year completely unplanned.

We were in a Lamaze group when we were

all pregnant with our first children. That's her son Austin her first child, she

subsequently has 2 other children. I'm still friends with the other ladies,

though we don't get together that often anymore, but I wouldn't have

made it through those first few months at home with out these ladies.

She's such a Daddy's Girl.

I love this picture just me playing around with the camerae with the girls.

Here is Madison trying to stand with while she was trying to figure out how to crawl. Yes another over achiever. Watch the video below to see more. It's funny this is her at the beginning of the month, now at the end she's up, she's crawling, she's even starting to slowly cruise.

We've already had to drop the crib to the lowest setting because she's pulling herself up in her crib. She wasn't even eight months yet. YIKES.

I'm so not really ready for all this.

Hit the play button to watch., it's a little grainy, but cute.

More of the first day

Kaleigh and her little friend Anna pick up right were they left off last year, best of friends.

First day of school for Kaleigh

Today was Kaleigh's first day of Pre-school for the second year. She actually has Ms. Gail who was Jordan's pre-school teacher when she went to pre-school. Ms. Gail will be great for Kaleigh she will know how to keep her challenged yet keep her in line. I'm looking forward to this year. Although I have to admit, I sobbed when I dropped off my little trouble maker.