Happy Birthday Kailee

Can she really be 13????....

here are some of my favorite Kailee pics from the last few years!

Sleeping Beauty

I am home! Yeah...I am too tired to even blog about it right now...there is lots to do to get back to normal life here. We are all good after Hurricane Ike came through. Compared to most we were spared and have been greatly blessed! The night I got home Shawn went to make his rounds to do one last check on the kids before we went to bed and he called me into Ty and Kyler's room. This is what we found! :) Isn't he the cutest! We have a few of these things laying around from Shawn's various overseas trips, I guess Ty needed a good nights sleep and some catch up on the beauty rest as well!! :)

my grandpa

This morning my grandpa Fife passed away. I wish I was in St. George to give my grandma a great big hug! I love my g-ma & g-pa so much! They have always held a special place in my heart! I have such fond memories of them from when I was growing up! When I was 18 I moved in with them and finished the last half of my senior year in high school with them. My gramps worked in Elko, NV...so it was mostly just me and my grammie. I remember when I started dating Shawn, on the weekends when gramps was home, he would ask me... "You got a hairy leg coming over tonight?" Shawn (and all guys to g-pa) became forever known as "the hairy leg"!! I will miss you gramps...I know you are in heaven and I can't wait to see you again!! :)

Sweet little (actually very grown up) Kyler Jake

Here are just a few pictures of Kyler...we were just playing around last week with the camera..I was playing with the camera actually and he was very sweet to let me snap his picture over and over again!! I am hoping to capture the other kids too...cuz this turned out sooo cute! {don't hold your breath waiting though} These pictures just capture his cute little personality if you ask me....silly, fun, sweet, never to serious about anything, patient {mostly}, way to little for kindergarten, but way to grown up to be my baby and look at all those precious freckles!! He looks like his mom, dad and Aunt Tami!

first day of school

WOW...summer seems to have gone by so fast now that school has started again! All of the kids have been very excited to start since last Thursday when we went and met the teachers! Kailee started 7th grade! Can you believe it?...she will be 13 in a month! She is soooo darling she has fabulous teachers and is sooo excited to be in Varsity Choir this year! She is wearing a little bit of makeup...and she looks so cute in her mascara and lip gloss! {she had to get her glasses updated (new prescription) wait till you see her in her new frames...darling!} Austin started 6th...he went from being the big man on campus to the low end of the totem pole. He had a great first day though...he had fun and had good things to say about his teachers! I think he is gonna do great! Tyson started 2nd grade with a fabulous teacher, Mrs. Wagner. He just kept telling me over and over today how much he likes 2nd grade already! I had lunch with him and Kyler today and they both had lots of great things to say! Kyler, my baby, he started Kindergarten! I know the only reason I could leave him today was because I knew I left him in such great hands....Ms. Rigling is the best!!! :) He loved his first day...he told me about everything they did! He got to be the "caboose" today...he got to close the doors, turn out the lights and brought up the end of the line! He liked that job. I was sad when I came back home this morning and the house was so quiet! I went to breakfast with some of my girlfriends though for our annual Cheers or Tears outing...I was the tears this year...although I kept it together and had fun with the girls!

Ty in his classroom...at his desk

Kyler at his table...he is at table #3

Kyler waving to me when I came to have lunch with him today!

a day at the beach

Shawn took the kids to Galveston for a day at the beach. This was the weekend I hurt my back...I was on muscle relaxers and useless to them...so they made do without me and Shawners packed 'em all up and off they went! They had a ball! One funny thing happened! Kyler was out swimming and all of the sudden he started crying that his pinky toe hurt so Shawn picked him up to look at it and there was a little crab hanging from his toe...it had pinched him and didn't give up without a fight. Kyler loves to tell the story!! :) Kailee got to bring her friend McKell along too!

Chloe's blanket

Well...now that Chloe has her blanket I am allowed to share these pictures! Kailee was very insistent that I couldn't show these until Chloe saw her blanket first! Kailee made this blanket all by herself! Pretty neat huh?! As soon as cousin Chloe was born (back in February) Kailee went to work on a blanket for her. She had some help from her teacher in school who was extremely sweet to help her! It took me a little while to get the batting so Kailee could finish it up...and even a little bit longer again to get it sent! {insert very sheepish grin here} Check out a darling picture of sweet little Chloe here!