Little Miss Kegan, My niece

Finally the perfect pic! Me my bro and our GIRLS! Kaylee and Kegan

Soooooo happy to see her sweet face!

Here is my niece Kegan Abigal! This is my brothers lil girl. She is just the sweetest! After months of not being able to see her finally with the courts help my brother and our family get to have her in our lives! I only hope and pray Joey and Kegans mommy can be friends and communicate with one another for years to come.
Kegan is a very happy almost 9mon old! She makes the funniest growling sounds and smiles all the time. Here are some pics of her!

Preschool.......O My!!! Its time

Where has time went, two years flown by......and its time.........soooooo

After much debate and getting finances together, we've decided Kaylee(and mommy/daddy) is ready for preschool, she will start Jan 5th. She will be in the 1yr old class cause she didn't meet the Aug deadline for 2yr olds but there are several others that are right behind her turning 2 so it should work out great. OMG I've spent weeks calling places and looking up places on the internet. And finally found the perfect place and fits in our budget and its church based which makes us feel better. Its nuts the cost of some places, seriously I can't figure out way they cost so much. Anyway..............
Kaylee is soaking in everything right now and mommy is NOT teacher material! hahaha I'm very good mommy material but can't figure out what to do day to day to challege Kaylee. Kaylee really is a very smart lil toddler and really needs the interaction with more kids her age. We really feel she will benefit greatly and love going! She will go 2 days a week tue/thur for 4 hours. However its during her normal naptime so I hope she will be ok. I know its going to be hard on her the first couple weeks but I think she will love going once she see's how fun it will be. And MAYBE just MAYBE they can help on her sharing and being nice. We can't seem to get anywhere with this girl on being nice and sharing........and we have no idea where she learned such icky behavior.

We have so much change coming with the new year and its all wonderful
Mommy and Kaylee starting school............wow
Adoption - not that that will happen right away but at least we will have our profile out there by Feb.
Daddy's job is moving just down the street from our house....woohooooooo
We get to see Kegan finally, which is uncle Joey's lil girl! I'll post pic of her soon, she is just as pretty as pretty can be........hehe like Kaylee.
We are having a great end to the year and looks to be a wonderful beginning to 2009.
Life is just wonderful and Kaylee makes it that way

Just a lil update!

Kaylee & her furbro's

Its so fun to watch Kaylee and the dogs play! Half the time they just run her over and she just gets up and goes back for more! LOL Here are some funny pics of her and Emit playing tug o war and of course Max had to get in on the fun next!



Max says"please no more love"! HAHAHAHAHA

Just a SWEET Grandpa!!!

My grandpa came over for dinner the other night and this is what he brought me! OMG isn't it just a beautiful arrangment! I just smiled and smiled....and it smells sooo good and christmas'eee! LOL He delivers for the lady that did this arrangement and she is just great at it! She also made some wonderful ones for my grandma's funeral. Bless my grandpa, I just love him! He makes me feel so special!

Kaylee and her Great Grandpa

Old Saint Nick

So we went to see Santa sunday afternoon and it didn't go so well! Kaylee was all excited and ready to see santa but when the time came she let us have it! Poor baby was so scared. But we did get a pic with me kaylee and santa, maybe we'll try again before christmas.

No way will I sit on him! LOL

Only with my mommy.....I guess

Merry Christmas

Another BIG milestone........POTTY Time

Kaylee did, she went POTTY in her chair for the first time this morning. OMG I was/am so very proud of her and happy. I know we have a long way still but she did and all by herself no asking by me or taking her to the potty. After a couple of failed tries by me to potty train her I said....ok she will do it in her own time. I'm so glad I let her decided when she was ready, so much easier and I know that she understands what to do this way.
I was just changing her diaper and getting her dressed this morning. She got up and took off as usual(hahaha)running naked. I did say you can potty if you want, cause she did want to put a diaper on. She said "o ta I will" and ran to her potty. I though ok she'll just sit there and then say no I fine as she normally does! hahaha So I go finish getting ready for work and start the car. I come back in the house and she runs out and says ick wash hands, fingers. I look and her fingers are wet and I knew right away she either pee'd or got in the toilet. I ran in there and she had PEE PEE'd. I just jumped up and down and said good girl Kaylee, big girl, I"m so proud of you....you peeeeeeed! LOL Then we danced around the house and got her some snacks. We'll see when she goes again.....still no pushing just when she feels she wants to!!!

EDITED: She has pee'd several times today and seems to really like doing it! WOOHOO! Maybe soon she will tell me when she needs to go. I'm so proud of her!

A Day of THANKS

HUGS to Everyone!

What I'm Happy for and sooooo VERY Thankful for!!

Kaylee and Jason - they are both the light of my life and the reason I love waking every morning! I love hearing the sweet "MOMMY MOMMY"every morning no matter what time it is! hahaha! I love feeling Jason's kiss and touch in the morning and hearing him say "I love you"

My parents and brother - I just adore my mom,dad,brother and stepfather! They are ALL such wonderful people and I'm so blessed they are MY parents and my brother.

MY LIFE - I LOVE my life............I'm happy and very content. I love all we have and I look forward to everyday! I might not have it all.......but I have whats most important......more love than anyone could ask for.

My Inlaws - I'm blessed to have a wonderful extented family! My SIL is great and my niece is the best! My MIL is sweet and quite funny and I'm just happy my FIL is feeling better this year.

So many thanks I could go on and on!

**** Just a lil extra hear..........Bless my grandpa for his first holiday without my grandma. She is so missed and its still so unreal that she's not with us!
LOVE YOU GRANDMA!

EDIT:
Just a good very precious pic I wanted to share also. Thanksgiving night was the first time is FOREVER it seems that Kaylee layed in my arms and fell asleep like an infant! I LOVED it! What a wonderful end to a very THANKFUL day!