I Almost Forgot…

I almost forgot to show off our wonderful family pictures we had done back in November. Krystina Bullard at K. Bullard photography did them. She is on maternity leave right now but you should definitely give her a call, if you live here in central Arkansas, when she comes back.

Without further ado….

We actually had these done for Christmas presents for Jay’s parents. Here is all of us. I think she did a really good job, especially since we had 5 kids to wrangle together.

~Kristen

The first week of 2012

2012 has proved to be a very exciting year for us thus far, especially for Jayci. Christmas break came to an end on January 4th and Jayci headed back to school. Well the previous Saturday Jayci discovered that she had a loose tooth. Well wouldn’t you know the first day back to school her teacher pulled her tooth! I know they are probably very experienced at the tooth pulling business and it probably saved me a lot of drama but I was still quite disappointed. In fact, I almost cried.

Not the greatest picture but her teeth are so little that is the only way I could get it.

The rest of the week we have just kind of hung out. Korbyn has had his first real sickness. He had a small fever virus back in December but this week he was really sick. He has had a fever, congestion, ear infection, and just plain feeling bad. Today he is still snotty but feeling much better.

Korbyn turn 8 months old on Friday. I didn’t do any monthly pictures because he is so snotty and still a little cranky. Some things is he doing now:

• He is up to 17 pounds
• He is crawling all over the place. Not very fast but he is definitely mobile.
• He can go from being on his belly to on sitting all by himself.
• He can pull up in his bed for sure. But other places he’s not quite so sure about.
• He loves his sister SO much. She makes him smiling all the time.
• He is still eating baby food but has started eating table food too. He loves all food except for peas. He pretty much refuses to eat those.

A pictures of my blue-eyed-babe!

And for the biggest excitement of the week. Jayci decided to try riding her bicycle without her training wheels. She did a great job! Still have lots of practices but she is still doing good. 

A video of her riding. Notice she always goes for the grass. She has no idea how to start or stop yet but those will come eventually…I hope. Oh and it’s blurry. I got some better videos but I either talked or made some kind of weird noise in them so I chose not to post those. HA!

Here is a picture of her too.

Now off to get ready to go to work….Hope you all have a great weekend!

~Kristen

Christmas 2011

This Christmas I was excited and sad all at the same time. It was Korbyn’s first Christmas and of course Jayci is so fun right now at Christmas so both of those had me excited. However, I had to work both Saturday and Sunday night so that had me a little bummed. I knew going into the field of nursing that would always be a possibility. However, it still sucks when it happens. All that being said my poor little patients that were stuck in the hospital on Christmas didn’t want to be there either. At least my family and I were all healthy and not spending Christmas sick, in a hospital none the less. Oh I do want to say that a plus side to working at a Children’s hospital on Christmas is that I got to play Santa and deliver some nice presents to the kids in the middle of the night.

Okay okay enough about work…I really did not get a lot of pictures at all of Christmas. I hate that but I kind of just enjoyed spending the time that I did have with my kids.

Here are a few pictures of the kids Christmas Eve (well our Christmas Eve on Friday).  We have a tradition to give new pajamas on Christmas Eve. This year we just got them for the kids. Aren’t they just the CUTEST! (Yes, I’m a little biased)

 

Christmas Morning (actually Saturday) we woke up about 7ish with Korbyn. Fed him breakfast then shortly after that Ms. Jayci work up and was ready to see what Santa brought. Before we let her dig in we read the story of Jesus’ birth. Of course, is kind of like torture for a 5-year-old so we might start doing that on Christmas Eve.

Of course, life wouldn’t be complete without a Angry Bird shirt…

We should have just bought him a box…

And a crowd favorite…The karaoke machine…Thanks MIMI! 

We went other places on Christmas Eve but I forgot my camera at home and again was just enjoying family that I didn’t really even care I had forgot it. Sunday I woke up a little early so we could go eat dinner at my in-laws and spend sometime there before we went to work.

My mother in law made an amazing dinner. I pretty much had to eat and open presents then run to work. It is so hard to leave when my kids are having fun and during family time.

We have one more place to go tomorrow! The festivities are never ending. HA!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

~Kristen

Oh Pinterest…

I know everyone has heard of this and pretty much everyone I know is addicted to it! I LOVE Pinterest. However, I think it has made me realize how uncrafty I really am. I mean I can follow directions good but people that came up with the original pins. They are just genius when it comes to crafting. Anyway, I thought I’d share a favorite recipe and the newest craft I have made. I was going to share all the recipes I have made but there are a lot of them so this one is easily a go to on a regular basis.

Easy Fried Rice with Sweet and Sour Chicken…This comes up often on our weekly menu.

The latest craft I have made is our tree skirt! The original idea came from here. Here is a picture of hers.

And here is mine…

This is the first ruffle. I started the process on Friday night. The full first ruffle got put on Saturday afternoon. Then I went and took a nap…ha. Of course I had to work that night.

I finished the rest today. It really did not take that long once I got started. You know in-between taking care of a baby.

The fabrics I used. Our Christmas tree is very traditional colors so I chose very traditional colored fabrics.  I LOVE the way it turned out!!!

Here is the skirt under our tree. I just love it so much. I need a new topper but have yet to find stuff that I want so for now a crooked star is there. HA!  

Oh and the skirt was not necessarily hard to make but it was very tedious and time consuming. I also ended up with 2 blisters from burning my thumb and forefinger. Totally worth it. Although I will not be making another one any time soon.

I found this on Pinterest too…It will be my next tattoo!

I am absolutely not changing my mind. I would already have it but I am waiting on Korbyn to wean. That could be a while so I have a lot of time to possible change my mind but I hope I don’t…HA!

There are so many more things I love on Pinterest. I want to do them all. I just have to come up with some money. Ha!

I will leave you with this…

Happy 7 month birthday to this little guy! I need to do a post soon on what all he is up to. Maybe tomorrow…

~Kristen

Happy 6 Month Birthday!

Korbyn,

You turned 6 months this past Sunday! I cannot believe you are already 1/2 a year old. I better get to planning for that big first birthday. HA!

You are probably one of the happiest babies ever. You fuss when you are tired or hungry and that is about it.

I cannot believe how much my heart has grown since you were born. Seeing you and your sister interact makes my heart so happy. You see her and your whole face lights up. You love her goofy singing and jumping around. Believe me she loves doing anything to make you smile.

Let’s see what are you up to now…

• You now weigh 15lbs (10%). You are a little on the smaller side. Although we are not too worried about it. You are a very happy baby. You are 26.5 inches in length (54%).

(Your Mimi bought you Sophie the Giraffe toy. You love it!)

• You can roll from back to tummy and then from tummy to back. Although you have yet to figure out that rolling could actually get you where you want to go.
• You are sitting up on your own. I still try to put stuff behind you so that way when you get a little distracted and fall over you don’t hit your head. Oh and because you have learned that you can sit up you really don’t like to be laid down for tummy time anymore. I think you may be one of those babies that just scoots on his bottom to get where he wants to go.

• Since you have started sitting up you now ride in the grocery cart like a big boy. You like being able to look around and you think you are just so big!
• You are still eating every 3-4 hours.
• You started baby food a little over a month ago. You LOVE eating your baby food. I have been making all of it so far. Hopefully I can keep up. So far you have eaten avocados, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, apples, and pears. 

• You usually sleep through the night but here recently you have been waking up once during the night. You usually eat and go right back to sleep. Your bed time is about 7:30 and you wake up for the day between 6-7am usually.

• This is pretty much how mommy totes you around. We love our Baby K’tan! As you can see here you were having a moody moment while I was trying to vacuum so I just put you in the K’tan and we were all set!   

(Dressed up in some of big sister’s Halloween costume. Had to post this picture because it was so cute!)  

• One funny thing you have started doing is any time I point the camera at you I get a big smile. It is so cute. It’s like you know you are getting your picture taken.

Korby you are so full of energy. I cannot say enough how much you have blessed our lives. Your personality makes us smile so many times a day! You are the sweetest baby and I just can’t get enough of you. In fact, you have only stayed with a babysitter one time and it was only for a couple of hours because I HAD to. However, this weekend you are going to stay with Papaw and Memaw for a few hours while Daddy and I go on a date. I’m already having to mentally prepare myself for this event. HA!

 

Korbyn  ~ We are loving watching you grow and learning so much! Love – Mommy, Daddy, & Jayci!

(P.S. If you like the Hogs shirt, dress, or the Thanksgiving Johnny you can go here or here. My friend Kasie has started a business and make great custom clothing, baby gifts, aprons, and kitchen towels.)

~ Kristen

Dance Camp

This past week Jayci attended the dance camp the High School Dance team put on. Thursday night they performed during half-time at the high school game. Let me just say Jayci was SO in her element. Before they performed they all met and she was cheering and jumping and clapping. I think I got a glimpse of my future. It was fun to see her perform.

They were all so cute on the field doing their dance and Jayci said she had SO much fun!

~Kristen

Halloween 2011

Halloween this year is kind of a blur to me. Normally I work Saturday and Sunday night and stay up all day on Monday with Korbyn . Well this weekend I decided to pick up an extra 8 hours on Friday night and not sleep as much on Saturday. Anyway, by the time Monday came I was exhausted but still wanted to do all the festivities. Therefore, I came home changed clothes and got Korbyn ready and we headed to Jayci’s school for her Halloween party. It was so cute. They were all dressed up and got to go trick or treating around the school.

Jayci with a couple of her classmates

 

Lined up and ready to go

All waiting patiently to get their pictures taken.

The cute little table set-up

Always have to have that one silly picture in there…

Jayci and her friend, M

After the school party Korbyn and I went home and napped for a couple of hours. Luckily Jay came home and gave me some relief so I got a total of 3 hours of sleep. That evening we went to our church for a little Halloween party they were doing. It was fun. There was a bounce house, face painting, a “haunted” house put on by the teens, a Chili cook off. Which by the way my husband got 4th place in. However, he still stands on the fact if people wouldn’t have cheated then he would have one…HA

These are the only 2 pictures I got of my babies together. After the party, Jay took Jayci Trick-or-Treating around the block. I on the other hand came and put Korbyn to bed and passed out myself at about 8:15. Ha

 

~Kristen