Halloween

I’m a little late, as usual, but I wanted to post on Halloween.

Saturday night Jay took the kids to our town square where all the business set up and hand out candy. They call it “Spook City.” I don’t have a picture of Korbyn that night but I do have one of Jayci. She insisted on being a scary vampire even though I had bout her this cute outfit.

I try to let her express her self and make her own choices but this one was even a little much for me.

Therefore, on Wednesday we compromised and went with both pretty and scary. She could have her fake blood but her makeup was going to look pretty. I just couldn’t stand seeing her that “scary” again.

Korbyn was the sweetest little puppy you ever did see. I mean you know in my personal opinion…

I can’t get this kid to sit still for anything. He is so busy!! Maybe I just forgot how busy Jayci was but I feel like he is way more into things than she ever was. That is my little nephew in the picture as well.

Korbyn and his friend the hobo. You can tell he had been rubbing his face b/c most of his beard was off. He also had a sign that said, “will work for candy.” They were so cute!

Korbyn did so good trick-or-treating. He would walk up to every person and hand them his bucket. Then he would take off running to the next house. I just have to say he has the cutest run. He shakes his little booty while he runs and it is so cute!.

Later on he was going a little too slow so we put him in the stroller and he decided to dig through all the candy and try to eat it.

All in all we had a great time. I think it is a fun little holiday and the kids have so much fun.

~Kristen

Pumpkin Patch 2012

A couple of weekends ago we went to the pumpkin patch. I know I am not very good at this blogging stuff and I always say that but it still stands true. I just don’t take enough pictures nor can I think of anything to say half the time.

Anyway, back to the pumpkin patch. Korbyn is so fun right now I just know this fall/holiday season is going to be SO much fun. He is running around and talking like CRAZY. He repeats everything we say! At first we he called the pumpkins “balls” but then he learned the word and from then on they were “punkins.”

Can you tell he is so strong? LOL. He at least thought he was.

He really is pretty strong. He pushed the wagon around with multiple pumpkins in it the whole time we were there. Poor kid was so hot and sweaty but he would not stop.

I just can’t believe how big this girl is getting. She is loving first grade and is doing a really good job. We have our first parent/teacher conference of the year this Thursday so we shall see how she is really doing! HA.

I do believe I may be in trouble once she gets interested in boys and they get interested in her. Oh I am not ready for those days. I was so boy crazy. I hope she is smarter than me in that area….

Jayci and her friend, Kaylee

I at least got one picture of the two of them looking at the camera.

(Last year at the same Pumpkin Patch….of course Korby wasn’t looking)

Korbyn was really not interested in taking a picture with his daddy…go figure.

How Korbyn really felt about the hay ride. He really was not impressed.

Petting zoo! The kids loved this part and feeding the animals. We did this last and it was so hard to get them to leave.

Love that he is laughing at the goat here.

We had so much fun. This is the second year we have gone to this specific pumpkin patch and we love love it so much. They are so nice there and there is so much for the kids to do. They even have pig races but we missed them. Next to come will be carving our pumpkin!

 

~Kristen

Family…

Family comes in many forms. Immediate family, friends, and then recently I have learned about a new family. They are called an online family such as “the blog world” and Twitter. The women on here have rallied around one woman, Julee Turner, this week after she lost her husband in a car accident Saturday night. It has been an amazing process for me to watch, inspiring to say the least.

I don’t know Julee nor have I ever really read her blog. However, I know I cannot even imagine going through what she is. She has lost her husband and is now a single mother to a 10 month old baby girl, Preslee. My heart just aches for her and their family.

That being said this week I want to donate 100% of my commissions from my 31 sales to the Preslee Turner College Fund.

I really want people to focus on these:

They will make the perfect Trick-OR-Treat bags for Halloween. I will close the party Sunday at 4:00pm so they should be to you in plenty of time for Halloween. Of course if you want to order something different I will still donate the commission from it as well.

You can go here, then click on my parties and you will see one that says Julee Turner Fundraiser, to order yours today.

~ Kristen

SUYL–Singles Edition

Before I start my post I just want to say I’ve only had 3 hours of sleep after a 12 hour shift so words are not coming to me very easily so I hope this post makes a little bit of since!

Okay so I have never shared any single friends on my blog before but I just never had the right person! I would like to introduce you to Meredith.

Meredith is a beautiful 21-year-old from central Arkansas. She is probably one of the most kindest sweetest girls I know. She is fun, energetic, outgoing, dependable, and so much more!

Meredith and I met when she started working on the floor that I worked on at the hospital. Right away I knew we would become friends. She was easy to get along with and has very good work ethic, which is very important for patient care and important to note just because of so many younger adults not being that way.

Not only that look how adorable she is in her scrubs. HA! Meredith will start nursing school next spring/summer. I have to say she is going to make an excellent nurse.

Here she is with one of her cousins. I know she also has a niece and a nephew whom she loves very much as well. I know this because her instagram feed is full of just them!

I do want to add in one of the most important things that I have noticed about Meredith is that even though she may be young she does not get mixed up in a bunch of drama. It is easy to work with a bunch of women and get caught up with drama but I never really had any drama issues with Meredith.

I know that is not much and basically barely scratches the surface on all the good qualities of Meredith but if you need more information then you will just have to get to know her!

 

~ Kristen

Too long…

Wow! Apparently it has been almost 2 months since I have blogged. Summer time gets the best of me, I guess. Not that we have been that busy but I just haven’t taken the time to blog. So what have we been up to?

• If  you are my friend on facebook or twitter then  you know that I have started selling Thirty-One products. I love it and love making a little extra cash. I am not going to go into full promotion mode here but I am excited about the new FALL catalog!!
• Korbyn is now 15 almost 16 months old. He is growing like crazy and I just want him to slow down a little bit. He walks, talks, and is just everywhere. He loves playing outside and I am so glad it is finally cooling off a little bit around here. I hate to admit it but it has just been too hot to be outside for long periods of time this summer here.

• Jayci had a pretty good summer I think. We started out the summer by going to every VBS we could find with some friends of ours. That was fun for a bit. She got sassier by the minute I think. She is a pretty good kid but she is definitely like her momma. Full of Sass!

• This week Jayci started first grade. She was so excited to go back to school and be with her friends. I was kind of sad but excited at the same time. Korbyn and I miss her during the day but we are starting to figure out our daily routine with just each other as well.

First day of 1st grade: 8/20/2012

Look how big she looks! I just can’t help but see lots of trouble in our future. Please start praying for me NOW! HA

A few of her sweet friends in her class that met her at the door.

Okay well that is not much of an update but it’s all I got for now. I hear Korbyn starting to wake up from his nap. I am going to try and get better about this whole blogging stuff. Until next time!

~Kristen

A little catching up…

So yea I have a little catching up to do! (End of the year softball party and Father’s Day)

To start we had our end of the year softball party at one of the Travelers Games earlier this month. It was a lot of fun but the girls really could care less about the game. They still had fun just being with each other!

Some of the sweet girls before the game. I love that they all still wear bows and usually don’t even complain about it!

My sweet girl with her trophy

I love these two and they love each other so much!

Fun part Jayci, Korbyn, and some of the other girls got on the big screen. It happened so fast that I only got like 2 crappy pictures but here is proof!

Now on to Father’s Day…since I work Saturday and Sunday nights we celebrated Father’s Day on Friday. Jay got off work early and we just spent the whole afternoon and evening together. It was such a good day.

We started the day off by going to the Flying Fish for lunch. We love that place! Korbyn chowed down on some fish. Of course the kid will eat pretty much everything!

Several months ago Jay redid the fire alarm system at the Museum of Discovery and one of the guys gave him free passes for the 4 of us. We decided that this day would be perfect. I took pictures on my camera but not very many because my battery died so here are just a couple of instagram photos.

Here is Korbyn playing in the little kid area with a fire truck.

Jayci and the skeleton. We loved the museum. It was fun watching them explore all the exhibits.

Lastly, we went to a shopping strip and did a little shopping and then ate dinner. While we waited for our seats we gave Jay his Father’s day gifts. He has been saying for months how he wanted stuff for his office. I made him the thing below and another thing the kids finger painted (that I didn’t get a picture of).

Oh and to be completely honest I stole the below idea from another blog that I found on Pinterest. You can find the original idea here. You can tell I didn’t change it up much but it really didn’t need changing. Her’s was SO good!

Okay well I think I am pretty much caught up for now. We haven’t been up to much lately since it’s been so dang hot out. Hope everyone is staying cool!

~Kristen

Splish Splash Korby was taking a Bath

All on a Tuesday night….HA!

This was Korbyn’s first bubble bath and boy did he enjoy it. He did however try to eat the bubbles several times. He quickly found out that they were not that tasty!

I am so behind on blogging. I need to blog about our end of the year softball party and about Father’s day but those pictures are on our back up hard drive so I have to find it first…Oops. It’s here somewhere, I would die if I lost it because it literally has ALL of our pictures on it.

Anyway, Jayci has been going to VBS this week both in the morning and in the evening time. We love VBS. This is like the fourth one she has gone too. LOL. She loves to be around other kids and I love the little bit of a break that it provides and the fact that she is learning all about Jesus is wonderful too, of course.

Pure Happiness!

I have picasa downloaded onto our computer and it still allows me to use Picnik so that is where I edit all of my pictures. I know there are other places but I can never remember so I just use the same one.

I love his blue eyes. He is getting too big though. Just a little update on Korbyn. He is now 13 almost 14 months old.

He is talking up a storm. He can say Momma, Dada, Jayci, dog, ball, bite, baby, mine, NO, hi, and bye-bye.

He LOVES bath time and to dance. The baby has “Moves like Jagger.” Ha. He will bust a move anytime hears music. I keep trying to get a video of him but he is so quick that I keep missing the good stuff.

He literally smiles 90% of the day. Of course he does get fussy but overall he is a happy baby.

If you follow me on facebook, instagram, or twitter then you probably saw a picture of him in his daddy’s boots yesterday. Well here he is in his boots last night. He was so funny trying to walk in them at first.

Well, it is hot as…well you know, here. So we have been spending most of our time inside. I really would love to take the kids swimming and to play outside but the heat is unbearable. Also, my pale baby would be sunburned in a minute.

Hope everyone is have a fabulous summer!

~Kristen