Wednesday, April 4, 2012

March - Part 1

I'm going to do my March update in 3 parts so as not to overwhelm myself!  We had a lake trip in there so I of course have lots of pictures from that.  So Part 1 will be pre-lake trip, Part 2 will be the Lake trip and Part 3 will be post-Lake trip!  :-)  Here goes....  :-)

First shot is just a cute pic of the kids from outside a mexican restaurant one night in early March.  This is now the background on my phone!  So cute.  :-)


The kids waiting for Savannah to come play
 March also brings March Madness and NC State actually did pretty well this year so Waylon was a little more, shall we say, animated when it came to the games this year.  :-)  Here is a picture of Kylie watching him yell at the TV during the Carolina game. 


Saturday, March 10th Nana and Grandad came to babysit and Waylon and I went out to dinner with my friend and old coworker Jenn.  We had a nice time and Waylon ended up going home early and I stayed out later with Jenn!  So nice to catch up - it had been a while. 

Grandaddy reading to the kids before we left - love Kylie's raised eyebrows here  :-)
Kylie fights naps these days so we have been pretty flexible with them.  Much more so than we were with Noah.  Since he's pretty much given them up as well, it actually makes it easier to plan the day without having to plan around naps.  Although I really miss my few hours of down time on the weekends, that's for sure!  This particular day, I laid down in the bed with Kylie and took a nap with her...

Noah made an 'alphabet rainbow' and was very proud!
He's so excited about going to Kindergarten this year and talks about it all the time.  We got our school assignment and he'll definitely be going to Alston Ridge.  It's a year round school so the school year actually starts at the end of July!!  Pretty crazy.


My sweet boy - I walked into the playroom to find him playing with her hair.  :-)
The following Friday, March 16th, I had some errands to run in the morning and Waylon and I had a day date and met out to watch the NC State game.  Here is a dramatic picture during the game.  :-)


That night, Grammy and Papa arrived for the weekend and Waylon left to spend the weekend with his friend Steven.  I had a baby shower on Saturday and we had a surprise birthday party for my Uncle Michael to go to.  So much fun!!

Grammy with the kids at dinner before Waylon left town
Daddy saying goodbye to his girl on Friday night

Grammy tried braiding Kylie's hair - she didn't like while it was happening but it was so cute!!
Saturday was Anise's baby shower.  Baby Brooks will be here sometime in May.  We are so excited to meet Anise and Josh's new addition!!!

Drink table
Food Table

So cute!

Some of my favorite girls!
While I was at the shower, my parents too the kids to Fearrington Village to have lunch and see the belted cows.  I heard they had a blast and it looks like it from the pictures, too!!  :-)

Grammy and Kylie
 Love these next two shots....


The belted cows!

So sweet
That night - about 45 minutes after I got home from the shower, one of the teachers from daycare came over to babysit and my parents and I went downtown to meet Michael and Karen for dinner.  Little did Michael know, after dinner, Karen had a bunch of their friends set up at a coffee shop down the way to celebrate his birthday!  My cousin, McCauley's band was playing and it was so fun!!

When he first walked in - so surprised!
McCauley's band (he's on the right - singing)

Cousins - Reeves, me, McCauley (we were missing Leah and Katie)

The Peelers minus Katie (she's in China now but coming home this month!)
After Grammy and Papa left on Sunday and Waylon got home, we took off to Megan, Jason and Ryan's house to watch the pack play again.  It was such a fun day.  We were there from 1 until almost 7 and was reminiscent of our pre-kids times when we'd hang out all day and all night.  The kids had so much fun playing there and behaved pretty well!

Course this could have had something to do with it!  :-)  They are obsessed with the iPhone and iPod.

Kylie wasn't sure about Bentley at first but warmed up to him.  I thought this picture was hilarious!  :-)
Silly girl swinging

Fun with Ryan

Cory and Baby Sam
Jennie and Sam

Sweet Sam

Cookies!

So much fun - look at all the red!

One night that week, we met at Moe's for dinner.  Kylie had picked out her own outfit that morning....


That Thursday, the 22nd, Waylon took off for Charleston to visit Josh with Jason and Dave and I took the kids and went to the lake!  More to come on that in Part 2....  :-)

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Monthly Update

Looks like I'm on a new schedule for this blog.  I used to update once a week and now it looks like I'm on a once a month schedule!  Hopefully I can get back to doing it a little more often.

Going back to Valentine's Day.  We got the kids each a card and a stuffed animal.  Kylie wasn't too happy with her choice and wanted Noah's doggie at first but seemed better with it that night.  :-)




I was actually suffering from a pretty bad cold that day and came home a little early to relax on the couch.  I was much happier when I had my kiddos there to relax with me that night!  :-)


I actually received a Valentine's card from Noah at work, too!  So sweet of his teachers to send it to me in the mail!  I guess Waylon was supposed to get one from Kylie but he never got it!  :-(

So sweet!
Silliness on the weekend with the kids...

Crazy Kylie

Silly Noah

Helping Daddy make pancakes Saturday morning
Noah had a birthday party to go to and Waylon took him, so Kylie and I took a girls trip to Target and lunch at Chick-fil-A.  We had fun and so did the boys!

More silliness
Grammy arrived late Saturday afternoon.  She was going to come on Sunday but they were calling for snow so she decided to come down a day early.  That worked out well for Waylon and I because we got a night out Saturday!  :-)  The kids were so excited to see her.  She stayed through the week and kept each kid home one day and took them to a museum.  They had so much fun!

When Grammy asked what Noah wanted to do with her, he said, 'make an airplane!'.... so they did!

Starting the project

Noah helped a lot - can you tell?  :-)

The finished product!  Go Grammy!

Reading to Kylie

The kids love Grammy's iPad!  I had to threaten to take it away in order to get this picture.  :-)

A picture Grammy sent me from the museum - Uncle Michael met them there during lunchtime.

Listening to a book on Grammy's iPad again.



















We got a new bedding set for the guest room while Grammy was here!

Friday was a beautiful day and the kids and I spent a lot of time outside.  We played on the playset for a long time and they were so happy to be out in the warmth!


Kylie loves to swing!

Big boy!

Cutie Patootie

Having so much fun together!

Then we moved to the garage and rode bikes.

Loving the warm weather
Saturday was a busy day.  We had a birthday party for twins in Noah's class and Kylie was invited too.  It was at Monkey Joe's and they were pooped afterwards!  But we kept going.... left there and took the long way to Nana and Grandad's so Kylie could nap a bit in the car.  We were there to celebrate Andrea's 40th birthday!  A fun day!




It was a huge birthday party!  So many kids.

They love 'horsie rides'

Andrea opening her birthday presents

Cake!
Royal and Danita came over and brought Lily Kate to play.  They had a great time.  Lily Kate is only about a month younger than Kylie so they were really cute together.


Playing babies
The next morning, Noah set up a little obstacle course for himself and looked at me and said, 'Watch this, Mommy.  It's going to be so cool!'  I had my doubts that it wouldn't end in tears but it worked out.  I got a funny series of pictures....  :-)





Kylie has been asking me to paint her fingernails so we finally did it that following week.  She was SO excited - and we had to have purple of course!


Daddy gave the kids a little lesson in his namesake, Waylon Jennings and his son, Shooter

That Saturday was a fun day for both kids.  Waylon took Noah to the museum and Kylie had her own playdate with a friend from school, Emma.  We did so many playdates with Noah at this age - with Maddie and Stella Dot mainly - but we haven't done this sort of thing with Kylie much.  She was so excited and had so much fun!!  And Emma's mom was so nice, too.  Love making new friends!

Look how happy she is!  :-)

Good Friends!
That evening was more fun - my childhood friend, Keri came over with her husband Chris and their 4 daughters!  Lydia is 9 months older than Noah and Abigail, Bethany and Phoebe are 9 months older than Kylie!  Just as it's nice to make new friends, it's so nice to catch up with old friends!


Sunday was a lazy morning at home.  The kids had fun reading about our Disney World trip and reminiscing.  They were cute talking to each other and showing each other pictures.  :-)

I took Noah out to walk and splash in puddles.  He got soaked!  It was fun.


That afternoon, the Sharpes and Nana and Grandad came over for some playtime that turned into a quick Chinese takeout dinner also.

Last week was a tough one.  We found out on Monday morning that Waylon's good friend, Cory's mom passed away so we had a few events for that through the week.  Very sad.  Then, Friday night, after playing and having dinner at the Sharpe's house, Noah got sick in the night and wasn't feeling well Saturday morning.  He bounced back fairly quick though and we thought it was something he ate so we went on with our plans to go out to dinner - Nana and Grandad babysat for us.  But then I got it in the night on Saturday and was pretty much out of commission all morning today.  I guess we also managed to pass it on to Savannah and Sean.  :-(  Waylon really picked up with the kids while I was in bed all day today and they even made me get well soon cards!  :-) 

We are hoping this week will be better and that Waylon, Kylie, Andrea, Nana and Grandad will escape the tummy bug!  We are looking forward to having Grammy and Papa come visit us this weekend!