...Our amazing life...

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We met in June of 2007, dated for 7 months & got engaged - January 1, 2008. We were married on July 26, 2008 and welcomed our daughter, Kaitlynn Leane into the world on August 20, 2009. We said hello & goodbye to our precious son, baby Joshua on December 5, 2011. We are blessed knowing that we'll be with him again one day in Heaven. We also have two sweet beagles, Willa (4) and Sadie (1). God has truly blessed our family in numerous ways! We both have extremely wonderful and loving parents, plus amazing friends! We couldn't be any happier!

Monday, May 10, 2010

Mother's Day!

Yesterday was a very special day! I was able to celebrate my first official mother's day. Last year, Kelly did celebrate me as a mom - we were 6 months pregnant at the time. However, this year it was so much more meaningful. Because of our precious daughter, I am now a mom. Being a mom is the best gift I could have ever received. Since Kaitlynn was born, Kelly & I have definitely experienced our difficulties learning to be parents, but as the days pass and we learn more & more about our growing, beautiful daughter - we feel so blessed to be parents and so lucky to have such a great daughter to raise up in our love & care.

We're truly blessed, and I was shown so much love yesterday and this past weekend as I was able to celebrate my first Mother's Day.

The sunset - night before Mother's Day

My two girls.....
We spent the morning at church. Our pastor, Bryant Wright talked about the influence of a woman - it was a wonderful sermon! Kaitlynn never sleeps in the nursery, and always passes out once we get home - she ended up taking a solid 3-hour nap from 12pm-3pm allowing Kelly and I to cook a nice lunch together, and catch up on some zzzzzzz's.

Kelly & Kaitlynn took me out to dinner at California Dreaming Sunday night. We had so much fun - here are some pictures :o)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

We're Home!

t's been a few weeks since our last blog post. We've been quite busy moving into our new home and trying to get settled! We really do love the area we've moved to - we're finally close (within 5-15 minutes) to everything and anything! Kaitlynn has adjusted well to a new location, and Willa enjoys our big back yard! We're still in the process of sprucing up our home, but our next big purchase is a fenced in gate, which we should hopefully have within the next 2 weeks! Enjoy some pictures of our new home & our life over this past week!

Willa Grace enjoying our new back deck!
In 1-2 weeks, we'll have our back yard fenced in!

Our Family Room

Our kitchen!! We finally have a large kitchen table that can seat 8 instead of 4 :o)

Our bedroom furniture!

A little glimpse of our master bathroom!

Entry way by the stairs

Kelly's favorite addition - our huge wall clock!


...........As we work on the house this coming weekend, we'll be sure to post some more pictures of things we've done!.................

Date night!
Our first sunset on our back deck.

The hair is back and so are the clip-on bows :o)

No more car seat for this big girl!!
Hanging out in the buggy at Wal-Mart :o)

Kaitlynn LOVES to stand and is now putting full weight into her legs when doing so. It won't be long before she's mobile & walking!

Playtime with daddy!

pictures with our favorite girl!

playtime!

One excited little girl!

Out walking on one of our many strolls through the neighborhood!




Several missed pictures of the past few weeks!

My mom had two nests at her house filled with baby birds!
They hatched once we arrived at her house, and flew the coup once right before we left!

playtime!

Willa Grace enjoying the fenced-in back yard!


Aquafina Baby!

Willa was helping my mom pull up some roots!

Sunrise over the moutains in Hayesville, NC

Special time with daddy on Nana Crawford's swing!