Ol' Blue Eyes...

We just hit 16 months old, on Feb. 11, which was also Tina's birthday and Tina captured a couple of really cute pictures of Cara. She is SUPER fascinated with the iPhone (who's not??), and she doesn't forget that Tina owns that fancy little thing, so everytime she see's her, she goes for her purse to get the phone. Probably means we need to get an iPhone.

Her eyes are also bursting with blue in one of these pictures, and it reminded me of a little celeb baby. Guess the famous baby!

Enjoy!

Christmas 2008 (i'm a slacker)..

I never updated Cara's blog with Christmas pictures! Cara had a wonderful Christmas as a one year old and was wayyyy more fun opening presents this year versus last year. She was majorly spoiled and got some pretty great toys, books, and clothes which I will probably take the sound advice to hide half for now, and reintroduce at a later date. We'll have quarterly Christmas'.

Enjoy the pictures!







New Outfit from Aunt Mal:


Kissing her reflection in the mirror:

No Snow for the South :(

So, we might be just a tad bit jealous of Ohio and their piles of snow! But we're still enjoying the bitter cold weather of Winter. It's actually reached the 60's down here so we've had a couple park trips, and apparently Cara is the little daredevil. Papa and I took her to the playground at Roswell Park and she instantly fell in love with going down the slide like a big girl all on her own. (Mind you, the slide is prob 5 feet long..but she loves it!). She actually enjoyed doing it on her own so much as to cry everytime I'd try to help, so I get her on the top landing and slowly pull my hands off of her to let her go down the slide. She bolts (on her FEET) and runs down the slide, sending her airborn and landing her on her butt at the bottom. At this point I've already slid down the other slide, completely terrified that she just ran down a slide, and she looks up at me and smiles. Smiles like "Hey Mom, that was sooo cool". It was really just a confirming moment that I do in fact have my hands full and Cara is her father's daughter. As a child, I probably cried when I looked at a slide, cause I was scared of everything.

So we're gaining a lot of words in the vocabulary, some important, some random..
Baby
Nina (her way of saying Tina)
Mimi
Bubble
Uh uh (which she says to everything..)
Ahma (which we believe was her version of Grandma)

So Cara is approaching a year and a half (April) and she's really embracing life as a toddler. She enjoys dancing and putting her hands up to songs that say "put your hands up". She can drink out of a straw. She says "hi" to everyone she sees. And really, she just loves running around freely with her cup of milk in one hand and crackers in the other. I have attached some pictures of her trips to Monkey Joe's and Chuckee Cheese. Needless to say, she had a blast at both places. Enjoy!

Silver and Gold

Pictures from the Christmas playdate, ENJOY!

Carter and Momma:


Anderson:


Claire and Cara (kind of):


Cara and her boyfriend Carter:


The Group:

Gobble Gobble...

I'd say I'm getting better at these updates. At least, I'm covering the big things, lol. So the Kenny's joined the Gale's (minues Val/Mike and Cali) in Helen, GA for Thanksgiving. It was quite wonderful. My pictures of Cara explain a lot of the trip. We wore matching aprons for Thanksgiving, but only for the pictures sake, we didn't really cook anything. Cara does NOT like Santa, alive or not. There was a fake dancing Santa, and you'll see her face, not a fan! Tina has the pictures of her attempting to sit on Santa's lap. I'll have to upload those later, so you can witness a grown woman trying not to break Santa's knee.

SOOO, our little Carebear is doing wonderful. She's growing up so much, so fast. She's responding yes and no to everything, even if she doesn't know what she's responding to. We just love her! I need to get some video up..hint hint for Christmas present ideas.

We have a play date this Saturday and I can't wait to see all the kiddies growing up. We had to cancel the last one because Cara had a fever.

I'll post more soon from her play date.

Enjoy!

Some Wedding Pictures

So we received like 750 wedding pictures on a disc and I've been slowly (but surely) getting through them and saved a couple I just had to post on here. ENJOY!

The itsy, bitsy, spider....

Happy November! Important historical news to report on, the President elect is Mr. Barak Obama. Not sure if I spelled his name correctly, but anywho, regardless of people's attitude towards the decision, I think it's a wonderful time to support our country and work together. All I'll say.

On to cuter news, I have Halloween pictures!! Enjoy!

A Witch and her Spider:




Fishy Face:


A little blurry:






A one-eyed Cat:


My crazy family:


These were Val's pictures (thank you Val), but I'm waiting on my Mom's and Tina's cause they have the Spider and it's web...you'll see what I mean in a later post.

Well the Kenny's are looking forward to Thanksgiving. Carebear's a little under the weather but still in good spirits. I think daycare is a neverending cycle of runny noses and ahh choo's. She'll get through it though.

Back to work I go...