Happy Birthday Katelin!!

I can't believe it was a year ago today that Katelin was born. She has been such a wonderful blessing added to our lives. She is a beautiful , sweet and happy baby. She has been walking for almost 2 months now, talking her jibber jabber. She has 4 teeth on top and 2 on bottom. She has given up baby food and her favortite foods are bananas, mac n chz, spaghettio's, peaches and ice cream. She still loves to crunch ice with daddy, in fact she likes doing almost anything with her daddy, she is quite the daddys girl. Katelin absolutely loves being outside, especially riding on the power wheels with her brother and sister. She will start to growl add someone usually Owen and then she will attack them, it is funny. We have spent many nights just watching Katelin and cracking up at her, she is a funnly little girl. Well that is a little bit about the little girl Katelin has become ove the past year and we are so excited to continue to watch her personality grow. I have put some pictures on here starting with the day she was born to a few pics I took of her today , so I hope you all enjoy looking at them

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Well, as usual we have been very busy lately....................... This weekend we spent the whole weekend outside working on things around the house including putting up our new flagpole and building a wall around it. Last weekend we went to St. Louis with Rylie's best friend Abby and her family. While the Dads and siblings hung out at the hotel, Rylie, myself, Abby and Abby's mom Angie went to the Taylor Swift concert. It was so much fun, Abby's dad got us the tickets and we were able to get meet and greet passes, so we decided not to tell the girls until we were in line and they were so excited when they heard they were getting to meet Taylor Swift. It was so awesome to see their faces and how excited they were.
Katelin has pretty much mastered walking and even trys to do this little run thing which make me very nervous but it's pretty darn cute. She's not saying any words but sure does speak her jibberish a lot. Still no hair on top but little curly fuzz on back. Owen , I think is having a growth spurt, he looks so tall to me lately. He is actually eating a little better lately and wanting more than just "wocolate milk", maybe he'll put a little meat on his bones.
I am happy school is almost done and I may not be so crazy with no free time at all. Plus college algebra is not too enjoyable so I cannot wait until it is a thing of the past. Here are some pics, I hope you enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My beautiful baby girl

Look at that sweet face

Our flagpole

Katelin helping daddy

There's my boy

Rylie driving the mower (daddy was right behind her)

Ry taking care of her little brother

Katelin didn't like her crib so we went ahead and got her a toddler bed and she seems to love it, shes not sleeping all night in it but were working on that but her naptime is so much better now.

Cuddling with her baby, she had pink eye here so her eye was kind of swollen

On the trip home from St. Louis

On the trip to St.Louis

Rylie's autographed picture, it says "I love Riley" Taylor



Rylie and I before the concert.

Taylor hugging Rylie.

Rylie, Taylor Swift, and Abby

Wow, life has been busy busy busy, i've been wanting to update this for so long but just haven't been able to find the time to sit down and do it so i've added lots of pictures. We have been enjoying the nice weather, going for lots of walks up and down our gravel road. Chet brought the bobcat home from work last weekend and we were able to build a rock wall on the side of our house, so it's been nice to start getting some work done around the house. I can't wait for the cold weather to be gone.
Katelin is walking now, she definitely has not mastered it but has been taking steps for about a month now and can make it across the entire room now. She is also jibber jabbering all the time, it is too cute. Her other new thing is when me or daddy pick her up she will rest her head on us and pat our back, it is the sweetest thing ever. She is such a Daddy's girl, she gets so excited when he gets home and they eat their ice chips together and he of course just loves it. Also her two bottom teeth are in and she has a top tooth that has poped through and another one about too.
Owen is going through a bit of an emotional phase lately, not sure why but his self esteem and confidence seem to be low and he is really whiny lately. His doctor said this is very normal for his age but it really bothers me and I hope he overcomes this soon. We are trying to be patient with him and give him praise and encouragement without allowing him to get away with whining. It's been very challenging lately but i'm sure it will pass soon. He has been enjoying riding his gator outside and just being able to get outside more oftern
Rylie is doing great, she got her report card and her teacher commented how she is a whole new student this semester. She has come out of her shell and is doing so well socially and academically. We are so proud of her. She is reading really well and doing her math problems. She had a slumber party over spring break with her friends Abby and Maddi and her cousin Haylie so that was a lot of fun.
I hope all is well with you all, please enjoy the pics.....................



Owen teaching Katelin how to drive the gator.


Katelin in the red wagon.

"Come on Mom, i'm ready for our walk"

Owen on our gravel road.

Look at that happy little girl

Oh how quickly a mood can change.

Rylie and Owen getting the mail

Katelin making a face eerily similar to her chair.LOL

Owen had his "girlfriend" spend the night, he better not get used to that.

Rylie posing after her school program.

Katelin loves riding on the gator with Owen and RyRy.

Aren't they beautiful?

Me and my girl, she looks just like her daddy.

My two very handsome boys.

Katelin, Rylie and Haylie, they sure are beautiful, this was at my Grandpa's funeral, i'm sure he was looking down on them very proudly.

It's unfortunate a funeral is one of the only time we've had to dress up lately but everyone looked so nice and Chet was in slacks, which says something about how he felt about PaPa. He didn't even wear slacks to our wedding (it was a country wedding though so the black jeans were very appropriate). We miss him very much and it is so weird that he is no longer hear but we know he is at peace and my grandma is doing really well, we've been making sure we all take turns going to spend time with her to keep her busy. We send our love to everyone.