Thursday, December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas


Today is Christmas and every year I find myself looking to the previous year. Last year we spent Christmas day with the Whitsitts, and moved shortly after. It is hard to believe we have been in North Carolina for nearly a year now. Thinking about last year, I went back and looked at some photos from Christmas 2007 and thought I would post a few, along with a few from this morning. I hope Santa was good to everyone reading this, did you track him online last night??

We all slept in until about 8:30 this morning and Kennedy opened her gifts right away. She seemed to enjoy opening her presents, as she opened them she said OOOh!! We are having people over today around 4, so I had better start prepping!!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

trying to track a few new things

It has been a while since I have blogged, so I will try to make this quick.Kennedy is now 16 1/2 months old, the time is going by so quickly, it will be summer before we know it! Pardon all of the listings, I use the blog as a point of reference when doing my scrapbooking... She is doing lots of new things now, she is blowing her nose (we were all shocked when she started), she is starting to say new words (icky, hi, no, uh-oh, roar,baby, and a few others). Her favorite foods these days are still anything with cheese, graham crackers, bananas, dried strawberries, yogurt, spagetti. She really loves chasing the dogs around these days, although sometimes she gets a bit too rough and they start running away from her.

For those of you that we have not seen we do have some news... Pete will be returning to Iraq in August of 09. It will be similar to the deployment in 04-05 and he will be there for about 6 or 7 months. His job will be different this time, working indoors as a "clerk", so he should be relatively safe. We are going to try to get a house on base before he leaves so that Kennedy and I will hopefully find some other familiies with little ones her age.

My work also comes to an end this week. Its hard to believe it is here already, but I will say I am looking forward to having some time as just mom. Kennedy is so busy these days, and sometimes it is really tough to do both at the same time. I did find a posting for a position on base that I am going to submit my resume for, it would mean that we would have to find a sitter though. Otherwise, I am still planning on starting my scrapbooking business, first on ebay to see how things go.

well, I think that is enough for now. I will try to blog again soon.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

play time
























































These are some photos I took today of Kennedy and her buddy Joey. They had fun at the church nursery. I was very suprised that Kennedy was going down the slides all by herself!! They had a good time together.

Monday, December 1, 2008

having a good time visiting







We kept busy while visiting family and friends in Ohio. We had good luck shopping on the day after thanksgiving, getting a few people on our list done for christmas. Kennedy is having fun with all the dogs, and visiting with her grandparents. Her favorite toy at Nana's seems to be a dictionary, I took some pictures of our "little genius" studying her dictionary.