Kansas trip

We had such a fun trip to Kansas. Denise's daughter and grandson, Avan live there and he and Caitlin are only one day apart. They absolutely clicked and had a blast playing together. Caitlin just loved him!


Denise took me and the kids to see Pinnochio at a children's theatre. They had a blast!



I had the camera out and we played around for some silly pictures.

Avan doing the robot-


Caitlin doing the robot-


Rusty showing his muscles-


Avan showing his muscles-


Caitlin and I together.


And then Caitlin took this one of me. She loves to use the little point and shoot and get pictures of anything!

It's a girl!

Here's the ultrasound pictures of our little girl, still no name picked out.

And this one is just plain scary. Our little alien!!

Baby Alli

After a very long day, Heather and Ben finally made me an aunt again. They got to the hopital at 3am to be induced. I left work around noon so I wouldn't miss anything. HA We waited and waited for Alli to make her appearance but she was being very stubborn. Finally, around 5:45pm it was time to push. A couple hours later, Alli finally joined us. Here she is - totally worth the wait!!

July 14th 7:37pm
6 pounds 14 ounces





She has the longest feet and toes. They are so cute!!

Nana with her fourth grandbaby.

Baby Update

Had another checkup today and heard the heartbeat. It's still going strong. My weight is the same - overall I am down 5 pounds from when I got pregnant. My ultrasound is scheduled for July 30 at 9 am. Everyone think boy! :)

Uncle Ben

One of Caitlin's favorite people is Uncle Ben and I think you can see why. Ben loves Caitlin and spoils her rotten. He is always up for whatever game she wants to play - even dress-up. What a good sport!!

Gymnastics Progress

Caitlin is still loving her gymnastics class. The other day we were at class and I look up from my book and this is what she was doing. I had no idea she had come so far. She can start from the ground and pull herself all the way up to a perfect back bend!!

Caitlin's Birthday

We had a day long celebration for Caitlin's birthday. With her gymnastics party behind us, we still wanted the day to be special. So I tried to do all of Caitlin's favorite things. We first started with breakfast at the gas station. She thinks it is the greatest thing ever to be able to go in and pick out her own breakfast. She picked two Krispy Kreme donuts and water.



Next, she went to school. It was her last day there and bitter sweet. She is excited to get to spend a month and a half with daddy doing fun summer things and then start Kindergarten, but I know she will miss her friends and all of the wonderful teachers at Children's Christian Center. We have LOVED her time there!! So we took cupcakes in for everyone and took some pictures of her favorite people.

Miss Beth and Miss Jenny - were her teachers last year.

Miss Christy - her teacher now.

Caitlin and all of her friends.

After I picked up her and she said her long goodbyes, we took back some duplicate gifts and she got to spend the credit and some birthday money and pick out toys. She loves to do this. She goes up and down each aisle and as she finds something she likes, she asks if she has enough money for it. She finally settled on a Disney barbie that she didn't have and a dragon that talks and walks (yes, this one surprised me too, but she loves that thing!).

For dinner, we had McDonald's, where she got to play. And then we had dessert at Baskin Robbins (okay maybe that was more for me than her).

After dessert, we went home and watched the Red Box movie we rented (Bolt) and stayed up late. It was a great day. I can't believe I now have a 5-year old, but I am so proud of the person she is now and who she continues to become.

Must Love Dogs

Caitlin LOVES dogs - wants one so bad. But this is what she looks like after playing with them. She is allergic to their saliva, I think, because every where she lets them lick her turns red. Sunday she got to spend time with Heather and Ben's three dogs and she just loves them. She sits in the floor and lets them crawl on her and lick on her and she is in absolute heaven. She doesn't care it makes her splotchy and itchy. The good thing about this is that after a few hours of no dog time, the redness is all gone and she's back to normal.

A perfect start!

Saturday, Rusty and I had to shoot a wedding, but that morning, we woke up at 8 and went to the pool. From 8:30-10:30, we relaxed and had the neighborhood pool all to ourselves. It was heaven!! Surprisingly, it was already hot enough to want to get in the water and it was so nice.

Caitlin jumping in. Rusty is determined to teach her to swim this summer. She is VERY stubborn (I don't know where she got that!) and I think she may prove to be a challenge.

Renaissance Festival

On Memorial Day (yes I'm a little behind in blogging), Caitlin and I went with Kara to the Renaissance Festival. I had never been before and I just knew Caitlin would love it. I was right!! Luckily, we had a cloudy day with a little rain so it wasn't too hot and we got to see everything we wanted. Caitlin loved seeing all the people in costumes, especially the knights.



In front of the castle.

We watched a real jousting tournament. It was brutal!

My little fairy!

Why she wanted to ride the stinky camel, I do not know, but she loved it!

Her favorite part of the day was getting a dragonfly painted on her face!

She rode this kids ride that was a "jousting horse." They let you hold the jousting stick and try to get it through a ring while you ride. Caitlin just wanted to ride. I think she was afraid of falling off.

School Program

This year, the kid's program was on Nursery Rhymes. Each age grouped learned different nursery rhymes and songs.

Just like Uncle Andrew!!

Today I took Caitlin to school and they told me she did something funny yesterday. At nap time, the teacher Miss Christy told everyone to get up and strip their beds. Next thing, she looks over and Caitlin is totally naked standing there like "okay what now." Miss Christy freaked out and was trying to cover her up. She thought it was odd that none of the kids thought it was out of the ordinary. What was even funnier was that she said Caitlin was still asleep doing this. She could tell in her eyes that she wasn't fully awake. And the other day during naptime, Caitlin got up and was running circles in the room and trying to get one the other kid's cots. She was half asleep again. I thought it was hilarious. She likes her Uncle Andrew and doing weird things in her sleep!!

Caitlin Funny

I have been constantly not feeling well or struggling with a headache or exhausted and poor Caitlin has been a little neglected. Yesterday, we were in the car and I had a headache and she was just singing her heart out (very loudly). I asked her if she could sing quietly or not at all and she looked crushed. She asked why I always had headaches. I told her that your neck is supposed to be a certain way and mine gets out of whack. She said, "Are our bodies made out of whack?" I said no and she said, "What's a whack? What's it look like?" She is so funny!!

Car Wash

It started out with Caitlin playing in the sprinkler while Rusty washed his car. Then she decided it would be more fun to help daddy. She has gotten so big and is really a big help now!!