Ethan has arrived!!

What a day!! I celebrated my 29th birthday on March the 4th with a sick day and a wicked dose of bronchitis!! That night I found myself suffering through a 5 min coughing fit and when I got up to tend to Kali... I found that my water had broken!! After about 45 min of denial I realized that I needed to call the doctor and get Mike out of bed. We got to the hospital at 6:50 am and found that I wasn't dilated OR effaced. To say the least I was a little frantic worrying that I forced him out and that he wasn't going to be ready or wasn't going to have strong lungs... well by 8pm that night Ethan Jeffrey made his way into our world as perfect as can be! He weighed in at 7lbs and was 19 3/4 inches long. He was ready and now we are complete!!

First time holding Ethan... I got to cut the cord because Mike was too emotional to pull it together... He was so strong for me, such a great husband!!

Big man tipped the scales at 7lbs (rounding up from 6lb 5/8oz)

Uh oh... we already have one thumb sucker!! Somebody hurry up and grab a binky!

Proud big sister! Kimberly couldn't wait to hold him! She' been telling me for weeks that she plans on holding him every day all day... now it's not quite like that but she's pretty happy to have him home!!

Nate thinks he's a cool little dude!!

Soooo tired and soooo happy to have him in our arms!

Sweet little man!!

Sure I'll hold him... just don't get in the way of my cartoons!!

Nap Time with Daddy... and a friend!!

When I am at work Kali is home with Daddy. They have a lot of fun at nap time including a solid 20 min of play time before catching ANY ZZZZZZs! On this particular day Kali wanted to take pictures of her friend Buzz Lightyear.

Buzz Lightyear
Kali took this one... Buzz Lightyear's butt! haha

Buzz acting like a chipmunk...

Buzz playing like he's Nemo! :-)

Last but not least Kali making her "man face" with Buzz. She's been making this face and calling it her "man face"! The things she comes up with!!

Winter Break Part 1

We are halfway through Winter Break and already have some fun memories caught on film! The break started off with knowing that Kimberly was officially moved back! After three semesters of school living with her mom she decided to come back to Belton... to stay! Hopefully we'll get some pictures of her new funky purple room... it's way cool!!

Check out this little dancer! Kali rarely keeps pants on when she's home for any extended amount of time! She especially likes to put on her Princess Shoes and dance around for us. Very entertaining and she seems to be quite comfortable!
Play time in the living room!! Kali busted out the Twister Moves and we had Yo Gabba Gabba going on the TV. Quite a bit of dancing a shaking going on!!

Coco wants a turn....

Nevermind! He's too shy!

To win Kali just jumped on all of the colors! That will work... I think.

On Christmas Ever Tiger jumped into Kali's baby bed and she decided to cover him up with blankets. He stayed in that bed for over and hour. After I took this picture she started piling babies and books on him...he didn't like that part!

We had to put off Christmas morning until noon waiting for Kimberly and Nathan to get home from their mom's house. To keep Kali occupied we let her open up a couple of her gifts. Here is her Lego set... she was making a castle for Tinker Bell.

I love this picture! You can see Kali's tower... plus Coco's chew stick balancing on the left tower. She was teasing him with it... you can see him on the lower left corner staring up at the stick! Poor Coco Baby! Also- you can see Kali playing on her easle that Santa brought. She LOVES it!!

Kali got Elefun for Christmas and here she is playing with Kimberly... another wonderful game for toddlers! I highly recommend it for any toddler 2 and up! The butterflies shoot out slowly for them to catch in the nets.

Kimberly is the best to have around for playing with Kali. She doesn't even feel forced because Kali offers up a game or toy and Kimberly is genuinely excited to play with her!! Sisters... LOVE IT! Here they are playing ice cream shop PlayDoh. I'm still cleaning up PlayDoh sprinkles... Yummy!

Ah finally a picture of Nathan! He finally did his annual bare belly snow angel! Well.... his pants and gloved hands got in the snow... he somehow managed to keep his bare skin off of the snow. Kimberly and I think he's getting soft in his old age! haha

Random stuff... just like us!

My camera has been out of comission for some time now... but now we are up and running! Here's my attempt at catching up! More to come... I promise!!

I didn't realize that Kali had put Elmo in the tub... she definitely has the concept of flotation device down! She is soooo considerate of Elmo's eyes too and put his goggles on him! What a nice girl!!
Kali took this picture of Kimberly... good hob huh?!

We had a wing-fry for the KU/MU boarder war showdown. It was super nice so we went out to play at half time. Kali discovered that there is sand under the rocks on this half round landscaped wall! She discovered that she didn't like sand in her panties! :-)

Kali serenaded me while I put the turkey in the oven for Thanksgiving... It was great!

Our girls!

Uncle John was in town last month. It was great to see him! Kali really warmed up to him and thought it fun to run at him and jump on him. She usually has a problem with me. It was great to watch and I know he LOVED IT!!!

Driven at the Mustard Seed

Mike's band, Driven, has been putting in a lot of hours perfecting their sound! They are AWESOME! We had a night out without kids last month and had a great time! Here is Lamar on rhythm guitar, Brian on lead vocals, and of course my honey Mike on drums. They were loud and awesome!!

Mike
Here is Joe, Chuck (Amanda's husband), Jonny, and Sonya... they were totally lovin' the show!

Mom had a night out without Dad... he had to get up early for opening season for deer.

Sisters! Me, Traci, and Amanda.

Announcing...

I was a cheater and snuck down to Radiology the other day and got a sneak peak ultrasound. It revealed that we will be having a beautiful bouncing baby BOY! Everyone is sooooo excited! I didn't get any pictures printed so you'll have to wait till November 11th when I get the real ultrasound! Also... sorry about the lack of posting. My camera is on the fritz and we haven't been able to replace it. Hopefully I'll get caught up soon! Until then hope every one is doing well!!

Baby Foley

Here it is... Baby Foley! I had an ultrasound today that revealed me to be about 11 weeks and 1 day along. That will put us right about April 1st. More to come later!

Happy Birthday Kali!!

We finally wrapped up birthday season with Kali's 3rd birthday. She was such a happy birthday girl and it was a wonderful day!!

Wubbzy cake and kickity kick ball cupcakes!! :-)
She opened all of her cards first... she was very patient!

She said THANKS!! To everyone that gave her a gift... very polite!!

Grandpa Coldwell made this super cute dollhouse! She adores it!!

Among other gifts she also got a hot pink Mini-Cooper battery operated car that she's not too sure of yet but we will work on getting pictures and video later!!

Birthday Season

Kimberly and Nathan's birthday's are in the same month and they are only 11 months apart. That makes for a careful planning for parties!! Now they are too old to combine parties and prefer to do stuff with friends. So, that means that in August this year we had a party every 2 weeks leading into Kali's party the first weekend of September. Speaking of Kali, she has been very very helpful in making the cakes this year!!

Let me taste the frosting to make sure it's safe!! :-)
"Go ahead and put it on the cake... I approve!"

Nathan's cake. It was stuffed with homemade cake batter ice cream. We were rushed in putting it together due to a couple of setbacks. It wasn't a pretty cake but it sure was tasty!!

Happy 12th Birthday Nathan!!

Again Kali was very helpful in making Kimberly's cake... testing the frosting is her favorite!!

Yummy!

Ta Dahhhh! Patrick Starfish! Not to shabby if I do say so myself!!

Check out the hat! She LOVED the cake!!

Happy 13th Birthday Kimberly!

Sleep over with cousin Kaelyn!

Kaelyn has started sleeping over at our house every once in a while and it's a lot of fun... they get so hyper and fired up and then... all of a sudden... they crash!

Ever since Kaelyn noticed we have a big tub she's been begging to take a swimming bath! Well, she got her wish! Here is Kaelyn and Kali splashing around in the whirlpool tub.

They LOVED IT!!
Time to brush your teeth...

Cheesing it up after brushing teeth!

AAANNNNDDDD this is what they did in the morning!! :-)