All dressed up.

We attended Kip's cousin Kristian's wedding early in November. The kids enjoyed themselves immensly. Linley cut up a rug on the dance floor and helped Kristian with her dress! Thayer played with all the boys and Kessly snoozed off and on. Unfortunately KSU lost to OSU that night, but we were lucky enought to watch it during the reception.

Cousin time.

and then of course Kessly trying out the exersaucer for the first time.

Pumpkin Patch 2011

Just a tad late in posting these pictures but better late than never! We had a blast at our first trip to this patch in Alma KS. There was plenty of activities for the kids to do along with pumpkins galore. We will definately be making the trip back next year.

4 months.

How can it be this little addition to our family is already 4 months old. Her disposition is very much like Linley at this age, which makes me think they may have somewhat similiar personalities. She loves her big sister and brother which is very mutual as they are always wanting to hold and love on her first thing every morning. Regardless of her being quite the surprise I can't imagine our lives without her in it.

My 3 KSU fans.

We all dressed up in our purple for Saturday's home football game despite the rain. With the kiddos looking so cute it screamed photo-op...plus I've been bad lately about taking updated pictures of Kessly. All 3 kids obliged and we succeeded in capturing a few good photos. Regardless of the rain we lasted til half and finished up the game from our cozy couch. We look forward to many more purple weekends in the upcoming years with all 3 kids for both KSU football & basketball.

Training wheels no more!!

The 2 biking pros after a mere 30 minutes of riding. Much to our surprise these 2 took only 1 try without their training wheels in place to take off without any hesitation or stumbles. Kip and I were both anticipating numerous crashes, skinned knees/elbows, & many tears...but not Linley & Thayer. To watch them you would think they had been riding on two wheels the whole summer. Now I'm not saying they need practice, but what was anticipated to be an entire day of getting rid of the training wheels turned out to be just 1 turn and they were off.

Paxton turns 1.

Lauren, Paxton, & Drew


Birthday boy Paxton enjoying his Yo Gabba cake

Linley took our photo:)

Giggles all around!!


This past week we made our last trip down to Fort Scott to celebrate my nephew Paxton's 1st birthday...Yo Gabba Gabba style!! We went a tad early to enjoy some down time with family before our lives become consumed with school and extracurricular activities. Plus most of my extended family had yet to meet Kessly, so we thought this was a perfect time to introduce her. The weather was gorgeous which meant the kids were able to play outside at my parents without needing full parental monitoring as well as some relaxing porch swinging:)

Also while we were back I was able to enjoy a night out for drinks with 2 of my sisters and cousin April. Even though it wasn't very long it was very much needed and nice to not be interrupted every 5 minutes by "Mom...mom". I look forward to our next chance at getting together for another round!!

Unfortunately that is likely to be our last trip back to my hometown until Thanksgiving...which is much too far off. We do have one more 1st birthday to celebrate next month for Miss Londyn; let the countdown begin.