1,2,3

I am just so impressed with Miss B. When I was reading to her tonight before bed, we read her numbers book. Without me saying one word, she counted all the way to ten when I flipped the pages. I couldn't believe it. She knew all her numbers. I am just so proud. She melts my heart every day.

Mr Blake was all smiles today when he didn't get into in fussy mode. He is just the cutest. He laughed the other day but I haven't been able to get him to do it again. He just smiles real big but no sound comes out. Here's hoping he will this weekend while we are at Grandma Gully's. :)

Can't wait to get away this weekend. We have the MicNic this weekend too and I know everyone is dying to see B1 and B2. Can't wait to show them off. I just love my kids. :)

♥ K

Good Morning!

Miss B, Mr B, and I went to the park this morning. It was HOT! But Bayleigh had fun. Blake was pretty good too. I had to carrying him most of the time though. I think he got too hot in his carrier. I tell you, my left arm (since that's the arm that I carry him in all the time) is SO toned. LOL I need to catch my right arm up to par. Haha. We were there for probably 45 min. Like I said, it was hot, but I'm glad we went. Changed things up a bit.

Afterward I dropped B off at daycare and am going to let Daddy pick her up today. So if you read this before I've talked to you Matt, pick Bayleigh up. :) Then I went and canceled my gym membership. Not going enough plus I have my marathon training schedule my uncle did for me so I am following that. I got off schedule b/c both Matt and I had a stomach bug over the weekend. NOT FUN. Luckily the kids didn't get it though. I think we are finally in the clear now so I've got to pick up my running tonight.

Leo is coming along nicely. He is such a sweetie...he's just very sensitive and I've been watching A LOT of my Clinton Anderson Fundamentals to really know my stuff. I am having to be extra soft with Leo b/c of his sensitivity. I don't have to apply much pressure to get him or teach him an exercise...which is nice. Plus he's very willing and tries his best to understand what I'm asking him to do. He's not like Koda where he'll put up a fight. He wants to please and he really seems to enjoy it when he figures it out. He's such a sweet boy. He's going to be a wonderful horse when I'm finished with him. :) I also rode Joey the other day. Sylia is on a family vacay so I am taking care of him for the week as well. That horse is so naughty...in a good way. He has quite the personality. He's such a stinker, but I love messing with him. He has a joker personality...he just loves to play around. Too funny.

Well, Blake is awake so I must go tend to him and get the house picked up. I have been slacking in that area. Plus I've got to marinate a roast to put in the oven for dinner. Yes yes, once Blake goes back down and I've got dinner cooking I will get my butt on the pictures. :)

♥ K

Kemah

Tonight we went down to Kemah Boardwalk with the kiddos. We went to Saltgrass for dinner and had steak...yummmm then walked around. I would have pictures, but wouldn't you know it, I left my memory card at the house. Had the camera, just not the card. Grrr. Anyway, Miss B saw "biiiiiiig boats" as she calls them and the hard head catfish that crowd around the boardwalk. You can feed them. She got scared of the rollercoaster...haha we will have to work on that for the future...but enjoyed going to see the stingrays. She thought they were neat, but wasn't brave enough to touch them yet. She would stick her hand in the water, but as soon as one would come up when I was trying to feed a fish to it, she would pull her hand out. But she had a great time looking at them and all the fish. She wasn't quite ready to go play in the water fountain there, although she did take a good look at the other kids playing in it. I think she will want to next time. Overall it was a fun night and the kiddos are pooped and sound asleep now. I just wanted to blog real quick. Yes, I still have loads of pictures of Blake I need to upload. I just have been super lazy when I have free time and have been sleeping. Sorry. I will try to be better. Gotta find my memory card to b/c I just realized it's not on the desk. So I am on a mission now. Have a great night!!!

♥ K

Going To Bed Dirty

Yup, that's right. I was planning on taking a shower, but that won't happen because I ran our hot water down putzing around on FB. Haha. Let me explain...

I finally went running tonight. Matt and I are trying to get ready for a half marathon in November. So I got in contact with my uncle for him to put together a training plan to get prepared for it. He does triathlons and ultra marathons and he is the best person to consult for this kind of training. To get back to the point of my title, I went running tonight....3.5 miles in 38 min. I was proud considering I haven't ran in about a month. Now it was kind of difficult for me to just run this at a leisurely pace but I did it! I was sweaty but by breathing never got labored to where I couldn't catch my breath. Now tomorrow might be a different story since I have to run two miles as fast as I can. Eventually I want to get two miles in under 14 min. That was college training time for soccer. I don't think it will be hard. I will just have to make sure I do it late at night or early in the morning, which tomorrow I will have to do it early in the morning b/c Matt has a night flight tomorrow night.

Anyway, I feel really good and now that I have a plan on what days to run I will be able to follow it and be ready for the half by Nov. :) So yup, that's why I'm going to bed dirty...not real happy about it considering I was out at the barn tonight as well working Leo then came home and ran. But I just won't take a cold shower. LOL I did get in Miss B's pool to cool off after I ran, so I may be somewhat clean since there was rain water in it, it was nice and cool. Haha

Well I am off to bed. I will post pictures in the morning. I have some good ones of Blakey BooBoo. :) He just talks and talks and talks. Love my little man.

♥ K

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Blake is just about to roll over completely. It's any day now. He's completely lifting up on his tummy too. I just can't get over how big he's getting and how fast he's growing. I just realized today, as well, that he will be starting rice cereal next month...in his bottle anyway. Also, I think he may be starting to cut teeth. He has been drooling a lot and chewing on his fingers all the time. I haven't felt anything poking through, but today he has been cranky and yesterday as well. I finally gave him some Tylenol. He gets real fussy when I pick him up for some reason. Not sure as to why, plus, like yesterday, he's fighting going to sleep right now. It's REALLY annoying. I have been playing with him all morning so I know he's tired. He just won't give in. He's worse than Bayleigh. LOL

Speaking of Miss B, we tried to bring her in our bed last night to sleep with us since when we went to bed, as we always do, we go and check on the kids before we climb in. Well we woke her up by accident so Matt and I both just smiled and looked at each other and decided to try and let her sleep with us. Yeah, that didn't happen. She was a complete wiggle worm and was just cracking us up. At one point she passed gas, really loud mind you, and she started laughing at herself. Matt and I just couldn't hold it in. It was so funny we busted out laughing as well. She is such a hoot. Finally we gave up and had to put her back in her crib.

Well I finally just got Blake to sleep so I am going to go and try to get my house picked up. Loads of fun. NOT!:)

♥ K

My handsome man

7-2-7

Oh what a wonderful night it was!!!

I went out to the barn to work Leo at 6. He's doing so well. I just love this horse. He is such a sweetie with such a good disposition. He's so cute. I also helped Kim work her horse Sammy. She needed some help doing round penning and was asking for advice. :)

When I got home and walked through the front door, Miss B was in her room brushing her teeth and I hear "Mommaaaaaa!" I said "Hey Miss Beeeeeeeee!!!" She just smiled real big and ran to me. I love it. Matt said he put Blake down around 715 and he was out. Matt wanted to go for a run so I finished putting Miss B down. We read books and she really shocked and impressed me tonight. We were reading her Brown Brown Bear, What Do You See?. She knows all the animals in it. When she sees the bear, she will roar; when she sees the bird she will tweet tweet; now this is the cutest...she saw the horse and instead of saying "Koda" she said "Leeeeoo." I just about died. She is just soooo smart. OH, it gets better. When I came to the cat (which it's a purple cat in the book) I asked her what it was and she answers "purple cat". I couldn't believe it! I was so proud of her and praised her. She smiled real big. She is just so smart, I can't say it enough. :) We've been teaching her the ABC's as well and she's doing really well with that too. I bought her some bath letters and numbers yesterday when I went to Walmart for groceries and Matt (right before I got home from the barn) that the letter B was on the floor in her room and she went over to it and pointed and said "B". Ahh I just love that kid.

Ok, so the whole point of the blog was to write about Blake. LOL You know I had to brag about Miss B some though. Lord knows we can't leave her out. Haha. Anyway, so the night before we didn't have a good night. He was up every four hours...OK I guess that's good, but we had a schedule down. Anyway, Matt put him down at 7 and we started to hear him squirm at 1030. We were thinking what the heck. But apparently he went back to sleep and didn't wake up until 2. My awesome hubby got up with him since I had the entire night with him before because he had duty. It only takes about 15 minutes to give him his bottle and put him back in his crib and he's out again. We didn't hear him again until 7. So I got up and fed him and he's back to sleep. AWESOME!!!!! I was sleeping hard last night to and it was so pleasant. I hope this schedule continues. But I just wanted to brag about that. :)

I am going to go have my coffee and get my day started before the kiddos wake up.

♥ K

What is he, 5-6 months?

"No, he is only 3 months."

"Wow he's a big boy."

"Yup, just like his daddy. He is 6'4"."

This is the conversation I had today about Blake while at Walmart getting groceries. I had 3 people come up to see him, saying he's just adorable and trying to guess his age...5-6 months. Nope. He's getting so big. He can lift himself up 90 degrees already, he's been turning his head 180 since birth and now has pretty much total head control...we still have the bobble-head affect, but 90% of the time he's in total control with his noggin. I just can't believe how fast he is growing. I think he's hitting a growth spurt as well. Oh geez! That boy is going to tower over me and Bayleigh by the time he's probably 10. Haha

Since he has been really wanting to jump lately, we brought out our off-brand "Johnny Jumper" we used with Miss B. He loves it. I just love this kid's facial expressions. They crack me up. He is smiling so much now...when he's happy...and talking and laughing. He is also trying to roll over...hasn't gotten it yet, but I'm sure he'll get it VERY soon. Here are some pictures I took of him in his jumper. :) By the way, I have no clue what B is doing in the background. hahahaha

And then there's Miss B who got mad b/c she couldn't have her way and get in it while brother was in it. Hahaha

I just love her pouty face here. haha Poor Miss B...never gets to do what she wants.......

HA! YEAH RIGHT!!!

♥ K

Just Fishin'

Blues Weekend Vacay

Matt and I had an awesome vacation this past weekend. We arrived in Pensacola, well Milton I should say on Thursday at my friend Ms. Trish's. She used to teach me Sunday school when I was growing up. She had spaghetti ready for us and a bottle of wine to help get our weekend started. LOL I just love this lady so much. She used to have horses and I have always looked up to her. She is a strong woman who is someone you don't want to get into it with. She's smart as a whip and knows her stuff. Her husband flew in Vietnam, Apaches and Cobras, and has gotten a Bronze star (The Bronze Star Medal (or BSM) is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration that may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious service. When awarded for bravery, it is the fourth-highest combat award of the U.S. Armed Forces and the ninth highest military award (including both combat and non-combat awards) in the order of precedence of U.S. military decorations.)) and also the DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross. This one is one of the top awards/honors a military personal can get. (The Distinguished Flying Cross is a medal awarded to any officer or enlisted member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself or herself in support of operations by "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight.) I could not imagine being Ms. Trish at the time while Mr. Raymond was in Vietnam. So obviously since Mr. Raymond is a helicopter pilot so that's what we talked about, then when the wine started flowing a little bit more we got into politics. All 3 of us agree that Obama is an idiot and has screwed our country in so many ways. LOL Then we talked about horses some, of course, and then the most important...my babies. :) Ms. Trish just can't believe that she was teaching me Sunday School when I was 13 and now I am grown and married with 2 beautiful children. :) She is like my second mom and always gives me good advice and tells me like it is. :) Love her.

When Friday morning rolled around, even though we stayed up talking until 12 midnight, we were up about 730 am. Go figure! We are so used to that with the kids. LOL Once we got our stuff packed we were on our way to pick up Kelly and head to the beach to check in. Once we go unpacked in our hotel we put on our bikinis and trunks and head out to the beach. We got the 190 Octanes, so good and hung out and walked around on the boardwalk. We stopped by our old partyin' grounds...Captn' Funs. Eh, it was ok.


Then when the evening came we headed back to shower and change and go meet up with some friends for a birthday. After a little while there we went to McGuires. OH MCGUIRES! It was soooo good. Matt and I LOVE their spinach and artichoke dip and I got my usual filet. Oh it was wonderfully delicious.

 All Snazzified

 Yes, I am married to this stud muffin :)

 Rockstar and Killa waiting at the bar for a table

 Had to make sure the girls knew he was taken, although I do love it when they hit on him. I mean how could you not?

We met back up with our friends at the bar and hung there for a little while longer before heading home.

 By good friends LuLu and Ashley...they are married and have two adorable boys

 Kat x 2

 Matt and Paul, Kat's hubby. Paul does some awesome paint jobs on motorcyles. He's so talented.

 :)

 Saturday started off with a slight hangover. Haha. But Matt and I got up while Kelly laid in bed. Getting her up is like trying to wake up a dead elephant. hahaha So Matt and I put our swimsuits on and headed to the beach to start our day. We started off with a Bushwacker...so good then headed to Crabs for some lunch before the Blues performed. The airshow started about 1 and the Blues weren't going to perform until 2. We met up with my bf Alex for a little bit then got another 190 Octane. Low and Behold!!! Kelly texts me saying she's finally up. LOL So we met up with her then headed up to Matt's XO's house (He has a condo out on Pensacola beach. It was right next to our hotel.) We watched the Blues from their balcony because they flew RIGHT by it. It was awesome. My favorite part of the entire show is when they break the sound barrier flying by. LOVE IT! We hung out with the XO and his family for a little bit then left and got something to eat at Flounders then went back to the hotel to  change to head to Funs and later on back to Flounders. I was able to see so many friends. I missed them all soo much and they were so excited to see me. I gave so many of them hugs and kisses. We partied into the night and had so much fun and soooooo many funny pictures. I love looking back and being like "What were we doing?!" LOL Those are the best and the funniest. Hence some of the following...

 Fat Albert C-130

 my bfs are soo pretty

 M & K...my favs

 One of my favorite pictures from the night...have NO clue what we are laughing about but it was apparently funny

 Friends from HS..minus Matt ;)

 We look like Lobsters

 Diesel Fuels...these things just NEVER end. LOL

 Jen and I at Funs...my old hair dresser :)

My old hs buddy TC...love him!!!!

 I love Kelly's look of stupidity...hahhaha this is a Klassic Ksquared picture

 And another Klassic Kelly picture and like old times, the Rockstar came out to play! hahaha

 My long lost buddy John. I miss him bunches

 My girl Katie and I

Sunday morning we got up, Matt and I, and went fishing with his XO for a little bit before we checked out then afterward we went back to Milton and relaxed and rested and re-hydrated the rest of the day. Well slept is more like it. Haha It was a great weekend and I am so glad Matt and I got to spend some time together doing what we wanted whenever we wanted. I was so happy to be home in familiar surroundings with good friends. I am off to watch the first Transformers. LOL I'm bored. Matt and I can't wait to see the third one. Probably will wait though and buy it On Demand. 

I will try and get on tomorrow to write and pictures of Blake. He is getting so big. I am having to put him in 6 month clothing and he's only 3 months. Geez. Anyway, have a good "Hump day" night. 

♥ K