8 days until Christmas!

"Momma there is 8 days until Christmas" The count down is on! Kiah is soooo excited. I hear every morning for the last month on how many days are left until Christmas. Talk about pressure! I am done shopping but I don't want to be. I have so much fun buying gifts for other people. Things are going to get crazy from here on out.

Friday:
I have a 8 hour CPR/First Aid Class
Kiah has a half day and sing-a-long at school (That I am going to miss) :(
Kiah has swim team
Then dinner with a very special friend Mr. Scullion and his friend Emma.
Pack for Oregon

Saturday:
Kiah's swim meet in Tacoma at 10:30-3:00
Straight to Oregon to visit The Colvins :)
ahhh RELAX..... Ya right! She has twins!

Monday: Come home from Oregon
Tueday: Kiah's play date with a friend from school
Ok I am getting nervous at looking at all this!

Everyone have a fantastic Christmas! Remember what Christmas is really about. I will post pictures next week after the kids are finally done opening gifts!

We love you!!!!
Happy Birthday Jesus!

Santa's little helper:)

A friend of ours gave us this outfit for Hailey. (Thank you Justine and Isabelle!) She looks sooo cute on her as you can see! She was being a good little elf while I was taking pictures of her. I tried to convince Kiah to get in the outfit but she was not having it.

I have been MIA!

Well I have been busy attending to my other blog. Man it take a lot of time to upload pictures to these silly blogs! I am trying to get a bunch of editing done for a few families so they have pictures for Christmas cards. So that is where I have been. If you want to go take a look at what I have been working on here is the link.

http://klinesphotography.blogspot.com

Here we come Idaho!!!!

Huge Congratulations to Kiah! She has worked so hard for so many years on her swimming. It is definitely paying off. She got asked to be on the "Northshore YMCA Competitive Swim Team" a few months ago. Since then she has competed in 4 swim meets. Every year they will have a regional championship and you only get to compete if you qualify. Well John and I told her that she needed to qualify for at least 4 events for us to go to Idaho. Well today she hit the golden number! Every meet she has attended she has qualified for one event. So she is now qualified in the 25 yard freestyle, 25 yard back stroke, 50 Yard freestyle and the 25 yard breast stroke. She has had practice 3 days sometimes 4 day a week and she is doing so well! We are so proud of you Bug!!!! Keep up your hard work and positive attitude!!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Hailey!!!

This has been the best year of my life. I have the most two beautiful daughters, and one amazing husband! I am so thankful for my family it is crazy. Hailey you have brought so much joy to our family!

Here are a few of my favorite things you have shown me this year:

*When you were a newborn you had these little chubby cheeks that were so easy to kiss!

*When sissy walks into a room your face lights up like you are in Disneyland!

*You looked like a weeble wobble when you learned out to sit and play with toys on your own!

*You talk so much and it is fun to listen to you.

*Mommy and sissy can make you laugh so hard that it is contagious.

*When Daddy walks in the room you scream Daaddyy!

*When you learned to crawl you figured it out and then crawled like you were trying to win a race wherever you were trying to go.

*I love that you sit at sissys door when she is at school and yell for her.

*I love to chase you around on the floor and listen to you laugh and try and get away but you can't since you are laughing to hard.

*I think the way you say Lylia is the cutest thing in the world. (Wywia)

*You get soooo excited when you see sissy get off the bus. You just start to scream sissy!

*When we go to sissy's swim meet's you clap for her! So cute!

*You love to play peek-a-boo and you cover your ears and say e-a-ooh.

*I love to sing "If all the rain drops were lemon drops and gum drops" and you sing ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh, ah!

These are just a few of things that you do that make my heart melt! Happy First Birthday my love!

Look what we have here!!

10/8/09 for the first time but this was this morning!

WOW!

It is official Hailey will be one this month! THIS MONTH! Where the heck did this year go? This has seriously been the fastest year of my life. It has also been the best year of my life. I am so stinking in love with my little family it is crazy. I never thought in a million years that love could feel like this. I mean I love my mom, dad, brothers ya know but the love for your own kids is like no other.

I have been having so much fun planning Hailey's party. I have really gone over board but John gave me the right since this is our last baby!

Also very big news! I know most of you know this already but....
Kiah had her first swim meet this last weekend and did so well. She got 1st place in Freestyle and qualified for regionals, 2ND place in backstroke and also qualified for regionals, 2nd in two relays and 2nd in a relay medley. So it looks like she may go to regional is Idaho. We would really like her to qualify for at least 4 different events for regionals. That is kind of a long drive! We are super proud of her. She is also very proud. The first thing she did when she got to swim team practice on Monday was walk quickly to her swim box and look for her ribbons. I think it was better than anything she has personally ever accomplished for herself! Good Job Kiah! Her next meet is Sunday October 11th in Juanita. Let us know if you want to come!!! I will post her race video when I figure out how to do this!

My Husband Rocks!!!!!!

I am so stinking excited! He surprised me with the new Nikon D5000.
Check out this baby! Ahhhh!

I have always been into photography since I was young but I think I am going to take it to the next level and get some training. So I am going to need some families who want to be my practice families. I know I already have a few but the more practice the better.

Thank you babe! You are the best!

Our Fall Photoshoot

So we had our Fall photoshoot/Haileys first birthday photos yesterday. It was really hot for a September and am shocked that they turned out at good as they did. The photographer is one of my nestie friends Karen aka: LuvBug and her talent behind the camera amazing me and I only hope that I will be able to take photos like her one day. So she quickly got me a few teezer photos so I could share with all of you! Hope you enjoy them as much as I have this morning.

Here is her information if you would like it!

http://kfentonphotography.blogspot.com/

09-09-09 aka: Kiah's first day of school!

Here is a picture to remind myself that it will much quieter, have less mess and a little girl not doing flips all over in the house until oh about 3:30 each day when Kiah arrives how from school!

I think I am going to say out loud that..... I am going to miss all of the craziness. But I am sure I will get use to it quickly!

Momma loves you Kiah have a wonderful first day of school!

I can stand!!! Woot Woot!

Kiah has been teaching Hailey to stand on her own. She is doing pretty well take a look!

Mom why do you have to put up the picture of when I fall?

You always want what you don't have

Kiah keeps saying she wants curly hair. I told her what my mom always told me. "Girls who have straight hair always want curly hair and girls who have brown hair always want blond hair!" So then I remember that my mom use to put rag curls in my hair to make it curly. So I asked her if she wanted me to do that to her. She thought I was so weird for cutting up an old towel and making knots in her hair with them. So here are some pictures of the rag curls in the making. We will see what she looks like in the morning!

Well here are the after shots from this morning! Can we say crazy? I think we have proved to hair that she loves her straight hair. She said "Mommy I want my hair back to straight" So I told her this is why we need to be thankful for what God has blessed us with.

Here is the video

Hopefully it works this time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M142-51OUd4

Look how big I am

My sweet husband and Girls! Love them so much!
She might be the cutest thing ever!

Everyone says she looks just like John but I am gonna put up a fight in this picture she looks like her momma!

Holy smokes she is growing up too fast! Just beautiful!

I am ten months! Look at me standing!

Hailey has learned so much over the last few weeks. She has learned a bunch of new words, how to crawl and a few words in sign language. Here is a video of her crawling and talking to her momma! She is 10 months old now. I am also going to add a few pictures that I took over the weekend.

Sissy is funny!

Hailey thinks that Kiah is so funny. She will hear Kiah's foot steps and just start to freak out with yells and laughter. Kiah gets pretty loud too! This melts my heart to see them laugh together.

Today I start a family blog

I am starting a family blog so that I can keep everyone up to date with our family in one spot. You will have to forgive me since I am a horrible writer, speller and have horrible English! I am hoping that by doing this I can send out pictures, videos and little notes to family and friends. I also thought it would be cool for the girls to have a place they can go back to look at as they get older! If you have any suggestions on blog entries or things you would like to hear about let me know!