Sunday Morning Pictures and Strawberry Freezer Jam

9 AM Church, and we still managed pictures! 

VICTORY!

Although Kadyn was difficult about being in a group picture...

She preferred to be the lone model :)

Peek-a-boo!!!

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Okay, last week Kylie and I made Strawberry Freezer Jam... which was delightful!  Kylie is such a huge help, sometimes Kacey gets moody and territorial... but she was playing at a friend's house so Kylie and I tackled the strawberries...

Seriously, the strawberries were enormous...

Kylie hard at work...

It's a plastic knife, no worries. 

Kylie really amazes me at this stage of her life.  I look at Kacey and remember going through those rough patches with Kylie.  But now Kylie is so wonderful.  She's an amazing helper, a great listener, follows multiple directions to the T, a hard worker, and very ready to please.  I can say to her, "Kylie, take your sisters downstairs and give them breakfast."  I'll come down about 10 minutes later, and she's done it!  Plates, food, even Kadyn's food is broken up in pieces.  AND Kadyn in strapped in her high chair.  Kylie is INCREDIBLE!  She's so wonderful, I'm so grateful for her and all the sanity she brings me :)

... and sometimes I reward her with a Cherry Coke Zero, what can you do!?! :)

Daisy Days, Soccer, and Sunday Morning Pictures!

*DAISY DAYS*

I'm trying to get back into the habit of taking pictures regularly...

they're just too cute to not be taking pictures of them.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Gymboree?  Love that store, LOOOOVE that outlet!  Kinda getting into the little girls outfits being one way but the baby girls outfits being another, however all of it similar and matching because their from the same line... hence, DAISY DAYS!

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*SOCCER*

Team Picture

We had our first game yesterday!

It's so much fun.  I'm really excited to be starting it up again this year.  Matthew's coaching again this year with our good friend Casey (his wife is Kacey's preschool teacher- if you want to piece it together).

There's HUGE difference between last year and this year in the kids' abilities (we pretty much have the same kids as last year which is great).  It makes it fun to watch.  I will admit, it gets a little intense... well I get a little worked up.  I have to breath and look the other way and calm down, they're just 6.

Kylie loves being goalie.

Like she wants to do it all the time.

She throws a bit of a tantrum to Matthew and bugs him the whole week prior as to when she gets to be goalie.

He tries to be fair- everyone gets an equal chance.  It's just annoying to hear her start on Tuesday about her game on Saturday :)

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*Sunday Morning Pictures*

I am feeling very on the ball!

9 am church, everyone ready... Matthew already gone to his early meetings, but we did everything and we were early... AND we took pictures! I get an 'A' for the day.

Kadyn loves Kylie :)

Kadyn calls her "Dolly."  That's her version of Kylie.

Kacey is "Cici."

And the funny part of it is, both older girls know when Kadyn is calling her version of their name. 

EASTER

Of course, Easter began with us coloring many, many, many eggs.  I've got 3 dozen colored eggs in my fridge.  We haven't touched one of them... and I'm not sure if anyone else smells it, but the pregnant woman doesn't like it!  They'd be gone if they weren't so CUTE!

Us hard at work!

Somehow Kadyn went from this...

To this in only a few minutes... (?)

Let's move onto Easter morning, which began with finding our Easter baskets!

The amount of candy they got was ridiculous!  As well as presents from both sets of grandparents, and new dvds-- The Princess and the Frog and Alvin and the Chipmunks.  The girls were on candy highs and presents overload all day long.  I was really glad to put them to bed that night... although Matthew and I found candy wrappers under the beds- LOTS of them!  Little sneaks! :)

Notice their flip-flops are on.  We're prepared... they knew one of many Easter egg hunts in the backyard was coming!

Back inside actually looking through all their gifts...

And -my favorite- our meal!

Ham, ribs, mashed potatoes, corn, peas, and steaming hot butter biscuits!!!

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And fun news... Kylie can ride her bike! (no training wheels)

Matthew said she pretty much got it on her own.  I walked outside today, he was doing yardwork... (this is his happy yardwork face)

And this was Kylie.  She's good too!  She can stop and go with no problem.  I had no idea!!!

Bike's a little small, it's for her age... but she's got long legs.  I have a feeling we'll be buying her a new bike very soon.

This is what we affectionately call "Boyd Circle."

Our own little street circle in front of our house that we really don't share with anyone... makes it nice for bike riding!

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PS- Pictures of the new bedroom (aka Maggie's old bedroom) are coming.  I've been waiting 6 weeks on wallborder!!!  It's shipped from the manufacturer, it should be at Lowe's in a few days... so more pictures to come on that.  The bedroom is just gorgeous, I love it!!!

Dr. Appt

Sweet Little Kloey!

We had our official ultrasound today verifying that her heart, brain, spine, all that stuff was good... and it was!  Everything looks perfect, she's moving like crazy, growing just fine!  (And it's always nice to hear that she's still a girl, especially after the massive amounts of clothes I've bought!)

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Check out this picture... okay, OUCH!

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And here will be the 1 and only pregnancy picture of me you will see, taken this morning.  Black is very forgiving, but let's face it... appearance at this point in pregnancy- well, it's downhill from here.  I'm 19 weeks and 4 days... the next picture you see of me will be in the hospital with Kloey in my arms!

I called home during my dr's appt and talked to Kacey.  She goes: "Mommy, is Kloey out of your belly now!!??"  And I told her no.  She was quite upset and said that she wanted her to be out now.  I told her that in a few more weeks, I'm really going to want her to be out too. :)

Thursday Morning

I love this picture!

They were sharing biscotti, although sharing with Kadyn means "as soon as my bite is swallowed, I want more immediately!"
Papa understands that, so they work well together.

(taken with the cell phone, so it's a little blurry)

Birthday Girl!

Kylie turned 6!

She was super excited, she's such a big girl now!!!

We began the day by meeting her at school and bringing her and all her kinder-friends doughnuts!  They sang to her and she was delighted!

Kylie and her teacher Ms. Messerli- who by the way, I absolutely adore.  She's positively amazing... I'm trying to convince her to go up to first grade next year... then switch back down to Kindergarten to get Kacey. 

Next, we headed over to Cici's.

Notice my cake, umm I mean HER cake.  I was pleased with myself! :) 

They had her stand on the chair while the whole restuarant sang Happy Birthday to her...

Then... later that afternoon we went to SKYZONE.

It's a huge place with dozens and dozens of trampolines, even trampolines on the side of the walls so you can literally BOUNCE everywhere!  The girls were so tired out, their little cheeks were bright red!  Sweat was pouring off of them after an hour- even Matthew was laying down a few times just trying to catch his breath.  I felt like it was a job well-done! 

Our evening ended with a middle-of-now-where Las Vegas McDonalds dinner stop.  (A 50 piece nugget was 9.99... score!  Although I'd like to say we had a lot leftover, we totally didn't!)  Again, more playing... this time on a PlayLand we'd never been to before which was fabulous to the girls.... then rushing home to beat a storm brewing.  They were so ready for bedtime at the end of the day (although all I wanted to do was sanitize them down- lightening or not, they were getting in the tub!)  I think Kylie had a great day, it was definitely a day out of the ordinary... doing crazy fun stuff!  And she got a boatload of presents... and a brand new bedroom.  More to come on that, later :)

One Day Later...

One tooth less! 

Not 12 hours since she lost one bottom, she loses another!!!

You can see her excitement!

This one was all on her own.  She came running upstairs to me, kinda freaked out.  Her tooth was laying in her lip, no pulling necessary (lucky me~ Matthew was at work).

A Big Night!

Kylie lost her first tooth last night!

It was barely hanging on in there... how she ate, I have no idea!

She called me upstairs, and she was ready.  She told me she wanted me to pull it out.  Before, she's always been too scared.  So I held her hand with one hand and pulled with the other one... but I got scared.. so we called Daddy upstairs.  I held her hands, he pulled and a few seconds later... she looked like this! :)  She was pretty excited, we did the whole tooth under the pillow for the tooth fairy.  She got $5 and was so pleased with herself this morning when she woke up!

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I can't believe we're at this stage.  I've got 1 losing her teeth, 1 with a perfect little mouth (she never took the pacifier), 1 getting her molars, and 1 well who knows what type of teeth/gum/mouth development she's at in the 5th month of pregnancy! :)