SERIOUSLY? SERIOUSLY.

SERIOUSLY?! Where has the time gone?!  I have been pleasantly surprised by the number of people who have come up to me reprimanding my blogging hiatus.  Last night at a baby shower for one of my dearest friends {Meggie & Clay Nelson} I was reminded, yet again, that someone had "a bone to pick with me" about SinkOrrSwim...thank you Kate Ivey for giving me a little push!  I am going to be so very mad at myself that I haven't posted updates on how my sweet kiddos are growing up and changing before my very eyes!!  Olivia is now 6 1/2 months old {fun facts: eating stage 2 foods, sleeping like a champ, & army crawling EVERYWHERE}, Kenwood is 2 1/2 {fun facts: every bit of the terrible twos most of the time, his favorite movie right now is "Wizards" aka Wizard of OZ}--I love them both soooo much! Those little rascals!! We spent ALOT of time with family this summer, here is a little photo re-cap!

Memorial Day @ Lake Eufala

Reading books with Gracie

Father's Day 2011

Lake Eufala 2011

Driving "Donald's" Boat

  FIRST ride on the tube aka "BOAT" with daddy!

At the "beach" playing in the sand!

Celebrating Daddy's birthday with cousin Grady

Mom, Dillon, & my two sisters: Cam & Jenn

 a few of the rugrats...Caden, Grady, & Woody

 Lazy summer day inside--it's WAY TOO HOT!

I cannot wait to blow this up when they are in high school and blackmail them....

hahahahaha such a gay picture, but they sure are cute!

Miss Livi Kate is getting very curious these days--Owen is EXTREMELY protective of this little girl!

Miss Smiles....ALL.THE.TIME....happiest baby award!

MY SWEETEST BLESSINGS: this pretty much sums them up--Woody is all up in her biz about 99% of the time...and she thinks he's SOOO cool :)

Happy Birthday Week Kenwood!!!

My precious angel is turning TWO this week!  I cannot believe he has been here for two whole years and at the same time I feel like he has always been a part of our lives!  For those of you who don't know the whole story behind our little miracle baby, I'll give you a brief overview:

Dillon and I got married February 2008...on our wedding night we VOWED we were waiting FIVE years until we started a family.  Well, God had a plan far bigger than we could have imagined and FIVE WEEKS after our wedding day, we had a positive pregnancy test! Well, well, well.

In April 2008 we announced the news to our families...my dad had made the comment that "this baby is a blessing, it's the circle of life guys, when God takes a life he brings in a new one."--This was supposed to be directed toward the recent loss of Dillon's grandfather...but again, God's plans were much larger than we could imagine.

In May 2008 my Grammy passed away...a few days later, my precious Daddy(who was my best friend) was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and given only a few months to live.  So, needless to say this precious little baby that was in my belly was a blessing in disguise and our sole reason to go on living with a positive attitude towards our future....it was a very stressful and emotional 9months!!

On December 4th, 2008 our little blessing, Kenwood, graced us with his presence.  A presence that we all knew would have to fill a hole that would inevitably left in our hearts in the near future.  On December 11, one week to the day after Kenwood was born, God took my Daddy to Heaven.

A year in review:

 Kenwood's First Birthday

 One year photos

 February 2010

 Easter 2010

 Kenwood's gonna be a BIG BROTHER!

 Summer 2010

 Always a good eater!

 Fall 2010

 Fall 2010

Kenwood at Two Years:

Favorite Food-Hot Dogs, Spaghetti

Favorite Shows-Mickey Mouse, Dino Dan

Favorite Toys-Figurines, he loves all of Dillon's old plastic cowboys and horses

Favorite Animals- DOG, Horse, Dinosaurs

He says his prayers every night, and the first thing he thanks Jesus for is his dog...then Daddy...and sometimes we'll get lucky and Mommy will get in his list of Thanks!

Favorite Book- Dinosaur Numbers, Counting with Elmo

Favorite Place to go- School or Church....or of course Zeezi's house and Mimi&DonDon's house

Words he uses everyday- Dog, No, Eat, Mick (aka Mickey Mouse), RAAAAR, Saur (dinosaur), Coke(aka drink), Cars, Night Night

I am amazed everyday by the grace of God and by his divine presence in our lives.  He has plans for us that we may never understand but He has a purpose for everything.  I am so thankful that He chose me to be Kenwood's mother...this sweet little boy has made Dillon's and my life complete.

3 Times Better with just ONE Letter!

So sorry for my long weekend hiatus!  I was having entirely too much fun to sit down and take a few minutes to blog :)  This weekend was a blast from the past! Literally! OU TriDelta celebrated it's 100th year on campus with a weekend full of sisterly celebration.  A little cheesy, maybe.  A lot fun, duh.

On Friday night Dillon and I trucked on down to our old stomping grounds in good 'ol Norman for the TriDelt social at 747.  For those of you who are familiar or ran around in a fraternity/sorority around the time it opened and got popular (2004-2007), it is also fondly referred to as "Club Poison".  I'm sure many of my readers can vouch that it's almost always a good time!

Anyway, on Friday night I was pleasantly surprised by two of my best college friends making their way up from Texas!  We had some serious fun in college and we had a blast laughing and telling our "remember when..." stories.  After the social, a group from my pledge class and our husbands (and soon to be husbands) all went to dinner at Iron Starr BBQ.  It's amazing all the new and cool things that have gone up in Norman since we left only a short 3 years ago.  We had a nice long dinner, again laughing and telling stories and at times wishing we were still in college!

Saturday was a "girls" day and I went to La Luna for a pledge class reunion lunch.  The food was great but the conversation was even better.  I'm pretty sure I scared away a few of the girls from ever having children--I think Charlee literally broke out in hives at the mention of pregnancy :)  After lunch, we went back the house and saw all the new decorating that had been done and looked at all our old rooms.  We were laughing at the thought of renting the house out for a Spring Break and all moving back in for just a week--what a reality show that would be!!  Best vacation ever.

Overall, it was a great weekend and I got to see some of the most influential girls of my college years.  I love you all and can't wait to get together again!!

Here are some "remember when" pictures that are priceless:

Mardi Gras in New Orleans

We totally just jumped on another house's date party bus on a whim

...one of my favorite college memories

Ninja Turtles for Homecoming Skit

Puerta Vallarta, MX Spring Break

2 of my very best friends from college- don't kid yourself, we blew this up to poster size for our house

TTEAMIB as Seniors-- Best pledge class EVER

BOYZ II MEN

A few weeks ago Dillon  and I went with some of our friends to the BOYZ II MEN concert. Yes, I know your jealous.  It was AMAZING.  And, I will go back every. single. time. they come to OKC. Here are some pics from the legendary concert:

 I got a rose from them. I thought I was pretty dang special :)