Ready or Not I'm BACK!

Tonight I had a come to Jesus with my phone. Trevor got me a smart phone for Christmas, I love it and I love that he surprised me with it! It has been great! I would not have survived being in Texas without it. The GPS on that bad boy saved me I don't know how many times. I love the quality of pics it takes, I love being able to post those pics on Instagram and look at all of my good friends pics on instagram! It is like an "instant" blog it's pretty sweet! 

What I don't love is that I am on that stupid thing 24/7! Checking to see if anyone has posted a new pic, maybe someone has updated their facebook account and I'm missing it, heaven forbid! My friend 

Shanley wrote a post on her blog about how stupid facebook is and how wonderful blogging is, ok ok I'm putting words in her mouth, but that is how I feel and didn't realize it until I read her post this morning and then just spent two hours looking at all of my past posts on my blog! I love those posts. I was SO happy then. I loved my little boy more than any other thing on the face of the planet! I mean I still do but back then I wasn't worried about taking the perfect pic to put on instagram, I was trying to create a perfect experience to take pictures of and blog about and by doing that I was making memories with my little boy that I will cherish forever! 

Life has been crazy busy.. we bought a house, we had our sweet little Kiptyn, we moved to Texas, we are just getting back into our "normal" and I want to start creating those experiences again! I want to start making real memories with my sweet kids! 

So here is to putting down the smart phone, picking up my camera and making memories with my littles! 

  

after all the camera does love them! 

Washington County Fair

"..there's a full moon in the western sky, and there's magic in the air! Ain't nothin' I know of can make you fall in love like a night at the county fair.." Does any body else sing this song at the top of their lungs when they think of the county fair? Does any body else even know why Chris Ledoux is? That's beside the point!

We gave Trev a total of 20 minutes to recover from his 24 hr drive home before we drug him to the fair! He loves us for that! :) We met Shad, Jeri, Maci, Kali, Cedi and Charli at the fair for a good time! The kids loved the rides!! I loved watching crazy people I mean maybe that's not very nice but it is what it is! Maci talked Kali and I into riding the fireball with her! I nearly peed in my pants! I was SOO scared, but it was lots of fun!

The following pics are a legit summary of our Good Time! 

Kemah & the Beach according to my camera

I took my camera to the beach when we went with Kali's fam and lost my charger while I was there so these are the last pics I have on my camera from our summer! They are some goodies though! :)

oopsie there was only 1 pic of Kemah on my camera! Look how goodlooking these two boys are though!!

and then the beach!! ...  We had so much fun with the boogie board! I even went out and caught a few waves! (ya know 'cuz I'm a surfer chick)

There's something about a babe on a beach that just makes me giddy!! I had two of them that nearly sent me over the edge with their cuteness! 

Cousins

Koleman got to spend some quality time with his cousins Cedi and Charli this summer. We drove from Houston to Tulsa two times they drove down to Houston for the 4th and we have been in Utah with them for the last 4 weeks! It has been a blast!
Kman and Charli have become bffs, and big time trouble makers!! They like to get naked and climb up on the roof or the cars or ya know just hang out in their nothins, its cooL! They are hilarious but sure know how to wear a person out!
I took these pictures our first trip to Ok.

 Kali got the hose out to spray off her patio and it turned into a PARTAY!

More kiddie Park Fun

and the one and only three pics I got from the zoo!

9 months

 

Our little Miss Kiptyn is 9 months!

a few things about her...

 

She finally got her legs and arms working together & figured out how to crawl! She can move at a pretty quick pace! She uses her left foot and right knee, so she half stink bugs it!

 

She can pull herself to a stand!

 

She will drink water out of a sippy cup now and loves it. She still is a little brat to try and feed solids too. I think I finally have her figured out then she decides she hates whatever it is i'm feeding her!

 

She still wakes up a couple of times at night for her binki and then eats at 430 am but then goes back to sleep!

 

 She became super attached to me over the summer! She kind of had a nervous breakdown for about 2 weeks when we got back from Texas. She didn't know what to think about all of the family. We've worked through it and shes doing better now. Except the last couple of days all she has done is cry! I'm not being dramatic either, if her eyes are open she is crying I might hurt someone!

 

She is our high maintenance monster child, but we love her!