christmas eve

what a GREAT couple of weeks we've had! i am so excited that i got a small little point-and-shoot camera for christmas so hopefully i'll be taking a lot more pictures of our family and updating the blog a lot more!!! here is the first of several posts to come. :)

we had a nice christmas eve with just our family. i love the tradition of having the night to ourselves and celebrating christ's birth as a family. the girls are at such fun ages right now and had the best time with all the gifts! here are some pics from christmas eve:

our latest mis-hap

well, we have certainly had an eventful couple of weeks! last week kyler started by busting the back of her head open on the coffee table. (i'll spare you the bloody pictures). she had to get 2 staples in the back of her head. then on tuesday i went to pick up kamdyn from school and she had just fallen and bit through her lip and just below it. 2 stitches later she was pretty good to go. so the next tuesday we went and had all of our stitches and staples out. what fun!

this brings us to this past friday. kyler's finger got smashed between a big glass door and the floor at zack's office. it is literally cut to the bone 3/4 of the way around the top of her index finger. the bone is fractured and she has 4 stitches. we went to the plastic surgeon today and he said the bone should heal fine without surgery - so that is great! and then he said it would be easiest for everyone if we just put a cast on her to let the rest of it heal properly. the cast has to go all the way to her shoulder b/c if it was just to her elbow he said it would probably fall off easily b/c of how small she is. sooooo.....here ya go....we get 2 weeks of this hot pink thing!

princess kamdyn

kamdyn had a princess birthday party today so she got to dress up like a princess! i must say - she was the prettiest little princess there! and yesterday we celebrated christmas with my family and nathan gave her the princess gown. she has not wanted to take it off since we got home...she really wanted to wear it to the bday party today. she asked me to take a picture of her in it. so here she is!

santa!

another iphone update

i was going to post a picture i took on my phone today and then looked and saw there were several that need to be shared.  so here they are.....

first of all - kyler is finally officially walking!!!  16 months.  but there ya go!  so she found these sunglasses today and has not wanted them off...she loves them!  it's so cute and funny.

i know this pic is really blurry but yesterday kamdyn sat in this rocking chair in front of the front door.  then after a second she got the golf club and sat back down and said, "just in case."  LOL - no idea where that came from!

at the zoo on the train

our little poser - kamdyn.  i LOVE this dress!  my new favorite brand at nordstrom. oh and i flat-ironed her hair this day.  she loves that too.

one saturday morning when daddy was out of town we took a walk up to the donut store - mmmmm!

this cracks me up.  pre-school project gone bad...

she now requests her own cup of coffee from starbucks.  that would be a kid's size hot chocolate.

mommy & kyler in downtown savannah, ga.

love some of these pics from the beach.  our first trip down there when we got to hilton head - did not have swimsuits on so stripped down, eventually.

snack time with brynn & mia!

i love this pic of kamdyn!  she is so cute and posing, as usual.  same brand shirt as the dress above - love it!!

cousin time!

would you believe this was thrown together SUPER last minute?  these kids are so cute!  we happened to all be together a few weekends ago and decided we should take some christmas pics of all the cousins!  (maybe my mom will actually send out a card this year?!)  anyway - they were fun...you can see them better on my haley b photography blog.

ft. worth zoo

we took the girls to the zoo today for the first time.  we all had a lot of fun!  the weather was just perfect and it was not crowded at all!  we had nothing else planned for the entire day so it was SO NICE to just be able to take our time and enjoy the day.  we did not worry about nap time, which resulted in major melt-downs at dinner (luckily at home) which THEN resulted in 6:30 bed time for both.  

WORTH IT!!!

checkin' out the giraffe's.  then we saw a baby one..so cute!

elephants and then a huge hippo!

kamdyn was hilarious w/ this tiger.  she liked him but she was so close (at the window) she would get startled every time he walked by her.  

love this picture of zack & kyler!  and then the one of me (below) pretty much describes my life.

couple of cuties!!!