First Day at the Park!

We had a bit of a heat wave last week here in Ohio and since Dave and I both had the morning off, we decided to take Kensley to the park while we could. Because if any of you know the weather in Ohio, if you so much as mention the fact that it is nice out the next hour it takes a turn for the worse and will drop 30 degrees. I cant tell you how many times I start out my day with the heat on in my car, the air on at lunchtime and finish the night drive home with the heat on again. Gotta love Ohio weather. Actually, you dont. And I dont. But thats a whole other story.

Anyway, I am pretty sure this is one of the first times K has been to the park. We may have had a picnic or two last summer, but she was only a few months old then and I was worried about the sun and all that so this was her first REAL trip to the park. We didn's stay too long because it ended up getting pretty windy, but she had a fabulous time. I know as soon as she starts walking more she will be ALL OVER the park and I will be scrambling to catch up with her. Plus that grin hardly left her face the entire time we were there. I know we will be spending many days at the park come spring/summer.

Could you all please say a prayer for my Grandma Rhea. I don't mention it much, but she has not been doing well for some time now. She is back in the hospital. She suffers from dementia and Alzheimers and so she has no idea what is going on. She talked about people who have been gone for years as if they just visited her yesterday and I dont think she is going to know what is really going on much longer. I think it is such a shame that she never had the chance to know K and she will never really know her grandma.

Kensley's Birthday Party Post!

I think I took a little over 200 pictures, so I will spare you from a never-ending picture post. These are just some of our favorites ;)

The Birthday Cake...

It was made by the same lady that did all of Dave's birthday cakes, it was delish and she did those character's from a picture we showed her :)



The presents!



A quick glimpse of the nemo madness. Each of the little kids got a stuffed nemo, nemo cup with straw and little eggs with fish on them stuffed with candy. All the adults got to take home a framed picture of Kensley. That is what is all over the tables.



Kensley with my brother Colton.



She did NOT want to part with her sippy.



My favorite pic of the day.



Where is the CAKE! Bring me the CAKE!



Oooh this stuff is pretty good!



She ate it ever so delicately. Hardly made a mess at all.





Here Daddy, You HAVE to try this!



She loved her Minnie Mouse.



Playing with her Choo Choo. With Kyle's help.



Elmo!

The party was a huge success. Everyone had a great time and told us they thought we did such a great job. We completely forgot to video tape everyone singing Happy Birthday which I am a little bummed about, but we were trying to juggle 7 million things and we just forgot. Its alright though. We had pizza, a fruit and veggie tray and a chocolate fountain with marshmallows, strawberries and pretzels. That thing was a huge hit. One of the helium balloons got sucked into the chocolate fountain and chocolate was flying all over the place. That was fun. haha! Kensley was a perfect angel and the weather was so warm that we got to go outside and play on the swings and the slides. Such a complete 180 from last year's weather!

Special Delivery!

Just look at what we got yesterday:



We got our new LG washing machine and dryer! And we couldnt be more excited about it :) Coming from someone who has been paying $3 per load of wash for the past, oh...six years, these things are God sent. We actually sat on the basement floor last night and watched a whole cycle. By the way, who knew that front loading washers took so long? around 53 minutes! But they clean your clothes much better and more gently, so I cant complain. And my dryer can get the clothes done in close to 30 so that is a huge improvement. So anyway, these are our new babies ;)

I got some adorable pictures of Kensley yesterday. She was way into watching Madagascar 2 so she stood still long enough for me to get a few good ones :)

In this one you can see how light her hair is getting. It always looks so dark in pictures, but its really getting light :)













Well, I am off to wash some more laundry ;) Does anyone want to come fold and put everything away? Its the part about laundry that I HATE. haha!