Its been a while but I have been one busy momma. With class and job interviews...my life is crazy at the present time. I have been missing my Keira girl but I know she has been having lots of fun staying with Nana and Pappa Thom and Pappa Susan. Nana has taken her lots of fun places and Papa Thom and her go on fun walks during the day. I know she loves that time with them. I on the other hand am sick of the job hunt. Someone just needs to hire me. I am about to start some bribing!

A few months ago, I got Keira a potty so she can start getting used to it. Well, I did not know that I could make such a smarty cutie pattotie! She has used it many times, #1 and #2. She likes to sit on it and read books. Here are some recent pics...

I had to take this pic of her sleeping becase I thought she looked so precious holding her oh so soft pink blankie that she sleeps with every night.

We have been so entertained by all of Keir's bday presents. She has so many toys which are all played with every day. Here is a little clip of her in her play pool....

One year ago from today...

I now have a one year old. Today is July 14 and if this were one year ago, Keira would be living in the NICU at Arlington memorial and I would be going on another sleepless night because I was so worried about my new little princess. One year has gone by and we are so blessed to have the most gorgous, perfect. smart, and loving baby in the whole world! We have had such an exciting year with lots of laughs, smiles, giggles, crawls, words, hugs, kisses, baby steps, baby signs, zoo trips, parks trips, swimming pools, doggy and kitty kisses, first rodeos, first Ranger games, shopping trips, birthday partys and lots and lots of love. Keira is the light of our lives and I am the happieset mommy in the whole wide world.

We had such a wonderful first birthday with lots of friends and family. Keira was the cutest ever. Partys are so in her element. It was so funny to see her expressions when everyone arrived. It is like she knew the party was for her. She was so excited to see everyone and I know she had so much fun, being the star of the show. Shy is definitly not in her vocabulary. She reacted so funny to all the gifts too. And the cake... She is such a girly, prissy priss that she did not even want to dig in and get too dirty, and I thank her for that. Her danty little fingers finally got covered with icing, but being the caring and giving girl she is, she just wanted to feed mommy!

We are still recovering from the wonderful fun filled weekend.

Me-ow!

Last night before drifting off to sleep, Brodie and I were laying in bed halfway talking and halfway sleeping. We were talking about our cats. For those who don't know, we have two cats. Aspen is slinder, sleek, pretty, athletic, and all white. Daisy (aka Fat Daisy) is chubby, flabby, plump, very cute and is grey and white. Daisy never misses meals and I think steals Aspens some nights. Anyways...we somehow got talking about who would play the voices of Aspen and Daisy if Disney were to make a movie about them. This was just kinda fun and I though I would share. We decided that Aspen would be voiced by Madonna, and that the perfect match for Daisy would be Rosie O'Donnell. Ill post some pics so you can decide for yourself!

Daisy loves chillin with Keira. They are BFF.

Aspen loves chillin with Keira's stuff.

Just another manic monday....

After a crazy and sick weekend...I am back. Keira is better, but Brodie and I both caught what she had and have been sick since Saturday evening (the vomit bug bit us). On Saturday, Brodie and I were invited to spend the night at Susan and Shelbys Dad's lake house in PK. We dropped of Baby K and Nana and Granddads and headed up. We had lots of fun and were so grateful to be invited. So unfortunate that we both were up all night with sick tummys. Were both feeling a bit better today...knock on wood.

I started my alternative certification class today which lasts until August 1st. It was very depressing leaving Keira today since for the past month it was just me and her hanging all day together. I cherish that month. I thought about her so much today and wanted to be with her, and Brodie. I have been dreading this day for as long as I have known about it but I have to do this for my family and for myself. On that note...I found out that I have a job interview on Wednesday. Yea! It is for a life skills position in Burleson. I am very excited about it and hope all goes well. Wish me much luck because it is getting closer to the first day of school and I still have no job. Boo Hoo.

I am up watching the Bachelorette which I had recorded earlier. I am not sure who she will pick but I am all for Jesse. I think he is fun, exciting and super cute. I liked Jason at first but he has started getting on my nerves. He is kinda annoying and he is not a pretty kisser. I am kinda sad this is the last night. Summer TV sucks and not much else is on. I do however love the new hits Wipeout and I survived a Japanese Game Show. Anyone else watch those? I have one word for you...Majide! Talk about entertaining!

And for all of you wondering...we did see fireworks on the 4th. We drove to the Mansfield Kohl's parking lot and watched the fireworks from Joe Pool Lake. Keira was so cute. She sat there in her little camping chair and clapped after every one. She loves her flag and has been waving since the day she got it...until Aspen got a hold of it and tore it up...silly Kitty. Anyways, Keira is so precious and this will be a first 4th I will not forget.

Fireworks tonight?

My first blog.....

The 4th of July....crazy to think it's been one year since Transformers the movie came out. The only reason I know that is because I was seeing it a year ago today. Not that I was a huge die-hard transformers fan, but I was seeing it because it was the only thing I really felt like doing, because I was big...really big, swollen, and about to have a baby. 10 days later, my Keira was born. Brodie and I saw the movie, then slept all day until about 9 PM. I made him get up and drive me around to chase the fireworks that we could hear but not see from our street. We drove all around the not-so-glorious side streets and country roads of Kennedale and we did see some fading sparkles from a distance. Hopefully we will be able to show Keira so great fireworks tonight. We should probably leave the house before they start this time. Hopefully we will, depending on how she is feeling. Just as I was saying last night to a group of mothers, Keira has never been sick. Not at all. No fever, no ear infections or anything. We got home last night, put her to bed and started watching the tube. Then it happened. She threw up 6-7 times in 3 hours. We did lots of laundry and lots of baths. I spoke to soon. (she is doing good now! No more vomit since last night.)


One year has flown by and recently I am beginning to get weepy eyes every time I think about Keira's first birthday. Okay, so I have been getting weepy eyes for about 10 months thinking about her 1st birthday. That goes away right?

I have never blogged, nor do I read others blogs. I decided I would give it a try. I feel blogging is sorta like a diary for the new generation...and something to do since myspace is so last year. So here is my first blog for you to enjoy. Hopefully I will keep this up better than the 9 diaries I started way back when.