WELCOME HOME!

Today Kylie and I went to Birmingham.  My Uncle Everett has been in Afghanistan since last November and he got to come home today.  Mom and I made Auburn and Alabama posters for the welcome home. 

Brittany and Tyler waiting on their Dad!

I can not imagine having to be gone like that or being the wife of someone who has to stay overseas for a year.  I am always appreciative of what military men and women do for us but it really hits home when it is family.  They sacrifice SO MUCH for our freedom.  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dad, Mom, Everett, Kylie and Me

I teared up (surprise, surprise) when they arrived and I was so happy for him to get to be home.  There was a little girl standing next to us with her grandparents and she had a sign that said "Welcome Home Mommy."  I can not even begin to imagine what it would be like to leave Kylie for a year.  Again, it makes you really appreciate what they do for you when you see the sacrifice that not only they make, but their families make as well.  

 

We went and ate at Lone Star for lunch with the family.  Kylie finally warmed up to Everett right before we left.  She let him hold her and she gave him a kiss goodbye.  After we left, she wanted to know if we were going to their house.  She wanted me to "please help her go to Brittany's house."   

WELCOME HOME EVERETT!  

Terri and Everett

WAAAAARRRRR EAGLE, HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kyle and I LOVE Auburn football.  When we were living in Auburn we went to practically every game.  We have not been to a game in two years and we got tickets last weekend so we decided to go.  We headed down to Auburn (minus Kylie, we thought the game would be way too crowded to have to appease her) for the Auburn vs. LSU game.  It was a GREAT game.  I was so excited with the win.  I screamed so loud on Saturday that I barely had a voice at church on Sunday, but it was worth it.  Now we are ranked #1....WOW!  The ranking kind of makes me nervous because we have a lot of tough games left, but hopefully the winning can continue.  Either way I am going to enjoy it while I can.....WE'RE #1.   WAAAAARRRRRR EAGLE, HEY!!!!!!!

While we went to Auburn, Kylie stayed with Grandmother, Grandaddy and Aunt Katie.  They played hard and watched movies all day.  She watched Snow white and had to dress up too.  Aunt Katie sent us the picture while we were at the game.  I am so thankful that we are close to family that can keep Kylie when we do things like this.  She loves to go over there and I know they love having her.  The only problem is that she comes home SPOILED! :) Oh well, that's what grandparents are for, right?

John 3:16

Every morning that Kylie is awake before Kyle goes to work he reads her a bible verse.  He has a couple of different ones, mostly from the "Romans Road," that he reads.  John 3:16 is one of them.  About a month ago I started saying John 3:16 and letting Kylie repeat me as a said it throughout the day.  It was AMAZING how fast she picked it up and said it on her own.  She could say, practically, the entire verse by herself after less than a weeks time.  It made it that much more prevalent that I need to watch what I say and do around her.  She is so aware of what's going on, and soaks things up like a sponge.  I told Kyle that I am going to start teaching her more verses because all of the verses that I memorized at a young age are the ones that have really stuck with me.  On a side note, we are still not great with colors or numbers so we have got to work on that as well.  But, I would much rather know that she knows John 3:16 at 2 years old than how to count to 10 (but she is getting that as well).  Here is a video of her saying her bible verse. (Sorry it is so blurry, the video is on my phone....you may need to turn the volume up.)



Sickly Sickerson!!!!

If you're wondering why there hasn't been a post in a week its because I didn't have anything to write about.  Kylie and Kyle have been sick!  Kyle has had the crud and Kylie has had an ear infection, so we had a pretty uneventful week and weekend. 

Mom, Kylie and I did get out yesterday.  We went to Huntsville for kids market and got Kylie a lot of fall/winter clothes.  For those of you who don't know, kids market is held twice a year and it is basically a gigantic yard sale for kids clothes, furniture, bedding, toys, etc.  There were tons of people there and so many things to look through.  We ended up being there for about 2 1/2 hours!!!!  Luckily, Kylie was pretty good and I was able to plunder and get some great stuff.  I brought her stroller and her portable DVD player along with some snacks and that kept her occupied a lot of the time.

Hopefully we will actually get ready and go somewhere this week that we look worthy of a picture, I always enjoy the pictures on my friends blogs and I need to get better about taking them but at times like last week (when Kylie is sick) it is rare that we get out of our pj's.  Ha ha!  Oh well, hopefully there will be cute pictures to come this week.

Fun Times

We had a busy, but fun, weekend.  Friday night we went and watched our old high school football game.  Kaitlyn came with us and spent the night at our house.  Kylie loved playing with Kaitlyn.  She thinks that she is big stuff when Kaitlyn is there.

We spent Saturday, of course, watching football.  I am not one to watch many NFL games but it is just not a complete weekend in the fall without some SEC football.  Auburn gives me a heart attack nearly every game but it has made for some exciting games to watch.  I told Kyle I would enjoy a few more Saturdays where I can relax and have a "boring" game where we get ahead and stay ahead the whole game. 

Sunday we did something that I haven't done since I was probably in high school.  I stayed up ALL night.  We had a youth lock in at the church and Kyle and I helped with it.  I had been dreading it thinking that I was going to be exhausted but it was actually lots of fun!  We went bowling and then brought the youth back to the church and played all kinds of games and ate a lot of junk food.  I am pretty sure I drank enough caffeine Sunday night to fill a swimming pool! Ha ha! 

Because of the lock in we spent Monday morning SLEEPING! Praise the Lord!  We got home around 6:30 and went straight to bed.  We slept for a few hours and then went and got Kylie from Grandmother and Grandaddy's house.  When we went to pick her up she was watching Disney movies.  She said she watched "Tinkerella" aka Cinderella and she loved it.  They said she barely moved during the entire movie.  I guess its time for me to go to mom and dad's and get out all of the old VHS Disney movies...I will welcome them with open arms if it means we can stop watching Barney and Bee Movie all the time!


On a different note, mom sent me a picture of the inspiration shirt that I talked about a few posts ago.  Here is where I got the idea for Kylie's shirt.  Basically I just hot glued ribbon and added a bow at the top of Kylie's shirt.  Mom's is done the same way but she added fabric paint on top of the ribbon so that it doesn't come apart in the wash...I have to do that to Kylie's before I wash it or it will have been a "one wear wonder."

I wanna play a "Game"

Over the past few weeks Kylie asks to play a game a million times a day.  The problem is that she doesn't know what that means.  She thinks that asking to play a game is like asking to go swing, she thinks that it is something specific.  We have tried to tell her that there are all kinds of games to play that there is no such thing as just a game but you can imagine trying to explain that to a 2 year old that is convinced she is right.  I told Kyle that we are just going to have to pick a game like simon says or something like that and call it Game. 

Her favorite game right now is to play hide and seek.  Ya'll, I have never in my life known a kid who loves to hide as much as she does.  Everyday, and I mean EVERY, she has to hide from her dad when he gets home from work.  The other night I was trying to take her picture and all she wanted to do is hide behind her dad.

I'm sure Kyle is going to love that I put these pictures up! Haha!

Kylie wanted Daddy to hide.

Crafty or Copied...either way it's Cute!

This football season we have been to several of our high school football games.  Kylie didn't have anything in our school colors (green and gold) to wear so I decided to get a little crafty.  I am not sure where this originally came from but I copied the idea from a shirt my mom made in about.....1980 or somewhere around there.  I wish I had a picture of my mom's shirt to show you, she still has it!  Anyway I thought it turned out pretty cute!  Here is the finished product (Kylie wanted to pose and apparently that means cocking your hip to one side, she is such a ham!):

Failure is Not an Option

Well, I'm back again....I have determined that failure is not an option and I want to document the everyday happenings around our house so that I can look back and remember all of the fun times we have and the things that are important to me.  Over the past few months so many things have happened that I think to myself "I wish I would have written that down," and I don't want to regret not remembering anything else.

As I think about how many times I have drifted and come back to my blog it makes me think about how often I drift away from God and have to come back asking for forgiveness.  I am so glad that failure is not an option to God!