Easter

We started Easter with a visit from the easter bunny.  We were excited this year because this was the first time since Kyle and I have been married that we were able to wake up at home on Easter or pretty much any holiday (this year was our first Christmas at home too).  So we were glad to be at home and get to see Kylie find her basket from the easter bunny.  Yesterday we had a great church service.  We ate lunch with my mom and dad and then headed to Kyle's family get together for some more egg hunting.  Here are some pictures from the day:

Our family at church on Easter

Kylie's Easter basket

Kylie was checking it all out.

She went for the marshmallows first thing.

Kylie and her cousin Kaitlyn, aren't they beautiful!

This is Kylie with her best friend Halle.  Cuteness!!!

These three are all less than two months apart.

Kylie is the oldest....

Kylie with her Uncle D.J.  Aunt Tootie (Kerry) was with her family.

With Nana and Papa

Hunting eggs

Kylie with her Aunt Katie

We finished off the day with a bath and her new pj's that the Easter Bunny brought her.

Easter at the River

We had a great easter weekend! How awsome is it to know that we serve a RISEN SAVIOR!  We started the weekend at mom and dad's river house.  We stayed outside all afternoon.  Kylie and Kate hunted eggs, we went out on the dock, and just hung out around the house.

Kyle and Kylie were "fishing" with long pieces of grass/a plant.

Playing in the yard at the river!  I can't wait for summer time so the water is warm enough to play in!

Coloring Easter Eggs

Getting instructions from Nana and Papa for the egg hunt.

She found one!

Kylie liked to step on the eggs so here is the result when she found a real one!

Pony Tails

OK, so I have to admit, I always ridiculed the pebbles look, as I call it, on little girls.  I claimed I would never let my little girl wear her hair that way.  Well, this is one time, in a long list of times, that I am eating my words.  Yesterday, Eryn was at our house and I was fixing her hair.  While I fixed her hair she made Kylie a pony tail and I have to admit that I adored it!  I thought it was so funny.  Kylie loved it and this morning when I was getting her ready she wanted a "pony."  She likes to shake her head and feel it move around.  We still probably won't have this look often but I did think it was a cute change and it made me look forward to when she has hair long enough to fix.

Me-ma's House (aka Grandma)

Last week Kylie and I went to Dothan with Nana to see my grandmother(my mom's mom) and my grandfather (my dad's dad), Kylie's great grandmother and grandfather.  She did GREAT on the ride to Dothan.  It is a 5 hour drive and we didn't even have to get her out of the car seat once!  She desperatly needed a diaper change when we got there but other than that it was great.  She is a great car rider.  It probably has something to do with the fact that she has had to deal with it since she was born.  We made two trips to Dothan before she was two months old.

While we were in Dothan we stayed busy.  We ran a lot of errands and shopped with my grandmother.  We went to a kid's store ,"That Store," to get Kylie some clothes.  I got her a cute Easter dress and some other summer clothes but I couldn't get everything I wanted because she is so hard to fit!  She is so tiny that everythign falls off of her.  I guess I am going to have to practice up on my sewing if I want to have cute outfits for her this summer. 

Kylie tried to say Grandma but it came out as Me-ma.  But now she asked every day or two where Me-ma is.  So cute!  Here is a picture of her with her Nana and Me-ma.  Three generations!  I am kicking myself for not getting a picture of the four of us together to get all the generations in there.  Oh well, we will see her again soon and maybe I'll remember to get a pic.

You don't know what you've got til it's gone!

I went to the eye doctor last monday for the first time in about six years.  I had not been to an eye doctor since I had eye surgery to correct my vision in 2004, so the visit was long over due.  Lately, I have noticed that my vision has been a little blurry and I thought I may need glasses again.  My suspision was right and now I have my first pair of glasses in six years.  I was really dissapointed that my vision changed after having lasik surgery.  Don't get me wrong, I don't regret the surgery, and as soon as we can save up the money I will have it again in a heart beat, but I really didn't know how good I had it until I had to go back to glasses.  I was almost legally blind before I had the surgery so after the surgery it was so great not to have to rely on glasses or contacts because before I couldn't do ANYTHING without them!  I couldn't even see the big E on the eye chart, not even close.  My vision is no where near that bad now so at least I have that going for me but I had hoped after surgery that it would be many years before I needed glasses.  Oh well, such is life.

Here are my new glasses! 

Over 20 lbs...FINALLY!

Yesterday was Kylie's 18 month birthday and we had to go to her pediatrician for a check-up.  She has also had a cold for a couple of weeks so we got some medicine for that while we were there. we had to go for a checkup for her weight.  Her doctor has been concerned because she is so small.  Everytime we go he always mentions her weight and tells me to try to get her to eat and drink more.  Anyone that knows Kylie knows that normally she is a great eater.  She eats more that most of the kids we know.  I haven't really worried about the weight because she does eat great and I know that she is probably just going to be skinny like her dad!    Anyway...we have been trying to hit the 20lb mark for quite a while now and we finall did it yesterday.  She weight 20.5 lb and was 30.8 inches tall! 

She missed her 15 month shots because she had the flu so she also got shots yesterday.  I felt bad for her so we stopped and got her a cupcake at Gigi's cupcakes in huntsville.  Here she is in the car on the way home, I gave her some icing on a fork.  (Not a good idea....had to wash the car seat!)

Happy Birthday Nana and Grandaddy!

Yesterday was Nana's (my mom) birthday.  We celebrated last week because she and my dad were going to be out of town.  We ate at the Doc's in Scottsboro.  YUM!  Then we went to "the Nest," my mom and dad's new place at the river.  We had a great time.

Today is Grandaddy's birthday (Kyle's dad).  We are going to eat Mexican with them tonight.  We also had a great day with them yesterday.  One of the benefits of Kyle's job since we moved is that he is off on all holidays so he didin't have to work yesterday.  Kyle's mom and dad came over and cooked us some DELICIOUS steaks for a valentines day present.

On a side note, as I type this post I realize how much of my weekend and first part of this week has revolved around food!  I have totally fell off of the Weight Watchers band wagon....gotta jump back on soon or I won't fit into my bridesmaid dress for my brother's wedding!  I am determined not to look back at pictures and not want them to be seen because I look fat! :)  26 pounds down - another 20 to go.