Happy Bithday Daddy!

Happy 29th Birthday to our wonderful "Dadia"!! We love you so much!

Elmo Birthday Party at Borders...

Last Saturday Adam, Mimi Kathy and I took Kennedy to the ELMO birthday party at Borders. For all of you who know Kennedy you know that she has a slight obsession with ELMO and pretty much all Sesame Street characters...so as you can imagine she was in heaven at this party and could not sit still. We called her Elmo's SUPERFAN of the party! She even won a ELMO book in the drawing at the end!

Our little artist...

First off as the mother of this crazy little 2 year old I would like to take full responsibility for this...as I was plugging in my vacuum to clean the stairs I noticed a sharpie PERMANENT marker behind the couch, so I picked it up and put it on the banister (HUGE MISTAKE) thinking that I would put it away once I was done with the cleaning.....and then this happened 5 minutes later as I walked up the stairs....

YES, this is my couch!

I frantically went and "googled" stain removing techniques...found out that hairspray works wonders on removing BLACK PERMANENT MARKER on microfiber!

After hours of scrubbing (thanks so much Laura for your help) we were able to remove all of the marker. I think the funniest part of all of this is that when Adam saw the picture of the marker stains all he said was "look, I think she was trying to draw a fish". Don't think he would have had that reaction if we would have to buy a new couch!

Wild Child

Kennedy is having hair issues right now as we are in the process of growing bangs out. She reminded me of an 80's rocker in this picture (of course you know her dad thinks this is so cool)

Waiting...

Here we are at week 35, anxiously awaiting the arrival of Mr. Tate. I have been so busy trying to get everything done (hence why we have not been blogging), and I think we are there! Here are some shots of the little guys room. It was so much fun doing a boy theme this time!

I am a BIG GIRL!!!

Kennedy has officially entered the big girl world, she now sleeps in a big bed!! She did so good yesterday and last night!! She loves her new digs!

Christmas Highlights...

We had a wonderful Christmas this year minus Kennedy waking up on Christmas with a fever and cold that would then last a week. We managed to get through it all and did not deserve all of the wonderful gifts that we got from everyone. Kennedy loved Julia's Elmo Live doll...she was so hot most of the day with a fever she had to be in just a diaper..poor girl!
Our silly "De-De"

My dad and me!

Kennedy is SUCH a daddy's girl...she says his name about 500 times a day. We are so thankful to have such a wonderful husband and father, we love you daddia!! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends!!

Christmas Project

I was so excited about finally having the time to make my own Christmas stockings this year. I saw a picture online and loved the stockings, however, they were asking $30 each for them, and I didn't want to spend that. I thought they turned out pretty well so I thought I would share...they were so easy!!

FIRST sNoW!!!

On Tuesday we made it outside to enjoy the first snowfall of the season. Kennedy didn't really know what to think of it. I had two pairs of snow boots for her (size 5) and neither one fit, so we had to go to the next best thing, her cowboy boots!! It was so funny watching her walk "stiff legged" in them! Guess we better get some snow boots before we head out again.

I think she is already tired of being at home with mom, looks like she

is ready to go to work with dad, she even packed a lunch!!