Anniversary

I need to do a better job of updating this blog. I feel like every day just goes by a little faster and time just gets away from me. Last week Kerry and I decided to take a little trip to Louisville. We LOVE water parks/theme parks and we have never been to Louisville, so there we went. We left Kaylor at my moms and went up there for a night. The park was very crowded (and it was a Tuesday) and let me just say it was o.k. I definitely like Holiday World and Atlanta better!
This past weekend we celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary by going downtown for dinner and staying at The Hutton Hotel. I would definitely recommend staying there! It was very modern, eco-friendly and nice! A little pricey, but we didn't want to go to Florida this summer so we considered it our "vacation" for a night:

Of course we had to eat tiramisu at Amerigos:

Here is Kaylor riding with Daddy on the mower waving: Miley and Kaylor playing:

Summer Fun!

Wow how fast the summer is going! We have been having so much fun together now that Kerry has some time off. We did a basketball camp at my school together and we really enjoyed doing it. I loved seeing the kids again and we both love to teach basketball, so that turned out good!

Kaylor is STILL climbing everywhere and our chairs are STILL layed down in front of our couches. She even climbs in to her high chair and sits down now when the tray is off and she is hungry. I will film her doing this soon and put it on here, that girl loves to eat! Hope everyone is having a great summer!

Here are some recent pictures:

Kaylor loves to call for the dogs to come in. She has to go to the door every time we let them out. She will go "Bay!!!" (for Bailey) and "C!!!" (for Lexie)

This was on Father's Day before church.

This is the only time I have seen her keep on a hat. She didn't mind wearing it so I had to get a picture :)

Eating lunch with Ashley and Jaxon at the pool:

Kaylor loves to jump to her Daddy in the pool:

Every 4th of July we go to Mt. Juliet with Kerry's family. We have a big cookout, swim, and play games all day. Here is Kaylor in her festive outfit for the 4th:

With Gram:

The Aquarium

Last week my mom, Kaylor, and I decided we wanted to go somewhere. However, we didn't know exactly where. We packed up the car, got on the interstate and said "where are we going?" We narrowed it down to Atlanta and Chattanooga, then right before the split to Atlanta, we said Chattanooga. So there we go! We went and stayed at my aunts house and we had a blast! We went to the aquarium and did some shopping downtown and it really was so much fun. I would recommend visiting the aquarium.

My cousin Savannah went to the aquarium with us and it was so great to spend some time with her. She is just growing up so fast!

Eating at Cheeburger, Cheeburger (so good!)

Out of everything at the aquarium, the penguins were my favorite part! I could have watched them all day. Kaylor loved them too! Mimi bought her a penguin stuffed animal when we left and she still loves carrying it around.

One of the penguins is swimming behind her. They are so fast!

And can you believe she got this close to a snake?? She even touched it!

Non Stop Fun??

Kaylor and I decided to go visit the fountain at Indian Lake Mall the other day with one of my friends and her son. We thought it would be a good time to just sit and watch our kids run through the water and we could catch up, but instead I spent the majority of my time chasing Kaylor up to September's Cafe and the streets. She did get in the water, but she wanted to run everywhere when she got the freedom. So we didn't stay too long :)

Here is Kaylor sporting a different hair do. But I think she looks so different....

And, I couldn't resist not taking a picture of our living room. As I had mentioned on the last post, Kaylor LOVES to climb on things. I know this is not uncommon for babies to do, but I'm stuck! She will climb on the couches, and then try to stand on the side table or try to jump off the side of the couch which she has already hit her head hard plenty of times on our hard wood. I have tried EVERYTHING to teach her not to do this, but the minute I am not looking she is standing on top of the couch again laughing at me (which gets me even more frustrated). Any suggestions would be great! So, in the meantime I have put down a barrier in front of the couch and chair so she doesn't have a choice. She has given up trying to move the chairs to get on the couch, so I'm good---for now. But my living room never feels clean!

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Fun Stuff

Summer is already going by so fast. Kerry is SO busy with basketball that he has not truly had a summer break yet. His birthday was June 4th and we did manage to find some time to celebrate!! We had a date night with dinner and a movie and it was great! Thanks Kerry for being such a great Husband and Daddy, we both love you sooooo much!

Kaylor and I have been having fun around the house and pool these days. It is amazing to see how much your child changes day to day. She is learning new words everyday and it reminds me how much your child is really listening. She is also in the habit of climbing on top of the furniture! The other day I was coming out of her room from hanging some clothes and she was standing on top of our kitchen chair laughing at me. I didn't even know she could climb on top of those things. Then at my moms house a couple of weeks ago I turned around for one second and I heard the back door open and she was trying to go down the stairs in my parents garage. I didn't know she could open doors either (my moms are the easy push down ones, she still can't turn the knob door handles--thank goodness, but she tries!).

One day last week, Kerry came home with one of his camp basketball t-shirts for Kaylor. He was excited for her to try it on, even though it was no where near her size. Here is what it looked like:

We also went to "The Country" as we like to call it, last weekend to visit our farm. We own some land in Clay County and we went to see how it was. Some of Kerry's family live up there so its nice to go up there to relax. He enjoys to hunt, fish, and plant some food plots on our land. Here are some pictures from the visit:

On Granny's porch:

Kaylor running around on the farm:

Pictures

The start of the summer has began and I love it!! Sunny weather (well, hopefully that will get better here in TN), pool time, play dates, vacations, and family time. Love the start of summer. Kaylor has already been in the pool three times this summer and she is LOVING it. She never wants to get out and she will just walk right in to the pool if we let her. Here are some recent pictures including some pictures that Josh took about a month and half ago for her 12 month shoot.

At the park feeding the ducks:

At Hudson's 1st Birthday Party:

Going in to the pool:

Some of the 12 month pictures:

Shooting Some Hoops

The Christmas before Kaylor was born she already had the biggest present under the tree. Kaylor's cousins gave her an indoor basketball goal. Of course we hoped she would like it, but you never know. Well we set the goal up about a week ago and it is very tall! Its actually for like 2-3 year olds. So what did we do with it? Box it back up?? Nah, Kerry and I left it up in our living room and have played a game of horse on it everyday. I mean some good horse games too! We decided to play when Kaylor was taking a nap the other day and we learned our competitiveness and a hard wood floor is not the quietest thing. Kaylor woke up immediately and we had to make the rule to only play when she was awake!

Anyways, we got a smaller goal that she can reach and she loves it!! She'll say "shoot" and go get her ball and shoot (lay) the ball in to the basket. We do know one thing, if basketball is not her thing, her parents will have fun playing on her basketball goals :)