My Valentines

We had a great Valentine's Day. Kerry surprised me with some money to go get some jeans I have been wanting (because he could not pick them out), a cookie bouquet (my favorite), and some other little things that I have been wanting. I got him a good turkey call for the hunting season coming up. I know that sounds kinda redneckish, but I am practical with my gifts :)

We went to go eat at Septembers Cafe, which was pretty good (but not good enough for the price) and to go see the movie "Valentine's Day". The movie was a cute date night type of movie. I'm sure if you have seen the previews that you know Taylor Swift was in the movie. Well Taylor went to Hendersonville High School, where my husband teaches and coaches, so he saw her a lot before she became really famous. Kerry never had her in class so he really didn't get to know her very good. However, Kerry's co-worker had her in class and he was her favorite teacher, Mr. Schwabe. This past year she offered Mr. Schwabe a GREAT job as the head of her security while she travels. So he quit his job at Hendersonville and now travels with her. In the movie we noticed that her teacher was named "Mr. Schwabe" and that the high school her and Taylor Lautner went to was "Henderson High School". We thought it was a little coincidence. I always tell Kerry I wish he had her in class because maybe she would have hired him as her backup singer or something :) (just kidding).

Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day!

Here are some pictures of my Valentines :

Around The House

We have been doing a lot of staying home lately with the weather and snow days. It is easy to get cabin fever with an almost 2 year old in the house. Kaylor has only been to mother's day out twice since Christmas because of her getting the stomach virus and snow days. She is definitely ready to get back in to a routine.

My child is always wanting to go "bye bye". When she wakes up in the morning she asks to leave. I really just think she is that type of kid that can not stay home every day. She wants to always be around other kids and entertained at all times. She does not play well by herself. Her favorite things are to go to school and to the gym (Daddy's basketball games).

Well Barney has been a life saver for entertainment lately. I don't understand the obsession with a purple dinosaur, but she LOVES HIM! I'm sure it is just a phase and she will move on to another show soon. I took a picture today of her dancing and singing to the plane song on one of the episodes:

Here is a picture I took of us when Kerry and I had a date night last week. We try to have a date night with just the two of us once a week, and the grandparents definitely don't mind keeping her :)

I also wanted to mention this article that I recently came across about house blinds/shades. This article was discussing how dangerous blinds are for your baby, toddler, and child. The first thing I thought when I read this is "Oh great, something else to worry about with your child." (The way they make everything so dangerous these days I sometimes wonder how any children survived when our grandparents were little.) But seriously, I watched this home video that was linked to this article that accidentally caught this woman's son on video being strangled by their own blind cord. The child ended up being fine, but it was crazy to see this! You can read a website here that is completely dedicated to this. There have been almost 800 kids killed by house blinds alone! It made me realize that I didn't even think about this throughout my house and also where I positioned Kaylor's baby bed. Thankfully it is not near a window, but it never crossed my mind when I was choosing a spot for her bed. So if you are a mom, soon to be mom, or babysitter this is just something to remember at your home. I ended up tying all of my cords up top and rigging them to stay very far from the ground. The article said the worst part with this is that it is obviously silent and you never know when your child is playing with these. Just something else to think about and be aware of on top of the many other things when having children in your house.

A Real Snow Day!!!

The weatherman finally got it right....WE GOT SNOW!! We got a lot of snow yesterday and today to make for some GREAT sledding. If you are not from Tennessee, then you would not understand how everyone freaks out when the mention of snow is said around here. The grocery stores are slammed, salt is scattered on the roads immediately, sleds can not be found anywhere and news stations are scattered around middle tennessee with updates of pictures and videos of the accumulation (which is usually like 1/2" if that). However, today Nashville got anywhere from 3-10 inches depending on where you lived!

Today I felt like a kid again when I woke up. I couldn't look outside fast enough and then go get Kaylor and Kerry to layer up for our sledding. We had family and friends come over to sled, eat soup, play cards, make snow cream, and sled some more! What a fun day! It was Kaylor's first good snow and she loved the sledding. Here are some pictures:

Getting bundled up to go outside:

The family ready to go:

On the sled ready to go down our hill:

The Waylands:
Kerry pulling Kaylor back up our hill for another ride:

She liked to lay on her stomach:

Jaxon was worn out after a fun day in the snow:

Snow Day...if you want to call it that

Well we were anticipating a big snow last week and this is what we got...

Of course, the weather people were a little off like always, but we will take what we can get. I love when the whole family is home together during the weekdays. Kaylor loved the snow and did not want to come in. However, the weather people were right about the temperatures, they were frigid, and we did not stay out very long in our dusting of snow.

During these cold and "snowy" days, I decided to clean out some closets. Kaylor loved my old shoes that I threw out of the closet because she could wear them around the house all day: saying cheese for the camera:

Christmas '09

We had a great Christmas this year! The break really hasn't seemed like a break because of going to 6 Christmas' between our families, but it is always good to visit and see everyone. Santa brought Kaylor a new kitchen, which she loves, and some little people sets. Kerry bought me a navigation system that I am really liking too. Those things amaze me! I got Kerry a blackberry, which was a complete surprise to him. I am introducing him to the tech. world. He starting texting a couple of months ago for the first time (yea, unbelievable huh!?) and of course started doing it a lot. So I knew if he gave a blackberry a chance, he would love that too. I do have a very funny story to share with you about me getting him this blackberry....I had his blackberry wrapped up a couple of weeks ago and then I thought on Christmas Eve how cool it would be for him to open it up on Christmas morning with it working. So I somehow got out of the house on Christmas Eve with the wrapped gift and his phone (without him knowing) to go make the switch. I get to Verizon, and it was very busy in there of course, holding my nicely wrapped gift :) I explained to the guy at the front that I wanted to transfer one phone to the blackberry that was in the package. He said "Oh yeah, we can do that right now for you". Well I was not expecting him to just tell me right then he could do it, I usually wait 20 minutes before they call my name. My plan was to unwrap the gift as I waited, and I didn't want to unwrap it before I went in there just in case they couldn't do it or the wait was too long. So I started to unwrap the gift in front of the sales clerk and we are both laughing because I'm standing in the middle of the very crowded Verizon store opening a gift. When I get the gift unwrapped I open the box that I (thought) I wrapped his blackberry in. When I opened the box I pulled out 2 pair of UNDERWEAR!! Yes, I grabbed the wrong present as I was hurrying out the house and of course I grabbed the present with the annual boxers gift that I give my husband. The verizon worker and myself were just dying laughing, and no telling how many other people that were watching in that packed store that were laughing as well. I didn't grab the hunting camera, or shirt and tie present, I grabbed the underwear! This is something that would definitely happen to me! :)

Well, enough talking, I will post some pictures from our Christmas. Hope all of you had a great Christmas!

Christmas Morning:

Kerry opening his blackberry, not his underwear :)

With Gram and her cousins Ryan and Austin:

With B:

Cousin Emerie:

Working a puzzle with Aunt Cathy and Aunt Linda:

The Boynton Family:

Christmas Card Take 10...

We attempted to take a picture of our family for the Christmas Cards this year. It is hard to get a 20 month old and a dog to look at a camera at the same time, so it took multiple tries. I really missed Bailey (my old dog) during the picture time. I am so used to putting on her reindeer antlers and her red Christmas sweater for the annual picture :( I sometimes get really sad when I am putting Kaylor to bed too, because we had a nightly routine of having Lexie and Bailey going in to her room with us and putting her down. Now it's just Lexie in there with us.

Here are some pictures of us trying to take the pictures and then our actual Christmas Card:

Sesame Street Live

Last week, Sesame Street Live came to town and my mom and I decided to take Kaylor. She loves sesame street, especially Abby and Elmo, so I thought she might like it. She ending up loving it, but by the very end she was ready to leave. I realized though at the end that I think she thought we were just watching a big t.v. because she kept saying "bye bye tv". I was thinking "great, after spending money on tickets and taking her she just thinks we're watching sesame street on a big screen" :) Oh well, it was cute show.

Watching the show:

In front of my mom's tree before we left: