Love At First Sight...

The kids were thrilled when they finally got to come and see Jeren. They all agreed that he's a keeper and we should take him home. :)

Our first "family of 6" picture.
Owen asked if we could take him home.
Megan couldn't stop kissing him and "talking" about his hands and mouth.
Kristyn said, "He doesn't have any teeth!"

Grandma got to come today to stay with the kids at home. He's already gotten lots of Grandma love and kisses. We have all been looking forward to Grandma coming!

Introducing....

Jeren Kyle
Born at 3:52 am
8lbs 9.6oz
21 1/2" long

A perfect blessing from God!

Proud Daddy!

Happy Mommy!
Getting ready to go to the hospital at 1:00 a.m.
We feel so blessed today! Thank you for sharing in our excitement!

More pictures coming when the other kids get here. :)

The Happenings...

I'll update you on the happenings of our week. We have been having such a WONDERFUL time doing "family" things. We are SO blessed!

I'll let the pictures do the talking!

The kids really enjoyed the fireworks.




We found a new park in town that is almost ALL tires. The kids had a blast.






Play dough time!

Nothing like a good "smarshmallow" roast! Yumm!!


Great times! Great memories!

Water Fights and Such...

We have had extremely hot weather here this week, so we have been staying inside most of the time until the evening when it's cool.

This evening, we had a water fight. The kids loved it!!

Kristyn got Daddy good. She was so proud of herself!

Owen got dunked!

I love the expression of Owen's face. "Better watch out, Dad, here I come."

Our silly girl!

Don't let the smile fool you, he's got something up his sleeve, I'm sure. :)

Little Miss Megan!

Keith was putting up some shelves in a closet the other day and Owen was "helping" him. I couldn't resist taking some pictures. :)

Lest you think I stay up into the wee hours of the morning all the time, I really don't. :) Keith had to be gone and I can't sleep and then Megan decided to start running a temp. (102.4 last I checked), so I'm just hanging out here, rocking my baby (she's still my baby for a few more days) and listening to her sweet little sing-song thing that she does....... and uploading pictures. :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Promised Pictures...

I have NO idea why some of the font is big in this and why some of the pictures are weird colored....I've tried to fix it. :( Anyway, on to the post!

This blog is for our family. I promised to e-mail them pictures, but our computer is taking S-O-O long to e-mail, so I decided to just do a blog and they could all see them at the same time. :) The rest of you can enjoy the blog, too. ;)


First of all, I have never claimed to be one of those "perfect" pregnant women that you see in magazines. (Actually, I have seen very few of them in real life.) Instead, I feel like one of those "walking hot-air-balloon" type of pregnant women.

Don't get me wrong!! I LOVE being pregnant and I have been very blessed with easy pregnancies, but instead of looking like this.....



I, unfortunately, go more for this look.....



So please don't think I'm bragging on how I look in these pictures. :)

With all that being said.....Keith and I have always made it a priority to get some type of maternity pictures with each baby. I was afraid we might have waited a little too long and might not get pictures before this baby was born....but alas..... :)

Anyway, we got up before the crack of dawn the other morning and headed out to our favorite spot, the creek. It was a beautiful morning. The birds were chirping and the sun just coming up, so it wasn't miserable and hot, yet and the creek was just singing away. I told Keith it would be a perfect spot for a cabin. :)

I thought the pictures turned out nice. No, they're not perfect and some are rather funny, but I still think they're sweet.











I think this picture is so funny! I don't know what we were all talking about, but it looked serious. :)
Not the greatest, but one of the only good pictures of all of us.
Me and all my "glory"! (read disclaimer at beginning of post)

Anyone that knows me, knows that I have a few hundred more pictures I could put on here, but I'll stop with these. :)

Enjoy your weekend!!