Swimming with Cousins

 While in Indianapolis we enjoyed playing in the hotel pool with our LaBar cousins. Here are three of our sweet swimming beauties. :)

There were some pretty cute little boys in the pool too :)

 My three big munchkins

What a sweet face and smile :)

  Aunt Ashley, who was 5 months pregnant at the time, was super sweet throwing Reagan into the pool. Reagan of course loved this since her general rule is the wilder the better! :)

 Uncle Daryl having fun with his cute kiddos

 Such a sweet picture of Aunt Jolene with her little guy! :)

 Cousins are so much fun! Thanks for making time to come play with us! :)

Cousins in the Snow - January 2014

The winter of 2014 was super fun with an above average amount of snow for Kentucky. It makes me realize I should really live further north! :) Heidi and Holden came to play in the snow with us one day they had off school and as you can see a pretty good time was had by all! :)

 Trying to walk back up the ice on the driveway

 The boys had at least as much fun (if not more) shoveling with these child size snow shovels from Aunt Arla vs sledding.

 This is probably my favorite picture of the day - what two cute cousins! :) 

 The girls trying their hand at snowboarding with our wonderful neighbors

I had to include this one sweet picture of McKinley all dressed up and ready to head outside to enjoy her first snow. This was actually a different day (our first snow was in November), but it was just too sweet not to include somewhere! Poor baby was all tuckered out from getting all dressed out and never actually managed to make it outside to enjoy the snow. lol :)

I also wanted to include this video Grand-Dad took of another fun snow day in January:

http://youtu.be/FB20jMTqTAo

Sure hope next winter we get as much wonderful snow to play in as we did this year! :)

Thanksgiving 2013

Aunt Julie and Uncle Chuck spent Thanksgiving with us as well as attending Kennedys Fairy Tea Party. It was so much fun to have them visit and include them in my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving! :) In this picture Aunt Julie is giving Miss McKinley some special attention before dinner.

 Grand-Dad carving our traditional Turducken

 I have no idea what I thought was so funny in this picture, but both Kennedy's and my expression regarding this jello cracked me up. As a side note, Aunt Jolene always made this jello for LaBar family Thanksgivings so I love continuing to include it as a part of our holiday tradition.

 Our Thanksgiving table - ready to eat! :) 

 Uncle Chuck with all three of the girls ready to being our Thanksgiving evening tradition of watching Polar Express with Hot Chocolate.

 Grammy & Kennedy Ellen and Uncle Chuck & Reagan snuggled up in the basement ready for the movie to begin

 Jackson sneaking a quick hug with Grammy 

 Jackson making sure his hot chocolate has a sufficient number of marshmallows

 McKinley taking her turn with snuggles from Grammy :)

Thank you Grammy, Grand-Dad, Uncle Chuck and Aunt Julie for making our Thanksgiving so special! It wouldn't have been the same with out you and we hope we get to spend more with you in the future! :)

Kennedy's Fairy Tea Party

Since having a tea party for Reagan's 4th birthday Grammy and I have been wanting to have one for Kennedy as well. Since we were in New York for her 4th birthday her 5th birthday seemed perfect. This hat and picture do a great job of capturing Kennedy's personality.

 Here are the girls who were guests at Missy K's birthday - love all those hats! :)

Because we wanted everyone to sit together we rearranged the living room to accommodate all of Kennedy's guests.

 Daddy with the youngest tea party participant

 Grammy helping Missy K adjust her necklace

 Missy K ready for her guest to arrive

 McKinely with her godmother, Kelly

 Kennedy with her godmother, Aunt Julie

 Sweet Miss Anna

 Not sure the Queen herself could provide directions any better

 I enjoyed sitting by Missy Reagan during the tea party

 Grammy and me

 I needed a picture with my birthday girl

 Missy and Grammy

 A picture of all our party guests

Thank you to everyone for coming to share in Missy K's special fairy tea party! Your presence made the party all the more fun and memorable! :)