Monday, August 23, 2010

9 (and a half) months old.....

    I know I have said it before and have said it often, but I just can't believe how fast time is going by. Our little baby is just growing up so fast and is almost a year old, summer is over and Hayden will be a first grader, and Kayla is almost 4!!! And the month of July went by so fast, I'm not sure it ever happened - must have been because we were so busy getting ready for the Celebration, having fun at the Celebration, then fun at the Stampede, then a trip over to Colorado Springs and Castle Rock a couple of weekends ago.  I guess time really does fly when you are having fun!!
    Katie is now 9 (close to 10) months old and continues to brighten our days with her cute little personality.  She is so spoiled though, we don't know what to do with her!! She finally learned how to really crawl instead of doing an "army crawl" - although when she wants to get somewhere really fast, she does the army crawl.  But she has been spending most of her time the last few days cruising along the furniture. Also, she gets better every day at standing alone for a few seconds without anyone holding onto her.  It's exciting to see her reach all of these milestones, but I'm still not sure I want my baby to grow up!!
She still loves to eat, BUT loves to feed herself, and  REALLY loves Oreos
and she liked the hamburgers during the Celebration!!
Just keeping cool in the pool!!
Catching some ZZZZ's....
She was able to have her first piggy the other day and it was so cute.....
But it didn't last all day, so she ended up with a Mohawk!!!
That's pretty much it for our update on little miss Katie Sue.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Time to Celebrate

Another year of the Celebration has come and gone, just like that! It was another year filled with lots of fun, family, and food too!!

*****************FUN*****************
The kids ready for the parade to begin

MR. COOL

MS. SERIOUS

************************MORE FUN*************************
ENJOYING SOME CARNIVAL RIDES

Ronan, Lexie, and Hayden

Hayden, Seth, and Hailee

Lexie and Kayla - hidden behind the Gator's head

AND A PONY RIDE TOO!!


Katie's idea of fun ---TAKING IT EASY!!!!

**************************FAMILY**************************
(Hope you don't mind Melody - but I "borrowed" these next two from your pictures on facebook)

Hoover Grandkids (except the 3 oldest - Paige, Gavin, and Ethan)

A lot of the family members had fun running the 5K

*************************FOOD************************

 Waylen enjoying a hamburger

So, that's just a glimpse at what the Celebration was like this year - pretty much like any other year - but always filled with lots of laughs and good times.