Hayden is now a 1st Grader (Another one that is a little late!!)

Hayden started 1st grade a few weeks ago, and is doing good. I think his favorite thing about going to school is getting to play on the new playground.  But he did make the comment the other day that 1st grade is more fun than Kindergarten. Then, when asked why, he said "It just is."

Katie's 10 month update (A little late!!)

Katie now only has about a month and half before we celebrate her 1st birthday. Crazy, huh?

She still loves to eat!! And loves to eat almost anything and everything.

Here she is enjoying a blueberry muffin:

Can you guess what she had to eat this time?

Ravioli!!!

She loves playing with the kids, and they love playing with her. Although, I don't think Katie liked this game of putting each other in "a cage" as much as she does wrestling with them.  

She was really happy when mommy helped her escape from the cage:

Our little girl is starting to talk. She tends to pick a word for the day. One day it was "dada". I would tell her "No, say mama." and she would just say "dada" every time. Then, the next day it would be "mama" over and over again. Another day, very surprisingly, it was "thank you."  She was like a little parrot that day, we'd tell her to say thank you, and she would say it every time. But then the next day, nothing!!!  Yesterday, when Hayden got home from school, she kept saying "bubba".  Hayden loved it and kept saying "Mom, did you hear her say bubba!" So, yesterday afternoon, it was Bubba.  Today she has been pretty quiet, other than screaming at Kayla about the toys!! I'm sure it won't me long until her word of the day will be "MINE!!"

Busy "reading" one of Bubba's books:

She is such a sweetheart.  Although, she is so spoiled, she's rotten!!  We just love everything about her, and enjoy watching her grow and learn new things. She is still trying to learn to walk.  She cruises along from here to there really fast. But, when we try to get her to walk from one person to another, she'll take one step then reach out her arms and fall forward.  But this morning, I went to sit her down on the floor and she wanted to stand up, and then she took 5 steps before falling.  So, I'm sure she'll be running all over the place before long, and she is already trying to climb on everything!!

Just being her cute little self:

And she still only has two teeth!!!

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.

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.

Family Fun - Part 2

****FOUR-WHEELING FUN****

***CAMPING FUN****

Exploring a cave

Enjoying some watermelon

Taking it easy

Getting Dirty