The Beck Boys

We had some very special visitors today! The Beck family was in AZ and made some time in their super busy schedule to see us. Ethan and Conner are almost 8 months old and so smiley and sweet. We had a very fun visit. Kayleigh spend the afternoon making cream cheese pumpkin cupcakes in preparation for their arrival. Steve made us delicious quesadillas for dinner while the kids got to know each other and Jana and I got to catch up.

Kayleigh took a picture of Steve and Jana…

I could not get enough of these sweet boys. I wished they lived closer, but I can’t wait to see them in April for their 1st birthday!!

 

Love you guys!!! (ps start a blog already! you know- in all your free time!)

Christmas time is here…

I have never had so much fun decorating a tree! The girls loved every minute of it. We had so much fun watching them squeal and giggle picking out ornaments and finding the perfect place to put them. They did a beautiful job and Daddy only had to help with the high ones. We are getting pretty excited about Christmas around here!

Introducing Mrs Jena Brennan

  Jena and Sean got married! It was an amazing wedding. So beautiful with so much detail. She had a cookie table set up that I literally had to pull Josh away from. We had to grab a bag of toffee cookies to go! Jena was stunning and had some pretty sexy bridesmaids (Annie and Nerissa). We had so much fun spending time with friends, eating, drinking, dancing, and celebrating with Jena and Sean.  Here are some pictures (the ones appropriate for a public blog anyway)…

 

Thanksgiving

We went to Jared & Carrie’s house to celebrate Thanksgiving. Everyone was there Carrie’s parents and brother Chad, Josh’s parents, Mike, Maggie, Gia, and my parents. Doesn’t get much better!

The tables looked beautiful. The centerpiece turkeys were filled with chocolates (that Taylor enjoyed all day and into the night). Each girl got her own place setting to keep with markers and a color book. Jared and Carrie each make a turkey. One in the oven and one in the deep fryer. I voted for Jared last year, but Carrie kicked it up a notch and got my vote this year. Both are always delicious.

Daddy and Papa Mike took premeal naps…

We played outside on the play set and colored.

It was a wonderful day. I love when we all get together for some great food and great company!

K Prep Thanksgiving Feast

Kayleigh’s class worked very hard preparing for a very special Thanksgiving feast. Taylor and I went and enjoyed a singing performance, bread, drinks and homemade butter! That’s right the student made their own butter. It was pretty good too!

My little pilgrim…

 

My crabbing Native…

Both Kayleigh and Taylor love Mrs. Real. As she was reading the kids books Taylor just pops up on her lap so sweet. Kayleigh had to follow.

Daddy had to work and missed the big feast, but we went to visit him at work, so he could see his little pilgrim and indian.

Crafts with Sharon

Sharon requested a little help from the girls in preparation of our Thanksgiving feast. The girls helped make center pieces for the tables. It was a very cute project that the girls had a lot of fun with. The girls just adore Sharon and love spending time with her and creating fun things.

We are ready for Thanksgiving now!

Soccer Star

Kayleigh had her end of the season soccer party today! Soccer has been interesting. It is not her favorite sport. She is just not that into it at all. During one game she asked me if she could just stand on the sideline and be the teams cheerleader and not play. She told me she is ready to go back to dance and gymnastics. She did love the party though! She was so so proud of her trophy and medal! Maybe we will try soccer again in a year or two, but for now I guess it is back to dancing.

I think her soccer picture shows perfectly how she feels about soccer…

One of my favorite things…

I absolutely love morning hair! I start each morning out with a giggle because of bed head!

Baxter

We had a visitor this week. His name is Baxter and he is the K Prep bear. Each week he spends with a different student. He keeps a journal with pictures and stories about his week. Kayleigh is in absolute love with him and has been talking about getting him since school started. We made sure he had an awesome week with the Thie family!

We woke him up bright and early for soccer…

Kayleigh treated him to her all time favorite place..Chipotle!

We took him on bike rides around our neighborhood…

 

He got to meet Santa at the mall. But Santa at the mall charges $20 for a picture, so he settled for a picture in the fake snow behind Santa.

Baxter kept Kay company during her hair cut…

 

Baxter was cuddled nice and tight each night by a little girl who loves him very much!

 

ps Baxter was given a bath in the washer before and after the week. :)

Star Sidewinder

Every week a different K Prep student is chosen to be the “Star Sidewinder”. This week it was Kayleigh! She was so excited. She got to bring home Baxter for the entire week. Baxter is the K Prep bear. Kayleigh brought in her favorite book for the class. One day the class outlined her on some butcher paper and colored her in and hung it up in the class. The kids also made a very sweet book for her. The title of the book is “Kayleigh is special because…” and each page is done by one of her classmates. They drew a picture on top and on the bottom wrote why think Kay is special. I will definitely keep that forever! I just love her class and her teacher. She loves to go everyday and is learning to much!

We had fun making a poster “All About Kayleigh” that was hung in the class. We put a picture of her on it and a picture of the family. She then had to answer some question that we also took some pictures to go with.

What is your favorite place? The Zoo

What is your wish? That I could have all the cats and dogs in the world

What do you want to be when you grow up? An animal doctor

What is your favorite thing to do? Color pictures for all the people I love!

You are my star every week!!

First Hair Cut Fun!!!

My lil’ Taylor got her first haircut! We had gone before with Kayleigh and Taylor always has a lot of fun, but never wants to get her hair cut. Her hair has always grown so pretty with long layers that I never worried about getting it trimmed. I have started to notice that the ends are getting a bit snarled and in need of a trim. So off we went for some torture! Let me add that we had been prepping her for days about her hair cut and she seemed totally fine with the idea.

This is her pre pictures. She was having a great time playing.

Then the cutting began (and the tears and screaming)…

 

She was over the drama by time she got her little toy…

The finished product…