Kinley's Party - The REAL pics! :)

Check out the blog post from JD Waterhouse Photography - I hired my friend Jennifer Watrous to take pics of the princess party and she included a few on the pics on her photo blog!

http://jdwaterhousephotography.blogspot.com/2011/10/princess-party.html

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Kinley's Pre-School Birthday Celebration!

Kinley just gets to keep celebrating her birthday! Kinley was sooooo excited for it to be her special day at school! She got her locker decorated, HER Momma got to bring cupcakes, she got to wear the princess crown at snack time and she got a toy from the present box. You would have thought someone gave her a million dollars the way she talked about HER celebration!

Jax and I got to spend most of the morning at KCHS and Jaxon was invited to stay for some of the "fun" stuff like playdough and seed planting! Here are some pics of Momma and Jaxon's visit to Kinley's KC Birthday Celebration!

We should also note that even Daddy got to come down during cupcake time so Kinley's whole family was part of her special day!


Planting seeds with her teacher, Ms. Schwartz


Playdough with Jax and Savannah


More Playdough!


She was sooooo excited to show me that she got the birthday sign on her locker!


But would not stand by herself in front of it for a pic...


I solicited Anna and Jaxon's help! :)


A little shy while the whole class sang Happy Birthday to her!



Cupcakes with her Busy Bee class and the Mighty Monkey class!

Happy Halloween 2011 - From Tinkerbell!

New Friends!

In the last two weeks K and J have gained two new friends! Here are a couple pics of the newest babies and a couple of their biggest fans!

Welcome Baby Seth Worley and Baby Lainey Lee!!!


Kinley with Ms. Amanda and Baby Seth the day he was born!


Kinley and Jax with Ms. Nikki and Baby Lainey the day she was born!


Kinley giving Ms. Nikki Lainey's "Tinkerbell Flag" that Kinley made because Lainey was only going to be two days old the day of Kinley's princess party so she would be able to come. :(

THE Princess Party!

Kinley's 4th birthday party has been being planned for months - Not because it took that much work or effort, but because this little princess constantly wanted to talk about the plans for HER PRINCESS SLUMBER PARTY! The party was a huge success with so many princesses attending the fun evening and 4 of the princesses staying through the night. A huge thanks to Ms. Kay for spending the day on Friday helping us get ready for the party and to Gma Kerry for coming early to help get the food ready! Kinley had a ball - thanks everyone for spoiling her silly with all the fun new presents and for loving her so much!

All the princesses: Kinley, Ella, Taylor, Anna, Maddie, Ava, Lily, Julia, Mercer and Leigh

The Fairy Grandmothers, Evil Sleep-mothers, Wonderful Wicked Witches, etc...: Momma, Gma Kerry, Ms. Kay, Ms. Katie, Ms. Kimberly, Ms. Jess, Ms. Jenn, Ms. Jen, Ms. Jenn, Ms. Tara, Ms. Nikki, Ms. Meredith

Thanks to Jen Watrous for taking tons of great pictures of the event so momma could sit back and enjoy the fun without the camera!


Princess Kinley before the party!


Flying Ella! :)


A little pose for Ms. Jen!


Even Princesses like to play!


and climb!


and dance!


The seven big girl princesses!


Love how the girls are looking at each other talking about the cake!


So determined!


Finally got the candles out with some help from her friends!


Kinley's choice for dinner, not one, but two packs of fruit snacks - one princess and one tink!


Passing out favor gifts to her friends - she packaged them, wrote names on them and put stickers on them for each girl!


The girls talking about what make up they had and which princess was on their new pj set


Everyone had to change into their new pjs! Event the curly haired bday girl!


This is what happens when you give 2, 3, and 4 year olds real make up and let them free!


Kinley's 1st time with real make up by herself - I'm using this for blackmail later! :)


The three tiny princesses - We thought it was so awesome that their mommas took the time to bring them to celebrate!


All of the friends helped her open her loot of gifts!


They were all so excited about each one and so into watching and helping!


The 5 girls who stayed the night watching princess movies before bed with fruit snacks, popcorn and chocolate milk!


The after party on Saturday morning complete with dancing to princess music!


Mom and Kinley!


Gma Kerry and Kinley!


Princess Cake!


Dress-up Cupcakes!

Happy Birthday Kinley Lynnley! :)

Oh Kinley,

We can't hardly believe you are 4 years old! We only thought we were happy the day you were born, it doesn't compare at all to how much we love you now!

We think you are so smart! You know your letters and how to write them, with a mix of caps and lowercase. You love to write and draw and constantly ask us to spell things for you and try to spell things yourself. Yesterday you wrote your last name by memory and then came and ask us if you did it right. You love to memorize all your friends names so you can write them over and over. You recently are starting to love to add. You want us to ask you simple addition like 4+3 so you can hold up fingers or objects to count and add them and then be proud of yourself when you answer. You also think your little brother needs to be just as smart as you and insist on teaching him everything you know!

You still look just like Daddy and act just like Momma. You are beautiful with your blue/green eyes and blond hair and have thinned out tons this year, you are now a "little girl" with no trace of "baby" left. You are a little organizer, planner and boss. You love to clean your room and plan everything out way ahead of time and have to know the plan of what is happening next!

We love that you care so much for others, you ALWAYS have to bring "presents" to all your friends - we apologize to all of our friends mommas who have a "collection" of Kinley "gifts" at your house that include homemade arts and crafts usually done with markers, crayons and tape! You were way more into packaging and giving the favors at your birthday party to your friends than even knowoing you were getting any presents of your own. You fight tons with your brother, but are always the one to give in and want to make him happy, even if you were the cause of him being unhappy to start with and we know you've always got his back in a group!

We love you so much and are so proud of our BIG 4 YEAR OLD GIRL! Happy Birthday Kinley Lynn!

Momma and Daddy

Sea World October 2011!

Last weekend we went back to Sea World to check out all the special shows and events set up for Halloween. So glad our great friends Ms. Jess and Jordan came along with us and so fun that we got to meet up with Ms. Jill, Ben and Ryan on Saturday. This place is amazing for kids our kids age, they just can't get enough! So thankful to have the opportunity to get away on little trips like this making memories with K and J!


Jack-o-lantern Penguin


Daddy and Kinley at a night show - special for Halloween!


Abby came off the stage and right to K and J, Kinley could not have been more excited!


A pic from Momma's favorite show!


Under the Sea Trick-or-treating!


Kinley with the princess mermaid!


K and Ryan, these two were hilarious, they talked and commentated during the entire Azul show, we were wondering if they were kids or 50 year olds! :)


There was hardly anyone at the park on Friday so it made for TONS of rides because they could just run up and get on without waiting in line!


Kinley and Jordan, she was excited to have "two brothers" at Sea World with one of Jax's best buddies along for the trip!


J, K and J - bye Sea World - see you next time!