From J to K

Wordless Wednesday..hehe

2010-04-14T20:07:00.000-07:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-01-13T20:47:00.001-08:00

Wordless Wednesday

2010-01-06T08:09:00.001-08:00

2010!

2010-01-03T18:10:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year! Its a new year and my resolution is to blog again! We really haven't been up to much. Kayla is walking and talking alot more and Julia is almost 3 if that tells you anything. hehe. I'm putting a few pics from Christmas and colts pics (Brandon's Aunt and Uncle got them cheerleader outfits for Christmas.)

This has to be one my favorite picture of her!

I guess i don't have to tell you how spoiled they are!

(you cant even see the stuff that Santa brought)

POSER! She loves her dollhouse!
Thanks Nana and Papaw

Kayla kinda got into it but not really.

O a Tinkerbell doll! Santa knows her well!

Snow White didn't want her picture taken.

Cousins

Our Fam

Laughing at Julia

So Sweet!

Well i hope everyone has a wonderful New Year!

Holly

Halloween!

2009-11-01T18:41:00.001-08:00

Yeah I'm still here! I thought Halloween might be a good time to start blogging again. We had a great one! Its a tradition that we (my bro's and sister and their family) go to my moms for chili and trick or treat in her neighborhood. All the cousins get together for some candy! Then we went to trick or treat at Brandon's mom and dads. (i think they thought it was Christmas or something). They got pj's sippy cups, socks, candy and play doh. Anyway i waited until the last minute to get Kayla's costume because i thought that Julia's ladybug outfit was going to fit her and it didn't. I had the hardest time finding anything! so my last resort was the second hand store and guess what? There i found this flower bib thing for $1.50! I was SO excited. it was perfect for her since she wasn't really trick or treating! Julia told me like 2 months ago she wanted to be a cat, she never changed her mind even after looking at all the other costumes. Se was the cutest cat EVER! She really enjoyed it this year (exp with Addie).

Kayla's 1st Birthday is next week so ill post pics then!

She thinks she's going to eat that candy she has in her hand.

This was the best pic i could get of the two of them.
The last thing they wanted to do was take pictures.

Now this is the cutest cat and mouse I've ever seen!

Cousins (Zach was Toad from Mario bros.)

here kitty kitty kitty

i just thought this was funny!

(at old navy)

Hope everyone had a good Halloween!

Holly

Thankful Thursday

2009-09-24T17:42:00.000-07:00

So last night Julia and I were laying in bed going to sleep and this is the conversation that we had...

Julia- "Mommy"

Me- "yeah"

Julia- "i love you"

Me- "i love you too baby" (tear)

Julia- "sweet dreams"

Me- "aw sweet dreams to you too"

A little while passes..

Julia gets up leans over and kisses me on the cheek! (lots of tears at this point)

AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! THIS IS WHY I LOVE BEING A MOM!!!

Anyway i am thankful for my wonderful, beautiful, healthy children!

Tents and much more!

2009-09-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

Hello, i know i haven't blogged in forever but i didn't really have much to blog about until last weekend. and Julia has been sick so i haven't had time to blog either. But we are all doing well, Kayla is getting so big i cant believe it, she will be 1 in alittle over a month. i have been debating what i want to do her party in and trying to find the perfect cake, she went to the doctor the other day and she weighed 19lbs 6oz and is healthy as can be! Julia is still Julia, some of the stuff she does we just cant believe, so smart its crazy! She has even went few nights with panties on instead of a diaper and hasn't wet the bed so I'm really excited about that too! We had a really really busy weekend last weekend i have some photos of some of the stuff we did, but the one thing i really wanted to take pictures at was the circus, but my camera was dead when i got there! i was so mad! Brandon's sisters husband won tickets on the radio and they didn't want to go so Brandon, Julia, Danny (Brandon's Dad) and myself went. It was my first circus. Julia loved it and we had a really good time too.

One night Brandon made this tent for the girls, Julia loves tents. We all layed in it and watched Beauty and the Beast. He used every blanket and chair we had!

Hi Girls!

Kayla in the tent.

And this was about half way thru the movie.

One of the girls i work with got married last weekend, It was a beautiful wedding and the weather couldn't have been any better. The kids had a blast dancing and Dana looked so beautiful! Congratulations Duggars your so cute together!

Them in the carriage.

These are the silly girls i work with! I love them!

(its fuzzy though, sorry)

SOME of the PDW kids with the Bride

LOVE this picture!
Its Julia and Jillian at the wedding.

After we left the wedding a little early we had to go Addie's Birthday party (which was all Julia was talking about for WEEKS) It was at the Flip Zone, so of course the kids loved that! It was a nice party and there were ALOT of people there and she got ALOT of presents!

Julia hula hooping (or at least trying)

Addie with her cake

Happy 3rd Birthday Addie!

I really didn't get alot of pictures at the party like i wanted because within a 6 hour period i was at a wedding and a birthday party with both kids and i was exhausted!

Well I'm done for now

Holly

Wordless Wednesday

2009-09-02T08:56:00.000-07:00

ALL kinds of stuff!

2009-08-19T06:28:00.001-07:00

First of all, Today Brandon and I have been married for 3 years!

Two kids and a house later, I'd say we have had a busy 3 years.
Anyway I love him and i cant wait to spend the rest of my life with him!

OK enough about us, we have been very busy these past 3 weeks it seems like, the explains the not posting in FOREVER! We have been swimming a couple of times, once at Brandon's aunt and uncles house, that was the first time Kayla has ever been swimming, because of the weather has been so crappy this summer, and i guess it was Julia's first time too, she has played in the sprinkler a few times though, we also went to Splash Island for a party for work, that was really fun and I'm glad that i went, they had food and towels they were giving out and everything. Julia loved it and she got to play with the other kids from our office. Brandon's sister got him Edwin McCain tickets for his birthday so we (Brandon, Melissa, Evan and myself) went to that concert last week, it was alot of fun as well, and the best part was watching people! I also went out for Dana's (a girl at work) bachorlette party, i actually only went to eat with them at Susi on the rocks. They went out afterwords. That was fun too.
Kayla has the army crawl down and is getting into everything, she is now really determined to catch up with Julia. Its so cute and i cant believe she is getting so big!
Julia is a stink more then ever! She is fully potty trained (except at night i guess) so that's awesome. it wasn't has hard as i thought it was going be, she did a Great Job!

K chilling at the fair. With her leg hiked up and everything.

Posing with the goat.

Julia and Jillian, her eyes are alittle crazy but cute anyways.

Brooklyn Loved Kayla (hopefully she loves baby brother Will when he comes too)

Loves the water.

Loves Cheese Puffs!

They are all over her face if you cant tell.

My cupcake!

My nanny for the evening. Thanks Ellen!

I just thought this was too cute!

Also Addie came over for alittle while one day, they just love each other and play really good together!

How Cute!

Dr. Carr

Dr. Lair

Silly Faces!

I hope they love each other this much FOREVER!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK

THE CARR FAMILY

Carr/Baldwin Wedding

2009-07-26T06:37:00.000-07:00

Brandon's sister Melissa got married last weekend. Brandon, Julia and myself were all in the wedding. We had alot of fun! The only 2 things that kinda went wrong were the music wasn't working right for us to come down the aisle and when Julia and the ring bearer came down they sprinted got up on some chairs and the ring bearer fell off the chair and busted his head on the cement. He seemed fine at the reception so hopefully hes OK. I am so thankful it wasn't Julia because she would have been screaming thru the whole thing. Other than that it was a beautiful wedding and we are so happy for them! Congratulations, hope you had fun in Cabo!

This was on our way to the rehearsal. She didn't have a nap so she crashed on the way there.
Kayla getting ready to eat before we went.

This was the first time they had met. They loved each other. Hugging and Julia was even saying Hi Suga Buga (she also says that to Kayla all the time) to him as she held his face. She is such a Lover. We better watch out.

They had a Mexican Themed dinner at Mel and Evan's house, so we just had to put on the mustaches!

Of course there was no way Kayla was going to look at the camera when i had a necklace on. And Julia didn't want to take a picture at all so she was trying to get away.

Their cake.

Julia wore this dress for her first Easter and it matched their colors PERFECT!

I LOVE when she does this!

Yes my husband was intoxicated, but actually this was in the beginning. The DJ had people volunteer to put on a concert. Evan actually won because he slid across the floor on his knees.

Julia fell asleep on my friend Stephanie's shoulder around 10:30 and we didn't leave until 12. I couldn't believe that she slept thru the loud music and drunk people.

I really didn't get any pictures of Mel and Evan i guess, when we get more ill post some of them.

Also Julia is doing really good with potty training. It has been a week and i think shes getting the hang of it. unless she doesn't want to stop what she is doing to go. And Kayla is now saying Ma Ma! and all kinds of stuff. Shes growing so fast!

Hope everyone has a good week.

Holly

WoRdLeSs WeDnEsDaY!

2009-07-22T13:20:00.001-07:00

Thankful Thursday

2009-07-08T12:54:00.001-07:00

I am so very thankful for our friends, We only have a few but they are wonderful! Both of them are married but do not have kids of their own yet, I can not wait for them to have some, but this partially why i am so thankful. They love and adore my kids like they were their own and the girls feel the same about them. Stephanie and I have been thru so much stuff since 6Th grade but we have stayed so close. and Malorie and i were friends first in 4Th and 5Th grade but kinda lost touch until a few years ago. Now i don't know what i would do without them!

I hate them they always take cut pictures together!

Stephanie teaching Julia how to jump rope.

aww i love this picture.

So it was time for the girls to play ping pong but Kayla was hungry so Chase (Stephanie's husband) held the baby food jar for Brandon so he could feed her. How sweet Chase. You cant get a better friend than that!

4Th of July Weekend!

2009-07-08T11:54:00.001-07:00

Sorry for all the pictures, but we have had a blast since i have been off work for a week!

Too bad it was raining on the 4Th but we made it the best we could. When i was off we had a cousins day at the park, that was fun so i put some pictures of that on here as well. Also Kayla's two top front teeth are coming in. One is there (E for all of you dental girls reading) and the other one is almost popping thru. She hasn't really acted like they bother her besides putting everything she can in her mouth. I do have to tell you a story though, we went to visit Nana and Papa and Julia took her bow out and all the hair was in her face, so Nana had the bow and said come over here and put the bow back in or you will get a spankin' so Julia gets down goes over to her (and we are thinking that she is going to put the bow in) turns around and says "spank my butt"! It was hilarious of course we all started dying laughing. She is rotten but so cute!

We tried to get all their faces in the wholes..hehe you cant really see Kayla's though i was trying to hold her head in there.

Criminals!

Julia's first time down a tube slide! she loved it.

i don't really like this picture of me but i don't get a lot of cute ones of just the two of us!

They were throwing leaves into the water. Heaven forbid i get any of them looking at the camera!

I love this picture because if you cant tell Kayla gets SO excited when her sister comes to play with her!

ALL AMERICAN CUTIE PIE!

Kayla wants some corn too!

Side note: This was Brandon's high chair when he was a baby. So its OLD. hehe

Can't she stay this cute and sweet FOREVER??

Every year Brandon's Family makes homemade ice cream. so this is Brandon and his dad making it. Well his mom did the hard part they just put ice and salt in.

Here is the result! It was so delicious!

And they made fun of me for taking a picture of it so i had to post it.

Well since it was pouring down rain and our plans got all switched around we ended up with our friends at our house playing ping pong. We still made it fun, even with the rain.

This is what happens when you take a sippy cup away from her. LOL

And i guess ill post one of us. We are not as cute as the kids but hey o well!

I hope everyone had a great 4Th!

Holly

Im so behind!

2009-07-03T15:23:00.000-07:00

I'm going to finally post father's Day and Brandon's birthday weekend. I am so behind then i have 4Th of July still to do. Even though i have had a whole week off i just don't find time to sit here and blog! Anyway that was also Brandon's sisters wedding shower weekend so the first few pictures are from that. (sorry Mel since i was writing i didn't get any pics of you) or anyone besides Julia i guess. haha. We had our friends over for Brandon's birthday that night, then went to Olive Garden for Father's Day. It was alot of fun!

I LOVE this picture she has a chocolate goatee!

This is Great Grandma Barb and Julia at the shower

It was also our friend Dustin's Birthday too so i made them a cheesecake (don't worry it was no bake) i didn't cook or anything. I made them blow out candles and they were thrilled let me tell you.

OK so we borrowed American Idol for the WII from my sister and Brandon tried SO hard to beat me and his sister, but he couldn't and he was getting really really mad. HEHE!

Boo Boo and her papa Danny. She loves him! As you can tell Julia is acting like she is sleeping and Danny probably wishes he was. He is a busy man.

The soon to be married couple at Olive Garden.

Of course Julia didn't want to sit in her own chair. Spoiled stinker.

aw I'm so sad about this. Isn't she so cute sitting up like a big girl :(

She loves it. Shes nosey like her mommy and sissy! ;)

Julia and her cousins played at my brothers while we had a garage sale, she LOVES the sand box!

Who needs toys when you have a laundry basket, they played in here forever!

" HELP! i cant get out"

She likes to sing no more monkeys jumping on the bed when she jumps and it is so cute!

I think i will post 4Th of July today too, I'm on a roll!

Holly

I'M A SLACKER!

2009-06-19T19:45:00.000-07:00

HELLO! I know i haven't posted in forever, but I'm a busy lady we have been doing all kinds of stuff lately and by the time the kids go to bed, i go to bed. We have done alot of things to the house and went to my nephews 7Th birthday where they had a huge jump house and the kids absolutely loved that. That's about all the excitement Ive had since my last post.

When i was pregnant with Julia, Brandon figured out that his birthday and Fathers Day would be on the same day in the year 2009! That seemed like yesterday and its here!

I just want to wish him a Happy Birthday (27) and Happy Fathers Day!

You are a wonderful Daddy!

We love you!

OK so on to the good stuff.....

This is our new couch! Notice sleeping beauty all curled up in the corner.

We also got furniture for the other side of our living room and that picture actually has the same color as the wall as in the vases. We were so excited!

We (not really me, Brandon and his dad) painted our shutters, they were the dull faded red and we painted them black. it is amazing what just painting your shutters does to the look of your house. and those out of control bushes you see are going :) RIGHT DANNY?? hehe and for the record his dad was scaring the crap out of me, up that high and not on level ground!

This is obviously Julia's room, we are almost done with it, just needs some curtains.
Now on to my babies!

O man i absolutely LOVE this picture, they love each other so much, Kayla adores Julia and watches every move she makes (o man)

Daddy painting my fingernails= PRICELESS

Me picking my nose right after=PRICELESS

She is getting so big! :(

These girls(my niece Addie and Julia) have so much fun together, they just feed off each other and its so much fun!

Julia loves her Uncle Nick!

This is Julia Jr.

I bought this hat thinking it might be cute on her and i was wrong, but this picture makes it look OK.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and Happy Father's Day

Holly

Wordless Wednesday

2009-05-20T11:22:00.000-07:00

Bath Time!

2009-05-19T20:31:00.001-07:00

Now that Kayla is sitting up i decided to give them their bath together for the first time over the weekend! it was fun they had a Blast and all Kayla was worried about was what she could put in her mouth (kinda gross i know, but what can you do? tell her not too??) Kind of a boring post but i thought that this picture was too cute!

Have a good week

Holly

My baby is growing up!

2009-05-13T10:04:00.000-07:00

Hello! Well not a whole lot has happened. We celebrated Mother's Day and my brothers 20Th Birthday last weekend. Everyone came over to our house. It is a perfect place for kids to be in the play room and everyone else in the living room. We had a good time. I just cant believe that my baby brother is 20! I put some pictures on here from random days and the get together with my family. I hope all the mom's had a amazing Mothers Day!

Princess Julia layed down there and said "rub my feet" so of course she gets what she wants. :)

My baby has her first teeth! (aren't they cute!)

Brandon and Kayla playing peek-a-boo. She was cracking up.

Cutie Pies.

OK so Addie got mad at something and started pouting then Julia went over and started pouting too! for no reason of course other than Addie was doing it.

Happy Birthday Nick. You are a ONE pound miracle.

We love you buddy!

My mama and Baby Kayla

Julia is serious when it comes to art!

Kayla is sitting up!

Shes getting so big. :(

Its beginning to look alot like summer!

2009-04-27T19:38:00.000-07:00

WOW, I forgot about Easter, i do have a few pictures from when we had a hunt for Julia at Nana and Papaw's house. We ate and planned on having the hunt but Julia decided she was going to take a nap and slept 3 hours! so we sat around waiting on her to get up, then it was back to cleaning the apartment before Monday. The other pictures i took in the course of the week, I'm so excited that the girls can wear dresses and cute shoes! I hate winter clothes! Anyway we are slowly but surely getting the house in order and loving being able to play outside without a million of the neighborhood kids right there, like it was in the apartment! Brandon cut, sprayed the weeds and edged the yard, so its looking nice. He did a great job!

I have alot of pictures!

Kayla trying to eat an egg.

Happy 1st Easter Baby Girl!

Hunting for eggs

Mama and Aunt Mel helping see what was in those eggs!

Zach (my nephew) teaching Julia about space, but she is to busy posing for the camera.

Julia loves to get in bed with Kayla when she gets up from her naps. And for the record she gets in there and puts her arm around her and say "take a picture" Shes hilarious!

Cutie Pie

90% of the time when you tell Julia to say cheese she does this face. I was just lucky for her to hold Kayla long enough for a picture.

Daddy and Julia.

Julia playing cornhole

Where'd my bags go?

hahaha, something wasn't going her way

aw pretty girl, daddy is making her smile.

mmm i love to eat anything!

Have a wonderful week!

Holly

Busy Busy Busy

2009-04-23T19:51:00.000-07:00

We are all moved in! and we have alot of work to do but Brandon and his dad have been working so very hard to get alot done! It will def be a long process and it makes it hard with two little ones running around, but all we have is time and it will get done eventually. I don't really have anything to post as far as pictures right now. I'm to busy to get the camera out. LOL. The girls at work are giving me a hard time about not posting, but we are SO busy its not funny! Anyway we LOVE the house it is awesome and Julia is sleeping in a twin bed. That was harder for me than her i think. She did great and loves sleeping in it! It is late and i am tired so this is all I'm posting for now. I will try and get some pics this weekend of the girls and post them later! (PDW girls are you happy) :)!!! Sorry so boring!

Holly

What a Week!

2009-04-08T16:08:00.000-07:00

Wow! We have been so busy! But guess what? The painting is done! (except for the trim and the doors). Thank you everyone who helped, we couldn't have done it without you! I am posting some pictures from the past week, Kayla has had some firsts, we went to a Easter egg hunt, we got our cousin pictures back and I will show you a sneak peak of the living room, you will have to come visit us to see the rest of the house.

Here is the cousin picture, this one is actually the unedited one, but you get the drift.

Here is the before of the living room.

While they were painting. Funny story though. Julia and I were there and i decided to write our names on the walls (as you can see i guess) well Julia thought that was so cool, when Danny went to roll over her name she started crying and saying "my letters". It was hilarious so he put a big J on another wall to make her happy.

This is after! We love the color!

Kayla ate baby food for the first time this week. (i know I'm a little behind, we've been busy!)

My best friend wanted to feed her so i took pictures. She did very good, but my kids LOVE their food and bottles, so i knew she would love it.

Kayla got in the saucer for the first time this week, i thought she was too small but guess what it really wasn't, HOW SAD! Shes my baby! Well this picture was from when American Idol was on and Julia and I were dancing to "All she wants to do is Dance". She thought it was hilarious, she has never laughed so hard before and Brandon got the perfect picture of it!

And of course my BIG baby had to get in there too!

I really didn't get many of the Easter egg hunt because my batteries died on my camera, but Julia and Addie (her cousin 4months older) were so stinking' cute holding hands!

We just thought that this picture was funny. She fell asleep like this the other night.

PS. We had a bird flying in the upstairs of our house when Brandon got there. And Brandon's Dad thought he saw someone in our house (there wasn't but he was there by himself) and the neighbor across the hall from us thought he saw someone in Brandon's Car at 5 in the morning! So we have had quite the freaky week!

I guess that is all for now, i probably won't post again until we get moved in!

Holly

I'm Blogging!!

2009-03-28T17:44:00.000-07:00

OK so I thought that this would be a great time to start blogging. We just bought our first house!

We are SO excited, it is going to so wonderful for our family. We have two of the most amazing daughters and we are going to make many many memories here. I thought this blog would be a great way for our family and friends that we don't get to talk to on a regular basis know what we are up to, and see updated pictures of our babies.

Meet Julia:

I don't even know where to start with her. She is so smart, beautiful and fun. She just turned two and she is Big Stuff! She makes us laugh all the time, you tell her something once and she wont forget it, Believe me! She never really gets in trouble, she has been the best child (knock on wood) from the day she was born. Shes so loving, and we are so blessed to have her in our lives! And ever since she was in my belly we have called her Boo Boo and it has stuck with her.

She told me she was calling Evan (her future Uncle)

Meet Kayla:

O What a beautiful baby. She is almost 5 months. Rolling over and holding her own bottle for the most part. She has the cutest smile and the biggest brown eyes. She has been alittle tougher than her big sister, but shes so much fun! She absolutely loves Julia, shes always smiling at her and cracks up when she sticks her tongue out at her. She loves when daddy makes kiss noises at her too. She has a few nicknames. Brandon calls her Kayla Raela (her middle name is Rae), I call her all kinds of stuff and Julia calls her K. We are so happy to have her in our lives too!

She is always eating her fingers!

I am really busy with working, taking care of two kids and moving so don't expect me to be updating alot, but I'm going to try my hardest. I am also going to have the girls at work help with all the cool stuff, so its kinda boring right now!

Bye for now!

Holly