Fall!!!

We have been very busy in the Harvey house lately!!  Kennedy started Mother's Day Out about a month ago.  She is doing GREAT!!  It took a couple weeks, but she found a teacher she loves (Ms Amy) and she loves it!  She cries when i drop her off, but is happy the rest of the day.  I find many things to do while she is there.  Seems like the days when she is at mdo seem to fly by.lol She is walking!!!  She is everywhere and into everything!!:) She got her first hair cut(trim) today and did great!  She is such a big girl!!  She can point to her nose, mouth, ear, hair, eye, and feet when asked where they are.  She can say eye, nose, no, yeas(yes and yeah mix), byebye, mommy, daddy, meme, hollie, i love you, nite nite, passy, more, done, pumpkin, many more things we understand and dont understand:) She is SO much fun!!!  We are still head over hills in love with her and always will be!!  WE are so thankful for everyday we get to spend wtih Kennedy!!  Here are some recent pictures!  She is 32 inches tall, 23lbs, wearing size 4 diapers, size 4.5 shoes, and 18-24 month clothes!

BACK to the BLOG!!!

So I had made it my mission to update this blog once a week, but I failed miserably!!!  So it is now my mission to update it twice a week!!lol  I hope by setting my standards higher I might reach the first goal!  Here's what is new in our lives: Kennedy is 10 months old!!  WoW!  Where did all the time go??  She can crawl, walk behind her shopping cart(actually run behind it)lol, say "momma, Dada, bye bye, hi," and new today "go." She has 6 teeth and is teething right now.  She is into EVERYTHING!!  She follows me everywhere i go and digs in cabinets, helps me unload the dishwasher, and helps me clean the floor by picking up the tiniest things and putting them in her mouth!  She eats pretty much what we eat!  She loves all food!!  The only thing she has made a face and spit out, was turnip greens!  She is so much FUN!!  Always laughing and making us laugh!  We are so blessed to have her!

We just went on our first family vacation!!  We had a wedding to go to first and then to the beach!! A family member that lives in Alabama was getting married Saturday, so we headed out Thursday night.  We drove a couple hours and got a hotel room for the night.  We figured if we split up the drive Kennedy would do better.  She did great!!  We made it to Alabama around noon on Friday.  The wedding was beautiful and it was great to catch up with family!!  Sunday we headed to Destin!!  It was about a three hour drive so we made it there around lunch also. We met the Vinson's, Folt's, and Hirscheider's in Destin.  Kennedy LOVED the beach!!  She loved vacation period!!  She was in a good mood the entire 7 days we were gone! 

While on vacation, Peyton realized his driver's license expired 7 months ago! Yes I said 7 months ago!!  Not only had he just driven 500 miles, he also drove us to New Orleans in January!  Needless to say he stopped driving and I got to drive the rest of the trip.  Including the 10 hours home!:( It was not fun ride home!!  We had a  blast with all our friends and their children!!  We had the kids matching crab outfits made before we went on vacation.  They were PRECIOUS!! 

               Father's Day

                    Playing with friends

          10 months old

          She loved the kiddy pool

          Us at the wedding

mother's day

Now we are back to real life!!  But I love my life so that's a good thing!:)  Sunday was Father's Day!!  And I just want to say that I have the best Father EVER!!  My daddy is wonderful!!  I love him so much!! We talk on the phone at least once a day if not more!lol  He has always been there for me and my sisters no matter what!!  But I also live with an amazing father!!  People always told me "once you see your spouse be a parent, you will fall more in love with them," well they weren't lying!!  Peyton is so wonderful with Kennedy!!  Not that I didn't think he would be a great dad, but he loves Kennedy so much and is so good with her!!  She is so blessed to have him as her daddy!!!  And I am blessed to have them both!!:)

the perfect bday present for mommy!

So today is my 27th birthday!!  And i have said all weekend that all i wanted was for Kennedy to get a tooth, crawl, or say "momma".  Well she is the perfect child, so i knew she would come thru for me!lol At lunch i fed her a piece of cracker and felt something sharp!  Yep you guessed it, both of her lower front teeth have broke thru!!  I have been rubbing her gums every morning for the past 3 months, hoping to feel a tooth!  So it was an exciting moment!!  Anyway, i couldn't have asked for a better birthday.  We dropped kennedy off at my sister Amy's house Saturday morning and headed to hot springs to go to the races with our friends the Vinson's.  We then went shopping and ate at Outback!  Then Sunday night, Peyton's family came over for a shrimp boil!  It was very yummy!!  If you know me, you know i love seafood!!  Then today Kennedy and i went to lunch with my twin sisters.  And tonight we are going to Fuji with the Folts!!  Here are some recent pics of Kennedy!  She is growing SO fast!!!

Snow, a rubber ducky, and the cutest little girl in the world!!

So we are snowed in for the 5th time this year!!  It is crazy!  It started snowing at 730am and it is 220pm and still coming down.  Last check we had 5 1/2 inches 2 hrs ago!  I think Roxie and Kennedy are going to think it snows like this every year! Here are some more pics from the past few days.  I cant believe this is my second post in one week!!lol Kennedy has not been sleeping well at all!!  She woke me up three times last night and this has become the norm!:( Since Peyton is off tomorrow, we are going to let her cry it out tonight!  :( I hate it, but she and i are both very cranky from no sleep!!  I will let y'all know how that goes! And i have a great recipe to give y'all!!  It is for chicken carbonara, which i had never had until last night, but it was wonderful!!  Boil 2 cups of chicken, cool, and cut into cubes.  Boil a package of spaghetti noodles.  In a large pan cook 5 slices of bacon.  Save the bacon grease and saute 1/2 an onion and 2 tablespoons garlic in it, once onion is soft add cooked spaghetti, chicken, bacon, 1/2 a cup of heavy whipping cream, and 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese.  It called for peas but i didn't have any. It was really tasty.  I'm going to make baked potato soup now!  Hope everyone stays warm!!

                                                           Today, watching it snow

  This is what i wake up to during the night! "momma you gonna come get me??"lol

                                                 The first snow Jan 9, 2011

                                      Finally big enough to play with rubber ducky in the bath

                                                              She loves her feet!!

She will be 6 months old a week from today!  This is on her 5 month bday just forgot to post it!  Love these stickers my motherinlaw got us!! 

Playing catch up!!

I have got to get better about blogging!!  Not that anyone reads this blog but i would have liked to have kept up with Kennedy's life on here!  You know just print out the entire blog someday so she can see how everything happened and how fast she grew.  I guess her two baby books will have to do!lol  She is 5 1/2 months old!!  Wow! That is so crazy to say!  It feels like yesterday i held her for the first time!  We are doing great at the Harvey house!  Just staying very busy! This month is full of JA, junior auxiliary, activities so mommy is busy and daddy gets to spend some one on one time with Kennedy!:) We went to heber springs this weekend for a friends baby shower.  We stayed at the Wilson's lake house, it was so beautiful with snow everywhere, def a different scene for a lake trip!  But we had a blast!!  There were 10 adults and 5 babies plus two girls are pregnant right now!  You can imagine the fun we had with 5 kids under 3!!  We shared a room with the Vinson's.  If you remember Kennedy is 2 weeks older that Luke and they will be married some day!lol Well after the night we had, i cannot imagine twins!!  Luke had a bad cough and kept waking up, so every time he woke up Kennedy would look up from her pack-n-play or my chest once she made it to our bed! I think she was checking on him!lol  At 430am we were all wide awake laughing at the babies!  It was sweet!  Then yesterday we went to Chel and Nick's to watch the super bowl with some friends from church.  We had to leave before it was over bc we were all so tired from our slumber party the night before!lol And now Kennedy and i are snowed in again!!  I was looking online for the dates of the snow days so far in 2011 bc i am putting it in Kennedy's baby book, i think this is the 5th snow!!  We never had snow like this when we were in school!!  But we never had to make up snow days in the summer either!lol  It is supposed to get bad again Wednesday!!  I am SO ready for spring!!  And our trip to the beach in June!!  Oh i cant wait!!  Kennedy is sitting up very well on her own now!!  And she rolls EVERYWHERE!!  It is so crazy how fast she is growing!!  She grabs anything that is around her and of course it goes straight to her mouth!!  So we are having to watch what we leave in the floor or what we put on the table when she is sitting in our laps!lol I will try to put some pics on here!  Last time it got messed up and i just noticed we only had one pic from Christmas, so i will put some of them with this post!  Hopefully it wont be a month before i blog again!! And last Wednesday 2/2/11 was Grant's first birthday!!  I cannot believe it has been a year!!  It was a hard day, but having Kennedy to snuggle with on the couch all day really helped!  Looking back i am overwhelmed by the love and support we received from everyone!!  We are so blessed to have you all in our lives!! God had a plan and we just had to trust him!  Which wasn't easy but we ended up with Kennedy, so i know it had to be his plan!! God knew she would make our lives feel complete again!! Happy 1st bday GRANT!!  WE love you so very much!!

4 1/2 months!!

I cannot believe Kennedy is 4 1/2 months old!!!  She is growing SO fast!!  We had an amazing Christmas! God knew we couldnt make it through the holidays without a precious baby, so he made sure we had Kennedy!  As Feb 2nd approaches, i keep thinking about Grant!  I cannot believe it has been a year!  I looked back at our Christmas pics from last year, i was HUGE and we were so ready for Grant!  On December 20th, a girl i am in JA with lost her twins at 21 weeks!  My heart broke!!  It brought back everything we went through and it was like looking back at a dream.  I kept thinking how in the world did we get from Feb 2nd to today!  To go through so much heart ache and sadness, to how happy we are today!  Only God could get us through what we have been through and help us to find happiness again!  I have sent cards, sent facebook messages, and took the girl a book that a lady gave me and i offered to talk to her whenever she is ready.  She told me it will take a while but she does want to talk to me.  I pray that God will use me to help her as he used people to help peyton and i!  So please keep her and her husband in your prayers!  And us as we come up on the one year anniversary of that horrible day!  It is hard to think that all that happened so Kennedy would be in our lives. But God has a reason for everything!  I hated hearing that last year after we lost Grant!  I thought why in the world would God want us to lose Grant!  I still dont think he wanted us to lose him, but I do know that after we lost him we prayed for the adoption to happen fast if it was his plan.  I would say 4 months from start to finish was really fast!  It all fell into place and felt like God's plan, which made us feel really good.  I hope that our story can help others that are hurting from the lose of a baby!
So back to Christmas!  This was our first Christmas as a family, and it was so special!!   Kennedy got every toy that Fisher Price makes for 6months and up!! She got tons of books, clothes, toys, a toy box, and an entertainer(it has huge piano keys on the bottom where her feet hit and she has learned to stomp them, very fun and loud!lol)  We got to spend time with all our family and eat LOTS of good food!! It was definatley a Christmas we will always remember!  Kennedy loved Santa Clause!!  She slept at the firemen supper but it made for a precious picture!! 
Peyton and I just got back from New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl!!  We went with 4 other couples.  We  hated leaving Kennedy and i will say i have decided not to go anywhere else without her for a long time!lol But it was fun and New Orleans is no place for a baby!!  The hogs lost but it was a great game!!!
Kennedy is now 15lbs and 25inches long, she eats 8oz bottles,and has started eating cereal in the morning and veggies at night!  She is getting SO big!!  She can play in her walker and entertainers, she rolls over so easily, she loves to hold her feet(which really helps when you are trying to change her diaper), she should be getting teeth soon! 
That's all for now, i am trying to update more often in 2011!!!

Catching up!!

                                                                   3 months old!!

                                             She learned to roll from her back to her tummy!

                                                           Finally fits in her walker

 a friend wanted to take our pics as a gift, her name is Candace Skarda, check her out on facebook

                                                     This is cute now, but at 16 it wont be!lol

                                 A lady Peyton works with made her a razorback dress!!

                                            Her first Thanksgiving!!  She slept most of the day:(

                                     We got a new fancy camera, this was Kennedys reaction!lol

           I made our stockings this year! And put a tree in the living room, so Santa can leave our gifts!

                                                             Tree in the front window

                                                                   Kennedy's tree

                                                       She is getting very strong!! 

                              She loved Santa!!  Even took some of his beard with her!lol

                                                  Loving on Granny!  A very happy girl!!

                                                           Baby Dedication at Church

So it has been a month since i blogged last!!  I have got to get better at this!  So here are pics from November and some from Dec.  We got a new camera, I LOVE IT!!!  So maybe i will get better about blogging!!    So she is growing SO fast!!  She is 13.5lbs 25inches long, she can roll from her back to her tummy, but hates being on her tummy!  She talks, well yells, all the time!!  She gets very excited when she sees someone she recognizes.  She is very spoiled and loves mommy!!  She loves tv, esp ESPN and wheel of fortune with Daddy!  They are buddies from 630pm til 9pm, unless she is fussy and wants mommy.  She loves eating her hands!!  There are a few teeth on the bottom that are close to cutting through, but none have yet.  They were bothering her at night, but lately she seems to be ok.  She either chews or sucks on her hands constantly.  We go to the dr next Friday for her 4month check up and shots:(  But the good thing is she will get to start eating veggies!!  We are so excited!!  She is such a joy and we are so blessed!!  This is going to be a wonderful Christmas!!  We meet with the birthmom next Wednesday, so pray all goes well!  We told her we would meet once or twice a year, if everything goes well.  We will see how it goes!  I will try to blog after so everyone will know how things go!