Dear Kinley, you're the best!

Kinley,

I can't believe you will be 4 months old this week! You are growing way too fast, I want to freeze this 3-4 month period and keep you this way forever! I know I'll love lots of stages but this is the best. You're still a cuddly baby but at the same time you're so strong and ready to do things on your own! You couldn't be funnier, your dad and I can sit and laugh at you for hours......and you could sit and smile for hours with those sweet dimples. Everything that you or anyone else does cracks you up, and you are letting out huge chuckles!

I don't have much to compare to but I seriously think you are the best baby ever. You are so easy going, whether we're just chillin at the house or if I'm dragging you around town in this awful heat......you just go with the flow! The only time you get fussy is when you're hungry or super sleepy......and you're a VERY good sleeper! I can't wait to take you to the doctor next week to see how big you've gotten! Here are some things that you're doing right now, right on track!:

-Lifting up on your arms and holding head up for long periods of time, you're finally liking tummy time.
You're a roly poly (which is cute because that was your brother Boomer's name when he was a little bitty baby before we got him :)........you will not stay on your back - you love to roll over and over and over.

-Still love to "stand up" and stomp your feet or walk up mom and dad.

-Sitting up in your bumbo and playing with toys on the play tray

-Chewing on teethers and drooling like crazy

-Spitting up still! A lot!

-Your favorite toy is your puppy that you snuggle with every time you sleep. The toys have gotten out of control around here now that you can play with them!
-Responding to your name, man your head turns fast!

-Almost sitting up in your new entertainer and playing with the toys on it

-Putting everything and anything in your mouth

-Cuddle in my armpit to go to sleep and like to have your puppy over your face and eyes

-Still loving bath time & swimming

-Still waking up in the morning and just playing around and talking to yourself, as happy as you can be!

-I could keep going on and on!!!!

We love you so much little chicken, you make us SO happy everyday! I'll try to keep writing you on here every once in awhile so one day we can look back at it together :)

Love,

Mommy!

House Update

Well this has been one crazy week! We went from having the house sold and having a closing/moving out date......to the buyers backing out! I keep trying to stay positive and say it wasn't meant to be but really I want to find them and rip their hair out a little!


We were having tons of showings and another couple came back a second time and were very interested, but then it all stopped when our status said contract pending.........and now we haven't had any showings after the jerks backed out! Woops, another venting session........sorry!


Anyways, its back to cleaning everything every time I leave the house and the worst part is, I thought I was gonna get my boys back in a few weeks :(


Please someone come buy this house!





I didn't want to post about the new house stuff because I feel like it will jinx us (because we have to sell our house in order to have the one we're building obviously).......but Im going to anyway. Glass half full, right?!





Here is our lot! There is a sold sign there now but we won't take a picture with it until the day our current house is sold for real!





Here are some pictures I took at a house that was being built in the neighborhood, same exact floor plan.......they just have upgraded floors and cabinets.

I would kill to have these beautiful, dark hardwood floors. I'll miss the ones we have now but the dogs just don't mix well with them. And quite honestly, as I get older....it hurts my poor bunyans walking around on them! haha!

Love the arches and the stairs, I picked the same spindles that these stairs have.

Open kitchen to living room. Our living room will not have the regular ceiling like this one......it will be open all the way to the top because I wouldn't let Jay have a media room :)

I really love their cabinets too, just like the floors.....but I think when I asked, they were about a $15,000 upgrade. Are you kidding me!

Extra little cute cabinet desk by the back door, built in wine rack! Although I will never have enough to keep any up there, I drink it too fast!

The vent a hood is standard.....a little too fancy for me but I'll take it. Our backsplash will be small tumble tiles like these, but much lighter......theres a pic of one later. I really wanted them to leave it blank so we could do what we want to the backsplash, but they won't. The lady said they are real easy to pop out so I want to find some cute little decorative mosaic tiles to pop into the tumble tile so its not so white.

View of kitchen from living room. The kitchen table nook is to the left and there is a nice, long window seat over there too. I love the island! I've always wanted one........I remember when we saw this house model last summer I sat on the island and wouldn't leave :)

This is the color of the granite that will be in the kitchen. I'm still not 100% on it but I think it will look good once its in there. I wish there was a way to see exactly what all of your stuff will look like together........its too hard to choose!

Granite again, these peeps put it in their bathroom, we won't have that.

Here are the little samples of all the stuff we chose yesterday. The backsplash tiles are at the top. I really hope I like these cabinets, I am in love with the cabinets we have now and I wanted something as close to those as I could get within the standard choices.......because the ones I really loved were insanely expensive, dangit! The granite looks gray here, thats why it scares me......but its not really gray. Then there's the good ol' regular carpet and tile and the little touch of pizazz I want to add to the master bathroom tile around the shower.

This is an exciting but stressful process! I would have a fit if someone else got to buy the home we designed for our family! I'm just keeping my fingers crossed everyday and praying for the phone to ring for showings!

Fourth of July 2011

We had a relaxing, low-key 4th of July this year......which was perfectly fine with us! We went for a little swim that morning and then headed off to Mike and Mistys house for some burgers and beer.......but first we had to change chicken into her PRESH outfit that I picked out at Target a looong time ago just for this special 4th! Here she is :)



One of the very few pics I have with her, please excuse my fatness......when I get it all off, we're gonna have a big, fancy photo shoot together!

Sweet lil' fam

It was so good to see one of my favorite nephews, Barley! He got lots of extra lovin from me since I don't have my boys to love on right now. Look at that face!

Had to do an outfit change after Kinley spit up her entire bottle on me (mainly into my cleavage, yum!) Mommy needed a drink too!

There always has to be props!

And here is Kinley's photo session with ALL the props! :)

This last one is my fav!

When we got home that night, we could see one of the big Mckinney firework shows from our backyard. It was pefect, Kinley even noticed them! Looking forward to many more holidays with her :)

Fredericksburg Girls Trip! June 2011

We had so much fun on our trip! I had been looking forward to this for a loooooong time after being out of commission for 9 months of prego-ness and 3 months of mommyhood! I missed Kinley like crazy but it was good to get away for a bit :)
The highlight of the trip was our limo-wine tour! It was the most fun! We became bff's with our driver George and he let us take as much time as we wanted. So, we did! The wine was flowing like water, we couldn't get enough of it.......and we started the party everywhere we went! The cute little town, beer joints and shopping were fun too.....but the wineries were by far my favorite part!

Here are all the girls!

This is out of order but here is Me, Brook & Erin in Luckenbach.

Cheers!

Ash & I at Grape Creek

So pretty!

Here are some of the girls tasting at William-Chris Winery. We all fell in love with Chris a little!

This is Tika, she tore Erin's foot up and made her bleed after spotting a lizard she wanted! Woops Tika!

Erin, Me, Ash in the limo!

Winos!

Twins!

Luckenbach!

Happy Father's Day

Most of Father's Day for us was spent traveling and trying to get back home from our trips. I felt bad that we didn't get to spend the whole day together but Jay got to be with Kinley and the boys so thats all that matters :)

He is seriously the best daddy every so I wanted to make this Father's day special for him......but thats not easy to do for a guy who is not mushy at all and never mentions anything that he wants.

I ended up mail ordering him a pizza from Lou Malnatis in Chicago. He became obsessed with deep dish pizza when we went to Chicago but we never made it to Lou M's so I thought I'd send him one! Here is a stolen picture from the internet since I forgot to remind him to take a pic. (This actually looks pretty gross to me!)

His other surprise was that I enrolled him in a beer of the month club, seemed perfect for him. Over the past couple years he has become a beer snob and has tried every different kind he can........I've tried and hate them all pretty much :)

Here are the pics they sent me of the proud Daddy with his babies on Father's Day! I love my little family and am so grateful for Jay.....I LOVE watching him with Kinley......he's a natural!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY 2011!!!!!

House

Today we signed the contract and had to make decisions on the structural things for the house. I was NOT prepared for this and those who know me know that I suck at making decisions as it is......so imagine me under the gun having to decide which brick and stone on a pretty big purchase!.......overanalyzing like crazy!
I had taken this first pic over a week ago because I loved the brick and stone.....and after worrying all day that I wasn't making the right decision, I went with what I loved first. (I'm not mentioning Jay because he didn't really care about this part, left it up to me). So this is the brick and stone combo we went with........

But this is the house model and elevation so picture that brick and stone on here.

We really, really love the neighborhood and the model we chose. It was the same model we walked through over a year ago and fell in love with. There will be plenty of room for kiddos and finally a normal backyard for the boys. I am so glad they still had a few lots left after all this time! Our builder says he expects a November/December closing so hopefully we can be there in time to celebrate Kinley's first Christmas! Until then, we will be living with my parents, eek! (Of course this is all pending our house sells, please oh please!)

Over the next week or so, we'll be heading to the design center to pick out the inside stuff.......I am going to try my best not to look at the upgraded options!

Crazy Summertime!

Oh my goodness our heads are spinning right now, we have been very busy! I really need to be better about blogging my sweet little girls life, I feel like if I don't, I'm going to forget when everything happened. She changes everyday! Since I can't do 50 different posts, I will recap with pictures and captions but here's a little idea of whats been going on with the Jensens lately (in order! :). .........
-We reserved a lot to build on in the neighborhood we've had our eye on for over a year now
-Went crazy and stressed out because there was so much to do to fix up this house........but then had to go out of town
-Kinley turned 3 months old!
-Kinley and mommy had their first weekend away from eachother while daddy went to Oklahoma with her and I went on a girls trip to Fredericksburg (post to come!)
-Jay took the dogs with him and they're staying in Okla while we try and sell the house :( it's awful but would be impossible with them here!
-We celebrated Jay's first fathers day (post to come!)
-We fixed up the entire house in pretty much 2 days, phew!
-We put the house on the market Friday, had a showing Saturday (that was nuts!)
-Went to sign our life away and start the contract on the new house today!

Okay! I'll do another post about house stuff soon but here are some pics of Kinley lately :)

Mommy had her first big mess up.....took a big chunk our of her finger while trimming her tiny baby nails.......babies bleed A LOT!!

We are working hard on tummy time......but she still pretty much hates it and would rather just lay and relax on her belly. I bought her this tummy time mat to try and help.....just one more thing laying around the house!

She can sit in her bumbo pretty good now and takes the BEST pictures in it!

Family swimming pic :)

I snapped these precious pics of K with "puppy". I gave him to her since her real puppies arent here anymore and she loves him! She cuddles and eats him (aka gives him kisses :) So sweet, it melts my heart, I miss my boys baaaaaaad!

3 months old!

All from her first swim, she absolutely loves the water!

I can't believe how fast time is flying and how much of a little person she is becoming. She is smiling almost every minute that she is awake and laughs out loud all the time now.......she even cracks up after she's had a little cough/choke. Everything is hilarious to her! She still loves to stare at her flower toy and is always stuffing it and everything else in her mouth (kinda scary). She also loves to stare at mommy when she does her workout dvd........apparently that is VERY funny looking!

We are rolling all the way over now from back to tummy......but again, don't like it very much when we get to the tummy part!

We go to the doctor in a couple weeks and I can't wait to see how much she's grown. I had to go buy some size 9 months sleep n plays the other day because she's already too long for her 6 month ones, sheesh!

Okie dokie, sorry for all the info but if I don't blog it, I'll forget it!!