Christmastime Pictures

Kilee kissed all of her stuffed animals as she opened them.

She looks like such a little girl here!

Grandpa looks proud!

Winner of the Cutest Santa Award 2007

Happy 1st Birthday, Kilee Anne!

Our little girl is officially 1 year old! It's really difficult to believe. Scott and I are so excited and thankful for such a wonderful, healthy and growing girl, but you'd better believe there were a few tears as we watched our "baby girl" turn one! We had such a great time visiting family. Since it's just her 1st birthday and we didn't think she'd mind, we just combined Christmas and birthday celebrations with family this year. She had such a great time playing, opening presents, destroying birthday cakes, and being adored by all. We started our Christmas/Birthday trip at Grandma and Grandpa's house (Scott's dad and stepmom) and we had a blast playing with Uncle Dylan and Aunt April!
Then, we went to M-ville to visit Nana and Papaw (Monica's parents). We celebrated Uncle Jeremy's graduation from college, too! So much fun.
Then on Kilee's birthday, the 23rd, we went to see Scott's mom (Kilee's Mamaw), Eldon, Uncle Chris, Great-Grandma and Bill and even more family and friends. They threw a birthday party for Kilee that night and then we celebrated Christmas with the family the next day. It was great! We all had such a great time. I'm afraid Kilee is really missing all of her adoring fans now that we're at home and it's just me and Scott with her! She seems to be looking for all of her "grandies" as she walks around the house.
We had a wonderful Christmas with family and we were blessed to be able to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at our house, just the three of us! We put Kilee to bed after we read the story about the birth of Jesus. Scott and I had a great time "playing" Santa last night! Once we figured out where the English instructions for Kilee's kitchen were (we have got to get our Spanish textbooks out for a refresher course!), we assembled it in no time flat! We got some great video footage of Christmas morning, too.
Well, I'm signing off for tonight. I'll post some Christmas pictures later! Merry Christmas everyone!

December News

Hello Everyone! Hope all is well. We're really having fun as Christmas and Kilee Anne's 1st birthday are approaching. Scott has been able to be home a lot more since recruiting came to a close and we've been able to enjoy some fun family time! We got to spend Thanksgiving with my cousin Mandye and her family and then we spent the rest of the break doing "Deer Camp 2007" out at C-more with the Melber family. It was too much fun! Scott got a couple of does this year. We spent a romantic Friday evening processing deer meat and now the freezer is full for the next year! Scott is really hoping to kill a turkey this week before shotgun season is over. We're country folks just livin' off the land. :o)

Kilee is now walking all by herself! WALKING! It's nuts. We're so proud of her. It's so funny to see her stepping all over the house. She's getting really good at it! I had to post these pictures of her. I was outside putting garland on the front porch rails and she was watching me through the glass storm door. She looks so hilarious!












We're going to be working on our Christmas letters and baked goods this week. I hope to get everything done a little early this year to beat the rush right before we travel home. It's going to be an exciting Christmas this year, but not nearly as exciting (or excruciatingly painful) as last year! Ha ha.