The love of our families :-)

(Kyle, Crystal & Kinsey in our front yard)

We are very blessed to have both of our families fairly close to where we live. This is perfect for us since there is no one we would rather spend our time with than our families. They are a great support to us and have such a great love for us and Kinsey. Kinsey is constantly being showered with love and affection from her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents.Here is Kinsey and two of her cousins being read a book by their great-grandpa :-)
(great-grandpa on Kyle's side)

Here Will (the only male cousin) is showing off his tough muscles

as he pulls his sister and three cousins in the wagon :-)

Here is Kinsey with grandma and grandpa (Kyle's parents)
checking out the new pig!

Kinsey likes to help grandpa out around the farm. Here they are fixing the pig-pen :-)

Kinsey loves her walks with Grandma around the farm to see the buffalo!This is Kinsey with cousin Kate (they are 2 months apart) :-)
This picture cracks me up - they are buddies :-)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On my side of the family I am the only one with children, but my siblings are 23 years old all the way down to 6 years old! They love having the responsibility of being aunts and uncles to Kinsey.

Here are me, Kyle and Kinsey around Christmas with the 5 youngest of us 8 kids - we all got BEARS & COLTS jerseys from my parents.
Kinsey and my littlest sister Shauna got Colts cheer outfits :-)
This is Kinsey with Uncle Jacob, he loves to dote on Kinsey :-)Jacob just went to camp and came back telling us how he kept bragging about Kinsey
the entire week to all of his friends.When we visit with my siblings, I don't exist.... she loves to be played with and cared for by all the aunts and uncles. Here she is being held by aunt Sierra along with aunt Shauna.
We spent the weekend at the ball diamonds.Here is uncle Justin showing Kinsey his catch at the recent fishing/bbq.
Both Justin and Shauna took pictures of Kinsey to school for their "show and tell" -
they were so proud to say they had a niece :-)

Here are Me, Kyle, Kinsey with uncle Jacob & aunt Sierra

Kinsey's great grandparents (on my side) came up to our house to visit !
Here they are in our front yard :-)

Here is grandma and grandpa (my parents) giving love to Kinsey as we get ready
to head back home after a long day at the ball diamond!

Summer Fun

Things are going great with our family! Trying to stay cool in this crazy heat! I am feeling great...except for some back pain...but thats not too bad. I am getting more and more anxious with each passing day! I can't wait for the labor, delivery and then holding my beautiful baby :-)

I babysit some and Kinsey is excellent with the baby :-) She will make a GREAT big sister! She is growing so fast, I can't believe how small she used to be. I try to cherish every second of every day because time is going by so fast! Also, I am trying to stay on top of the scrapbook for her and thats coming along slowly :-) She LOVES to swim in her pool so we spend alot of time out there. She is such a great little girl. If all my children are as easy as her we could end up with 10. She makes us smile so much - she just oozes joy :-) You can't help but smile when looking at her. She is our pride and joy. . . God truly blessed us by entrusting us to parent her :-)

She looks GOOD in daddy's shades :-)


She is 100% a Daddy's Girl! He is her hero! :-)

Kyle turned the big 24 at the end of June!!! :-) He had two parties, one with my family and one with his :-)
We went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse for Kyle's 24th birthday! Here you can see my little baby bump!
Kinsey wanted to take a break from the pool and sit in the chair next to mommy :-) Lucky her, she doesn't even have to try to get that gorgeous tan.