Our Baby Is Turning One!

This past year has been an amazing blessing from God. Our lives have been by far enriched by Aubree Malena Kindle. She has constantly amazed us with her sweet personality and persona. We could not love her more. She is running around every where. Everyday is a blast to experience with her. She finally has two teeth on the bottom that are just about to break thru the gums. She is the biggest hugger ever. When she sees us she comes running and has the biggest hugs to give. She is definitely an outdoor girl. She loves to go out to play. It is so hard for me to believe that she is turning 1 this Saturday. The year has flown by. Along with all the wonderful joys she has brought to our lives, we also have some more good news. We close on our house in Lake Dallas on May 12th. Once we do that we can get more settled here in Grand Saline. We are definitely looking forward to that. I hope everyone is having a great spring & hopefully we will see you soon. Thanks for checking on us...God Bless.

Country Livin

We have been back in G.S. for two weeks now. My new job is fantastic! Everyone in the office is super nice and I think it already feels like home. We are still staying with family, as our house is still for sale. Bree stays with Mema & Pa and Bebe during the week. Although, we all really miss her teachers at CCLC we are loving that she spends so much time with our families. They are really enjoying it, too. Bree has started to walk short distances at a 0time. I guess she has been doing it for about a week now. She is so funny. She will walk across the living room or from one thing to another from time to time. But sometimes she gets so excited and falls. She loves to dance and play the piano. She is so good natured. Although, we have found one thing that she does not care for at all. The Easter Bunny. Audra and I took Bree and Finlee to the Tyler mall on Friday to see the Easter bunny. We got the girls semi-matching Easter dresses. Bree's is green with big pink flowers trimmed in pink & white polka dots and Finlee's is yellow with big pink flowers trimmed in yellow & white polka dots. They even have custom made hair bows to match. Way cute!! They had such a cute set up for pictures in the mall. The girls were playing and when we sat them down on the bunnies lap, Finlee did great, as for Bree she started shaking and screaming. The poor baby was terrified! We tried to play and sing and I sat there next to the bunny, and she was fine but every time I would hand her to the bunny she cried. So Finlee had her picture made in his lap and then we rearranged the set and set the girls on the bench and had the bunny sneak in behind them. But Bree kept her eye on him the whole time. Other than that she loves everyone. We are so happy to be back around all of our family and friends. We enjoy seeing everyone so often and all the convenience of having everyone right here. Thank you for checking on us...God Bless & Happy St. Patty's Day and Easter.

Coming Home to G.S.

After much consideration we have decided to put our house on the market and move back to our hometown Grand Saline. I have accepted a position at Dr. Zeb's cardiology office in Greenville, Tx. Kerry will continue to manage the company he is with, the drive is actually shorter from G.S. than from our house now. Bree will be staying w/ my grandparents and family everyday which we are very excited about. We are hoping to find some land and build a house, but until then we will be staying with family. Although this will be a big change after being gone for 9 years, we are very excited and look forward to raising Bree around her grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, great aunts & uncles, cousins and many of our long time friends. We have been talking and praying for this move for a very long time and we feel like it is now God's plan to move us back. Thank you for all of your prayers on this matter. We will greatly miss all of our friends and neighbors here, but it will be so nice to be back with our family.

On another note, Bree is really growing fast. At her nine mo. check-up she was 16lbs 2oz. 27 3/4 in. and her head was 42cm. She is long and skinny. She is doing great. She likes to clap & sing, play ball( throwing the ball back & forth), and stand. She is such a fast crawler. She is really into everything. She is such a sweet girl! She loves to give big hugs & kisses. She even hugs Alex every chance she gets. Bree is the light of our lives. She makes everything fun. Last weekend we had a girls day w/ our friends from G.S. and we took the girls to the park after lunch. Bree & Finlee loved to swing. This was Bree's first time and she would kick her legs & laugh when she wanted to go faster. Sooo cute! They also liked to slide. It was so much fun exploring the park w/ these sweet lil girls. Bree is also a big eater. She wants anything we are eating. The other night at Jason's Deli Kerry was having brocolli & cheese soup and Bree wanted some so he was sharing it w/ her. I got some ice cream and figured she would love it, so I gave her a bite. She got so mad she pushed the spoon away, started crying and then spit it out. She was expecting more soup and didn't want the ice cream. Kerry gave her soup and she stopped crying and was happy again. I think we may have found one of her favorite things! Atleast for right now anyway. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful family life. I hope everyone feels the true love and joy that a family can bring. God Bless!

Happiest 9 Months of Our Lives

We can hardly believe that Aubree is now 9 months old. She has been such a pleasure to be around. Her presence has brought so much joy to our home. She is babbling all of the time now. She has 3 main understandable words, Momma, Daddy & Alex. Her procedure with the ear tubes went great! Thank you for all of your prayers. The tubes have been doing their job. They have been draining a lot lately. The poor baby was sent home on Monday from daycare with 101.5 temp. Bebe and Gigi came to stay with her for the remainder of my work week. Dr. Holt said she probably had a viral infection after blood work and testing her for RSV. Both came back negative. The chest x-ray showed that she still has bronchiolitis, so we are continuing to give her breathing treatments. She does pretty well with them for the most part. She has her second boo-boo on her noggin from trying to pull up on things. I am sure there will be many more to come. She loves to play with her toys. Friday night we were in the den watching tv and Bree emptied her toy basket completely. She pulled every toy in there out. It was so funny. She usually just plays with whatever we put out for her, but this time she crawled over to the basket and emptied it. She is a woman who know what she wants! Although, she is also very indecisive like her mother. If Kerry and I are sitting on opposite sides of the room she will crawl towards one of us half way and then turn and go back towards the other and then repeat the process until we go get her or something else catches her attention. She is so fun to watch. She really is entertaining! Once again, we are blessed by her presence in our lives. She is such a sweet girl!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We had a very blessed Christmas. I was off from Dec. 20th thru Dec. 30th to spend time with Bree during her 1st Christmas and w' family. I enjoyed my time thoroughly! Thank you to everyone who so kindly gave to us this year. We appreciate the lovely gifts. Bree enjoyed all the people and lights and wrapping paper this year. She also got several really cool toys that she enjoys playing with. And also some adorable clothes that she loves. She is officially a crawler now. She goes all over the place. She is pulling up on everything too. We can't believe how quickly she has grown. She is still nursing but is also eating all kinds of baby food and cereal. She has a head full of golden blond(almost white) hair. And the bluest eyes ever! She is the happiest baby and is so loving and playful. I love it when she gives hugs and kisses. It is so precious! She weighed 16lbs 7oz. yesterday at the ENT doctors office. Which by the way, she still had an ear infection in her right ear. Therefore we have decided that since she has had ear infections for the past five months that we are going to put tubes in her ears. The procedure will be on this Friday, January 4, 2008. The procedure itself takes only about 5 min . Dr. Baeur will drill a whole, suction the fluid and put in antibiotic tubes. He assures us that she will instantly feel better. Please pray with us for Bree and those taking care of her during this time. We are anxious for Bree to be back to felling her best! We wish everyone a wonderful 2008!

Tis The season

As Christmas approaches I am filled with the joy and spirit of the season. Bree has been an awesome shopping partner and we have just about wrapped up our holiday shopping. Bree loves to ride in her stroller and I can already tell she is going to be a SHOPPER like her Momma. She loves to feel of everything we pass by. She experienced her first Christmas party last Sunday at the Miller Christmas in Alba, Tx. She was the center of attention in her red, plaid bubble suit trimmed with a black velvet collar and waistline bow. She enjoyed opening her first present, too. As soon as Mema handed it to her she reached for the shinny green bow. She ripped it off! Nona then helped her get started with the wrapping paper, but then she took control and tore into the present. It was a handheld light-up, musical phone. She enjoyed the first of many Christmas parties. She is still sitting and turning on her knees but she isn't ready to crawl forward yet. She will army crawl backwards on her tummy but hasn't started going forward...it will come when she is ready. Everyday is so much fun watching her explore the things in her world. She is so happy and has a smile that melts our hearts. She is a big babbler. Ooing and Gagaing all the time. I wish I knew what she was trying to say...No telling! She is really into the Christmas lights and loves all the pretty decorations. If only I could keep them out of her reach. We are having a blessed Christmas season. I wish that for everyone too!

So Much To Be Thankful For...

As we are celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday we can't help but to be reminded of how amazing God has been in our lives. He has blessed us in so many ways. Kerry and I were so fortunate to find each other at just the right times in our lives, when we were able to appreciate each other to the fullest. We have an amazing friendship and have made a wonderful family. Bree continues to brighten every day of our lives. We thank God for her! We are also blessed with very loving parents, careers that we love, a cozy home , health and much , much more. We are definitely very thankful for all the blessings bestowed upon us. Bree is 7 months old on Monday. She is really on the verge of crawling. She sits and rocks forward but hasn't taken off just yet. She is very curious about everything around her. She loves musical toys and of course toys that light up. However, she would prefer to play with other people to toys. She loves people. To her there is no such thing as a stranger...which could be a bad thing. Although I think of it as just being really friendly. She loves to touch faces and to pull hair and whiskers. She is also a pro at eating with a spoon. She enjoys it so much! She is such a happy girl! She really smiles from the inside out. I hope everyone is well...Happy Thanksgiving to all!