Kenedy's 9th Birthday and Christmas

I can hardly believe that I had to write Kenedy's 9th in the title.  I mean can she really be 9?  It just does not seem possible!  This year she decided to have the Creature Teacher come to her and bring some of her animals.  Kenedy got to pick 8 animals for her to bring.  She would tell about each one, Kenedy got to hold each one and everyone else could pet with 2 fingers if they wanted to.  At the end you could take your picture with one animal..  The favorite of everyone was the Chin Chilla (not sure if thats how you spell it)  It was incredible soft.  Here are a few pictures of Kenedy, Blake and cousins Madeline, Harrison, and Jacob all holding him.

They all had a great time.  Christmas was wonderful this year.  I love when we get to spend time with everyone.  Santa was generous this year and brough Kenedy a lap top and Blake a DS.  I can honestly say that they are both enjoying the gifts and use them quite frequently. 

here they are Christmas morning

Aunt Re was also in town for Christmas, we especially like it when she gets to be here with us.

We headed to Ryan's Parents Christmas day and of course the kids had a blast playing with all their cousins there.  I'm not even sure we saw very much of them because they entertained each other the entire time.  Here are the 3 girls together opening their towels from Aunt Doris.  I'm sure the boys were outside in the cold playing football during this picture.

We did manage to round up everyone for a family photo.

Love that! 

Well now that Christmas break is over we are all in full swing again.  Kenedy has started learning her dance compitition routine's.  Her 1st compitition is in March.  She decided this year to not do her Solo but instead do a duet with her friend Constance.  They have not learned the whole thing yet but what they have learned is precious.  Her team will be competing in 2 Jazz dances, Ballet, and Clogging.  Then she will also be her duet.  I have no idea how she keeps all of those steps straight in her head.  She is also apart of her school's UIL team.  She is on the Music Memory team and took 2nd place at their first meet.  I realize that she is mine but honestly she truely amazes me. 

Blake is all signed up for baseball.  He is very excited and can not wait to find out what team he is on and what his mascot is.  This boy blows me away with his knowledge of mascots. He can tell you what the mascot is of every team we played in football this year.  He also knows the only two teams we lost too (I still have to ask Ryan who we lost to)  Today we were eating at a local pizza place after church.  One of the football players walked in and Blake goes look dad it's a football player he is number 11 right.  How does he remember that stuff?  This past week Carthage had it's Championship celebration (Congrats to my husband and all the Bulldogs for their 3rd state win in a row)  Blake and Ryan went together (Kenedy and I were at dance) Blake was ecstatic to get football player's autographs and their player cards.  He was on cloud 9 when he got home!  I love how sweet he can be too, he was watching Kenedy dance the other day and when we got in the car he told her that she did a great job.  Melted my heart!

Ryan has on 3 weeks left of his Master's work and then he is finished.  YAY!  Will let everyone know about upcoming dance and baseball events.