The Kenley Family

Monday, February 25, 2008

Playing in our car

Sam got this car for Christmas from Aunt Jodie and Uncle Bear and he LOVES it!!! He takes all sorts of trips around the house.

He takes it very seriously, carefully opening and closing the door each time he get in it.

Of course, yesterday I caught him trying to climb out the back window of the car onto the window seal in our play room to get a better look at Lady Bird playing in the backyard. Did you follow all that??? I think people 5 states away could hear me yelling "NOOOOOOO" as I raced across the room to stop him! :)

Home and Garden Show 2008

The Home and Garden Show was this past weekend. I don't usually talk about The Ground Crew, but I am super proud of this business that Scott had worked at...each year I see it growing.

The show is the kick off for our season. Scott's cousin and partner, Zach, comes over and they showcase their services for the public.

The booth this year was A.W.E.S.O.M.E! Definately the best one at the show. Here's some pictures in case you didn't get a chance to come out and see it.

We can touch the floor!

Oh happy day! Oh happy day!

We can touch to floor...on our trike!

We're on the move...

No stopping us now!

Making bread

The Kenley Family has been busy lately...so busy that we haven't had time to update our blog. So hang in there, dear readers, because it's going to be a fast ride of updates with lots of pictures (just for you Sister!).

We have been becoming more and more aware of being organic - you know...eating organic foods, removing the chemical cleaners in our home. That's right, you guessed it...The Kenley's are going green...ok, not green. We are more like aquamarine! :)

We attempted this week to make our own bread. It was a fun experience.

And I got to use my favorite kitchen gadget...my kitchen aid mixer. I LOVE this machine.

See how happy I am?

This was our dough pre-baking. It was beautiful. I have a tear just thinking about it.

And the final product. It was definately....edible. Not really good...but edible. We have some work to do on the final result, but it's a start! :)

Spaghetti de' Sam

Tonight was our first experience with spaghetti at dinner time. Sam LOVED it! The only hitch was that he didn't want to eat it with his baby spoon...he wanted Momma's spoon. I guess it worked better.

We didn't even try for a bib. We ate in our diaper only. And that may have been the best decision we made.

Waiting patiently for our food...

Diving in...we had already had to trade in our "baby" spoon!

"All done!"

Now straight to the bath!

We had to wash off dinner...we had a fun time playing in the water.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Sam's 1st Birthday Party

Today was Sam's 1st Birthday party and he had a blast. We'll celebrate later this month with our families, but today was with our College Station buddies. Sam ate his little cake and ended up with a pretty crazy sugar high and a very upset tummy! But, other than that the day was a great. Right now might be his favorite part. He's playing with his bouquet of balloons right now (don't worry...they are nowhere near his mouth and he's under close supervision). :)

Here's some pictures from our day.

Sam is at the door waiting on his friends to arrive. Or maybe he's just secretly hoping that Lady Bird made the guest list. Now that would have been an awesome birthday party guest for him!

Here's our table. We had some 1st birthday party decorations and balloons.

Our birthday cookie...

Opening presents with a little help from Daddy...

Now to the cake. It was at this moment that I saw Scott in Sam. As soon as the group started singing and Sam realized it was about him he started acting very shy. I don't see us doing surprise parties in the future!