Found this idea today...

I hope to find this book locally soon so I can flip through it and see if I want to buy it for our family. Reviews I've read are favorable and I think it could be a great way to share my love of food, "cheesy" fun, and family all together!
If you've read or tried this book, let me know...
I will keep you posted if I try it out! Maybe if I don't love the book it will at least inspire me to come up with a few ideas of my own.
Friday Night Bites by Karen Berman

Baby E Update & Pics

Well it seems that Baby E doesn't get many posts on the blog. Poor Baby! KJ is just full of so much action and Baby E is just learning to move and groove so I haven't had much to post of him that I feel is super interesting to anyone but mommy. However, he is pretty stinkin cute and I feel you need to see this little man more often! Plus he is getting quite active these days.
Here is a slide show of our little guy, or not so little guy.
3-4 months old.

Soon to be 2!

Well our little sweetheart of a daughter is going to be 2 years old very soon. Her party is just around the corner and we are looking forward to celebrating 2 wonderful years of all things KJ! Those of you getting an invite to the party will notice the invitation says, "no presents needed" this is indeed true. The girl has plenty. However, a few of you have asked what she would enjoy so if you just want some ideas (Aunt Kim ;) ) here are a few...

iTunes Gift Card - so we can download music for her to listen to, she loves to dance and sing.

DVD's - Elmo's World or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse are her two favorite shows currently. Please no Dora videos - she yells everything 3 times (Dora that is) and it drives us crazy!

Books - She LOVES books! Here are some favorites that we get from the Library but that we do not currently own.

Blocks - any kind really, but here are a couple of ideas I found pictures of online.Bath toys - I would love for her to have some foam ABC's for the bath tub, I found these (sassy brand) at Target Online, they also come with 123's which I thought was pretty great.
Paints - washable of course. Or any Crayola Color Wonder paper, coloring pages, etc. She has Color Wonder markers that only color on the special paper - AWESOME!
So there ya have it. Ideas for the little munchkin, if you want them.

A Girl's Best Friend...

KJ had an adventure today. I've been wanting to get her ears pierced for over a year now. After talking to several moms, her pediatrician, and the accessory store, today we took the plunge.
She was SO brave. She did cry but only for about 30 seconds, seriously I promise she cried less than a minute and the she plopped her lollypop back in her mouth and asked to see her pretty.
Thanks to Chelsea for meeting us there and taking pictures.
And diamonds may be a girls best friend, but for now KJ will have to settle for CZ to be a good enough friend. ;)
Here is a slide show of the adventure:

On this day...

August 9th, 2006 my husband proposed to me.
(awwww...)
Although we had been talking about marriage, we were dating long distance and I really did not expect to see him on that particular day. He caught me by surprise, with the help of some of my friends.

When I lived in Manhattan I often spent my Quiet Times with God at the top of the Eastside of Old Stadium. It's quiet there, I can think there, it is just one of my favorite places in my favorite town and I love it.
In early August 2005, I was having one of those quiet moments with God, in Old Stadium at the top of the Eastside.
Having been single for a good 10 years, and by single I mean...no dates...none...desert people - desert. And due to some other events in my life at the time that particular day I was really in the dumps. I was crying out to God about it all, I mean crying hard, crying so hard I took my socks off to use as tissue (that part still cracks me up, but I had somewhere to be soon and couldn't go with snot on my shirt, so socks it was. lol)

Anyway, fast forward a year, I went through lots of healing, learning, maturing,etc. and was in a relationship with a great guy (whom I had dated 10 years previous when we were in college, but that's another story). He had no idea about my crying talk with God in Old Stadium, I had never told him. He did know that I loved to spend time with God there.
It was August 9th, 2007 and 107 degrees outside (I'm serious, it was HOT that day), a friend of mine tells me she needs me to come to Old Stadium to help her with her car, when I get there she says she wants to show me something, I think she is NUTS, it is 107 outside, but I agree to look.
I start guessing what she wants me to see, I must have been overheated because I ask funny things like, "Oh my goodness, is Bill Snyder in there?" (I was serious - am I obsessed with Kstate football & Bill or what?!) she told me now and to just come.

As I came around the corner I saw nothing, and then I looked up and sitting at the top of the Westside of Old Stadium was Adam. I was SO surprised. I screamed, "SHUT UP!" ;) Nice and lady like.
He stood up and I walked up to him.
He got down on one knee, said some wonderful things and asked me to be his wife.

I enthusiastically said, "YES!"

We got married 3months later and this has been an amazing 4 years.
Thank you God for hearing my cries, the gift of a man who loves You, loves me, and loves family and others.
I'm so happy, even when I have complaints about him (because He's not perfect, I know I'm not either), I know he is the Best and I love him tons!!!

Baby E finds his thumb...

Here is a little slide show of our growing boy. He has found his thumb and he has also found it's a great way to snuggle up and relax your way to sleep, so our good sleeper has become a GREAT sleeper over the past few weeks. He is cutting his first tooth, slobber is everywhere and he finds his finger to be entertaining.
At 4 months he weighs 15.7 lbs, is 25 3/4 inches long and LOVES to smile and laugh (although he becomes serious when I try to catch his smile on camera, little stinker!)