PINK

Continuing with my pink theme - from the pink birthday cake and pink book in my last post to THIS!!!!  Friday night was the Power of Pink Gymnastics meet with Alabama vs Kentucky!!!!  The daddies sat thsi one out and Ashley and I took some of our favorite little girls to the meet - Oh! and Wilson too - on one condition - HE HAD TO WEAR PINK!!!!

 We all met at Ashley's house for pizza and dessert - it didn't take Wilson long to get in the 'pink' mood - here is playing with the PINK Barbie airplane!!!!

 As soon as the pizza and brownies and pink cookies and pink rice krispie treats were downed, we took all the children outside to get "pinkified"!!!!  Wilson and the adults included couldn't resist a little "pink" action - all in the name of Raising money for the Cure for Breast Cancer!!!!  (you should have heard the questions about Breast Cancer - HILARIOUS!!!)  At one point one of the girls asked me what "breasts" were and I said "it's your bosom's" and one of the other girls began to pat her on the bottom and said it's your BOTTOM!!!!!!!  Thinking I was refering to her bottom!!!!  So funny!!!!  After we cleared up what "Breasts" were, then the talk began about cancer - I can't tell you how grateful I am that none of them had any close connection with cancer - I can only hope and pray it stays that way for MANY years!!!

Here we ALL are with our pink getups!!!!

 The girls had to pick on Wilson a little bit - he was a good sport throughout it all!!!

 I even had my new pink kicks to wear!!!!

 The bus ride to the Coliseum!!!!

 Dancing for the Dance Cam - they got on the jumbotron SEVERAL times - i also got several texts and comments at church on Sunday about how "pretty" Wilson looked!!!  I just think, you have to be secure in your manhood to dress in pink from head to toe!!!!

 YMCA!!!!

 Wilson sharing his flip flop with Sarah Davis - go figure???

ROLL TIDE!!!!!

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Keeping Your Little Girl

A dear friend gave me this book this week and I finished reading it in a day and a half!  It's a MUST read if you have a little girl - especially between the ages of 5-12!!!!  Drop what you're doing and get it now!  We must do all we can to protect our little girls, keep them close and grow them up to be Women of God!!

 My dear, sweet Emma Claire - I'm so glad we're off to a great start - but I can do so much better!  I pray God will give me the grace and patience and wisdom and strength to do all I can to raise her up into the woman God wants and desires her to be!!!

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Snow Days,Warm Days!!

We have 5 adult birthdays in January and February.  The last week of January we celebrated the January birthdays at our house - Will's, Bud's (Will's dad) and Di Anna's (Will's mom) - it was one of those weekends in January where the temperature peaked up into the 70's and the children played outside from early morning until well after dark - one of those times I'm so thankful to be living in the Deep South!!!! 

My sister-in-law brought a strawberry cake from Edgar's bakery - YUM, YUM, YUM!!!!

 Superhero attire was out in full force, as it is EVERYDAY at our house!!!!

This little guy (Henderson) is going through a funny time - he's very negative much of the time, I tend to think he's just trying to "come into his own" while watching his brother and sister dominate.  I'm trying to be very patient with him and know that "this too shall pass", and shower him with love and giggles and affection.  One positive thing that's happened with him is that he told me, for the first time without being prompted, that he loves me!!!  Oh how that melted my heart, to hear it so innocently, "I wuv you".

Wilson is really growing up, I see him trying to imitate his father and grandfather and other men in his life and really trying to be a "big boy"!!!!  4 is a great age!!!!

 Emma Claire has enjoyed her new friendship with Marion - she moved into a house in our neighborhood in November and they hit it off instantly!!!!

So, we went from flip flops one day to THIS the next!!!!

It was a magical snowfall - fluffy and thick and glistening - it was a winter wonderland!!!!!

 They all enjoyed it, but the boys for only about 15 minutes - they just don't do cold very well!!!  It will be awhile before I attempt to take the boys snow skiing!!!!

 They just get COLD and cranky!!!!

Emma Claire LOVES the snow and could stay out all day long!!!!

My dear sweet husband gave me a wonderful gift for Valentine's Day - he had my blog printed out for me in a book!!!  What a surprise!!!  It's only the first 8 months, b/c that was the limit for the number of pictures, but it was such a treasure and to see the children's eyes light up when they realized it was all about them - priceless!!!!  I hope to get the rest of it printed one day!!!  It's given me new motivation to get  back to blogging regularly - that and purchasing more storage on google for pictures!!!!  If you don't hear from me for more than a week, start nagging - I've just gotten busy (or lazy)!!!!!

Now we are back to wearing flip flops and enjoying playing outside everyday and not taking naps, because who has time for naps when it's 70 degrees and sunny outside?????  Let's get out and play - it won't last forever!!!!

Back from a Bloggy Break!

well, i have inadvertently taken quite a break from blogging.  it wasn't on purpose, just life got in the way.  things have pretty busy around here - from hosting a new year's eve party at our house to being the rep for shrimp and grits kids to just trying to live the life God wants me to live - being a mom, wife, friend, daughter, sister, employee and everything else that falls under the "Kellie" umbrella!!!  life is good and i have so much to be thankful for!!!

wilson got to go on a date with his daddy to smackdown wrestling in birmingham earlier this month.  let me just tell you how happy i am that it's wilson there and not me - i went with will once when we were dating - and it was quite the adventure!!!!!  wilson ate.it.up - he wants to go back!  most people are quite surprised to know my husband is really into wrestling, he just doesn't seem the "type", but i find he and wilson back in the sitting room watching it and "performing" it all the time!!!!  wilson has become nearly obsessed with his daddy lately, which makes me a little sad, but it's in good time, he's 4 now and growing into a little man all his own!!!!

 apparently "wrestling go-ers" are not very good photgraphers!!!!

in other "wilson" news, we got in to see the endocrinologist 5 months early thanks to some cancelations due to the snow/ice storm that hit our area!  we talked to the 3 doctors at UAB and they did extensive lab work and an xray of his hand to determine his bone age.  all the lab work came back normal, which is good and his bone age came back delayed by 2 years.  now, no one seems to know exactly why this is, but the good news is that bones grow to age 16 and since wilson's bones are only 2 years old, he has 14 more years to grow instead of the normal 12 that most 4 years olds would have!!!  we go back in july to check on his growth.  if he has grown less than 3 cm, then he will undergo an intensive, invasive growth hormone study to determine if he is growth hormone deficient (this is an iv, 3 hour long procedure, so they only perform it if they have good reason to believe you might be deficient).  i learned that in the state of alabama, you cannot receive growth hormone unless you are deficient of the hormone.  (obviously i can see the reasons behind this law, but in wilson's case, i wish it were not true).  so we wait and try our hardest to get him to grow - whole milk, butter, peanut butter, instant breakfast shakes, anything he will eat to load up the calories!!!  Henderson is getting it all too - he's small, just not quite as small as his 'big' brother!!!  Wait and see, wait and see - it's hard!!!!

also, earlier this month we had the priviledge of celebrating the inauguration of our dear friend and sunday school teacher, Dr. Robert Bentley as Governor of Alabama.  his granddaughter, Caroline, and Emma Claire are dear friends and Will and I are also friends with all of his sons and their wives.  it was an amazing weekend and i am regretting my decision to not tote around my big camera to every event.  sometimes i just want to enjoy the moment instead of being a photographer (of which i am most certainly not).  so the only pictures i got were the ones taken at the pavlick's house while we were getting ready to go to the ball.  but from the prayer breakfast to the ceremony to the ball it was evident the type of christian man Gov. Bentley is and will continue to be as leader of our great state.  I am proud to call him my friend.

now for the few photos

 Emma Claire and Mary Alice all dressed up for the Ball - they had a marvelous time with their closest friends and it really made the night special for the Bentley family to have so many friends surrounding them!!!

 they can still be silly, even dressed up!!!

 mommies and daughters

 you never know what you might find when you hand your camera off to someone else:)

 somehow emma claire didn't make it in this one, maybe she's the one that chopped us off!!!

Happy January and soon to be February to you all - I'm ready for spring - how about you?