A Covington Photo Shoot

I decided to try and take some nice photos of the kids this morning. I am really proud of myself considering I am no pro by any means. Tyler's shots weren't the best but that's because he wasn't in a picture taking mood but Kaleigh's make me proud.

Tyler was very nervous about me putting him in a tree and telling him to hold on. He was only like 3 feet off the ground but you would have thought he was 20 ft. up or something.

This one is probably my favorite, he forgot I was taking pictures and just playing. I love candid shots like this.

I was bribing him with a sucker at this point. Cute smile though.

Miss Photogenic !!

The picture is much prettier in the lighter colors I think. I lowered the saturation of the pinks and softened it up some.

LSU BASEBALL

We were able to get 4 tickets to the game last night so of course we were stoked about it. Just to see the new stadium and get to experience it with Tyler was great. We parked pretty far away and had to walk to train tracks, which anyone who knows Tyler knows that trains are THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to him, so we walks the tracks to the stadium. We even brought a rock home as a souvenir. The stadium is magnificent. I can't even describe how awesome it was. We got a couple of posters after the game so we'll definitely be putting those in the play room for Tyler. We also saw Skip Bertman and Tyler was pretty amazed by that. Go figure my son knows who Skip is...

Tyler got a little antsy so we visited the kiddie area for a little play session.

Philip & Tyler walking down the train tracks.

Me and My Gang

The park is our new favorite thing to do. We can go and expel alot of energy and have a great time at the same time. Tyler is getting braver with each trip. This time he actually climbed the bars to get to the slide. The Deschamps crew along with Autumn, who is finally back from her mission, went to the park in Livingston.
Kalli and Tyler going down the slide together.
Tyler being brave and climbing up to the slide.

Kaiden was MIA --- he was playing on the 'big' playground so I didn't get many pictures of him or Kaleigh.

We had a great time !!

A Lazy Day at the House

Tyler was in the mood to play with the camera so I took a few snaps of the kids and daddy.

Back to Work

Well, Monday came and went faster than the wind blows.. I am back at work and my maternity leave is officially over. I missed my kids so much yesterday and I wish we were big ballers so I wouldn't have to work. Overall work wasn't bad. The guys welcomed me back with flowers and cake knowing that I would be gloomy from missing the kids. I had forgotten about all the wonderful conversation that the guys have, lets see, they talked about quality toilet paper and the importance of it and we talked about breast feeding, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I went home for lunch to visit with Kaleigh so atleast I had that to break the day up. It wasn't so bad and I only shed a few tears while at work, now before I got to work I was a basket case. I didn't even bother putting on my make-up because I knew it was a lost cause.

ONE BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND !!

I am so excited to say that this weekend was wonderful !! The weather was gorgeous and I just couldn't let this weekend come and go without going to the park. We actually went to the park Friday and Saturday.
Saturday we met Valerie, Ethan, Avery, Sonia, Sandra, Bailey, Patsy and Conner @ Mr. Gatti's for lunch. The pizza was good but we just had to have more together time so we decided to go the park in Livingston. We picked up Greg in route so we added one more to our crewe. This is the best park I've been too because there was NO SAND !! The ground was covered in mulch which was so much easier to play in. Livingston is an extremely small community so the park wasn't nearly as crowded as the Denham Springs parks.

Kaleigh bug loved the park. She enjoyed all the new sounds and views. She can't wait to go back.

I'm not sure what she was doing with her hand but it made for a cute picture. By the way, isn't she the prettiest thing??

Bailey and Avery having fun. The contraption Avery is sitting on spins around and OMG, it makes me sick just watching them spin around really fast. NAUSEA !!

Tyler overcame his fear of slides. Friday Ethan and Avery put some sort of spell over him and since then he is a child with no fear. Whatever they did sure worked.

Philip loves to swing with Tyler. It's their special thing, I don't even try to get Tyler to swing with me anymore b/c apparently I don't swing as high as his daddy. WHATEVER !!!
Conner had the best little time. Just a side story, somehow or another the adults got on the topic of whether or not we could still do cartwheels so Valerie did one, really well by the way, and next thing you know all the kids began trying to do them. Tyler would just run really fast and then jump onto his butt and say he did it and Conner would run around with his arms out like he was an airplane and say he was doing a cartwheel. It was hysterical. Bailey was doing backwards flipflops and then there was poor little Avery struggling just to do a forward tumble. It was really cute.

Conner just a swinging.

Another thing that would make you dizzier than all get out. Ethan & Greg loved it though.

To end our day out with the family we noticed two girls riding horses around the park so we went by and asked them if the kids could pet them. The kids pet them and fed them grass. They were so excited. Now Tyler wants a horse and every cow or horse we see in a pasture he thinks we should stop and go pet them.

SUNDAY :

Today we enjoyed the outdoors yet again but at home and it involved a lawnmower, rakes and pruning bushes. Not nearly as fun but just being out in this wonderful weather just really made me feel so much better. I can't wait for Spring. That darn groundhog, he just had to see his shadow! At least for the time being the weather is nice and warm. We cut the grass and I pruned most of our crape myrtles and other random trees around the property. After the cutting we began raking all the little limbs that fell during the snow storm and put them into nice little piles and then burned them. I love the smell of fires. The fires then gave me the idea of cooking hamburgers on the grill and maybe having some SMORES afterwards. We called Sonia & she came over for dinner. Sonia nor Tyler had ever had S'MORES so me and Philip prepared them for them and I think they both enjoyed them, I know me and Philip did. I think we both had two or three a piece. I'll have to burn those extra calories at the gym tomorrow.

One more piece of my thoughts, this week is my last week of maternity leave. I report back to work on the 16th. I am really sad about it all so please keep me in your prayers, the baby blues are already pretty storng. I don't want to leave my babies :( It seems like only yesterday that Tyler was born and next month he is going to be 3 years old.

The Almost 30 Club

I turned 29 on Jan. 31st. I celebrated with a cookie cake and refused to let anyone take any pictures of me. Here's my cake.

Monkey Bizz

Robin invited us to come to Monkey Bizz for a playdate. We had a really good time and the kids love it.

Somebody turned 50 !!!

My dad recently turned the big 5 o. My step-mom and I gave my dad a party at Champps. I think my dad really enjoyed himself and I know it was nice to finally meet his work and hunting buddies. You hear so much about someone that you feel as if you already know them so it was nice to place a face with the name. I think he was pleased with everything.

Dad and Lori


Dad and us kids. Left to right: Ryan, Adam, me, dad and JJ

Dad's work buddies. The man in the left front was a super nice man. I can't spell or pronounce his name but he was so nice.

Hunting buddies

Family - left to right: Nanny(dads mom), Crissy(neice), Jeff(bro-in-law), Angela(sister) and Pawpaw(dads dad).

VROOM VROOM

Tyler did not want to wear his ear muffs or ear plugs so we had to cover his ears for him during the really loud parts.






Can you tell that Tyler really liked the trucks ??



Tyler and Philip were able to take a quick ride in 'Savage'. I was too scared to join them so instead I filmed the event. Tyler didn't want the ride to end and asked to ride it over and over again. Had it not cost $7 a piece to ride the thing we would have let him ride it a few more times.

I have a couple more video's to add but they wouldn't download correctly. I'll try again later.