Kaleigh Turns ONE !!

It's hard to believe that Kaleigh is already turning ONE !! It seems like just yesterday I found out that we were pregnant.
On Nov. 29th, our house, at 2:00 pm, we had our close family and friends over to celebrate Kaleigh's birthday.

I have to give a shout out to Laura, Philip's cousin. She has taken up sewing and she made this dress especially for Kaleigh's 1st Birthday. She did a great job !! I was really suprised when we got the dress, Laura put her name of the bloomers. THANKS LAURA !!

Tyler and his great grandparents on my dads side, Nanny & PawPaw

Me with two of my very best friends, Valerie & Kelly.

You girls mean so much to me. LOVE YA !!

Philip & my brother JJ.

My Kalli Monkey... I love this kid to pieces !!

Kaleigh & Great Aunt CC

Sandra being sweet and pushing Ashley.

Ethan, Avery, and Olivia <3>
Kaleigh's new ride

Tyler was so excited about his baby sister's birthday. He did great !! He never once was jealous of her and all the attention. I have been so blessed by these awesome kids.

JJ & my grandmother. She truly has my heart and I love and respect her more than anyone knows.

KK and my mom Lori

We attempted to get the entire gang together BUT Tyler was NOT in the mood... So, here ya go.

Left to right: Half of Tyler, Kaiden making a crazy face, Kalli, Livi, KK, Avery, Ashley, & Ethan.

Avery showing off her two front teeth... Wait, I guess I should say, showing off her 'lack of' front teeth... :P

Kaleigh's FIRST Birthday

Kaleigh's Birthday was Wednesday, Nov. 25th, the day before Thanksgiving. We asked our immediate family to come over and share come birthday cake with our little girl.
Dad, Lori, Ryan, Sonia, Jimmy, JJ, Suzanne, & Ashley joined us.

This is Kaleigh's mini Birthday Cake that I made and decorated myself. I was so impressed with my elementary skills.

Ashley, Ryan, & Tyler having a good ole time. Ryan pretended he wasn't but he was.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!

Yummy Cake

Kaleigh wasn't sure about all the mess & Ashley got a laugh out of it.

Our family

Isn't she sweet..

YUM YUM !!

Bubbi helping KK with her gifts.

Pretty paper

She was so excited when she opened all her gifts. Aunts & Uncles, and grandparents are the BEST !!

YEY !!

Philip picked up on an early Christmas present for Tyler and we decided to give it to him early.

What was left of her cake.... She really enjoyed it.

Excited about her new ride

SHE LOVED IT !! Sorry Suzanne for the crazy picture of you... :)

THE CORN MAZE

The Archers' invited Tyler & I to join them at the corn maze in Independence, LA. We had never been to this one.
Val brought this head light for Tyler... HE LOVED IT !!

Avery & Tyler - these two are such good buddies

In LOCK DOWN !!

Tyler worked up quite a sweat with these water pumps. I explained to him how I have these at work so he was very interested.. He loves my work.

Another outlaw... What's wrong with these Archer kids??

Putting his head light to good use

After the maze we took a break and the kids enjoyed a puppet show. Tyler & Avery REALLY got into the puppets. They didn't want to do anything else for some time.

OKAY !! So this may seem like a random picture to most...

BUT anyone who knows my cousin by marriage Dustin will understand.

Dustin is such a funny guy and he does things that will just crack you up.

Ethan reminds me of Dustin so much. We get to this maze and Ethan bust out this 'survival pack' JUST IN CASE we need it in an emergency. This was hilarious all in itself...

So, we take our break and he opens his 'survival pack' and he starts pulling out cans of Diet Coke, Capris Sun, Lunchables, FUDGE ROUNDS(Dustin), and I want to say a Fruit Roll-Up. He kindly shared with his MOM and only his mom... He ate his snack and said that he felt that he could go on now...... I was laughing and laughing and Ethan couldn't figure out WHY I was laughing so much... BTW, the maze took a whopping 30 minutes to get through....
OH, he also had an emergency flashlight and glow sticks...

Tyler & I at the corn gun... LOTS OF FUN !!

Now Ethan's turn

And Avery's...

After the corn shooter we went through a Haunted Maze out in THE WOODS !!! Avery, Ethan, and the other kids were scared to death and wouldn't go through it BUT TYLER was determined to see those FAKE scarey people. So, he went through it with me and he laughed at all the fake stuff. We got out and on our way to the front a man came out trying to scare Avery & Ethan with a chain saw. Well, the guy that had my boy laughing... brought my boy to tears.. It scared the living POOP out of him and he was mad at him. Once I calmed him down and told him that he wasn't coming after him, he was okay, but watching him run in fear and fall down was pretty awful... He's going to be traumatized forever I'm sure..

After all the events we stayed past closing and the owner gave the kids unlimited cow train rides... Seems like fun but after a while, you just want to go home, especially when you know you have quite the drive home...

Tyler says he's never had so much fun but next time that guy that came after him with the chain saw was gonna get beat up by his daddy.....

North Park

Ashley spent the night so we went to the park for some playtime.

Tyler being silly :P

Ashley & Kaleigh swinging

I think the swings were putting her to sleep.