Keagan Bath Time

    Keagan had her first real bath tonight.  She has hated her little spit baths except for when it came time for washing her little head full of hair under the faucet, she loved that part and would open her little mouth and eyes in awe.   Well I was curious what she would think of a real bath and to our delight she loved it, she was a bit fussy but the second I set her little body into the warm water she went quite and started chewing on her little thumb.  Her favorite part was of course washing her mop of hair, oh how she loves her little head rubbed and warm water poured over it, I cannot lie we love her and all that hair too : )!

Keagan's First Day Home

 Keagan's 1st day home

 Kabree and Keagan love each other so much

  Kabree helping fold laundry

Love these two more than anything

  We've been a bit busy and a bit tired as of late but we defiantly aren't lacking on love, snuggles and smiles.  Kabree is a great big sister and loves to hold Keagan, and even helps Mommy fold the laundry.  Keagan is already growing so fast and changing everyday.  I'm so grateful for my two beautiful little girls who I love more than anything in the world!

Kabree's 3rd Birthday

 A Beauty and The Beast play set

 Princess pjs

 Helping Dad make muffins

 Kabree was so excited to blow out her candles

    Our Little Miss Kabree turned 3 today!  We had a quite birthday, with just the four of us.  Kabree got to open her present from Dad and Mom and then she helped Daddy make blueberry muffins aka breakfast cupcakes as Kabree calls them.  Can you tell our child is obsessed with cupcakes : ).  She was pretty excited when she got to blow out candles finally!

    We cannot believe that 3 years ago today our lives changed forever!  Kabree has brought us more joy than we ever could have imagined possible.  We love how smart, cute, funny, full of personality, independent, sweet...(and the list goes on and on) she is.  We are so grateful for Spencer and Keri choosing us to be her parents.

    Here are a few of Kabree's/our favorite things:

Princesses - Belle is her favorite

Horses - Pal is still top dog with that one

Cupcakes - favorite dessert of all time

Suckers - favorite reward

Loves nightgowns, because they are princess pj's

Crafts - she cries if we don't do one everyday

Food - chicken, chicken nuggets, patties, grilled if it's chicken she loves it

She loves being a big sister and is very protective when Keagan cries

Loves her family

Gives the best hugs ever!

Is such a big girl and clears her own plate after dinner

Helps Mom fold towels

Loves bubble baths

Is super smart and can 

Loves being outside no matter the weather or temperature 

I'm sure you can tell we just love EVERYTHING about her!

Kabree's Birthday Party

Jessi, Zach and Kabree

 Kabree's pink horse cupcake party

 

 Justice and Kabree

 Enjoying cupcakes

 Opening gifts

 Kabree was so excited she had to stick her head in the bag

 Kabree got a Pal

 Kabree's birth family on Keri's side

Colton, Terri, Stephan, Patty, Jessi, Zach and Kabree

 

 Lynden enjoying her cupcake

 Mr. Wyatt

 Paisley, Megan and Skylar

 Caleb and Sandra

 Zach helping the kids on the merry-go-round

 Kabree, Libby, Katie and Ethan

Lynden and Kabree

Kabree had a grass fight with Grandpa Gary

    Saturday was a bit of a crazy day, we brought Keagan home at 11:00 am, enjoyed her for an hour and then started going like crazy on cupcakes.  Thank goodness my Mom took on the job of the making the cupcakes look like a horse, Wendy, Heather, Sally and I all frosted the pink ones.  Caleb and Sandra had to pick up the ice cream and bowls I completely spaced about until the last minute.  Thank goodness for families.  Even though it was a super crazy busy day it was still a great one.  Kabree was so excited to be at the park with all the other kids she had a hard time coming back to blow out candles.  Then when she did come over it was blowing too hard to have candles, which was one of the things she has been so excited about her birthday.  She ate lots of mini cupcakes, well licked lots of pink frosting off the mini cupcakes.  She got very spoiled by everyone and got lots of super fun things.  She got so excited over the one gift she stuck her head in the bag to see what was in the bottom.  I think Kabree's favorite part of the day was at the end of the party when her and Grandpa Gary had a grass fight, she thought that it was pretty funny until Aunt Heather threw grass at her and then she was ticked : ).  

    Spencer and Kabree moved out of state this past year so they were not able to make it this year but Keri's family still was able to make it.  We are so grateful for them and the amazing people they are.  Kabree is so lucky to be loved by so many people and even though she was super tired due to all of the craziness of the week I think she still had fun.

Welcome Home Keagan

 The sign Larin & Jessica made with the kids

 Kabree was so excited to have Keagan home

 Kabree loves helping with her sister

 Keagan with Aunt Heather

 Hanna holding Little Miss

Kira and Keagan

JoAnn, Keagan, Mattie and Makenna

    We got to bring Keagan home Saturday.  Placement was good, sad, exciting and hard as it always is in adoption.  We were over the moon excited to be taking home our little girl but that meant H and J had to say good bye.  We are so grateful for them and the opportunity they have given us to have Keagan as our daughter.

    We were welcomed home with a cute banner that Larin, Jessica and their kids made for us, both of our Mom's, Kira, Lynden, Heather and her kids, Wendy, Ethan, Whitney and Jeff.  We are so happy to have us all home and together as a family.

Grandpa's and Grandma's

 Grandma Sally and Grandpa Gary

 Grandpa Vance and Grandma JoAnn

    We were very blessed to get to have our parents come up to the hospital and see our little Cupcake.  H was a sweetheart and gave us 2 hours with Keagan so we could introduce her to 4 very special people.  They couldn't get over her dark, thick hair.  She is already so loved by everyone we couldn't be happier!

Sisters

Is that my baby?

 Lets get a closer look

 Kabree just stared at Keagan

 Look at her little feet

    Since we told Kabree about Keagan she has been pretty excited for a baby sister.  When people ask her what her babies name is she says "Keagan, I call her cupcake".  She really does refer to her baby sister as her baby cupcake :).  She was super excited when Whitney brought her up to the hospital to meet her sister.  She was in awe, she smiled and laughed "it's my sister, my baby Keagan".  While she held her she just stared in awe at her and we couldn't get her to look away from Keagan even for a picture : ).  She already loves Keagan as much as we do and cannot wait until "we bring our baby cupcake home".