Bad Kona!

How cute is she?  100% lab.  And everyone knows what labs are prone to do.  CHEW.  DESTRUCT.  

Kona.  Where do I begin?  She has always been a chewer, destructor if you will.  We always told ourselves, it is the puppy stages.....well, almost 5 years later and she is worse than ever.  I think a lot of it is jealousy.  It happens a lot when I get home from work and give most of my attention to Keira.  I don't think Kona likes that....She goes and finds something of Keira's to chew up.  She is nuts!  I feel bad for Keira - she loves her to death even though she eats all of her stuff!

As you can see, dolls are her specialty!  Most dolls are missing one foot and one arm.  Keira still likes to play with them and won't let me throw them away. (is that normal?)  She is sure to point out that Kona ate the missing body part!

I even caught her in the act while taking the doll picture!!

Some things will never change.

On to my cutie pie!  Here she is stylin...

I can't believe this is already the last week of January 2009.  Time flies.  I can't hardly wait for February 1st!!!!

HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!!!

I am having some people over for Super Bowl Sunday, if anyone has some good game day recipes you would like to share, please let me know!  

Yes We Did!

What an amazing week!  First off, the STEELERS won the AFC Championship on Sunday and are headed to the Super Bowl in Tampa!!  It was an awesome game and I am so excited for next Sunday!!  Yes We Did.  Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 was the Inauguration of Barack Obama!  I streamed it live over my computer @ work and it was just AWESOME!  It was amazing to see all  of those people in one place, for one reason.  I know I should have tried to go.  I will regret it.  I am glad I was able to witness it live.....his speech once again, I think was stellar.  I am looking forward to the changes ahead!  

I woke up Thursday morning as I normally do and fire up the laptop and check the news, blogs, etc.  I noticed where my friend Sarah had updated her blog.  I went to school w/Sarah and we were roommates in college.  We grew apart.  The last few years we reconnected through email and facebook.  She has a son named Caleb.  Caleb was born with major medical issues.  They have been in and out of hospitals for the last 2 1/2 years.  He got a transplant last year @ Duke because he was born w/out an immune system.  Wednesday night they got a call from their doctor that the latest test they did - he responded to!  Which is GREAT news!  I would really like anyone that reads this to please check out their blog, Caleb Paul Hlebiczki, and read about the amazing journey of this little boy and his family!!

So I have had one GOOD week!  Let's hope it continues...

She has been obsessed w/my black high heels this week...

She slept w/them!

Keira's Big Girl Room!

We finally got her room put together. She seems to like it. The vanity is her favorite area! And of course the shoe basket! I think she will be ready for a bigger bed anytime now. Sometimes she gets up several times and tries to put off going to bed...for example she comes to the door and wants juice....I get her juice. 2 minutes later she's back....I pooped...off to the bathroom we go....she didn't poop nor did she have to go to the bathroom....she is just delaying the inevitable.....tuck her back in.....yada.yada.yada.

So - Other than that it is going great! haha!

Signing off for now!

GO STEELERS!

I am a huge Steelers fan!  I have been going to Steeler games for a long time.  Unfortunately, I have not been to a game since August 2006 when I was pregnant w/Keira.  Hopefully she can experience her first game next year!  Here are some pics from Steeler games of the past.

Future Steeler Fan

Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go!!!!

I whipped up some goodies for the game!  I made a recipe from my friend Lee called "southern caviar."  Kind of like a black bean salsa.  Eat w/tortillas.  It was really yummy!  I also made some wings!  You can't watch football without wings!  I got the recipe from one of my fave websites - Confessions of a Pioneer Woman.  You must bookmark that!  She Rocks!

Happy New Year!!

We spent New Year's @ a friend's house. We had a blast! The kids played Wii and ran around and we just hung out and listened to music. It was a great night!! 

I hope everyone has a wonderful 2009!

 

The Countdown to 2009!

Christmas 2008

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Keira's 2nd Birthday Bash!!

WOW!  I am now the proud parent of a 2 year old toddler!  We celebrated on her birthday (12/11) and had a blast!  I can't believe that time is going so fast these days!  You always hear everyone say that and think yeah whatever....but it is true!!  I have many pics to share from the party but first wanted to flashback to her 1st birthday party last year!  What a difference a year makes!!!  Enjoy!

Fast forward 1 year!

(note the bruise - she fell the night before - never fails!)

Remember - She LOVES shoes!  She carried these Princess shoes around all night!!

We did have one party foul!  While Keira was opening presents and all the attention was on her - our black lab Kona went over to the tree and took a glass ornament off and carried it over right beside Keira and tried to eat it!!!  It was crazy!  She gets really jealous - which means Keira loses toys!  Kona also likes doll arms and legs! ha!

After bathtime and pjs she was still messing w/the shoes!

She even let Darin try them on!

  

My friend KB is quite the craftmaker!  I got her this personalized pillow from her website Kokoleo.  Check out the site - her stuff is AWESOME!!  We used to play hockey together way back when and recently connected on Facebook.  You can find her blog on my blog list to the right (a patchwork world).

She got a ton of other great stuff.  Pajamas, clothes, sweaters, winter coat, Tinkerbell, Madagascar, SHOES, baby dolls and books!  

What is Santa supposed to bring??  

Unfortunately, we didn't get a family pic because Darin's eyes were really irritated. BAD.  He went to the doc the next morning and has double pink eye...eewwwwwww....They gave him this ointment and he is doing better now!!  I just hope no one that was @ the party gets it!!  

My Big Girl!

A week or so ago we started having trouble getting Keira to sleep in the crib.  We decided it was time to make it into the toddler bed.  Darin got it all fixed up and ready.  She is really doing well! She does get up several times and comes out to see what we are doing and then she will go back in her room.  She watches Shrek, Cody (Surf's Up) and her new fave, ELF.  And falls asleep.

Saturday afternoon she asked me to put Shrek on in her room.  I put it on and she sat in her elmo chair and I came back out in the living room.  It got pretty quiet so I went back and checked on her and this is what I found

Pretty great!!!  She is so awesome!  

Here is me back in the day - see a resemblance????

Leave a comment and tell me what you think!!

December is here....

I can't believe it is already December.  My little girl will be 2 years old on Thursday!  Time has gone by so fast!  We are just now getting over colds that started when we got back from Thanksgiving.   Last week was a bit rough but we are all feeling a lot better now!  It started to snow saturday morning so we decided to go get the tree.  It was freezing too!  I think we picked a pretty good one....Keira had fun too.

They always look bigger when you get them inside!!!  We usually get the live tree w/the root ball so we can replant it outside but they are so small.  I begged to get a regular one so it would be bigger - and I won!!!   :)

My Aunt Lynn sent us this wreath from her gig Acadia Wreath Company. Beautiful Maine balsam. Smells GREAT!  Check out the site - she has other cool stuff such as kissing balls, advent calenders, etc.

Keira putting her ornaments on.  She got a Grinch ornament and a Disney Princess one new this year and she loves taking them on and off...on and off...

This is what it looked like outside while we were decorating!

Happy Holidays!