Kensi's First Christmas!

Helping mom decorate the tree!  She's going to be an ornament nut just like her mom, I'm sure

Just finished wrapping Aunt Kelli's presents.  She's a gifted wrapper just like her mom (and Grandpa)

And even better at unwrapping.  We decided to open all of her gifts from GiGi, Grandpa and Great Grandpa Bumpa and Grandma before we left for Cincy.

Really excited about the bow!

I'd say Kensi did pretty well on her first night of opening gifts!

This is a video of her opening her first doll!  She loves it and get very excited every time she sees it.

We made it up to Cincinnati on the Sunday before Christmas and were able to spend some good time with the Wagner/Marks clan.

 

 On Monday, we went to the train exhibit at the Cincinnati museum.  Kensi isn't really interested in trains yet and just wanted to be put down so she could crawl around most of the time.

This ends up with her drooling all over my head

We were able to join the Wagner's for their church's first Christmas Eve service.  It was neat to see how their church has grown over the past few years. 

The whole crew on Christmas Eve

Kensi just hangin' with her cousins, they're pretty obsessed with her.  Can't wait until they can all run around together, it's not too far off!

All the girls got stuffed animals from Grandma's trip to the Tampa zoo when she was on her OneSight Mission trip with Luxottica in Tampa.

Family picture on Christmas Eve - We tried to get Zoey in it, but failed.

Christmas morning!

Just hanging with Grandpa helping open gifts.  Claire is very helpful at distributing and then helped open presents too.

Posing on her new car from Grandma and Grandpa Marks!  

I love this thing, she'll sit on it for a long time and it gives us a breather from chasing her all over the house.

Thinks she's pretty funny shaking up dads coke! 

Playing with Grandma on her car

Grandpa and Kensi before Christmas dinner

Haha

Kensi got hold of an orange and took a bite. Caught this priceless reaction.

(Diane puts an orange in the bottom of every stocking - a family tradition, that I am sure we will carry on to Kensi and her sibling(s)

Speaking of laughing at her trying new foods... I got a kick out of this and she kept coming back for more.

  We had a great time in Cincy and Kensi's first Christmas was a huge success!

Our 9 month Old Baby!

On December 22nd, Kensi turned 9 months.  We were driving to Ohio for Christmas that day, so we may have taken her pictures a few days late eek
She is a spunky 9 month old, who definitely has a little personality already.  She is a very energetic and talkative little girl.  She definitely wants your attention, but is happy just playing on her own too.  Kyle thinks she is going to play sports (which of course I do too) because she throws her toys/balls all the time and they are actually decent throws. She is pulling herself up on everything and is so close to stepping with her walker. Kensi is eating table food now - we started her with cheerios and puffs and she is now eating turkey, cheese, ham, peas, bread, bananas and bits of pretty much anything we eat.  She was even  able to enjoy Gramma Marks' Christmas dinner with the rest of us! Her 9 month check up is January 7th.  We are looking forward to seeing where she falls on the charts :)

Super smiley Kensi girl

9 months old!

Stone Mountain with Grandma Lucy

Grandma Lucy is in town for Christmas so we had a family day at 'Snow' Mountain. We went to the top of Stone Mountain, had a nice lunch and went on a train ride around the mountain. There was a fun little Christmas Village and tons of Christmas lights. We had a great time with Grandma Lucy and the Hayes/Dupree gang!

My little love bug and me! 

Riding the gondola to the top

A very windy day on the mountain

Riding the train with Grandma Lucy

We had a great time and are so blessed to have Grandma Lucy in our lives. She is truly a wonderful lady and we are so grateful for her!

The whole group at Stone Mountatin

Thanksgiving with Her Cousins!!

On Friday morning of Thanksgiving week, we drove to Cincinnati to visit with my family. This was the first time Kensi had been to Cincinnati so it was a special time for us to introduce her to out 'home.'  It was pretty cold, but we missed the snow.  I'm hoping next time we visit Kensi can experience her first snowfall! Kensi also went to Skyline for her first time too! She loves it already ;)

 Meme, Poppop, my Aunt Becky and my mom's cousin Reid were already in Cincinnati for the Thanksgiving when we arrived. It was really nice to be able to see them all and allow Kensi to play with her great grandparents.  

That Friday evening, Kyle and I went to his 10 year high school reunion.  Yeah, Kyle is old! It was fun to see some old friends and catch up. It worked out perfectly because Grandma and Becky were able to watch Kensi while we met up with some friends for dinner prior to the reunion.  

The Wagner's came over right before we were about to leave for the reunion to see us.  Claire and Caitlin (well mainly Claire) was so excited to see her cousin Kensi! Kyle and I were excited to see our neices and spend time with them.  Kyle hadn't seen them since Kensi was born and it's been since August that I have seen them. They have grown up so much - Claire is a little girl and not a baby/toddler anymore and Caitlin is a toddler and not a baby anymore! Time just flies by! 

On Saturday we dressed the girls up in matching outfits to take some pictures.  They looked so cute in their yellow chevron dresses.  Claire's favorite color is yellow, so I had to get them yellow dresses. :) 

Daddy and his baby girl

Yes, that is Kensi's favorite, crazy Uncle Hans

Sus came to visit for a bit!! 

Kensi with her sweet Poppop

Awwwww kisses from her Cousins!

LOVE!

We were trying to get the girls to smile and Megan was waving her hands in the air and Caitlin copied! 

SO CUTE!

I had to share this gem - Cait sure loves her Grandpa!

We had to get a pic of the family! This was the first time all 9 of us were together!

Meme and Poppop with their three great granddaughters

4 Generations

On Sunday, after church, Amanda and David came to meet Kensi! We saw them Friday evening at the reunion, but of course Amanda wanted to meet little Kensi girl! Sunday evening, we went to the Festival of Lights at the Zoo.  It was a pretty mild winter evening and a perfect family outing.

Claire and I being silly

Meeting Mrs. Claus - Kensi wasn't too sure about her, but didn't cry at least

I may have gone a bit overboard with bundling her up - but she was just getting over her 6th ear infection and I couldn't take any chances!

Santa Clause with her cousins!!

Cailtin loved sitting with Santa, can't you tell :)

My wonderful little family

Gramma and Grandpa with their girls!

On the carousal with all three girls - as soon as we put Kensi on the zebra, she immediately put her mouth on the bar - awesome.  

The girls got new, matching pajama's from Gramma so of course we had to get a picture...or a few!

They are so stinking adorable!!!