Shake Your Groove Thing

Kenadee recently had her dance recital. I was so proud of her, she did such a good job. I have a feeling there will be many more years of this!!

Getting ready to leave.

With her cousins

She had so much fun! Next year Morgan will be up there too. Should be interesting...

Tenlee Marie Thomas

She is FINALLY here! Well, it has already been 2 weeks. (I am a little slow) She was born May 26th at 3:59 pm, weighed 6lbs 9oz and 19 inches long. She is perfect and we couldn't have asked for things to go better. So many people warned me of the dreaded 3rd child and how much harder it is. I guess I am lucky, but it hasn't been too bad yet. Maybe because my other 2 are angels (most of the time). They are the biggest helpers. Ask me again in a couple months...things might be different!

(more pics and info to come)

Happy Birthday!

Kenadee recently had a birthday. She turned 5!! I can't believe I seriously have a 5 year old. It makes me feel so old. She is getting so big. I thought I would list a few things she is up to and will be doing in the next few months:

takes dance and LOVES it

recently sang a song for a talent show(she has an awesome voice!!)

learning to read

finishing up preschool

waiting patiently to be another big sister

getting excited to start kindergarten (I'm not though)

loves riding her new bike outside (if the weather would just be warm!)

Here are a few pictures from her party at the building. She had a blast!

Happy Birthday Kenadee! I love you so much!!

Vegas Baby!!

We decided to take a little family vacation before the baby comes. Luckily my dad was able to trade in his time share so we were able to stay in the AWESOME Tahiti Village in Vegas. It is a huge resort with an amazing pool. Let me just say that if you love to swim or just lay out and catch some sun, this is the place to go. It is far enough from the strip that we didn't even have to cover the girls eyes too many times. We did go there one day to explore the M&M Factory. The girls thought that was pretty cool. They wanted to get some cool colored M&M's but Chet refused to pay $14 per pound. What a joke!! After that we decided to stop and eat at the Rainforest Cafe. The girls LOVED it. They sat and admired all the animals. Other than that, we swam the entire time. There was an awesome lazy river that was huge. Kenadee could have spent all day in the pool, and Morgan wanted to play in the sand the entire time. Needless to say, we had a blast and our 5 days there went by way too fast!!

At the Rainforest Cafe

Outside the Resort



1/4 of the pool (it was HUGE)

The Lazy River

Playing in the sand
Part of the pool was made like a beach.

Going under the waterfall at the Lazy River

We had so much fun and hope to make it a yearly tradition to go down there. Next time I will enjoy it more because I won't be pregnant!! I still had fun, but lets be honest...how pretty can you feel in a swimming suit when you're 8 months pregnant!!

Shiner

So those of you that know Morgan, you would know how gracefully clumsy she is. Ok most of the time it isn't very graceful. She struggles running, jumping, skipping, and just plain old walking. The thing that kills me is that most of the time she runs into things while walking just because she is looking the other way. She forgets she is supposed to watch where she is going. And then there are the times she is just clumsy. Last night we were enjoying the nice weather on our back porch. I was cutting Chet's hair (which turned out great as usual) and the girls were playing. Morgan was WALKING and tripped on the crack in the cement. She fell face first, her head hitting the first step on the porch. This is the result of her carelessness....

Poor thing! The picture doesn't do it justice. Her eyelid is black and blue as well as underneath her eye. And then you have the huge bump that sticks out at least 1/4 inch from her face. Hopefully she learns to watch where she is going or else we are going to have some broken bones before the summer is over!

Easter...And Other Stuff

I had to start off by sharing a few pictures from Morgan's first and last day at dance...at least for a few more months! I decided to take her and try it out after many weeks of begging when dropping Kenadee off to her class. She loves to dance, so I thought Why Not! She looks cute and innocent in these pictures, but I was chasing her around the other times and couldn't catch her in action. Let's just say she is not shy at all. She enjoyed her time there mingling (or bugging...whatever you wanna call it) with the other kids in the class. She followed the teacher around trying to be her little "helper" instead of staying on her sticker like she is supposed to. All the other mom's there laughed and commented on how cute she is. I was irratated! Needless to say, I decided we will wait till she is 3 and give it a try again. Maybe she can follow the rules then.....YA RIGHT!! ha ha

As for Easter, it was so much fun! The kids loved all 4 easter egg hunts they got to participate in. The Easter Bunny did make it to our house, and the girls couldn't have been more happy. All I ask is that next year the Easter Bunny shop maybe a week or two early so we get don't get robbed on the variety of candy! There were no Peeps, no chocolate covered egss, no Reece's peanut butter cup eggs; all the good stuff was taken! The girls didn't care though. They loved it anyways.

At the Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma's, there was an egg on the trampoline. Kenadee and Skyler raced to get to it first. Skyler wasn't too happy when Ken beat him!

We colored eggs with the girls and they loved every second of it.

What a Guy!

Chet had to go to Florida for work for a few days this last week. I was so jealous he got to go to the warm weather! He golfed at a famous golf course (don't remember the name) and loved every second of it. He stayed near Disney World, so I think to make us jealous he sent us this picture. When I showed it to Kenadee she said, "Mom when do I get to go there?" We still haven't taken the kids there or Disney Land. Maybe one day we'll make it there! When Chet got home, the girls were so excited. Kenadee is a daddy's girl and missed him so much. He surprised them with a huge lollipop that was about as big as Morgan. He also got Kenadee her very own purse. She already rounded up a bunch of change to put in it. She told us that she has a lot of money now so if we need to borrow any, that would be fine with her. What a girl! Morgan got a princess backpack which she loves so much. She puts all of her favorite treasures in it and pretends she is going to school. They are so lucky to have such an awesome dad that spoils them so much!!

She just had some orange drink and had a pretty sweet mustache!

Showing off what they got!


Morgs has the BIGGEST smile!

Thanks dad, you're the BEST!!