Kel's Tales: October 2010

Soup, Sex, and Kai

Nothing says Fall to me more than buying the ingredients and making Sante Fe soup! I always look forward to it once it starts to cool down. And by "cool down", I mean get below 75 degrees. Because that's soup and chili weather, right? :) Well, David, Kendra, Kai, Josh and Jill came to our house this weekend and so even though it was warmer than 75 degrees, I decided we would have Sante Fe soup with our SEC football games. And "Better Than Sex" cake. It is delicious! So, basically I gained 8 pounds this weekend. Alabama lost after 19 wins.... :( Maybe that's partly why I ate all weekend!

Alyssa finally got to meet her new cousin, Kai. To say she was excited would be a vast understatement. She LOVES babies. She is going to be a great mommy one day!

Kai was just precious! Kendra had her sporting a little mohawk- so cute! She's just tiny. It's so hard to remember my girls ever being this little! Well, Alyssa is the only one who ever was really this little. Anniston and Ayden Claire were huge babies. It was so fun to hold and love on a tiny, precious, new baby. But I'm glad she's my niece and I can hand her over to her mommy! ;)

Audrey Kai Hill

Flyin' High

Wes has his "dream job" of being a flight medic. He loves it and he's great at it and we are so proud of him. I don't do blood and broken bones and mangled bodies. Not. At. All. I'm the person who fainted when Anniston's earring got caught in her pillow one night while she was sleeping. I really don't do earrings. But, Wes does and he took this picture on top of UAB because he's just cool like that and I think he's really sexy standing on top of a hospital. He came very close to leaving this job this summer. In the end, he stayed and I'm glad that he did. We miss him like crazy when he's gone for 24 hours, but he is doing something he loves and it allows me to do what I love- be a stay at home mommy until Ayden Claire goes to school.

Can you believe he flew right over Jill's house? I want an aerial shot of our house! Jill and Josh's is the house in the cul de sac with the huge fenced in back yard. The fence Wes, Josh, David, Jay and my dad built. It looks great from that high in the sky, huh?

Ayden Claire is 3!

Our "baby" is 3! I think no matter how old she is, she will forever be the "baby" to all of us! She's just the best little person with the best little personality and I love, love, love this little girl. She talked about her "birfday potty" (because she speaks like a proper little British girl should) for oh, about 8 months straight. It had to be Dora and she had to invite Peeps, Ella and Sophie. Her besties. But her birthday also had to fall right after Alyssa's 10th and our anniversary so there is always tons of extra money and time. Right. Oh, and this year Kendra had her baby on Ayden Claire's birthday! So I was in Birmingham welcoming Miss Audrey Kai most of the day of Ayden Claire's actual birthday. But, between all the craziness that was the month of September, we decided to celebrate her birthday with our friends from our old neighborhood. Lisa was throwing Jason a surprise 40th and since everyone and their kids were going to be there, she said we could include AC. (Super big thank you, Lisa. And Jason, for sharing your party!) Ayden Claire, in all of her 3 years of infinite wisdom, totally thought every person there was there entirely for her "potty" and never suspected a thing. Like that I didn't actually do a very good job of planning her a great 3rd birthday bash like her sisters had.... Poor 3rd child, huh? You know what? She's our happiest and most well adjusted! I almost wish someone would have told me to take it easy with the parties when they were young and I could get away with cake and cheese puffs and several friends. It was perfect and she still talks about her Dora "potty". And, maybe if I start now, I can make the 4th birthday a real blowout!