Joshua Graduates

Joshua graduated from Tech School on May 12th here at Keesler AFB. He was going to have to do some on-the-job training, but the reserve doesn't have the funding for it right now, so they are sending him home. Now we just come back for one weekend a month and 2 weeks in the summer. We are packing up this week and will move back this next weekend. Below is a picture of Joshua's short ceremony that they do for them. There are always classes graduating, so that is why it's not a huge thing. They did let me come and watch, so that was nice.Here is Joshua and the class that he graduated with.
Last week, we took Kylee to the beach a couple of days and took her 9mo pictures. It gets too expensive taking her to a portrait studio every 3 months! Anyway, here are some of them. The wind was blowing quite a bit the first day, so her hair was going everywhere!
She has been into clapping normal now lately. She thinks everything is exciting and claps!She likes the new bucket and pail that we got her, but she would rather get the sand out of it than put it in. She likes to take everything apart (she must take after Joshua in that!!)

First Step!!!

Kylee Paige is 9 months old today. Wow! She has grown so much. She took her first step on Sunday night. She actually took two steps, but at different times. She hasn't done it since, but I know that time is coming sooner now (that's kinda cool, but scary!!).
Joshua is graduating from Tech School on Friday!!!!! That means that he can live with us again. He had to help with the Special Olympics this weekend that take place on Keesler Air Force Base. It's not bad, except for that he doesn't get to leave base until Sunday after their (Joshua & his roommate) Special Olympian leaves. Oh well, he is almost done living on base anyway. After that, he will probably have some "on the job training" that he will have to do before we go back to Louisiana.
These pictures are from this week when I was with a friend of mine and her twin daughters. We took them and Kylee to a park on the Navy base where she lives. Kylee got to play in the sand for the first time. She didn't quite know what to think of it, and wasn't extremely excited that it wouldn't come off of her hands, but thankfully kept her fingers out of her mouth. That would have been interesting. She had a good time.
She also tried watermelon today and didn't know at first what to think of the texture, but soon wanted more. I knew she would take after me with loving watermelon. She didn't have a chance with how much I ate when I was pregnant with her last summer!!

Trip to Minnesota

Kylee and I just got back from a trip to Minnesota to see my sister and her family, my parents, and Joshua's parents (they got to come up for a day). We had a great time (except for missing Joshua lots) and Kylee got very spoiled, which she loved!! Now she has to get back to reality of having to play by herself on the floor and not getting held all the time. :-)
Here are some pictures of our trip.
Aunt Amy and Kylee
Nana & Kylee reading a book they got her
Papa & KyleeAunt Chris (my mom's sister) and Kylee
Grandma Betty and Kylee on the trampoline. She had so much fun on it.
Kylee and Aunt Christy
Kylee and Grandpa Wayne
Kylee, Kalai, Malia, & DJ (3 of her cousins) at Como Zoo. Kylee liked the monkeys the best of all because they were moving more than the tigers, lions, etc.We got to see some friends while we were there. We decided to take a sisters picture since there were two sisters from each family there (just to clarify that we aren't all in the same family, although that would be fun!!!!) Abbi & Anna, Betsy & Jessica, me and Christy. It was fun. We also were able to see Abbi and my cousin Ken's new little girl Megan who was 3 days old. :-)
Here is a picture of Christy with her.Part of the beach is open now here in Biloxi, so I am going to try and take Kylee there some this week and get some pictures of her in the sand, etc. It should be fun and it will be a new experience for her.

Classic Pictures of Kylee!!!!

Here are a few more pictures of Kylee that I took on Wednesday. I caught some classic expressions that just cracked me up. Thought you might enjoy them, too.

Nice Day Outside

I caught Kylee in one of her happy moments today. She has been having a rough time lately with her gums hurting because of teething.
It was a gorgeous day outside, so she sat in the doorway of our apparment and watched the workers putting shingles on the next building over. She is very nosey, so she has been enjoying all the construction that has been going on in our aparment complex because of damage done by Hurricane Katrina.
Well, we are going to pick up Josh this evening from the Base (Keesler Air Force Base) and then have dinner before Church.

Hello!

Well, I decided to start our own web blog site so that maybe all of you will be able to see pictures of Kylee more often. I haven't been that great at it lately. Hopefully I will be able to write once a week or so and put some new pictures up of Joshua, Kylee, & me (but mostly of Kylee probably!!!). So just check out our site once in awhile and see what we have been up to.