This beautiful little princess is fixing to turn 2 years old! 

This past weekend we celebrated with a small party at our house.  We had previously had a larger party for her and my nephew, Joey. Since they are cousins and only 1 month a part it was fun to have them celebrate with all of our close friends at Jumpin Jungle.

But, back to this past weekend.  We had family and a few close friends over for pizza and cake.  Kylee is really into the Hello Kitty so that was our obvious theme.  

Kylee is a GIRLY GIRL in every definition of that term.  At 2 years old she loves to dress herself.  Sometimes changing a few times a day!  She likes wearing tutu's and lots of jewelry.  If we go out into public this beautiful girl always has a purse with her.  She is a true fashionista.  I have to admit even her outfit selections are way better than what I could pick out.  At a young age of 2 she also has a shoe addiction just like her Aunt T and Nanny and a purse addiction like her Aunt Katy.  

Kylee is just now starting to have her favorite "shows".  She usually does not care whats on tv, she just likes to get in our lap and cuddle.  Recently, though, she has discovered Frozen the movie.  And Super Why tv show.  Along with Elmo and that is about all she cares about.  She likes to play amd whatever her big brother, Luke, is doing, she wants to do.  

Kylee is a much pickier eater than Luke.  She mostly only likes yogurt, fruit and any kind of pasta.  Outside of that it can be a challenge to get her to eat.  

This precious princess is so funny.  I mean FUNNY.  She loves to make people laugh already.  She is silly and loves to smile.  Her giggle can make anyone stop and giggle just by hearing it.  She loves having dance parties in the living room floor.  She has little sayings that make us smile...like.."what'sssss that?" or "Daddy's girl Foreverrrr" or "mommy love kylee."  Something about those and the way she says them makes me smile :)

We prayed for this sweet girl every single day for 4 years.  Jesus heard those prayers and blessed up beyond measure with the perfect gift.  She completes our family in every way.  

Happy 2nd Birthday Kylee Grace

All about my KYLEE GRACE WHITE

Wow, I cannot believe I became "that mom" who slowly drifts off with the second child. Poor Kylee!  It's never too late to start tracking her progress.  

I mostly blog because I truly love to go back and remember the little things.  Kylee is so full of energy, laughter and smiles that I would never want to forget a single moment.

Currently, Ky is 20 months.  She is in full blown toddler stage.  She can do it "all by herself".  It's really fun and exhausting at the same time :)

Right now...all about Kylee Grace--

- She talks non stop all day.  Unless she gets around people she doesn't know, then a very shy Kylee comes out

- She has been a mommy's girl since day 1 but over the past few weeks she has quickly became a daddy's girl no doubt

-She loves music and would rather listen to music than watch t.v.

- She loves: Bananas, grapes, cheetos, and any pasta

- Her brother is her favorite person in the world.  She annoys him to death but he for the most part loves entertaining her and all of her shenanigans

- She loves animals! Especially our dogs

- Kylee is a biter and we are reallllly working on this awful habit :(

- She sleeps so good.  Seriously she spoils Justin and I because you can lay her in her bed at 7:30 and she'll sleep until 7:30 the next morning.  On the weekends she will sleep until around 8:15ish 

- Ky spends her day with one of our families close friends Stephanie.  She hangs with her buddy Sammy all day and they go to the library and park all the time.

- Kylee is such a happy little girl and she was an extremely happy baby but she does not like strangers or men other than her daddy, brother and grandpa's to touch her.  I never dealt with that from Luke, he would go to anyone at anytime, but Kylee is much more timid and I am okay with that.

- Kylee does NOT, I repeat does NOT like to travel in the car.  Oh my word....

- She is so GIRLY, my dream come true.  She loves sitting at her vanity and putting all on her jewelry.  She will almost never leave the house without her purse and at least 1 bracelet on. I love it!

-Little miss thang also has a huge shoe fetish.  She will go through 4 shoes a day and has gone to bed with her shoes on.  I pick battles worth fighting haha ;)

- She likes to sleep with a stuff animal at night.  Her faves are: Minnie Mouse, her pink scentsy piggy or her brown bear.

- She will stay outside on the trampoline for hours. Especially on the weekend.

- She loves to give kisses and hugs and we love getting her kisses and hugs

-Ky is a huge help around the house.  She loves helping with laundry and putting her clothes up and giving the puppies treats.

*We are so thankful for this beautiful blessing!

A beautiful Easter

 Our family Easter picture!

This year for Easter, we went to Dallas to celebrate with my side of our family.  I love Easter!  I love Christ, His story, Spring, candy, family, sunshine, so many things about this Easter holiday.  It was such a fun weekend.  We had a huge family lunch, colored eggs, then had a big hunt on my papa's land for the little cousins.  It was also the first time I was introducing Kylee to all of my family.  She slept most of the day but I still got to show her off ;) 

I also FINALLY got to meet my 2 month old nephew, Joey.  He is gorgeous and so so so sweet!!!  This was our first Easter without my grandma.  I can't believe its been almost 2 months since she passed away.  There were some tears and many laughs at Easter celebration thinking and talking about my grandma.  She had her first heavenly Easter celebration  I know it was beautiful for her.  I also know she was with us, her family, on Easter.  She was definitely in all of our hearts and on our minds.  We all miss her so much.  

I hope Spring is bringing sunshine into all of your lives!  What a beautiful time of the year!

Heart

These sleepy babies have my whole heart.  Them and their daddy! :)

Luke likes to hold his sister in the morning.  She's usually sleeping and he waddles into the living room.  Rubbing his eyes, messy bed head, and asks for his sister.  He likes to hold her while he watches his cartoons for 30 mins or so.  

I love this love.  I am so in love with these 2 blessings.  My heart is full.

A few newborn pics!

We took our lil girls newborn pics this week at Texas Tech. (of course!)  We did Luke's newborn pics there as well so it was only fitting.  It was a bit windy so we did a pretty fast session.  Baby girl slept most of the time but we were still really happy with the final outcome.  

Kylee Grace is an EASY baby.  She sleeps, eats, sleeps, eats....!  She is starting to smile and we are so in love with that little smile.  She had her 2 weeks check up yesterday and was: 6 lbs 14 oz and 20 1/4.  So she is growing and eating really well.  She is not a fan of the heel prick but who can blame her.  Justin has to hold her for that because I am not good at seeing her cry.  I wasn't with Luke either.  Any other kids I can handle it, not mine tho!  We have Kylee sleeping on the "Baby Wise" schedule and she is doing great.  She goes to sleep around 10:30 and wakes every 3 hrs to eat.  Then she falls right back asleep.  And she does this until 7:30am.  Around 8 she will fall asleep until almost 1pm.  Luke was not a sleeper at all, so we are enjoying this change in babies!  I have a hard time keeping her awake to feed her at nights.  She would love to sleep through it all, but she is at least feeding for about 20 minutes.  She stays awake mostly between the 4pm-6pm time.  She is awake, alert, happy and loves watching her brother be silly for her.  

Luke is doing SO GOOD.  We are so proud of how he has adjusted.  He loves helping with his sister and will do any and every thing we ask of him.  He has had moments of needing a little more extra "attention" but other than that every thing is going better than we could have ever even expected.  God heard our prayers and for that we are thankful.  Luke has had a few adventures of his own lately.  His Nana came picked him up and they spent the night in a hotel then had a morning shopping extravaganza at Target and lunch at McDonalds.  The next weekend, a couple of our friends came and took him to his most favorite place...Adrenaline City at BodyWorks.  And this week my sister has been in town and has spoiled him with trips to the mall, new toys, a movie date and a couple of park play times.  This has all been a HUGE blessing to Justin and I!

Me and Justin are doing really good.  I always fall in love with him all over again times a thousand throughout our 11 year journey together.  Seeing him be such an amazing dad adds to that.  I smile when I see him hold his daughter and promise her the world.  I love how in love he is when she smiles at him.  Me and Luke had a little mommy/son date day and I was beyond thankful that he has absolutely no reservations about cleaning the house and taking care of Kylee so Luke and I could enjoy a morning out of the house together.  I married the best man.  God knew what my heart was searching for.  How thankful I am!

I am so happy that breastfeeding is so good to me. (Lol)  2 weeks after birth I am back to my pre pregnancy jeans.  I am so ready for a good workout and am counting down days for the dr. release.  I need to tone up and feel the strength I like my body to be.  I am 16 lbs from my pre pregnancy weight.  I know I can reach that goal when I have a chance to get back to my running, kick boxing and weight lifting routine.  We took a good walk at the park this past weekend and I was so glad to be moving physically!  

Life is grande for us.  I hope it is for you, too!  Peace and Love

Tara

Kylee Grace

My beautiful baby girl made her entrance on February 19th at 4:58pm. She was 6 lbs 11 oz and a full head of dark hair with natural blonde streaks.  Just beautiful!

Her birth was a miracle, a beautiful, beautiful miracle.  12 hours of labor and only 1 push and she was here!  She cried for about 2 mins and since has been a very chill, relaxed, easy to please baby.  We are in love and soaking in every second of this amazing blessing! :)