My Christmas Tour 2009

I have done a terrible job of updating my blog but I do a great job of reading everyone elses! I love The Nesting Place blog & love getting decorating ideas online! The Nester , Thrifty Decor Chick, Hooked on Houses & The Inspired Room are hosting a Christmas Tour of Homes & I decided that I would get my act together & participate! Better late than never! So...Welcome to our home...with a toddler it has been some crazy decorating (and undecorating) but it has been fun!

Welcome to Our Home!

Wreaths on the front porch!

I made this framed chalkboard that hangs on our porch. I bought a $6 framed picture from Goodwill, painted the frame, added a board painted with chalkboard paint & I LOVE it!

Our Mantel

The stockings are hung...

Some end table decor

Looking into the dining room

The mirror "dolled up" in our dining room

My Southern Living Nativity & tree- Love them!

Looking into our living room



Our Tree

See what I mean about undecorating???

This Southern Living Metal Stocking is hanging on our back door into the kitchen. If you are wondering...yes I am a Southern Living consultant & it is mainly so I can afford my own habit! I love all of these things!
This huricane is filled with colored balls & put on a tray as the centerpiece on our dining table.

I found this little ceramic tree when we were working in Massachusetts & this guy was giving away everything in this old house he bought. He was clearing it out to remodel! I think I dragged my poor husband there about 8 times! I got the gold mirror in the above picture there too...among many other things! Ha! This tree reminds me of one we had when I was growing up!

Oh- got this little santa there too and he sings & dances & our son is in Love with it! He dances too when santa starts! So cute!

This is some decor on our side table in the dining room. I made this frame by mod podging over a $1 Goodwill frame & then adding some scapbook decor!

Another Southern Living item that I LOVE! I never could figure out how to organize & display all our Christmas cards until I got this! These are just some cute gold sparkly tress that I have by my kitchen sink.
A little Christmas message & some red & green M & Ms! Yum!

Our sweet Advent calendar that my mom gave Caden as an early Christmas present!

My church all decorated! I love lighting this candle at night & remembering

The Reason for the Season!

I hope that you enjoyed my tour & that you & your family has a

very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

Getting the word out

We are happy to announce that we are starting the process to adopt another baby! Caden is about to turn 17 months & it seems like the time has flown by! He has been such a joy to our lives & God blessed us so much with his little life! He brings smiles & laughter to our home everyday! We really want him to grow up with siblings & to get to experience being a "big brother" someday soon! We met his birth mom through some of our good friends & past neighbors in McKinney, TX & we had such a great experience! We arranged a private adoption, were in the delivery room when he was born & we have an ongoing open adoption with his birth family. We have learned that you never know who God may use to connect people. God puts different people in our lives for different reasons. We are sending this e-mail out to first ask that you keep us in your prayers as we start this next journey. We also ask that you send this information on to anyone that you know that could potentially connect us with a birth mom.
http://sotoadoptionjourney.blogspot.com
our e-mail: klw3287@aol.com
If you hear of any potential situations, please pass on our information. We have set up a web site to pass on to potential birth moms to share a little bit about our family & our hopes for a future child. Please pass this on or post it on your web sites, blogs, or status pages to help us get the word out! Thank you in advance! We will keep you updated! This year we are praying for another adoption miracle & we thank you for your help! We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas & a happy New Year!

Love, Kenya, David & Caden

Our visit to the Dallas Arboretum!

Last weekend Caden & I went with my parents for a quick Dallas trip & before heading back, we stopped at the Dallas Arboretum. They are celebrating Autumn at the Arboretum: The Great Pumpkin Festival right now & it is awesome! We loved seeing all of the neat fall displays & we got some great pictures! Caden loved seeing all of the pumpkins & thought the little pumpkins were balls & loved picking them up & throwing them.

Caden with Gran & Papa!

Mommy & Caden!!

Posing in the cool pumpkin house!




One of the very best things about the day was that Jade's aunt brought her to meet us there & we got to spend some time catching up! Caden hugged & hugged on her & they both enjoyed seeing each other & exploring the pumpkins together!

Our sweet Jade- we miss you!

We had so much fun & can't wait to go back again soon!!!

Caden Turned One!

We celebrated Caden's first birthday with a cowboy party & had so much fun! Here is a slideshow:

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Long Overdue Post

I can not believe it has been so long since I posted. I am not doing too good at the whole blogging thing! So so much has happened lately & I have been so busy that I have not taken the time. Jade went back to live in Texas in July & we are sad to see her go but don't really have the say so & so we are trusting God to protect her, we celebrated Caden's first birthday on July 25th

& then left for a wonderful vacation in Destin, Fl the last week of July We were only back home for a week when my precious Mammaw went to Heaven. It was such a sad time but she was tired & so ready to go. I will really miss her!

Caden started Mother's Day out this week & we are all trying to adjust to all the many changes in our lives all at once. I guess one thing to say is that life seems to have definitely slowed down now. I will miss my grandmother so much but I know she is happy & healed in Heaven now & that makes me smile. I will do another post all aout vacation & the 1st birthday party soon! Hope everyone has a happy Labor day weekend!!

Weekend Recap

Mirror Mirror on the wall...

Whose the cutest baby of all???

Caden loves looking at himself in the mirror!

Here he was getting ready for the pool in his swimsuit.

This weekend was Caden's very first time in the swimmimg pool and I wasn't sure what he would think...but of course he loved it!

He loved the froggy floaty we got him & splashed & played.

He wasn't quite as sure once I took him out of the floaty. He was holding on for dear life!

We went to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants this weekend- Superior Grill & had some yummy fajitas!

Caden & daddy!
Jade celebrated her 8th birthday this weekend & we threw her a gymnastics party at Acrosports. It was a lot of fun & Caden enjoyed getting in on the action as well!
He hung on to the bars even after David let go! This kid has got some muscles!

Happy 8th Birthday!! Caden has so much fun crawling around this big gym & then he decided to stand by himself for the VERY FIRST TIME!! Yay!! He balanced by holding this little yellow ball!

My parents were at the party & were there to see him stand!

My mom was so excited!