Weekend in a flash!

Early Friday morning we got the news that my sweet Aunt Brenda had passed away! She was only 60 years old and her death was very sudden. Even though we were relieved that she was safe in the arms of Jesus, our hearts ached knowing we will not see her for a while! After some quick planning, Dad booked our flights and we headed out Sunday morning! Dad, Mom, Delanie, and I left my house at 6:00 a.m. Sunday morning to catch our 8:30 flight...........I was so nervous because it was Delanie's first flight! Much to our dismay, Delanie was so good on the plane.........DVD players are an amazing invention! She had lots of Cheerios and watched 2 Baby Einstein movies.....her favorite! Luckily, it was a short flight.......1 hour and 25 minutes!!
Being in Dallas for literally 30 hours was quite a whirl wind, but Delanie was a trooper!! I am so thankful that we were able to be there a see my family!
We were able to take an early flight back and landed in KC around 6:00 last night! Other than the fact that Delanie threw up on the flight home, the weekend was great! We think she was hot and the pressure in her ears got to her, because once she got sick she was fine.........thank you Jesus!!
My poor Mom was holding her and I caught it in my hands........all as we were landing.....are you following me?
Pray for my family in Texas, they have a long road of grieving ahead..........

ps, I do not have any pictures because I did not take the camera, I could not carry one more thing!!

Sick girl!

Big girl holding her mask all by herself!!

Delanie woke up on Saturday with a cold and by the end of the day she had a full blown nasty cough and a low fever! Luckily the fever was short lived, but as you know her coughs last a long time! We are giving breathing treatments every 4 hours and she is still taking her meds....so pray that this one is short lived!

What to do with your last season swim diapers.......and randoms!

Wear it as a hat!! Delanie found her old swim diapers and insisted that we put it on her head! She wore it around for quite a while!
We start training to clean early around here......ha, ha! Just kidding, but she does love to vacuum
Delanie loves playing with my Velcro rollers, she also tries to put them in Cody's hair....
Poor Cody, there is no rest for the weary!! He is so good with D, she rolls all over him!!

Please keep praying for precious baby Harper, you can click the Praying for Harper link on my blog........

Please Pray

The great thing about this blog world is that it unifies people who would probably have never "met" otherwise. Please go to my friend, Valerie's friend's page--Kelly's Korner--and pray for her family. She gave birth to baby girl, Harper, yesterday and you can read from her blog that the baby is very sick! This was a full term baby and a big one at that........they are believers and are clinging to the Lord. Please pray..........

Rock Band Birthday......

Tired girl having her milk!!!
A drummer in the making!
Me.....on the bass!
Another drummer.............girl band!!
We've got a singer!
Cheesy Smile!!
Speaking of good drummers, Casey rocked the house!!
What a band.....Matt on the vocals, Lee on the drums, and Josh playing lead guitar!!
Anyone looking for a drummer, he is amazing.............at least I think so:)
The life of the party.......little D!
Thursday evening we celebrated our friend Lee's Birthday with an amazing dinner......cooked by his wife Casey and then a night of playing Rock Band! We had so much fun!!!

A few pics from Louisiana

Delanie giving Great Aunt Becky a hug.......
Delanie and Great Uncle Billy Wayne.......Savannah is in the back, she is expecting a baby in March!
Levi Wayne Martin......isn't he cute!!!
Let me check your ears Levi.....look at me!
Delanie was up before I could snap the pic........to the right is Susanne, Levi's Mommy!

While in Louisiana, we got to meet the newest member of my Mom's side of the family, baby Levi.....and managed to take a few pics after we were all over the stomach flu. He is so cute and a really good baby! Delanie was not sure she liked her Mommy holding another baby, but she did keep calling him baby!
We attempted to sit them on this little bench to take their picture and as you can see we were not so successful! Oh well, it was a try!

Silly Smile and a new favorite food!

Looks great huh........
Josh went to the store to get a few items, which included some Gerber favorites of D's. He came home with a new one.....Spaghetti O's and meat sauce....with some veggies. She loved it, can you tell??
For the past month or so, when we ask Delanie to smile this is the face she gives.......it is the cutest thing! I think she is a ham......not sure where she gets that from..Hee Hee:)

Christmas with the Kessler side of the family-- at our house!

A new Leap Frog, guitar shaped wagon with instruments.....a proud music teacher Mommy!
The kids sang "Rudolph" for everyone, they did a great job!!!
Are all of these for me??
Delanie was sneaking through the presents!! Yes she is wearing a tutu!!!

Christmas at Nana and Papaw's

Showing our Elmo to Nana
Delanie is pretty tired.....
New clothes.....
More presents............
Nana helping Mase and Delanie open their many presents....
Mason and Delanie opening presents!! Mason did a great job of telling the Christmas story all by himself...........he was so big...........and it was quite entertaining!

Nana and Papaw gave Delanie a DVD player for the car, boy did that come in handy on our trip! We would not have made it without her movies!!!
Thanks Nana and Papaw......

Christmas at Papa Jerry's and Grandma Di Di's!

The girls playing in the play room...
Delanie and Grandma Di Di!!
Payton opening lots of presents!!!
Cade playing with the new pinball machine......
Thanks Uncle Nate for helping..........
Aunt Jenny putting Delanie's stroller together.........
Cody watching proudly....
another big box.......
A new elephant to ride........she loves it!
Delanie's new favorite toy.....Elmo Live...
I got a new chair! It even has my name on it.......

Christmas morning......

Look what Santa brought me.....a new little people house!
I love carrying the boxes..............it is so much fun!
I love the paper!