Welcome to Our Blog!
This blog follows our families adventures; featuring Me (Kacie), my husband Adam, our crazy son, Caden, and our little girl due to arrive this October. My goal is to share as many stories and photos of our little family as I can. I’ve found that as Caden gets older I have no shortage of material. Please check back often, and leave comments!!! 
I’d love to hear back from all of you so I don’t feel like I’m sending these posts off into a black hole
The Lake House
Baha and Grandma Holly have a lake house in Horsehoe Bay on lake LBJ. We have been up there twice this year so far. I went to post the pics from Easter when I realized that I forgot to post from the time before when we were up there for Thanksgiving weekend. So today you get both Caden LOVES the lake house. It really is a little boys dream with all kinds of fun things that go and unlimited attention from grandparents and aunts and uncles! Lately Caden has his own imaginary lake house where he keeps his planes, trains, motorcycle and boat
In browsing through our personal photos I’ve realized that 99% of our pictures are portraits of the kids. We take next to no photos of anyone else or of the activity going on. We have got to get better at getting snap shots! I’ll add it to my resolutions for this year. Anyway, here you go…
We have all been surprised by Caden’s patience with fishing!
Driving the boat with Baha
Uncle Sean gave him a ride on his plane!
Planes put me to sleep too
He’s a little fish!
He got a ride down the street in Baha’s race car which I think was so loud idling it scared him a little but he wouldn’t admit it 
Now on to the Easter trip. There was a petting zoo up at the club and Caden LOVED it! I thought we weren’t going to get him to ever leave. I just felt bad for the poor animals being subjected to so many crazy kids. Caden was actually surprisingly gentle!
Ready, set, GO!
I was worried Allie would take the chick home in her purse
Caden carried this chicken around for at least 15 minutes trying to help him find his mommy. He even recruited help from other kids
Sweet Kennedy lounging by the pool
She LOVES being outside
Bluebonnets!
We spent Easter weekend up in Horseshoe Bay north of Austin at my Dad’s lakehouse. It was a really fun weekend (pics coming soon). While we were there we took some pics of the kids in the bluebonnets near their house. I don’t think Adam quite gets the obsession with bluebonnet pics but I was very persuasive. I can remember doing this as a kid and being very cautious not to touch the bluebonnets so I didn’t go the jail
We had a rocky start when Caden sat on the only cactus in sight. He started yelling “there’s a stick in my butt mom” which I’m ashamed to say I couldn’t help but laugh at. Overall I’m really happy with the way they turned out. Kennedy is sitting so well on her own now that getting a decent photo of the kids together is finally possible. And I can never have to many pictures of my sweeties together! They are growing up soo fast!!!
When I saw this pic I couldn’t believe how long Kennedy is!
I think he was being a monster in the field…
Caden’s cheese face
Kennedy may have eaten a few bluebonnets
Spring Break on the Water
Adam here! Here’s a quick post from our weekend hanging out with our best friends over spring break!
Captain Clint
Caden takes the wheel
Not a bad family portrait
The Shuttlesworths
Kennedy is Six Months!
Time is just flying by! I can’t believe my sweet pea is 6 months already! She has changed so much this month. At the beginning of the month she learned to sit and now a few weeks later she is a sitting pro. When she starts to lose her balance she quickly grabs her feet until she stabilizes which I of course think is brilliant She is also just starting to scoot. A few days ago I she scooted over ten feet to look through the stair railing. She is assuming crawling position up on all fours easily now so I’d be suprised if she isnt crawling well by the end of this month. This would put her crawling even earlier than her brother did. Oh boy!!!
Moving is very important to Kennedy. She throws enormous fits and you would be sure something terrible is wrong with her and then you set her down on the ground with toys or put her in her walker and she is instantly grinning at you and blowing bubbles. Little stinker! She LOVES her walker and is incredibly fast. Our house is big and has so little furniture that she can get up some serious speed on the wood downstairs. She is super independent. She will wander off in to other rooms to explore. If someone comes in the door she will run towards them from whatever room she is in. She also enjoys chasing/terrorizing her brother. Of course she has no ill intent she just wants to touch him and maybe use him as a teether It cracks me up that Caden gets so upset over Kennedy “getting him” and touching him. I keep telling him to climb on the couch or go up the stairs but he doesnt. He just sits in the floor with Kennedy running into him whining. I think he secretly likes the attention
Kennedy still has a sweet temperament and freely gives huge grins and giggles. She was sick her whole 6th month with a cold that turned into ears, another cold, unresolved ear infection that required a second round of anitbiotics, a virus with a really high fever, and then thrush again. Between the two kids I have been to the pediatrician 18 times in 2012 already! Considering she was sick she is really a good sport. She is no longer sleeping through the night and hasn’t since she was 4 months. We have had so many sicknesses I’m afraid that she isn’t going to any time soon 
She is starting it swallow some baby food. She is an absolute expert at spitting it out. Right now she will tolerate carrots, squash, sweet potatoes and green beans. I’m hoping that soon she will really get the hang of eating.
At her 6 month check up she was 27 1/4″ tall (88%) and weighed 17lbs 11oz (74%). She is too tall now for most of her 9 month clothes and some of her 6-12 month. She really is growing like a weed! The goal is to double or triple your birth weight by a year. She has almost tripled at 6 months! Other than normal kid sickness she is a hearty healthy little girl.
The goal was to swallow as little food as possible…
She’s just so sweet!
I love her pointy little tongue
I love this one of the kids!
My baby doll 
Everything goes in the mouth, including brother!
In natural state.
The Easter Story According to Caden
We were driving in the car today when Caden started telling me the story of Easter. Here is how it went…
“Jesus died on a cross. He got boo boos on his fingers. He was born in a barn with two cows. His mom was Mary. He was a baby then, but now he grew up. Then he was walking on the street when he saw a boat and a big fish. It was a pirate ship. The fish ate him. GULP. But he was okay. He told the storm to calm and the waves stopped. Jesus was wrapped up in a tomb (hand motions wrapping up his hand). Then he was risen.”
So maybe we have a few Bible stories mixed in there but the overall idea is pretty good I think
Our trips to the zoo
Caden LOVES the zoo. He knows the names of all the animals and the sounds they make. He often asks me if we can go to the zoo today. We have been to the zoo 4 times already this year, which is impressive since he was sick for 3 weeks. I figure we should get as many trips in as we can before the 100 degree weather gets here. I kept meaning to blog after each trip but I haven’t so they are getting combined into one big post.
KK came with us on our first trip. Adam shot a wedding in Mexico so she came over and spent the night with me and the kids and then we went to the zoo the next day. It was a gorgeous day and we had a ton of fun. She is riding the Merry Go Round with Caden. That thing makes me nauseous
This is his new cheesy smile. He looks so much like pictures of Adam as a kid!!!
No trip is complete with out getting your picture taken as a gorilla
A ride on the train around Hermann Park
On this trip Daddy met us which was super fun. Adam had to go in for a meeting on his day off, so the kids and I headed into town also. Looking back through the pictures it is obvious Adam was manning the camera because he isn’t in any of the shots. Sad…
We always bring our lunch and often times some of Caden’s zoo animals jump in his lunch box so they can go with us 
Caden is obsessed with feeding the giraffes, and who wouldn’t be! It bothers me that it costs $5 for three pieces of lettuce, but we have a membership that has long since paid for itself so we almost always do it. We have a frequent giraffe feeding card. I kid you not This past trip Caden brought a dollar from his piggy bank to feed the giraffe. He gladly handed over his money but then was upset later when he didn’t get it back. Life lessons…
Just last week we went with Julie (Adam’s cousin) and her two little boys, Aaron and Austin. Aaron and Caden are the same age and Austin is just 6 months older than Kennedy. The boys were super cute and man did they wear themselves out. Caden was sound asleep before we even made it onto the freeway!
I bought a used double stroller not really expecting to ever use it. Man am I glad I did! Caden loves to ride, which is odd since at a year he started refusing to ride in his stroller. Kennedy is now old enough to sit in the stroller like a big girl which she loves.
My big girl sitting up in the stroller with her dolly
My very big boy!
Caden and Aaron
They walked around the zoo holding hands when they weren’t running like crazy people or hugging and pushing each other over
No trip is complete without Caden jumping off of something!
Or playing the drums on our way to feed the “raffs”
I love these two of Austin and Kennedy. This happened totally spontaneously. Austin started touching her and looking at her and she was just grinning and laughing. It was such a sweet moment.
Gotta love our chimpanzee exhibit where the kids can get inches from the animals! Caden just sits and stares at them and a lot of times they stare straight into his eyes. Its amazing!
Fun at the Park
Thursday was a beautiful day. I’d say spring but 84 seems a little warm for February which shouldn’t even be spring anyway. Oh well, it was a beautiful evening so Adam and I decided to take the kids to the park. Caden was a maniac, running and jumping and yelling. He gets WAY more excited when Daddy gets to come play. He was really showing off. Here are some pictures we snapped.
The first two of Kennedy I took at the house before we left…I couldn’t help but sharing
Caden has some serious climbing skills for a 2 yr old!
Check out that tongue 
Daddy was chasing him…
Attack mommy and sister!
He LOVES sticks!
Sweet little girl!
Check back soon to hear about our trip to the zoo…