30 great moments with Liza!

Tomorrow is a big day for Liza! She gets to join me in the land of the big 3-0! Check out the pics of us in our 20's!!! I wanted to reminisce a little about my top 30 favorite things about Liza as well as my favorite memories. So here goes dear liza....

1. College. All of it! What a great time in life!
2. Road trips to Chattanooga
3. Steak dinners with the Pierce's. We still participate in these when we take our TN tour.
4. Painting my room yellow!
5. Dorm days....aaahhhh Johnson Hall. This is the place that brought us together actually it was...
6. Dunkin Donuts...picking out donuts when I didn't have on my glasses and you had to describe each donut to me! :)
7. Parties after we turned 21 (greg's birthday sticks out to me the most!)
8. Your total devotion to our friendship when I moved to UTC to chase a boy, got my heart broken, had to stay there for a semester and you called me everyday and helped me survive. I wouldn't have made it without you!
9. Road chases with Jamie and Bob.
10. Mission trips around this great world. It all goes back to Poland doesn't it?
11. Hurricane Floyd....endless hours in the car and I can't remember ever laughing that much!
12. BSU trips, Boston, and wherever else we went. I can't even remember all of it!
13. College sunday school...this is where I met Greg and you took me there! I wouldn't have met him had you not taken me there.
14. Your laugh...it is really contagious. The kind that when I make you laugh it makes me laugh harder. :)
15. The Pickle. Enough said about that one. :)
16. Stan. Enough said about that one too.
17. Spinning around in the middle of I-16. This is not my favorite moment in life by any means but I felt should be in the top 30.
18. Hours of conversation on those wonderful chairs on St. Simon's Island.
19. Our matching raincoats
20. Rolling Brad and Greg's "yard" we were too scared to get too close!
21. Late nights just talking
22. Having you stand beside me on my wedding day
23. Having you here for my first baby's birth
24. Watching you follow your heart as you traveled the world
25. Sharing a great joy to have you back from China
26. Your heart. You are a true friend to the end, no matter what. You have ALWAYS been there for me!
27. Your faith. You have a strong faith in the Lord and I have always loved that about you. You are a wealth of knowledge as well when I need biblical information!
28. Your devotion. We haven't lived in the same town in forever and I always know that no matter where we live we will always be friends. Your devotion to all your friends is strong and genuine.
29. Your hair. I am jealous of the curls! Where did mine go?
30. Your friendship. May our friendship continue to stand the test of time.

30 years has flown by and although I wasn't there when you began this life I have walked through a lot of it with you. We've laughed so hard we cried and we've cried so hard we couldn't breathe. Life has thrown many things at us but we have been there for each other. I hope that you can look at these past 30 years and see what you have done. Look at all the lives you have touched. You might have a huge to do list by 30 and still have things not checked off but who cares? You've made a difference in my life in more ways than I can list. My prayer is that you see the true happiness that surrounds you everyday. I am so thankful to have you in my life and I look forward to blogging my top 60 on you 30 years from now! :) Happy birthday Liza!

A happy life!

My kids lead a pretty darn good life don't they?

A few of my favorite things

Good friends are hard to find. Jonathan joined me in the big 30 this week so Saturday night was his big PAR-TAY! I spent the evening with some of the best things in life, good friends! I got to hang out with Liza and Sarah all at the same time! And we had another one of my favorite things, martinis!!! :) It was good to hang out with grown ups and catch up with Liza. I miss seeing you Liza! You are next in the 30 club. The days are counting down.... :)

He melts my heart

He might not sleep all night but those big brown eyes will make anyone forget! He'll just look at me and give me this sweet smile. I always wanted to have a girl. I am a girly girl. I deserved to have a daughter. God blessed us with our sweet Kennedy. Then I didn't care what we had. Then along came my Whit. I learned very quickly boys are much sweeter than girls. He does love his mommy and I love this little boy. I hope he always loves me this much! Don't you just want to jump in the picture and kiss that face? Oh my goodness he is just that sweet!

Learning a new way of life

I went through a million emotions when I was pregnant with Whit. I worried so much about if I had enough love, enough time, enough everything for both my children. I found out quickly I instantly had enough love. I was on maternity leave for 3 months and I had enough time. Then I went back to work and life changed a lot. I have been back about a month now. At first it wasn't that bad. After a few weeks getting up at night and getting up very early was wearing on me. I RUN all day long. And when I say run, I mean literally running at times. Like when I run into school every morning so I can be there at the right time. Through a chain of events over the past few days I have realized something. I don't have to have everything in place when I go to bed. I don't have to have everything at work perfect. My kids aren't going to remember that the floor needed to be swept but they will remember days of coming home and swinging. So maybe I need to slow down a bit. I might not get all my things on my list done everyday but I can promise myself at least one thing. I will snuggle my babies everyday. I will kiss my sweet husband everyday. I will spend a minute to myself. I think we get so wrapped up in the life spinning around us we forget to really live in it. I want to cherish these moments and not rush them by. It is hard having two. It did way more than double my load. I can handle a lot and this has been my hardest challenge yet. And as my world spins around me I wouldn't change a bit of it. My two babies will grow so fast. I'll look back on these days and wish I had cherished them more. May I spend time cherishing what I have and not worrying about time. It passes all too quickly!

Guess what?!!!

Oh yes, my friends, my K has made a huge accomplishment tonight! I gave her a bath and was taking her to her room to put her clothes on and she announced she needed to potty. SHE ran to the potty, SHE sat down all by herself and SHE proceeded to tee tee in the potty!!! Oh my goodness! This is huge for Kennedy! We have had the potty forever because she was so interested in it and she never really was interested in going on her own. I would catch her needing to go and she went but this is her first on her own knowing she needs to do this! May I pray and pray that this is the beginning of the end of diapers. That would help my life out a TON! Way to go Kennedy! What a big girl! She was so proud of herself! I took these to document. I bought her these Curious George jammies and when I put them on her she says, "thank you mommy!" What a sweet girl!

To Drew from Kennedy

Since they are the best of friends Kennedy thought she would give her best friend Drew some advice she has learned from being an older sibling. His days of being an only child are numbered you know!


Don't you worry about mommy and daddy not loving you anymore. They will always love you. A good idea is to wake them up at night when they first bring Lorelei home to make sure they really love you. It worked for me!



Grandparents are really going to spoil you. Ask and you shall receive! It also really works well!

Start playing with babies. It will help you get used to a baby being around. Don't worry about it being a sissy thing to do. Just tell them it is your sister's dolls! Nobody will ever know!

Pitching fits are still very appropriate. You parents will pay more attention to you. Again, this is something I learned quite well!

Mommy nursing is not a bad thing. It is a great time to watch a little George until you get used to it! Quality TV time is great!!

More toys will appear in your house. They might be things you remember from the past but they are even more fun now. I do love to play under a play gym! It brings me back to those baby days!

There is another person other than mommy that can do things for you! I was surprised to find this out! Daddy can give baths, feed you dinner and take you places all by himself! He was surprised at this too! It is fun to hang out with just him!

On a serious note, you will love your new sister. She will bring you the greatest joy and I am sure some of your most irritating moments in the future. But you know what? She will always be there for you so no matter what the next few weeks bring, know that it is all worth it. I love my little brother now so much. I'll pat his head and say, "sweetheart." My mommy thinks it is so sweet! You always have me to come to if it gets too much for you! I am your other sister anyways! And remember you loved ME first!!

I love you Dew!

Love,

KeKe