Christmas 2010

The Kelly family enjoyed a relaxing Christmas! Christmas Eve day Brian went ice fishing while Shayla and I stayed home and made cookies. Shayla was the perfect little helper (and by that I mean she played while mommy baked!!).

Shayla loved to put on the Santa hat and walk around saying "Ho Ho Ho"

Santa brought lots of great stuff for the busy little bee to play with. Grammy and Grampy Kelly got her a little kitchen, which was the first present she said upon walking into the living room at 6:30! Christmas Day we spent at home hanging out and we made a nice dinner of cheese fondue and buffalo wings.


Shayla cooking at the new kitchen



Shayla and daddy reading new books

Grandma and Grandpa Hanewald spent Christmas Day traveling to Casper to pick up Paige, since Jon couldn't get away from work in Colorado. So on Sunday afternoon we went over to their house to have Christmas dinner and open up presents. It was nice having Paige here and Shayla really enjoyed spending time with her!

Shayla and her new baby!

Now that we have a busy toddler on our hands pictures are interesting (as you can tell). She is way too busy to stand around and pose!

Catching Up

Things have been busy since Shayla's first birthday! Shayla started walking really good about a week after her birthday. She also started crawling up on everything, including out of her crib. Needless to say it really took us by surprise. We had the crib on the second to lowest level and dropped it to the lowest level the next morning. Thank goodness she wasn't hurt.

Thankgiving weekend Shayla and I had the stomach flu. Shayla was sick on Thanksgiving and bounced back quick, while I got sick on Friday night and didn't feel good for a week. On Friday we were able to play outside in the snow. It was Shayla's first time in the snow and she enjoyed eating it!

The first weekend in December we took Shayla to meet Santa for the first time. I was hoping to get a picture for our Christmas cards, but Shayla didn't want anything to do with that strange man!

Can't even tell she was about to puke all over her outfit! Poor thing.

Enjoying the snow with kitty!

Decorating the Christmas tree with daddy

Not sure what to think about Rudolph

An attempt at a picture with Santa - haha!

Happy 1st Birthday

Shayla turned the BIG 1 on Monday, November 8th. It is hard to believe our little girl is one. The first year sure does go by fast. We had a nice birthday party with all of the grandparents. Brian's parents arrived on Saturday from Boston and we were thrilled they could be part of Shayla's special day.

Shayla at the beginning of present opening. She did great and enjoyed each present. We were surprised and thought she would be more interested in the boxes!!

It was an Elmo birthday. She just loves him and now I think we have every Elmo, incuding books, phones, etc!

She absolutely loves babies too and enjoys feeding them! It is too cute.

Mom, Dad and Shayla with mom's Elmo creation. I thought I did a great job!

Yummm... birthday cake. She was a little unsure at first but dove right in as you can see!

What a great first birthday!!

Hall-O-ween

This year was Shayla's first Halloween and we decided to dress her as a bumblebee since she is our Little Busy Bee! Needless to say she wasn't as excited about Halloween as we were! Particularly the whole costume thing and going to different houses.

Our not-so-happy bumblebee

Reading in her skeleton jammies

Cute pick of Shayla giving her lovebug a big hug

Busy, busy, busy.....

My goodness - the last few weeks have been busy. We went down to Casper last weekend and I got a new 2011 Subaru Outback. I love it! I think once you drive a subie, it is hard to drive anything else.

Work has been very busy. We have a huge project that will keep me and everyone else busy until February. I can't complain because I do love my job and am happy to have a job, but it just means Shayla is spending a lot more time at daycare and a lot less time with mommy. She is turning into such a little girl now, not so much a baby anymore. Boo Hoo! On Friday Brian got home from work and we walked out side to greet him and she called out "Da Da... Da". It was the first time that she has said it in that context - it brought a little tear to my eye and of course Brian was so excited he ran over to hug and kiss her! She is getting close to walking and we are hoping it happens before her birthday so she can show Grammy and Grampy Kelly, who are flying in to celebrate with us.

We got professional family pictures the other weekend. The turned out EXCELLENT!! Check them out at http://www.jasonrogersphoto.com/#/kelly/

Her new thing is to layout on the couch and relax (haha)!

Watching Sesame Street with Daddy while Mommy went to work

Mama needs a new car!

So, I have been driving for 16 years now and have never received a ticket for speeding and think that I am a good driver. Well all that went out the window...

Shayla goes to an in-home daycare and the house is located at the end of south Main in Sheridan. The driveway is steep and made of dirt with a 3 to 6 foot embankments around it. My biggest fear everytime I pick up Shayla is that my car is going to roll backwards out of the driveway.... WELL, guess what! Two Thursday's ago I was picking up Shayla for her first full day of daycare (8 to 5) and was rushing. I pulled up the driveway, set my emergency break (didn't want the car to roll) and got out. Now what did I forget to do... oh yeah put the car in park!! Brian often times tells me that I am the smartest girl but sometimes I can do the stupidest things. This certainly tops the list. As I ran up the stairs to get Shayla I turned to see my car rolling down the driveway, up the embankment and then roll over onto South Main Street - oh yeah all the way over so the tires were in the air!!

So needless to say we are in the process of shopping for a new car and I will never park in that driveway again. Level street parking is good for me!!

Okay you can laugh now ;-)

Farewell Cosmo

Five weeks ago Monday our Cosmo disappeared!! There were a few sightings of him the first few days he was gone and we haven't heard anything since. We got Cosmo almost six years ago when we lived in Nashua, Hew Hampshire. We were living in an apartment at the time that didn't allow animals of any kind, so we secretly kept him for a few months until our neighbors turned us in. To avoid getting evicted or giving up Cosmo he went to live with our friends Kelly and Mark in Beverly, Mass for two months. In April Cosmo and I made the long journey from New Hampshire to Wyoming. It was an exciting trip for sure. Cosmo would meow loudly for the first 2 hours of each day (every meow imaginable too)! Since that time we have had many memories and several more additions to the Kelly family - kitty Hope, dog Bear and then Shayla!



We certainly miss our dear Cosmo and hope that he is in a better place!! It would have been nice to have closure, but we still hold out hope that someday he will reapper on our porch. Until then.... Cosmo we miss you and love you!