April 7-12

April 7

Jane turns 4.5! We took some fun pictures to celebrate!

We went to library story time and had a lot of fun. Jane has been wearing this very long makeshift string as her hair lately and decided she wanted to wear it to the library. Haha it’s so cute!

April 8

Grandma and Grandpa Walker got Jane a grow kit for her birthday in Oct and now they could finally plant it together!

Jane and daddy eating dinner outside.

Jane’s painting. I kept trying to get her to tape a cross to paint around but she refused. And then when I picked her painting up after she was done I was surprised to see she had unknowingly painted the empty tomb scene.

April 9

We visit the botanic gardens with Grandpa Walker. Grandma Walker fell sick and was resting.

April 10

Pretty chill day, Kennoway being silly, Jane at gymnastics. Going to the BBQ shop for the first time. Seeing Jane wrote a J from memory for the first time on a napkin. Pretty sunset afterwards.

April 11

Jane has been making Lego things. This is her trophy she made. Grandma playing Mario bros on the game boy with the kids.

We went on a walk to see the turtles. Grandma W reading books to Kennoway.

April 12

Went to Shelby Farms to meet the Easter Bunny. Jane was not a fan, very scared. Haha Kennoway kept wanting his picture taken in each egg.

I prepared an Easter party for our branch. It turned out great!

April Showers

3/30/2025 Silent Lightning storm and also week 13 hands (or hand of God how I interpreted it) Shaun and I sat outside and watched the silent lightning storm while the kids slept. It was such an interesting phenomenon!

4/2/2025 Morning Snuggles and some Children’s Museum fun!

Also a crazy storm of the century came to Memphis and flooded our road. Luckily the drains have been working and soon after the rain stopped it drained!

4/3/2025 Kennoway turns 18 months old! I take his photos at crosstown concourse and show him some art while Jane is at school. His favorite word right now is Cars which he says a lot as he points outside at them.

I picked up Jane in the craziest rain storm and almost didn’t make it out of a huge flooded road.

Dana and Ray come to visit! We eat at Huey’s to celebrate. Jane drew a heart on the wall. She’s really good at those lately!

4/4/2025 grandma and grandpa probably read the kids a million trillion books today. Haha

4/5/2025 General Conference weekend! Yay!!

4/6/2025 More General Conference! Homemade Cinnamon rolls (dad’s recipe).

March on continued..

3/24/2025 a fun Monday! Easter decorating and our first bike ride of the year. 5 miles! Got to see the turtles and play in the back yard!

3/25/2025 Jane at the doctor confirming her allergies. At school having fun. Botanic garden fun! Shaun sleeping on the couch.

3/26/2025 Zoo, home play, and bedtime smiles!

3/27/2025

3/28/2025 Children’s Museum adventures and two cuties who can’t leave mama alone when she goes potty.

3/29/2025 Shaun and I finally got to go to the temple together. First time this year! Curly boy hair from the humidity and a relief society party and youth fundraiser all in one day!

3/30/2025 Jane in primary with the treasure marble she found

I helped decorate the primary for our branch to make it feel a little more welcoming.

March on continued..

3/34/2025 a fun Monday! Easter decorating and our first bike ride of the year. 5 miles! Got to see the turtles and play in the back yard!

3/25/2025 Jane at the doctor confirming her allergies. At school having fun. Botanic garden fun! Shaun sleeping on the couch.

3/26/2025 Zoo, home play, and bedtime smiles!

3/27/2025

3/28/2025 Children’s Museum adventures and two cuties who can’t leave mama alone when she goes potty.

3/29/2025 Shaun and I finally got to go to the temple together. First time this year! Curly boy and girl hair from the humidity and a relief society party and youth fundraiser all in one day! Top it off with the cutest bath boy and man what a day.

3/30/2025 Jane in primary with the treasure marble she found

I helped decorate the primary for our branch to make it feel a little more welcoming.

Shaun and I watched a really cool lightning storm in the front yard for a while!

March on…

3/18/2025 Jane built a cool tower at school and then we went to the Botanic Gardens and had popsicles. Kennoway was especially excited about sunglasses and popsicles.

3/19/2025 Zoo Day and it was a fun one! And a little home play day as well!

3/20/2025 all my babies with their favorite ball to play with haha

3/21/2025 I gave in and bought a Children’s museum pass for the super hot and cold days. Let’s hope it doesn’t kill me. Haha

Convinced Shaun to take me to Texas Roadhouse and it was so good! Love that place!

Jane got her long awaited roller skates in the mail! She saved $30 for them by not waking up mommy and daddy at night and by not crying when going to school. And of course doing some chores.

3/22/2025 Mommy and Jane date to see Snow White live action. It was so good and we had so much fun.

Chill dude Kennoway and more Jane roller skating adventures.

Went to a baptism and Jane decided to do a photoshoot and then afterwards went to the park to practice more roller skating!

3/23/2025 Popcorn popping on the trees in Memphis! Humidity is back just in time for all my new baby hairs from postpartum hair loss to frizz. Hahaha

Night Photography prompt for my weekly project!

March Madness

Well it’s been a few weeks. I better post before I’m drowning in photos! We’ll start it off with a “tumble weave” we found in our driveway. Hahaha

3/4/2025

3/5/2025 kisses, silly Jane, and Jane’s tape and paper elephant!

3/6/2025 Kennoway is popping loads of teeth! He has several on the bottom coming out too!

3/7/2025

3/8/2025

3/9/2025

3/10/2025 Spring Break week! We had a lot of fun and started off strong with library story time, the Botanic Gardens, and a good walk.

3/11/2025 the “jump rope gym” aka Sega gym toddler time! Then in the afternoon we went to Avon Park.

3/12/2025 Zoo Day!

3/13/2025

3/15/2025 Jane took the first photo of Kennoway while we were Watching a lightning storm! She also caught the first photo of the lightning! It was so fun!

3/17/2025 St Patrick’s Day! Library story time and Botanic Gardens! Kennoway is obsessed with these neon pink tennis shoes somebody gave us! Jane with her new friend Brody! It was a hard night!

March begins

3/1/2025 we went to the botanic gardens and got to see the new trolls there. We also ran into lots of friends randomly. It almost felt like we were true Memphians. I loved the moon tonight so I took a quick snap of it.

3/2/2025 Jane drew our family as cats at church.

End of February Adventures

2/19/2025 Jane and Kennoway have a morning adventure. Jane does a photo shoot of Kennoway.

2/20/2025 I make homemade pop tarts with my friend Ashling! Yum! Jane loves to pose with one eye squinting haha

2/21/2025 play date with Julie. Jane had so much fun she keeps asking to go back.

2/22/2025 Played stake basketball with some other women and my team won!

2/23/2025 Kennoway having fun in Nursery and kids matching pajamas. Kennoway saying “cheese”

My week 8 prompt black and white

2/24/2025 Jane pretending she’s pregnant and library story time shenanigans. Julie hugs at the park.

2/25/2025 Kennoway on our walk around Shelby Farms Park. Jane and Kennoway playing in the nice weather in our backyard.

2/26/2025 matching outfits from Grandma Cheatham! So cute! Zoo day in the good weather with Ivy! Sailor Moon shirts and Kennoway with Jacob Summers at the park.

2/27/2025 goofy selfie of me. Jane in new Easter dress from Grandma Cheatham. Kennoway in daddy’s old hat. Kennoway and Becky Sue. Kennoway and Lego quatros! New toy to play with little people jungle. Daddy brought home big paper so he traced Jane and Kennoway on it.

Jane and Kennoway’s first haircut

Kennoway’s hair was getting really long so we thought it time to get him a haircut and since Jane had never had one we thought we’d get her one too! They both did so great! The kids haircut place was so cute!

Valentine’s and More

We are fixing up our kitchenette in the Airbnb and so I got to hold a Galentine’s party in the Airbnb and it was so much fun! We had Italian soda’s and treats and watched Ever After.

Valentine’s Day was a blast! Jane and Julie had a play date at our house and played dress up and we took our annual Valentine photo with Jane and Kennoway. Had heart shaped pizza for dinner and at the end of the night found Bella sleeping on the car mat haha.

The kids wore matching dog outfits thanks to Grandma Cheatham. Jane wanted to show off her hand stand. Kennoway wanted to wear big gloves. Jane made herself a crown from magnet tiles at church.

Week 6 prompt Get Close. Kennoway sleeping.

Playing with light with the kids.

January Ends, February Begins

Kennoway brushing Jane’s hair, an absolutely crazy day of going to the zoo, the thrift store, and seeing for the first time Memphis Bauhaus a very cool abandoned building here.

Jane’s teacher Ms. Breanne sent me these of Jane at school and then afterwards we went to Jane’s first gymnastics practice at Wimbleton Gymnastics.

A beautiful day at Crosstown Concourse! Some silly Shenanigans.

I told Kennoway to say cheese and here he is saying it for the first time!

Kennoway likes to put and carry things in his shirt lately!!

Big sis helping little bro eat breakfast while mom feels like crap. We were all sick this week but somehow I for sure got the brunt of it.

This week

From my weekly challenge, 1/19/2025 Rule of Thirds. First image is the one I used, others are just extras.

1/22/2025 Jane wore some hand me downs with a cute photographer shirt. Kennoway came into the bathroom with daddy’s hat on. Finally got my paintings hung up together of my babies. Grandma C got Kennoway a new hoodie. Kennoway tries on the owl hat and looks in the mirror with Jane.

1/24/2025 Kennoway wears a cape and plays on the obstacle course Jane made. He climbed on Jane’s bed and started reading books to himself. Kennoway and I in front of the Memphis temple. Sparkly kids. Week 4 Prism/Mirror.

1/25/2025 Mimi and Kennoway reading a story. Jane’s water color painting, she’s such a natural!

1/26/2025 my thrifted all linen church fit. A cute accident photo of Kennoway at church. My little Clarkey boy wearing plaid. Jane took photos of me, Shaun, and the missionaries (Elder Bartlett and Elder Bates) during dinner. Kennoway playing “stuck” on the floor.

January Fun

1/15/2025 Kennoway loves his Bella and also Bellevue Creation Station indoor playground.

1/16/2025 Jane at school and the kids at the park after school.

1/17/2025 Zoo day with our friends Ivy and Alexis

1/18/2025 Kennoway being all cute and stuff

1/19/2025 Kennoway and I had fun with selfies. And of course my Jane girl taking a pic of us and then I took a pic of her.

1/20/2025 kids wanted to do chores so I had to document it!

Jane’s Ballet Performance

Jane and her friend LilyAnna had their ballet performance today. It was the cutest thing ever!

Hi do you see me?

Snow Days

1/10-1/11/2025 We had so much snow fall this weekend and it was so much fun! On Friday we woke up to all the snow and the kids were so excited. We ate some breakfast and went straight outside to build a snowman and play with the best snow ball fight snow ever. It was actively snowing almost the whole day. We went on a walk at night and then tried snow cream after dinner. The next day Shaun took the kids out again and put them on the shovel and pulled them around like they were on a sled. They didn’t want to come back in. We usually get 1-2 snow days a year and it’s always exciting. (As long as our power stays on of course.)

Mid-week fun

Jane had ballet on Tuesday and wanted to sit on the throne. Next week is her last week! Kennoway loves to figure things out so he sat himself on the couch to see if he could open this package.

While Jane was at school Kennoway decided to try on her hat and then of course try to put this ball in the hoop. We tried on a snowsuit too to prepare for Friday Snow Day!

Monday January 6, 2025

What a fun day! It snowed for the first time this season and the kids loved to watch it! It was really just a few flurries so nothing to play in but I love watching them get excited.

We went and got donuts in the afternoon at Gibson’s and Jane requested we take the Instant camera. When we got there, there was a boy her age and she took a picture for him and then had him take a picture of her on my phone. Hahaha it was so cute!

The picture the boy took of Jane!

First Weekend of 2025

What a fantastic weekend full of Birthday Celebrations! On Saturday the 4th we went to our friend Raechel’s birthday celebration at an ice skating rink in Mississippi. It was Jane’s first time and she did so good! Shaun’s a good teacher. Kennoway and I were their cheerleaders on the sideline. Then we went back to the Batemans house for pizza, cake, and ice cream and had probably the best homemade Oreo ice cream I’ve ever had in my life.

I also took Kennoway’s photo for his first passport ever! These are outtakes. I’m excited for him to get a stamp in his book this summer.

Today is my brother Michael’s birthday and also our good friend Jess Evan’s birthday (J and K’s Memphis Popsi). Jane and Kennoway wore the outfits I made them today to church!

Busy busy busy

We have had so much fun the past few days. A few little notes.

Right when I decide to get rid of some beloved old stuffies, Kennoway comes in and grabs my duck and hugs and loves on it. So I’ll be keeping that one a little longer.

Kennoway grabbed this swan with a little people in it and said “baaa baaa baaa” as he moved it on the floor. Haha

Jane got a new dolly from Grandma Cheatham in the mail. She loved on it all day.

We went to the zoo (with the Driscoll’s, Seth and Ingrid pictured) and to Audubon park with Jane’s friend Goldie today. It was crazy. It was fun!

Happy New Year 2025!

We are reviving the blog! I have major goals to stay off of social media this year because of its effect on my mental health. So this year we will be trying to post at least once a week to stay caught up with all of our fun adventures. I’m so excited to have a way to record our family and share it with only the most important people!

New Year’s Day I took the kids to “Noon Years Eve” at the library. They had fun music, dancing, and crafts and then did a countdown to noon so all the kids could welcome in the New Year. Jane and Kennoway loved it. I took them to Avon park later to play with Ivy and so I could have some mommy time with my friend Alexis Clarke.

Shaun and I celebrated after the kids went to bed with our friends Joey and Raechel Bateman. They came over and we devoured Raechel’s homemade egg rolls and a cheese ball I made. We played a few games and then watched the ball drop. It was so fun!

I have so many hopes for this New Year! Last year was a doozy for several reasons so I’m excited for new beginnings and fun plans. Happy New Year 2025!