Little Wildcat

Joy

Even in times of sorrow you can't help but feel joy when you look at this face. Please keeps Ryan's family in your thoughts and prayers.

Tennessee

On Friday Jake (brother), Lyndsi (brother's gf), Ryan, Kellyn and I took a road trip to Tennessee. Growing up I was in Tennessee at least twice a year and until I was 14 or 15 I spent at least a month of the summer there. So, it was nice to go back since I hadn't been there in over a year and a half. One thing I love about Tennessee is how it's always constant, it never changes.



Kellyn and Karsen. Karsen is an Attkisson through and through... He looks like an Attkisson and is mean like an Attkisson :) He wasn't happy Kellyn was playing with his toy.




My cousin Jenny with her youngest Lane and Kellyn



Lane... who looks JUST like his Daddy. It's almost creepy how much they look alike.




Karsen..... he's not ornery or anything...

Kellyn walking

Playing with Cousin Corey and Lyndsi

Playing with Lyndsi

Kellyn was fascinated with Corey and anything he was doing..

I think I probably gained 10 lbs while we were there from all the tasty food and sweet tea :)

She's special.....

Since we brought R.J (we are now calling him Rick James) home Kellyn loves to climb into his kennel and eat his food. She is also a very talented barker. Any time she sees a dog she barks. Again, she's special.

Is 11 months too old to change a name?

Somehow we acquired a dog last week. I'm still trying to remind myself how it happened. Just kidding, his owners were getting too old to keep up with his energetic personality so we took him over :). He is an 11 month old Pomeranian name R.J, but I'm trying to change it to Roger. J.R. or Roger (whatever you want to call him) is house broken and very well behaved. Kellyn pulls his hair and climbs all over him and he just sits there.
At first Kellyn HATED him and anytime he came close to her she was throw her arms up in the air but she soon found out if the dog gets close to her face he would get into trouble. Once she figured it out she would lay down on the floor right in front of him and look at him like come get me! Ornery little thing! Now they are best friends as you can see from the pictures below.

She's a walking!

Okay, she isn't actually walking, but she is taking a few steps. She will walk from our recliner to the coffee table. It is a very slow and unbalanced walk but she takes about 5 steps to get to the coffee table. I'm not sure if it's because she is so little or because she has tiny little feet but watching her walk is pretty hilarious. She will let go of the chair, put her hands up in the air and slowly put one foot in front of the other taking her time to regain her balance after each step. She will probably be running by her first birthday!

Sorry, no pictures. My camera had a little accident with a leaky bottle in my purse. I'm considering having a funeral or at the minimum a wake to celebrate the camera's life. Hopefully a new camera will come my way soon! :)

Hello all. It's Kellyn

Mama said today is my 11 months birthday so I decided I would post about all the cool things I am doing. Well first off let me say that although I'm 11 months old today it's not a good day/week. Mama says that I'm gross because I have snot running out of my nose and a cough that hurts. Anyway, now that I'm almost a year I have become a pretty cool kid. My favorite games to play are patty cake I'm awesome at clapping, rolling it up and pitching it in the pan, peak-a-boo, and being chased, especially by daddy.
My vocabulary is also growing. I say a lot more but people don't understand my language. When I want to go outside I wave and say bih (bye), I love to read and will find my book and say buh (book), I can also say baba (bottle), whenever I fall down I say ooooooh, I love to give kisses and then say awwwe. I can also say mama, dada and papa. Mama says I am ornery and as of late I have been put in a pack-n-play in a dark room for 1 minute when I keep doing something mama tells me not to do. She is mean. I'm just playing.
I'm still not walking. I probably could walk, but I choose not to. I crawl really fast. I do walk around the furniture and if someone is holding my hands.



This is me and Pa. I pulled up another one of my mama's wine corks from her wine cork mat. She gets frustrated because she says it took her a long time to make and I keep pulling up the corks. They are fun to chew.

That is all for now. I need to go take a nap since I was up coughing all night the last two nights.