We left at 4:30am so that both Katie Lynn and Karyn would sleep in the car. Surprisingly, they did just that!

First stop in Lubbock — Monica’s old school.

After a quick bite to eat and a drive by our old house (no comment on the changes the new owners have done.. ), we headed over to my old job to visit my old coworkers.

After a ride around Lubbock and a couple unsuccessful visits to Katie Lynn’s old doctors, it was time to check in at the hotel.

For dinner Friday night, we headed over to 50th Street Caboose to meet a group of friends.

Katie Lynn  & Emma Kate fist bumping

After dinner and a few games, we went back to one of the couples’ house.

Emma Kate & Katie Lynn playing kitchen

Most of the kids: Katie Lynn, Karyn, Colin, Easton, Emma Kate.

Once the kids were all tired, it was back to the hotel for a good night’s rest.

Saturday morning we went to breakfast with the same group of people from Friday night.

Cambrie

Emma Kate, Colin, & Katie Lynn

After breakfast, we stopped by to see Wade, Brooke, and Kyler at their new house.

Brooke & Karyn

Katie Lynn & Kyler

Next we had lunch with our friend Chris from college, his wife Tiffany and their son Eli. Amazingly, even though we’d never met Tiffany, it seemed like we’d been friends all along! The wonders of blogs.

Katie Lynn & Eli outside the restaurant

After lunch, we headed down to the Tech campus and the nearby spirit shops. We met Monica’s friend Leigh Ann to meet her baby boy.

Karyn, Monica, Leigh Ann, & Brogan

Next up was meeting Larry, Janae, and Lani for dinner. Afterwards, we went back to their house so that Katie Lynn and Lani could play together.

Lani

Katie Lynn

Pretty sure Katie Lynn taught Lani some bad habits..

All smiles at the hotel after a long Saturday

On Sunday morning, we went to the Tech campus to take some pictures, but it was too windy and cold so we decided to go to Starbucks.

Aunt Amanda & Karyn

Katie Lynn, Monica, Aunt Amanda, & Karyn

We braced for a long trip back to McKinney since both girls would be awake.. but to our surprise, they were both VERY good in the car! They started getting a little restless the last 30 minutes or so. We’ll take that!

Bye bye Lubbock!

Katie Lynn and Mommy on the Merry-go-round.  She enjoyed it for the first half and then wanted off the 2nd half.

Katie Lynn was giving R some hugs,  he thought it was really funny.

Here is Megan and Monica.  We are about 3 weeks apart in our due dates. 

R took KL hand and was walking her through the mall.  It was so cute, he would change direction and just pull her along.  So sweet.

It was good to get out and have some fun with some good friends.  We have enjoyed having this pregnancy together and can’t wait for our newest little ones to meet.

I had some free time over Spring Break and have really gotten back into my sewing.  Since I know about 12 of my friends that are pregnant, I have made some more taggies.  I just love these things!!

Also, over the break, some friends came in from Lubbock.  I met up with them at the mall.  I sure do miss my Babineux clan. The kids have gotten so grown up and it was great to catch up with Andi. 

Today marks 17 weeks pregnant.  I remembered to take a photo this morning, or at least have Tom take one of me…..KL was trying really hard to be in the photo.

We started off by going to a birthday party on the 10th, Katie Lynn’s little friend was turing 1! The kids had such a good time and liked to chase each other.

The next day we got to go out with Kim, Ryan and their girls.  We had fun catching up and just getting together.  Once again Katie Lynn is not thrilled to be taking pictures….but here is one of the girls anyways.

The next weekend came up pretty fast, my good friend Michelle was getting married! At the last minute Tom and I decided to leave Katie Lynn with Wrigley….at Tom’s folks house. (of course, not by herself) It was a hard decision but we were driving so far in such a short time and we wanted to be sure we could do all there was for the wedding.  We dropped Katie Lynn and Wrigley off at Grandma and Heypa’s and then we headed down to Fredericksburg.  It was hard to leave her but knew it was best. 

We were able to go to the rehersal dinner, enjoy a night of sleep and then wedding stuff all the next day.  It was a lot of fun to enjoy the time with Michelle and her hubby to be.  I enjoyed getting to spend Saturday with Michelle and I was really glad we got to be there for her big day.  She was beautiful!

Dropping Katie Lynn off for the night

Michelle and I the night before

Michelle on her big day

A rare photo of just Tom and I

Katie Lynn’s friend Lani came all the way in from Lubbock to visit her.  We all got to catch up and it was a lot of fun.  Larry and Janae were really here to visit their neices for the first time and we were so excited that they made some extra time to come see us.  It was nice to visit and have the girls play. 

We also got some pictures of Katie Lynn standing and being silly.

A bunch to run together but wanted to share it all! I should feel much more rested in about 4 weeks and hopefully there will not be another 10 day drought on our blog.

As funny as this sounds, we think it’s been easy for Katie Lynn because she was gone for two weeks as well as the fact that her friend Bridget also got transitioned to the new room within the last two weeks. Those two little girls are two peas in a pod.. they’re so cute together!

Speaking of Bridget, Katie Lynn (along with Monica and I) went to Bridget’s first birthday party on Sunday. We had a great time and were appreciative that Bridget’s parents thought of us.

Before our family Christmas we took a short trip down to my Grams and Granddad’s place.  My Aunt Amanda was there and so was my Great Grammy.  We had such a nice morning.  We all got to open some nice gifts and enjoy a nice fire in the fireplace.   I got a really cool pink chair, it is my size!!! I also got a bow holder from my Aunt Amanda with some really nice bows.  A girl can’t have too many of those, my aunt also said she had matching ones.  My Great Grammy Rose got me an outfit to wear and my Great Grammy Beth got me an outfit and an angel doll.  Here are some photos from Christmas with my mommy’s side of the family.

My big girl chair from Grams & Granddad

A BOW!!!

This is my pink outfit from GG Beth, really cute, with my new TV remote

My new bow holder from my Aunt Amanda, she would not let me play with it

Also, we seem to get together with these people every year.  They are so much fun and I wanted to share some photos from then.  My aunt Amanda also brought her boyfriend home, he is fun too.  He has a big dog that kept playing with my toys.  We had a good time.

The whole gang, it seems to grow by one every year, welcome to the crazies Chris

My Grams and Vonnie

Chris and Aunt Amanda

my Mommy, me and Aunt Amanda

Where to start….Lubbock has been a wonderful place to live, work and get together with great friends. We will miss our friends and we will miss going to Texas Tech sporting events but we will not miss the random brown skies.

We spent the last couple of weeks saying goodbye to friends and visiting the sights of Lubbock.

This was not our last time in Lubbock, we plan on visiting every fall for a good football game and in the spring for basketball.

This move was very smooth.  The movers showed up Tuesday at 8am and started loading us up, 4 hours later they took off. Then we made the big trip knowing that once we left, we would no longer be living in Lubbock. It took us about 6 hours to get from Lubbock to our new home in McKinney.

Our first night here was wonderful. I think we spent most of the night just amazed that we were really here and couldn’t wait to get things done. The next morning the movers got here and unloaded our truck.

It is now Monday night and we have been here for almost a whole week. We made it safe and sound, now just to get settled.

Here are some photos from our last week in Lubbock.

Best group of friends a girl could ask for, I am going to miss this group so much.
(We have room, you can always come and visit!!! )

All the kiddos together.

Dana and Judy, two ladies who are very special to me.

Emma Kate and her mommy invited us over to swim. The girls had so much to talk about.

Colin invited Katie Lynn over to hang out.

All our love to our friends who are like family in Lubbock.  See you this fall at a game!! (We can’t stay away for long)

PS Congrats to Larry and Janae on the birth of their baby girl today.

We had a great time seeing some of the nurses that took excellent care of Katie Lynn while she was in NICU. We also got to catch up with parents and babies that we got to know while Katie Lynn was in NICU.

Here are some pictures from the reunion:

Karyn & Katie Lynn. Karyn was Katie Lynn’s first nurse after being transferred to Covenant.

Amy, Brynlee, Monica, Katie Lynn, and me. Brynlee was in NICU at the same time as Katie Lynn.

Katie Lynn & Jerry. While Jerry never actually had Katie Lynn as a patient, he was very personable and always chatted with Monica and me when we were up at the hospital with Katie Lynn. You can hear him in the video of Katie Lynn’s first feeding.

I turned 26 on the 26th of January, my golden birthday. I had such a wonderful birthday. We started the weekend with a family celebration on Friday night. Tom got me a beautiful garnet necklace and Katie Lynn got me a willow tree memory box. I loved them both! Then my wonderful husband and daughter took me out to diner at On the Border. I love my birthday because we get to go to a Mexican restaurant!! I had such a good night.
Then to celebrate on Saturday we first went to Tre’s birthday party, he is my birthday buddy. Then we traveled over to the Texas Tech basketball game. Such a busy day, we finally ended the night at the house. We had friends over to celebrate the occasion and had some cake and ice cream.
I had such a wonderful birthday weekend. I am so blessed with so many good friends and my family is wonderful. Thank you to everyone for all the birthday wishes and birthday gifts.

Walk, Walk, Walk…

The weather is finally getting nice enough that we can go outside and walk around the neighborhood. We got a carrier for Katie Lynn and she loves it! We enjoy our family walks at night.

Another play date!

Katie Lynn loves her play dates. We finally got all three babies together! The babies had such a good time; they slept, had a snack and then played on the floor together. They are just so cute!! I also enjoy Katie Lynn’s play dates; it is nice to catch up with my friends.

Smile…or kind of.

Yes, we are still trying to catch a smile. Katie Lynn has been smiling for over a month and sure enough, as soon as the camera comes out, her smile disappears. We will keep trying.