Yeah Christmas

A few from x-mas

These are the pictures that we couldn't fit onto the previous post. Kate frequently gives us the popeye stare when we're trying to talk to her and she's trying to sleep. The others are just cute pictures or are explained below. Love you all!

Chillin in warm Mississippi

Hi all,

You might be getting a little tired of having us post so many pictures, but we simply can't help ourselves!!!! Here are some more of Kate (yep, it's officially Kate Chloe Bayles!), as well as us enjoying ourselves immensely with her.

We met LeCora, Kate's birth mom, yesterday, and she is completely amazing! She is in the national guard and is a police officer. She has 3 other girls, who she obviously loves to death. It was so neat to meet her and to start to get to know.

After our meeting with her, we were determined to get a frozen chocolate pie for pie night. We tried the night before (actual pie night), but the 2 places we went were already out. We were so sad! So we stopped at wal-mart on the way back to the hotel and picked up a pie that is pretty much the most amazing chocolate pie we could have dreamed of. We brought it back to the hotel and celebrated pie night for real. We also had pie for breakfast this morning. Mmmmmmm.

We took Kate to her follow up visit at the hospital today, and she is doing great! She is currently 6 lbs. 1 oz., and will soon be more with the way she is eating.

Holy cow! Kate DOES indeed have the cutest curly hair ever! It curls up when it's wet, so we had to take a bunch of pictures of her cute hair!

Also, I included a picture of Kerry changing Kate's diaper so that he has proof that he changes diapers.

Hope everyone is doing well!

the cutest little girl part II

We hope everybody got the picture text, but in case you didn't (and even if you did), here are some more pictures of our darling new daughter!

the cutest little girl!!!

the cutest little girl!!!

we filmed this just a few minutes after we first saw Kate. Sorry it's sideways. Turn your head. Or your computer.

It's me, Pammi!

This is proof that miracles never cease! I have finally posted to the family blog - huzzah!

There is also evidence of this in the fact that I'm actually dating someone! In fact, now that I think about it, perhaps dad's invitation to the blog hinged on that very fact . . . . Either way, here's a picture of us on his birthday. I bought him the sweater, which I think is his newfound favorite. :) Note the clever use of red & black in both of our outfits. It was entirely accidental, but people commented on it all evening long!

He's definitely a keeper! I think everyone has met him except Drea and Keen-keen. We're hoping to make it down for pie night, so maybe then! I love you all - thanks for posting!

Tom rigged this up last minute and had a blast scaring trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Nothin' like getting up close and personal with a pumpkin!

Boo!

Halloween

Keiryn had a great Halloween. He was so adorable! When we went trick-or-treating every time he walked past other trick-or-treaters he had to say "Rawwrrrrr" and try to scare them. They were all older than him though so I think they just thought he was weird but it was so cute. He also came to the conclusion that things can be "scary cool".

Tis a Sadness

I think we've somehow lost all of the pictures that were on our camera, which means I don't have any of Gatlin when he was little-little. If any of you have pics of him from birth to now, I would appreciate it if you would share a copy with me. Thanks a bunch!

Fun and games at the Guymon's

Aren't these the cutest grandkids ever?? All we got of Gatlin was his head, but hey, he's in a picture! The first 4 pics were taken at the laundry room project. The last 2 are for Nancy's benefit -- I did it! (All but the journaling, which I heartily dislike.) Nancy and I started these pages when she was here for a few days and I actually finished mine -- wahoo!

Big P.S. -- Is anyone coming for Thanksgiving!! Any and all are welcome! It's a Bayles year and I don't know the plan yet, but ya'all come on down!

Well these aren't very good pics since they are from my phone, but you can kinda see how purple my hands were. These were from IV's in my hands that didn't turn out quite as intended. I was really dehydrated and 2 nursing students were trying their first IV in my right hand but accidentally broke the vein so the nurse took over and broke the one in my left hand haha. They ended up having to put it on the inside of my elbow. It was totally worth the pain to sport such awesome bruises!

Guymon Honey is the BEST Honey!!

Hi everybody!! Ali & I just wanted to send a shout out that we have been using the little jar of honey Tom gave us and WE LOVE IT!!  I'm not usually a honey fan, but I eat this stuff on rolls for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!  Thanks Guymons!!

Chantee finally has enough hair to do something with it! I had to get pictures to show you because I was afraid you wouldn't believe me. I laugh every time I see her hair. :)