I know I'm late....I was just too lazy to upload the pictures from my camera. I also wanted a baby picture of Kyra--I'm having trouble scanning it. We'll see if I can get that done. Sunday was Kyra's birthday. Before church on Sunday morning, I baked a cake. Brad informed me that Kyra wanted a "rich chocolate cake". I wasn't sure what that meant so I bought a Betty Crocker
Triple Chocolate Fudge Cake mix. I let the cake cool while we were at church and frosted it when I got home (cream cheese frosting, again per Kyra's request). I mixed up my usual half recipe of frosting and when I looked at it, I thought to myself, that is not enough so I dumped in another chunk of cream cheese and about a cup of "cone" sugar and mixed it up again. I didn't want any cake pulling up when I frosted it.
We drove the truck, loaded with firewood, to San Luis. Kyra and Brad installed a fireplace insert! They had a nice fire going when we got there. This is Kyra's cake with the candles lit. Kevin and I decided that she will only get one box of candles on her cake until she's 48! haha. the biggest box of candles had only 24. What happened to the boxes with 32 candles?
She tried to blow out the candles slowly but left 3 lit. Can you see her baby bump?
Here's a better picture of baby boy bump Liggett!
we're eating cookies and cream ice cream with our Triple Chocolate Fudge cake. mmmmm! yummy! (Brad, Kyra and Kevin)
the baby's room!!!! with mama kyra
future parents! I also got out Kyra's baby book and gave it to her. She and Brad enjoyed looking through it, me too! Brad mentioned that Kyra looked like Danny, her older brother, in one picture.
Kyra's older sister, Mandi, requested birth stories so I'll try to relate Kyra's here.
My doctor for this pregnancy was Art Segal. If I remember correctly, my due date was November 30th, 1984. I was 30 yearls old. Dr. Segal wanted an amniocentsis to determine if the baby's lungs were ready for breathing outside the womb. That was not an experience I want to repeat. I told them that I didn't want to know the sex of my baby until birth. I'm old-fashioned that way. After the amnio, we decided on Nov 21st as the birth day. Nov 21st was a Wednesday that year, the day before Thanksgiving. Mandi and Danny were in school, Mandi was 7 1/2 and Danny was almost 6. I arranged with my parents for them to stay at our house on the big day to tend to their needs. We went to the hospital very early, my favorite, San Luis County General Hospital--Mandi and Danny were both born there. There was the check-in, usual prep. Kevin was allowed to be in the surgerical room but only standing by my head. He had my dad's Polaroid camera and took pictures. Everything went very well and guess what! another girl. I cried that time, too. We had previously decided on the names Kyra Rebecca or Nicholas, if we had a boy. Oh, I have to tell you where we got the name Kyra from. I was about 7 months along when we watched a video titled "Xanadu", starring Olivia Newton John. The main character's name is Kira. When I told Kevin "what do you think about the name Kira?' he said "Okay but let's spell it with a "y"". Later in the afternoon, Mandi and Danny came to meet their baby sister and Danny said to her "I'm Danny, your big brother". so cute! I'm so glad Kyra is part of our family! Thank you for being the sweet, loving woman that you are!
I almost forgot to add that we left the hospital on Saturday and had our family Thanksgiving dinner at my parents' house in Atascadero. I'll see if I can find the picture taken then.....
my favorite ornaments are the ones of my children from when they were very young. this is mandi at age 2 1/2. mandi's nursery teacher took this pic
danny at about age 2, taken at the nursery at church
this "snowman" was made by danny at school, 1st grade?
i love this picture of kyra--another one done at the nursery at church
cody-- kindergarten
Brad and Kathleen vs. Kyra and Dad. 
Brad and Kyra are pregnant. 
When I was digging in my closet for pictures of Danny for his birthday post, I came across this picture! Don't you love my hair!
I couldn't wait for Friday to post a flashback picture! Mandi and Danny at Kevin's parent's house. Danny isn't even 1 year old and he is walking! It looks like Mandi is wearing ruffle-bum panties.
i'm stealing the idea from my daughter-in-law and her sister----we're going waaaay back for this picture. its my junior picture--i was 16 1/2 years old! here's a funny bit of trivia--my first three years' pictures in high school, i wore clothing i made myself! this is my favorite dress of all time! i'll have to get a copy of the picture my brother-in-law took of me in this dress, full-length. guess what year this was.
So---its been a year since I made my New Year's resolution to lose weight. Its been a very tough year, to say the least. I've been struggling to stay on the fitness train and I'm back on now.
some of my favorite pictures of danny...(about 1 yr old)
(2 yrs old)
kindergarten. i told my sister i wanted to have retakes and she told me not to because someday i would think it was a cute picture. she was right! i love this picture! (5 1/2 yrs old)
6th grade. love the hair! his sister mandi styled it for him. (11 yrs old)
i wish mandi had styled it for this picture....(15 yrs old)
I'm just going to string out my picture journal.... I don't know what that means. anyway, I got this picture off our "rogue's gallery" wall. haha (mandi and kyra put it up a few years ago). I'm posting my favorite pictures of Danny. This picture was taken when he was going to pre-school. It was the Tiny Bearcats Preschool. The "teachers" were high school students at Paso Robles High School. Danny loved it! Don't you love this darling picture of Danny? (he's 5 1/2 years old)
I know you've all been anxiously waiting for this post. I promised a picture of Kyra as a baby and here is one of my favorites! This picture was taken in August, 1985. Kyra was 9 months old.
This picture is kind of creepy/scary. 
Pretty, red eye!
Kevin is trying to destroy this olive tree stump by burning it. That is a chunk of willow tree that he lit on fire to hasten the process. (our lawn is so sad:(
Kevin had decided that something had to be done about the pavers. They were buckling from the roots of the tree. One root was coming very close to the corner of the house. Eeek!
A pile of leaves before bagging and dumping in the garden area.
We've had some freezing mornings this past week and now our tree is leafless.
Its difficult to see the tree with the other tree behind it that doesn't shed leaves.
After dinner at the Parkfield Restaurant, we got in the car to drive home and there were pigs crossing the street! So, naturally, we had to take pictures!
Kevin was very thankful to work on our patio. Its taken several months, but he's finally getting it finished.
After I finished making the pies, walnut and apple, we drove to San Luis to join Kyra and Brad. Sorry I got your back, Val, I really wanted to show off Kyra's baby bump!
This is Kyra's second helping of Green Bean Casserole. She was so excited to get to eat some (its her favorite Thanksgiving dish) that she made a double recipe!
as i was making my way to kyra and brad's, this is what i saw emerging from the clouds.....
I know I'm late....I was just too lazy to upload the pictures from my camera. I also wanted a baby picture of Kyra--I'm having trouble scanning it. We'll see if I can get that done. Sunday was Kyra's birthday. Before church on Sunday morning, I baked a cake. Brad informed me that Kyra wanted a "rich chocolate cake". I wasn't sure what that meant so I bought a Betty Crocker
She tried to blow out the candles slowly but left 3 lit. Can you see her baby bump?
Here's a better picture of baby boy bump Liggett!
we're eating cookies and cream ice cream with our Triple Chocolate Fudge cake. mmmmm! yummy! (Brad, Kyra and Kevin)
future parents! I also got out Kyra's baby book and gave it to her. She and Brad enjoyed looking through it, me too! Brad mentioned that Kyra looked like Danny, her older brother, in one picture.
Remember cone sugar? This Tupperware container was part of a set given to me by my long-time friend, Tani. The label is abbreviated "Conf Sugar". When the children were little, they thought it read cone sugar. Isn't that cute?
