Kegan's first Texan Birthday Party

Sunday Grammy and Grampy along with Aunt Nikki and the kids made it to Texas. Thanks to Aunt Sherry, we celebrated Kegan's birthday early for her first Texas birthday. All the France cousins were there and Paran Aaron too. We had a great time. Surprisingly Kegan has great manners and was more interested in the cards than the gifts at first. Aunt Sherry made Kegan a great cake and Aunt Nikki decorated it extra special. It was so pretty. Kegan got to wear her special birthday suit made by her Aunt Alex.

Cute birthday girl!

Hey! Somebody gonna read this thing?

Ring-around-the-rosie-ing, with Grammy

Wow, look at that cake!

Wait a minute, where are you taking the chocolaty goodness?

We moved Kegan to the kitchen and covered her in a dish towel, which ended up looking more like a poncho....perfect for Texas. Everyone watched waiting to see what Kegan would do. Once she got a taste of the sweet, she was digging in. Aunt Sherry also made birthday cupcakes, so we switched to that since Kegan could handle it easier, and boy did she! A few times Aunt Sherry thought we would have to give Kegan the Heimlich she was inhaling the cupcake so fast. We managed to slow her down for a little while with milk, then time for round two. After she was done, she didn't want to think about eating her dinner....I know, I know....stupid giving her dessert before dinner, but if you can't do it on your birthday, than when else can you!?

Aha! we meet again.

Ummmm! delectable! Do I taste a hint of Belgian chocolate?

No, wait, maybe German?

I really can't be sure

Nick is wondering why everyone is watching "that baby" eat the cake and he isn't getting any.

Wow, a Kegan size cake. Now, this I can handle!

See how well it all fits in my mouth at one time!

What? I'm fine, really Aunt Sherry! The gagging was just a little joke!

According to Pawpa......Aaaaaahhhhhh!

After that we moved on to the gifts. The card from Aunt Nikki was the coolest. It sang Jojo's Circus. Kegan really enjoyed her gifts.

Oooohhh, what's in there?

Wow, new pj's!

Kegan raising the roof, to her musical vacuum

Birthday parties are so much fun!

a busy few weeks

We have had a few busy weeks, so sorry no update. Last week, Kegan and I took a last minute trip to Raceland to be with her Pawpa during his liver biopsy. It was so good to visit, and Pawpa needed his spirits lifted since he's been feeling so crummy. We just got the results today of Dad's biopsy and it is liver cirrhosis, blah! Still more tests to be done to get together a plan for treatment so we are trying to stay positive that we can get him back to feeling somewhat normal soon. While we visited, Kegan got to spend some time with her cousins too. She and Ava are so cute together. They had the best time passing Ava's Marie cat around.

The next video is of Ava singing. To the trained ear, you can hear her singing Elmo's World. She is quite the singer just like her brother. Her favorite part of the song is the fanfare at the end which you can see as she performs it with dramatic flare (like her brother)!!

On the way home from our trip, Kegan officially turned me into the lady on the plane with the screaming baby. She has taken 5 or so plane trips and been a total angel....except for the return trip to Dallas. We sat next to a man in a nice buisness suit...of course. Kegan loved touching his computer screen, his nice shirt with cookie hands, his face while he tried to sleep.....how that man didn't get up and move I don't know. He acted like it didn't bother him, but I don't know. Kegan kicking him constantly had to have gotten on his nerves. It was an hour of hell. We were both exhausted when we arrived in Dallas from our in-flight "wrestling match".

Then one night at home, and off to San Antonio for the Rock and Roll Marathon. Madison along with one of his friends from work, Jodi, and his family, ran. Jodi's wife and sister-in-law ran the half marathon along with Madison while Jodi braved the marathon. Kegan and I were the running cheerleaders. It was a really cool race. Kegan and I armed with a spectator map, went to the start fo the race and ran to different parts of the course to cheer Madison on. We actually missed him at one point becuase he was so far ahead of his goal pace. At mile 2 Madison hooked up with three elite women in the marathon and ran with them through mile 10 when the two courses split. They were followed by a truck with a time clock that was taking live video of the women....and Madison. He went there hoping to run 1:18 and finished at 1:14:42. We were so excited.

The Marathon crew and their supporters

Mommy and Kegan after an awesome Cracker Barrell lunch

Today it was back to same old. After getting in at 10:30 last night, Madison and I had to go to work. Madison could barely walk by the end of the day as his post-race soreness set in. He went to get a massage after work. Paran Aaron came by to visit since he missed us all weekend. Kegan was so glad to see him