Akens Family: June 2011

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I had to work on Saturday for a while but spent the rest of my time hanging out with Kris and "little miss busy!" We went to the pool a couple of times, church today, and just hung out around the house being entertained by Scout :) It was a good weekend. My work week is always so unpredictable and I sometimes have days that I leave for work and Scout is still asleep and by the time I get home it is time to eat dinner, take a bath, and wind down for bed. So weekends are special. We try to go to the pool at Lifetime 2-3 times a week to get Scout comfortable in the water. I think it took all of two trips total and she was hooked! She squeals like a little pig every time we open the door from the locker room to the pool. It cracks me up! On Wednesday we leave for Tennessee. I am so looking forward to seeing me family!!! We are going to celebrate Scout's first birthday and the 4th of July! Should be lots of fun! Hopefully Scout will do okay in the car. This is the first time she has made the long drive since she was 4 months old and she is a lot busier now. :) Hopefully the dvd player will help. We are driving through the night on Wednesday so the kids should sleep on the way. (hopefully). Scout is getting really close to walking...she can stand on her own without holding on to anything for several seconds and she pulls up on everything constantly! She jabbers all the time and can she can say ball, baby, and book (or something kind of like it). She loves to roll her ball around all over the house and she tries so hard to dribble :) It's really funny! She definitely keeps us busy but she is so much fun!!
There are a few more videos below and a picture of our house so far. It's really coming along and we are excited! There is definitely some stress involved...but we are excited regardless.
HAPPY 4th of JULY EVERYONE!!!!

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Father's Day and 11 months

I hope all the wonderful Dad's out there had an extra special Father's Day. We spent the day going to church, waiting entirely too long for a table to eat lunch, swimming, jumping on the trampoline, and then relaxing in the air conditioned house. It was a good day, but we were all exhausted by the end.

I want to say a special Happy Daddy Day to my wonderful husband! Kris is such a great Dad to both Kamden and Scout. He is very selfless when it comes to taking care of the kids and he is very good at acting excited and interested in things even when he isn't :). He is a great role model for Kamden and he always makes time to do fun things with him no matter how little time there may be. Scout lights up every time he is around and he is usually the only one she gives kisses too. She adores him already and I love to watch him snuggle with her. I feel blessed to get to raise my baby girl with him. (and any other future babies we may be blessed with.) I love you Kris and I am thankful I get to go on this crazy journey with you!

I am also blessed with an amazing Daddy myself. My Dad has always been there for me, my mom, and my sisters. He has had to put out quite a few fires over the years living in a house full of women, but he always managed to stay calm and didn't go crazy no matter how difficult we were at times. ( I am sure it helped that he grew up with 5 sisters!!) He taught us discipline, how important it is to work hard and not be lazy, honesty, and the importance of putting God first and living in Christ to the best of our ability. He is a wonderful man and I am lucky to call him my Dad!

This is a picture of me and Dad when I was about 18 months old.
How awesome is that hat?

I also want to say Happy Father's Day to my Papaw and Grandaddy!!! I miss you both and can't wait to see you in a few weeks!

Also Happy Fathers Day to Papa Les, and Daddy Mike! I hope you all had a great, relaxing Father's Day!

Scout turned 11 months on the 16th. If there was one word to describe her right now it's busy! I swear if I had half her energy I would be in the greatest shape ever! ( demonstrated in the video below) She is always on the move these days and she is pulling up on everything! She has two teeth on the bottom and I think she might have one popping through on the top but she will not let me see it. She is talking like crazy and it is SO FUNNY! She has all these different inflections in her voice and whatever it is she is talking about she is very adamant about it! She had several conversations with Kamden this weekend that were cracking us all up! She also puts her hand over her ear now and pretends she is talking on the phone. It's pretty hysterical. We weren't sure what she was doing at first but now we know...if you look at her and go "hello?" she immediately puts her hand over her ear and starts jabbering. So cute! Her hair just keeps getting lighter. We have been going to the pool quite a bit and I think that might be making her hair even lighter. Her hair is very blonde and her eyes are very blue.So....yep...Kris is in trouble! :) She is so much fun and everyday her little personality develops more and more! I am making plans for her first birthday party which will be on July 16th. Wow! This time last year I was so uncomfortable, hot, and counting down the days till she arrived. I am so blessed to be her Mommy. She makes us so happy!

You can see her two teeth!

She loves her rocking horse :)

We are definitely sporting the Pebbles look these days.

I call this one.."Two Teeth"

We had our Summer Spectacular at church this week! Scout LOVED it!!!

Check out those deltoids! :)

Long Day...

This is what sunscreen hair looks like! :)

We are leaving for Tennessee next week and while we are there Kamden will be making his first appearance playing his guitar on the radio. I will post more about it later but he is pretty excited! I took some pictures for his bio today of him with his guitar. They turned out pretty good I think!

I want to say congrats to my cousin Eli for getting baptized on Sunday by my Dad. Such a special day and I wish we could have been there. I also want to congratulate him for making Baseball All Stars! He has worked very hard and is very committed to baseball! Way to go Eli!!!! So happy for you!!!

They have started building our house!! I will post pictures later. We are very excited! Also congrats to our friends Ryan and April Smith! It's a BOY!!!

There are three recent videos of scout below that are pretty funny! I tried to get them all in one post but I could never figure it out so you will have to scroll down to older posts. I guess that's it for now. Have a great night!

Scout and Knox playing fetch!

Giggly baby girl!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Pictures, Birthday Party, and Lake Weekend

My growing baby girl!!

She likes to read to herself :)

"Go Mavs!!!"

Hi big girl!

I mentioned that one of my wonderful friends, Jen Skipper, took Scout's 9 month pictures! I got the prints I ordered in the mail a few days ago and thought I would share a few of them. Jen did such a wonderful job! They were so hard to choose from which is why I ordered several! :) They are so cute!!

Love this face!!! We get this face a lot!

Saturday we went to Vince's party for his first birthday! It was so much fun watching him open presents only to go after the gift bags, and tissue paper. Oh! and the football! That was a hit! This time last year I was miserably hot and uncomfortable and jealous Jen had already had her baby! My pregnancy was so easy....it really was...but when Texas heat hits in the 100's and you are 30+ pounds over weight....it's not fun and at that point you are ready for it to be over. We will be celebrating Scout's birthday in a little over a month and it's bitter sweet. I love each new phase and "trick" she has. Everyday is a new adventure and she is such a joy! I just wish I could bottle up time...it just goes by too fast! Vince got lots of fun birthday presents and was so happy even though he was exhausted and had not had a nap.

Aunt Jen and Scout

Overalls from Uncle Josh and Lana :)

"Put me down Granny Jan...I got things to do!"

Cake Time!

Scout and Aunt Mandi

Lana and Josh

I don't know what the heck Kamden is doing in this picture :)

After the birthday party we headed to the lake. We had a lot of fun fishing, riding the jet ski, swimming, and hanging out on the boat. Kamden had a blast with the kids on the inner tube and Scout loved getting in the water! She is not afraid of the water at all! We have gone from her holding on to me tightly when we first got in "big water", to her pushing me off of her wanting me to just let her go! She loves to kick and splash! She has also figured out how to dunk her face under...pretty funny! We got a lot of sun and enjoyed making Summer official!