End of May

May 26, 2025 silly kiddos eating a cheesy snack!

May 27, 2025 went to the zoo with the Evans! Pictured is Hazel, Luke, Jordan, Cody, and then a picture of Jane and popsi (Jess). Got Kennoway a haircut, he’s so cute! Went to a Harry Potter girls night with some friends! Pictured is Katelyn, Shea, and McKenzie.

May 28, 2025 took Kennoway in for a check up and other fun shenanigans.

May 29, 2025 Kennoway’s copper hair at the park and my clean little bug all wrapped up in his towel.

May 30, 2025 First time at the Children’s Museum splash pad! We went with Julie, Jacob, and Erica Summers! We had a blast! Jane reading bed time stories in the basket. Haha

May 31, 2025 Jane in her vintage fit! We finally took Daddy to the Children’s museum! We had fun! Bought a snorkel for our trip to Mexico. Had the Malinka’s over for dinner. Pictured is Bethany and her son Heber who is the same age as Kennoway.

June 2, 2025 Library story time at the Benjamin Hooks Library with Mimi (Becky Sue Evans).

June 3, 2025 Jane adding more stuff to her wish list!

May 19-25

5/19/2025 Jane wanted to show off her outfit and jewelry she picked to wear to library story time. We wore matching shirts and it was so fun! We went with Julie Summers and saw Russell Beeton, Jane’s friend from church too. Bella follows Kennoway all over when he has food and now I know why. Kennoway sneaks her some of his snack! Shaun left me a sweet message to clean up in the kitchen haha. Jane tried on mom’s hair color!

5/20/2025 my Kennoway boy is obsessed with books lately. Here’s how he fell asleep for nap time with book in hand. Jane dressed up like Gabby from Gabby’s Doll house.

5/21/2025 Jane’s headstands and zoo day! Kiddos had a blast. My daisies are finally blooming! I caught Kennoway scooping butter off the table and eating it. Haha Both the kids loved the cookies we made. And I loved the drama of how Jane fell asleep haha.

5/22/2025 Jane’s last day of spring semester. Next year she’ll be in official preschool! Her and Julie have had so much fun at school. Jane and her teacher Ms. Heather.

5/23/2025 We all got the stomach flu and I got to snuggle Kennoway during nap time! Lots of resting done today. Kennoway loves giving kisses lately.

5/24-25/2025 Kennoway watching the cars outside. Playing with friends from TX.

Mother’s Day

5/11/2025 It was such a beautiful day! I woke up to the sweetest gift chosen by Jane. A book mark with a cat and unicorn on it and a children’s book. Shaun made me egg McMuffins for breakfast. We got a flower at church. We went and had dinner at the Evans and it was just a really lovely time.

5/12/2025

5/13/2025 Jane came and snuggled me in the morning and wanted to take a picture together to send to Grandma Cheatham. Then I went on one of the most beautiful walks in Shelby Farms with Ashling.

5/14/2025 Memphis Botanic Garden adventures with Julie and Erica Summers!

5/15/2025 Jane found the biggest strawberry and said “it’s big enough for grandpa!” Haha. Our outdoor movie theatre is closing and I wanted a photo for memories. It’s one of Jane’s favorite places and she is devastated. Jane and Kennoway playing so happy on the tramp and Jane’s hair after a long brushing.

5/16/2025 Park time! Kennoway was really loving the swirly slide. I went on my first night EVER away from my kids. So it’s been 4 and a half years since I’ve had a night away. It was so much fun! I went to Villa Castrioti with Ashling and then we went back and watched a true crime documentary and talked until very early in the morning. I slept in until 11am and then we went to Novel, my favorite book store and explored. It was so much fun! A perfect girls weekend!

5/18/2025 Jane went to her friend Lily Anna’s birthday party at Pump it Up and then in the car I just saw her glowing and had to capture it. My little sunshine girl!

Happy Birthday Shaun!

5/5/2025 Shaun turns 32! Unfortunately he was sick all day but we still spoiled him as much as we could!

5/6/2025 Took Kennoway on a walk while Jane was at school. Saved this photo of Jane and her classmates, on a pajama day, today even though it was probably taken earlier. From left to right, Naomi, Julie, Jane, Summer, and Claire.

5/7/2025 Rainy day play date and FaceTime with uncle Tyler! Also couldn’t help taking a picture of my beautiful sleeping babies!

5/8/2025 Kennoway and I chillin outside in the amazing weather while Jane was at school. Her teachers sent me a few photos today! Jane and Julie with their towers they made and the three holding hands after school! Jane at gymnastics and her perfect curly hairs is the last photo!

5/9/2025 Jane reading a book to Kennoway, it was literally so sweet! Kennoway had a massive booger face! We went to the zoo and Jane pretended to be a mermaid in the sea lion show area. We went with Alexis and Ivy and said goodbye as they leave for three weeks. My silly goose’s in their “boats.” Kennoway protecting himself and his snack from Bella under the table. Not pictured is a fun night playing games with the Woolleys and staying up until 1am!

5/10/2025 More silly Kennoway booger face! We held a party for Shaun’s birthday! I forgot to take a picture with everyone but at least I got some! We had burgers and homemade root beer and Shaun made a cobbler. It was so fun!

It’s Gonna Be Mayyy 🎵

4/28/2025 We went to the Botanic Gardens with Julie and Erica. The weather was beautiful!

4/29/2025 Jane was taking pictures on my bed this morning and captured this one of Kennoway running on the bed in the mirror.

4/30/2025 We went to the library and Kennoway found a book with a picture that looked like daddy! We had Ivy and Alexis come play with us in the afternoon! Kennoway tried on Jane’s shoes.

5/1/2025 Pictures of Jane on her teachers bulletin! We are also babysitting Midnight the dog.

5/2/2025 We went on a walk on the Greenline today and it was literal perfection! It was so beautiful! We ended the day with some Gibson’s donuts.

5/3/2025 Jane has a new game of playing behind the couch. She’s so silly.

5/4/2025 Went on a walk today, it was lovely.

April 21-27 Grandma Cheatham Comes to Visit

4/21/2025 We went to the zoo to wait until Grandma flew in with the Summer’s. My mom flew out to see us and spend a week with us and it was Heaven! Her first day we played in the yard and went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. It was so fun!

4/22/2025 We went on a nice long walk in Shelby farms! It was so beautiful we had to get some photos!

4/23/2025 Today we went to the zoo and the the botanic gardens! It was crazy but so fun!

4/24/2025 Today we took Kennoway to the Children’s museum and then picked Jane up from school early and went to Chick-fil-A to play and eat! We taught Jane to play tilt and it was so fun!

4/25/2025 today we took the kids to Sega Gym otherwise known as “the jump rope gym.” We ended the day by going to One and Only BBQ and it was so yummy!

4/26/2025 Started Saturday off right by going to get donuts. Then we went to Hallie Dabney’s first birthday. It was so cute. We went home and played for a little and then my mom watched the kids while Shaun and I went to Becky Sue’s Shakespeare play. It was so good!

4/27/2025 A beautiful Sunday that ended with an awesome fireside by Jared Halverson. It was so fun having my mom visit!

Easter Day

Easter Day was a beautiful day! The kids went hunting for their Easter Eggs and opened their Easter baskets and then we got to get dressed in our new matching Easter dresses and drool bib and go to church and worship the real reason for Easter! Jesus Christ! I tried my best to say He is Risen to all of the people and it was such a beautiful day. I am so grateful for my savior Jesus Christ and all He has done for us. We later went and had a lovely Easter Dinner with our Memphis family Jess and Becky Sue Evans. The pictures of our family are in their backyard. Oh and I threw in one of Kennoway in a cute little Scottish outfit Dana gave him when they were here.

Holy Week

4/13/2025 My bestie Ashlyn Judd made these incredible coloring pages for my kids for Easter!

Kennoway having fun on the trampoline.

Shaun snoozing on the couch.

4/14/2025 Grandma and Grandpa Walker had to go home.

4/15/2025 I went to a birthday dinner with some of my girlfriends here in Memphis. We went to Bog & Barley an Irish restaurant and I got the Scottish Salmon and Creme brûlée for dessert. It was so much fun!

Left to right: Alexis Clarke, Becky Sue Evans, Emily Driscoll, Me, Jill Dabney, Bethany Malinka, Ashling Woolley, and Raechel Bateman.

4/16/2025 Botanic Gardens fun!

Oaklawn Gardens in the afternoon with Alexis and Ivy. Jane: “Look mom! A missionary tree.” Mom: “What makes it a missionary tree?” Jane: “It has a tag!”

Shaun couldn’t find an apron so he used his old kid apron from Home Depot.

4/17/2025 A fun birthday plant surprise came in the mail from my mom and the kids love playing in the box. Kennoway intently reading a book in the car. A big blue bubble I blew. Jane in her mermaid costume she saved up for. Screenshot of FaceTime with GMA and Gpa Walker. Birthday present from my friend Erica Summers.

4/18/2025 The Best Birthday

Shaun surprised me with a day full of plans. He first took me and the kids to Sunrise Memphis for breakfast. Then I got to take some watches in to get new batteries. Then thrift store time! Then a surprise trip to the local butcher to pick out some filet steak for a yummy dinner and cake! It was a lovely day. I felt so loved. Also pictured is Kennoway making little car towers out of legos. Jane making a balloon head of me for my birthday, and growing her little garden.

4/19/2025

A book that resembles Jane and Kennoway. Easter Egg hunts and a fun day!

April 7-12

April 7

Jane turns 4.5! We took some fun pictures to celebrate!

We went to library story time and had a lot of fun. Jane has been wearing this very long makeshift string as her hair lately and decided she wanted to wear it to the library. Haha it’s so cute!

April 8

Grandma and Grandpa Walker got Jane a grow kit for her birthday in Oct and now they could finally plant it together!

Jane and daddy eating dinner outside.

Jane’s painting. I kept trying to get her to tape a cross to paint around but she refused. And then when I picked her painting up after she was done I was surprised to see she had unknowingly painted the empty tomb scene.

April 9

We visit the botanic gardens with Grandpa Walker. Grandma Walker fell sick and was resting.

April 10

Pretty chill day, Kennoway being silly, Jane at gymnastics. Going to the BBQ shop for the first time. Seeing Jane wrote a J from memory for the first time on a napkin. Pretty sunset afterwards.

April 11

Jane has been making Lego things. This is her trophy she made. Grandma playing Mario bros on the game boy with the kids.

We went on a walk to see the turtles. Grandma W reading books to Kennoway.

April 12

Went to Shelby Farms to meet the Easter Bunny. Jane was not a fan, very scared. Haha Kennoway kept wanting his picture taken in each egg.

I prepared an Easter party for our branch. It turned out great!

April Showers

3/30/2025 Silent Lightning storm and also week 13 hands (or hand of God how I interpreted it) Shaun and I sat outside and watched the silent lightning storm while the kids slept. It was such an interesting phenomenon!

4/2/2025 Morning Snuggles and some Children’s Museum fun!

Also a crazy storm of the century came to Memphis and flooded our road. Luckily the drains have been working and soon after the rain stopped it drained!

4/3/2025 Kennoway turns 18 months old! I take his photos at crosstown concourse and show him some art while Jane is at school. His favorite word right now is Cars which he says a lot as he points outside at them.

I picked up Jane in the craziest rain storm and almost didn’t make it out of a huge flooded road.

Dana and Ray come to visit! We eat at Huey’s to celebrate. Jane drew a heart on the wall. She’s really good at those lately!

4/4/2025 grandma and grandpa probably read the kids a million trillion books today. Haha

4/5/2025 General Conference weekend! Yay!!

4/6/2025 More General Conference! Homemade Cinnamon rolls (dad’s recipe).

March on continued..

3/24/2025 a fun Monday! Easter decorating and our first bike ride of the year. 5 miles! Got to see the turtles and play in the back yard!

3/25/2025 Jane at the doctor confirming her allergies. At school having fun. Botanic garden fun! Shaun sleeping on the couch.

3/26/2025 Zoo, home play, and bedtime smiles!

3/27/2025

3/28/2025 Children’s Museum adventures and two cuties who can’t leave mama alone when she goes potty.

3/29/2025 Shaun and I finally got to go to the temple together. First time this year! Curly boy hair from the humidity and a relief society party and youth fundraiser all in one day!

3/30/2025 Jane in primary with the treasure marble she found

I helped decorate the primary for our branch to make it feel a little more welcoming.

March on continued..

3/34/2025 a fun Monday! Easter decorating and our first bike ride of the year. 5 miles! Got to see the turtles and play in the back yard!

3/25/2025 Jane at the doctor confirming her allergies. At school having fun. Botanic garden fun! Shaun sleeping on the couch.

3/26/2025 Zoo, home play, and bedtime smiles!

3/27/2025

3/28/2025 Children’s Museum adventures and two cuties who can’t leave mama alone when she goes potty.

3/29/2025 Shaun and I finally got to go to the temple together. First time this year! Curly boy and girl hair from the humidity and a relief society party and youth fundraiser all in one day! Top it off with the cutest bath boy and man what a day.

3/30/2025 Jane in primary with the treasure marble she found

I helped decorate the primary for our branch to make it feel a little more welcoming.

Shaun and I watched a really cool lightning storm in the front yard for a while!

March on…

3/18/2025 Jane built a cool tower at school and then we went to the Botanic Gardens and had popsicles. Kennoway was especially excited about sunglasses and popsicles.

3/19/2025 Zoo Day and it was a fun one! And a little home play day as well!

3/20/2025 all my babies with their favorite ball to play with haha

3/21/2025 I gave in and bought a Children’s museum pass for the super hot and cold days. Let’s hope it doesn’t kill me. Haha

Convinced Shaun to take me to Texas Roadhouse and it was so good! Love that place!

Jane got her long awaited roller skates in the mail! She saved $30 for them by not waking up mommy and daddy at night and by not crying when going to school. And of course doing some chores.

3/22/2025 Mommy and Jane date to see Snow White live action. It was so good and we had so much fun.

Chill dude Kennoway and more Jane roller skating adventures.

Went to a baptism and Jane decided to do a photoshoot and then afterwards went to the park to practice more roller skating!

3/23/2025 Popcorn popping on the trees in Memphis! Humidity is back just in time for all my new baby hairs from postpartum hair loss to frizz. Hahaha

Night Photography prompt for my weekly project!

March Madness

Well it’s been a few weeks. I better post before I’m drowning in photos! We’ll start it off with a “tumble weave” we found in our driveway. Hahaha

3/4/2025

3/5/2025 kisses, silly Jane, and Jane’s tape and paper elephant!

3/6/2025 Kennoway is popping loads of teeth! He has several on the bottom coming out too!

3/7/2025

3/8/2025

3/9/2025

3/10/2025 Spring Break week! We had a lot of fun and started off strong with library story time, the Botanic Gardens, and a good walk.

3/11/2025 the “jump rope gym” aka Sega gym toddler time! Then in the afternoon we went to Avon Park.

3/12/2025 Zoo Day!

3/13/2025

3/15/2025 Jane took the first photo of Kennoway while we were Watching a lightning storm! She also caught the first photo of the lightning! It was so fun!

3/17/2025 St Patrick’s Day! Library story time and Botanic Gardens! Kennoway is obsessed with these neon pink tennis shoes somebody gave us! Jane with her new friend Brody! It was a hard night!

March begins

3/1/2025 we went to the botanic gardens and got to see the new trolls there. We also ran into lots of friends randomly. It almost felt like we were true Memphians. I loved the moon tonight so I took a quick snap of it.

3/2/2025 Jane drew our family as cats at church.

End of February Adventures

2/19/2025 Jane and Kennoway have a morning adventure. Jane does a photo shoot of Kennoway.

2/20/2025 I make homemade pop tarts with my friend Ashling! Yum! Jane loves to pose with one eye squinting haha

2/21/2025 play date with Julie. Jane had so much fun she keeps asking to go back.

2/22/2025 Played stake basketball with some other women and my team won!

2/23/2025 Kennoway having fun in Nursery and kids matching pajamas. Kennoway saying “cheese”

My week 8 prompt black and white

2/24/2025 Jane pretending she’s pregnant and library story time shenanigans. Julie hugs at the park.

2/25/2025 Kennoway on our walk around Shelby Farms Park. Jane and Kennoway playing in the nice weather in our backyard.

2/26/2025 matching outfits from Grandma Cheatham! So cute! Zoo day in the good weather with Ivy! Sailor Moon shirts and Kennoway with Jacob Summers at the park.

2/27/2025 goofy selfie of me. Jane in new Easter dress from Grandma Cheatham. Kennoway in daddy’s old hat. Kennoway and Becky Sue. Kennoway and Lego quatros! New toy to play with little people jungle. Daddy brought home big paper so he traced Jane and Kennoway on it.

Jane and Kennoway’s first haircut

Kennoway’s hair was getting really long so we thought it time to get him a haircut and since Jane had never had one we thought we’d get her one too! They both did so great! The kids haircut place was so cute!

Valentine’s and More

We are fixing up our kitchenette in the Airbnb and so I got to hold a Galentine’s party in the Airbnb and it was so much fun! We had Italian soda’s and treats and watched Ever After.

Valentine’s Day was a blast! Jane and Julie had a play date at our house and played dress up and we took our annual Valentine photo with Jane and Kennoway. Had heart shaped pizza for dinner and at the end of the night found Bella sleeping on the car mat haha.

The kids wore matching dog outfits thanks to Grandma Cheatham. Jane wanted to show off her hand stand. Kennoway wanted to wear big gloves. Jane made herself a crown from magnet tiles at church.

Week 6 prompt Get Close. Kennoway sleeping.

Playing with light with the kids.

January Ends, February Begins

Kennoway brushing Jane’s hair, an absolutely crazy day of going to the zoo, the thrift store, and seeing for the first time Memphis Bauhaus a very cool abandoned building here.

Jane’s teacher Ms. Breanne sent me these of Jane at school and then afterwards we went to Jane’s first gymnastics practice at Wimbleton Gymnastics.

A beautiful day at Crosstown Concourse! Some silly Shenanigans.

I told Kennoway to say cheese and here he is saying it for the first time!

Kennoway likes to put and carry things in his shirt lately!!

Big sis helping little bro eat breakfast while mom feels like crap. We were all sick this week but somehow I for sure got the brunt of it.

This week

From my weekly challenge, 1/19/2025 Rule of Thirds. First image is the one I used, others are just extras.

1/22/2025 Jane wore some hand me downs with a cute photographer shirt. Kennoway came into the bathroom with daddy’s hat on. Finally got my paintings hung up together of my babies. Grandma C got Kennoway a new hoodie. Kennoway tries on the owl hat and looks in the mirror with Jane.

1/24/2025 Kennoway wears a cape and plays on the obstacle course Jane made. He climbed on Jane’s bed and started reading books to himself. Kennoway and I in front of the Memphis temple. Sparkly kids. Week 4 Prism/Mirror.

1/25/2025 Mimi and Kennoway reading a story. Jane’s water color painting, she’s such a natural!

1/26/2025 my thrifted all linen church fit. A cute accident photo of Kennoway at church. My little Clarkey boy wearing plaid. Jane took photos of me, Shaun, and the missionaries (Elder Bartlett and Elder Bates) during dinner. Kennoway playing “stuck” on the floor.