2010

Highlights from 2010



My friend Ashley, who is a fellow blogger actually inspired me to do this, she just doesn't know it yet ;), I was reading her blog on her Chicken Pot Pie and started reading some of her other posts and saw she did a blog all about 2010, and I decided I would do the same, I don't have pictures of everything and I can't remember some months but I will try my hardest!

January:

8 weeks and 6 days pregnant

My husband started his security job at the Electric Cowboy, and I stayed home for my New Year's Eve, I was about 2 months pregnant and suffering from horrible morning sickness that seemed to last all day on some occasions, New Year's Day was spent at Marcy's eating black eyed peas and sauerkraut as per tradition for the Swift family.

February:

Our Gram, we sure do miss her!

I started a temp job at APERS (Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System), where I fell in love with everyone I worked with, and the best part? My mother-in-law works at DHS which was just two blocks from my office and we got to have lunch quite often, I really miss that most days. One of the saddest parts about February was we lost Gram (Tom's maternal Grandmother), it was very sad, she had two great grandbabies on they way that she never got to meet, but I know she's watching them from heaven and smiling :)

March:



IT'S A GIRL!



We found out we were having a precious baby girl! We fought over names for weeks even months when we finally settled on Kinsey Ashley Swift, we were so excited for her arrival! We also had Gram's funeral the 2nd of this month, that was very hard on everyone, we miss her so bad!





April:

The newest addition to the family, Parker Lee Boyd!



My truck AKA The Big Red Truck



On April 23rd, my sister-in-law had her second child, a precious little boy named Parker, he is such a sweet baby, and him and Kinsey are 3 months apart, I think they'll be really good playmates, and Laila is one happy big sister!  Also, (and I have to throw this in there) that same day I got my first truck! I LOVE MY TRUCK! I never thought I would own one but when you are married to a country boy you learn to love them, by this point I am six months pregnant and I am starting to become miserable! We also found out this month that Tom's cousin Laura was pregnant! That was a big shock to everyone, it was an epidemic for the girls in our family, we still blame it on Jill since she was the first! ;)



May:

Tom left for Blytheville this month, the first time we were ever apart from each other! He was gone on and off the last three months of my pregnancy, it was so hard with him being so far away, I was so afraid something was going to happen and he wouldn't get here in time, I started spending a lot of time with my mom and dad at this point!

June:





Surprise baby shower at APERS!

Her napkins matched the cake, Community Bakery did an AWESOME job!

I really hated to see June come, because it meant that my temp job at APERS was over! I was so sad to be leaving all those wonderful ladies I worked with, but it was good timing with Kinsey getting so close to coming, I had a few weeks off where I could get done what needed to be done before her arrival! My favorite part about this month, my baby showers! I had two, one was at the Holiday Inn in Bryant and the other one was a surprise one thrown by my co-workers at APERS, I was so surprised! Kinsey got SO much stuff and I had SO much fun going through all of it and getting her nursery all set up, it was precious!

Baby shower at Holiday Inn

July:

We celebrated July 4th, with some friends by having a cook out and swimming, let's just say being almost 9 months pregnant, outside in the middle of summer is no fun! I was so exhausted by the time it was all over with, I fell asleep in the truck on the way home and I was tired for days!

On July 21, 2010 at 12:49pm we welcomed Kinsey Ashley Swift into our family! This was by far the best day of my life (besides me marrying my husband)! I still can't believe I am a mommy, Kinsey is such a good baby, very easy! I think it's safe to say if I have another baby I am in trouble, I will get a hard baby knowing my luck!

Kinsey Ashley Swift
July 21, 2010

6pds. 14oz.

12:49 pm

August:

Kinsey and Aunt Marcy, can't believe Kinsey was ever that tiny!

I celebrated my 25th birthday on August 1st, it really just felt like another day, I just had Kinsey about a week and a half ago and I was still trying to settle into motherhood, but Tom took me to lunch at Olive Garden in North Little Rock and then we went to Marcy and Brock's so she could see her Great Niece, it's hard to believe Kinsey was EVER that small!

September:

I went back to work full time on September 27th, it was so hard for me to leave Kinsey all day, but thankfully I have a wonderful babysitter who she just adores and I trust with all my heart, I do not worry about Kinsey when she is with Miss Laverne, I know she is in good hands!

We also got Parker and Kinsey together for the first time since Kinsey was born, boy did Parker look like a giant compared to little Kinsey! I still think they will be good playmates when they get older :)



Kinsey and her cousin Parker



She won her first belt buckle!

We also celebrated Hayley's 11th birthday this month, wow! Can't believe my girl is 11, she was only 7 when me and Tom got together, she has grown up so much since then, she'll almost be a teenager next year! We celebrated by staying at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Bryant, mainly because it has an indoor pool, that child loves to swim! She got all kinds of goodies for her birthday, but her favorites by far were her horse games for her DS and a DVD that she had been wanting, what am I going to do when she becomes a teenager?!? And speaking of Hayley she won her first belt buckle at a horse show! Her daddy couldn't be any prouder! Kinsey discovered her feet and we realized that she was teething, that is a really hard stage of mother hood to go through, many sleepless nights!


Kinsey and her big sister



She was very excited!

October

Lindsey did such a GREAT job on our first family photo session!

Kinsey turned 3 months old this month and celebrated her first Halloween! I was going to dress her up but unfortunately didn't find a costume in time, but thankfully her Nana (my mother in law), got her a onesie and pants set for Halloween, so that was her costume, she went as a baby!

We had our first family portraits done, they turned out so good! Lindsey you did a great job on these! We plan on getting more from you! Also Kinsey rolled over this month, can't believe at this point that she has gotten so big so fast! I'll cry when she turns a year old! Kinsey also got her first round of shots this month, that was absolutely horrible, Tom went with me and they had him to basically hold her down, oh my god it was so upsetting I think I cried more than she did, but after running a fever for a few days and being fussy she survived!

November:

The Titanic Museum

Part of the drive thru light show in Branson

Well, Kinsey took her first road trip, we went to Branson with my mom and my great aunt, we had a blast! And Kinsey did so good on the way up there, she slept the whole time! We went shopping, to a Christmas light show and to the Titanic museum it was so much fun I hated to come home! We also celebrated Thanksgiving, our first without Gram, it was so weird not having her there, and it was Kinsey and Parker's first Thanksgiving, unfortunately we didn't get to see them over the holidays. We went to Tom's moms in Cabot and then we went to his Grandpa's, she had a good first Thanksgiving! She stayed away from home for the first time without mommy, on Thanksgiving night, I had to work the Friday after for a half of a day and my mom was off and of course she jumped at the first opportunity to keep her without me around, it was nice to have a break but I was so glad to see her afterwards!

On November 17th, Tom's cousin Laura gave birth to her son Eli! He's so cute, we haven't got to see him yet due to Laura and Howard living in Chicago, so with round one of babies over with here is how the score stacks up; two boys and one girl, that's right Kinsey is the only girl out of this whole thing! Besides Hayley and Laila of course :)

Baby Eli

Our 1st Thanksgiving with Kinsey

December:

Grandpa and Kinsey

Look at all my presents!

Well with the year almost gone here is how we came out: We got pregnant, along with my sister-in-law who was also pregnant at the same time, I got my first truck, I got a new nephew, we had a beautiful baby girl and I (and Kinsey) got a new cousin, pretty good year so far!

We celebrated Gram's birthday by cooking out and Kinsey went to her first Christmas parade only to sleep through ALL of it! I couldn't believe it with all the music and sirens, but she did; slept through the whole thing. 

Hayley is in the band at school and she had her first Christmas concert on the 13th, we drove all the way to Heber Springs to see her play one song! Tom was so mad, and on top of that I was battling a HORRIBLE cold, I was so freaking sick! I had that crap for about two weeks, it was awful, then Tom ended up getting then the most horrible part, Kinsey got it, but we all survived!

We of course celebrated Kinsey's first Christmas! Christmas Eve is always spent at Tom's grandpa's and Christmas Day is traditionally spent at his mother's; but this year they went to see his stepfather's mother in Minnesota, so we certainly missed them, especially since it was Kinsey and Parker's first Christmas, and we didn't get to see Jill and them on Christmas either :( Kinsey got SO much stuff! Toys and clothes galore! I don't even think she has wore some of the stuff she got, but she has played with just about toy she got though, so I am glad I didn't waste my money on any of it!

On New Year's Eve I went out; by myself, well not really by myself but without my husband since he worked on New Year's Eve at the Electric Cowboy but thankfully that's where I went so I got my kiss at midnight and Renee was a good sport and went with me!

Ready to go out on New Year's Eve

I can't wait to see what 2011 holds for us, I hope it's an awesome year!