Kyra Swimming

This video is of Kyra after 1 week of swim lessons

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Make A Wish

We went to Austin to support Make A Wish, my brothers and sister-in-law rappelled 32 stories down the America First building downtown Austin. I'm very jealous that my arm was still too weak for me to do it. The Santa costume is for the costume contest, not sure if they won but I think they should just because they all three did it. Overall it was a great event that help raise money to grant wishes for some well deserving kids. Thanks Bob & Shirley for including us!

Updated Pictures

With Kyra turning 1 and Emmie being 3 it was time for some updated pictures. The girls did pretty good and we got some nice pictures of out little ones.

Kyra Turns 1!!

On Friday Kyra turned 1, she's a precious little girl. It's been amazing to see her grow in the last year. She's adores Emmie and Hank and is working on her words. She's a big fan of the water. Although she's not walking yet she's pretty close if she'd stop thinking about it I think she could do it.

Chris and I are so fortunate to have 2 perfect little angles be apart of our lives. Thanks to everyone for all the warm birthday wishes we had a great Birthday weekend!

Wedding Weekend

We went to our friends Thomas and Lenae's wedding this past weekend in the Texas Hill Country. Against the odds both Chris and I managed to escape work for an extended weekend away to enjoy the wedding activities. Here are a few pictures.
Congrats to the cute couple!

Updates

Granddad has been spending a lot of time helping us out the last couple of months, we really couldn't have made it without him. Here he is swimming with the girls. Emmie has been doing great at swim, she has finally started turning over to catch her breath but she still spends a lot of time underwater (she swims under water like her uncle Scott). Kyra loves the water including the pool.

I went to check on Emmie one evening when she was watching her show before bed, well she'd gone outside and gotten Kyra's swim turtle - this is what I found...

The newest Hanvey - he's a good boy with alot of energy. He loves Kyra and she loves to feed him, her food. I'm a little surprised she likes to feed him given that kid is always hungry you'd think she wouldn't want to share. He definetly favors Chris

Visit to Granny's

I had to be in London for work this week so I flew in a day early to take my Granny to dinner. Michael, Lisa, Granny and I had a short but nice visit. Weather has been amazingly good for the UK, no rain and sun every day - still cold but at least it's not snowing and raining.




Apparent Michael claims he's unable to keep his eyes open so this is the best picture we could get.

Hank

Meet Hank, he's a lab mix about 1 1/2 years old, loves to chew on anything you let him have and loves to chase balls. He's a sweet guy who thinks he fits in your lap. He is now an official member of the Hanvey family and like any good Hanvey dog is already starting to cost us money by going to obedience training (this time before any damage to our furniture). He is set to finish his initial round of training in two weeks, we can't wait to get him back home. Kyra adores him - she gets so excited to see him, I'll get some video when he's back home. Thanks to Ellan and Linda for helping us find Hank!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

We celebrated Kyra's 1st Christmas with her crawling...yes she's mobile so life is about to get even crazier - I don't know how but we will manage. Emmie has no idea that Christmas and Birthdays are not a week of her getting gifts and parties for her. Even on Christmas she asked if the party was for her. Our house looks like Toys R Us emptied a big truck in it. So all in all I'd say the we all enjoyed ourselves.

Birthday Week

On Wednesday Emmie will turn 3 ~ I can't believe she's growing up so fast. We had her birthday party this weekend (I will post pictures later) and as always she bounced her little heart out. On Sunday Lala and Ellan took her and a few other kidos to go see the Christmas show at Second Baptist and today she got her first car. I wish I was three!!! Considering how spoiled she is she's actually a pretty sweet little girl. Little miss Kyra is doing good too, she wanted to ride with her big sis this morning. We are very blessed and lucky to have them both!

Just for Fun

It's been a while since we posted pictures so here are a few we took today to catch up. Kyra is already 6 months and Emmie turns 3 in a couple of months. Kyra can alomost sit up on her own and is starting to figure out how to go backward in her walker. Emmie loves going to preschool and is learning a lot.

UT Football Season

The UT Football season has officially arrived and Emmie was ready to go at her very first UT game. As UT was playing at Reliant we decided this was the game to take her to this year. We got very lucky as some generous stranger handed Chris free tickets at the game (will have to pay it forward someday). She did great and she loved it (the cotton candy before the game probably helped out too). She was working on her "Hook'em" (still needs a little work) and kept yelling "Fight" (we were on the Fight side of the statium). She cheered and clapped like crazy.


Kyra had a nice quite day staying home with Granny and Grandad watching the game on TV.

Video of the Girls

Emmie Diving

Kyra and Uncle A

Kyra at 4 Months

Kyra went for her 4 month check up last week and she's 14 lbs. She's a whole pound heavier than Emmie was, 1/4 inch shorter and has a bigger head. She's already wearing all the clothes Emmie wore at 6 months. Here are a few shots of her getting ready to go swimming.