LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE

JOHN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Steph and Keira got invited to attend our neighbor John's 95th birthday party. John dressed up in his nicest suit and tie for the big occassion down in The Plaza's clubhouse and family from all over the midwest were there to celebrate with him. Keira was the hit of the party though, being passed around left and right like fancy artifacts at a 3rd grader's show-and-tell. And she worked the crowd with a performance that even took Stephanie by surprise, just cooing and making cute sounds for all the ladies to see and hear. Everybody in the room wanted a baby at that point, but once Steph brought her back up the apartment, she was reminded that it was all an act cause the baby immediately started balling

The sun don't even phaze me yo. I'm just straight chill'n with daddy in me fancy duds and a wacked hat, so back up off my ghetto grill. Let me break it down for ya'll. This crib out here in Jop Town is dope. Now I'm gonna go get me a diaper dizzle with my mommy-mo-mizzle. Word.

Lost in the LOVE SAC. Just to give you an idea how absolutely ginormous the love sac is, Keira is like a single grain of sand on an island beach. If we dressed her in black, you may not even know she was there

NAKED AND PROUD

I sense a belly burp is coming your way

Grandma Grandpa Vance Arrive

Baby holds bottle on her own for 1st time. One of her many sweetacious tricks

Grandpa telling Keira about the horses back at the ranch in California

Lady in Red lights up for Grandma and Granpa Vance who were in the middle of their trip across America. They drove over 3,000 miles just to see these infamous cheeks

SMILE ALERT

We originally thought Keira may have been suffering from some form of baby depression because she never smiled. Well, needless to say, she broke out of it!

CHURCH DEBUT

Keira finally made her long awaited appearence to the Joplin 1st Ward. For the most part, she was a little angel, sleeping through the entire Sacrament Meeting along with the high councilman

I had to fight off all the folks who wanted to squeeze her expanding cheeks and tell her how cute she looked in her new brown dress and bow

However, her debut wasn't all pretty. She cut the cheese several times while Daddy was watching her in Elder's Quorum, severly throwing off Brother VanHoose's lesson about the gifts of the Spirit. And I'm not talking about the subtle ones. They were loud, unassuming bursts of air protruding into the diaper. Morgan wanted to take her out to change her, but it had been so long since he'd been to the 3rd hour of church due to work conflicts, he decided to stick it out as the gas continued.

MAY STORMS WREAK HAVOK

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A series of tornados swept through the Four States on the evening of Saturday May 10th. Stephanie and Keira took cover in The Plaza's clubhouse while Morgan was at work. Morgan had his entire 6 o'clock sport's segment produced and ready to go about 5:30 when the chaos broke loose in parts of Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas. A tornado was even spotted by KSN's chief meterologist, Gary Bandy, not too far from the station and instructed everybody there to be ready to duck and cover, meanwhile, giving updates to viewers every few minutes. Needless to say, sports was cancelled that day and Morgan volunteered to take up as a news reporter. He drove out to a small town called Granby, Missouri where folks had lost everything in the flash of an eye. These are a few small examples of what a ticked off Mother Nature can do.

We were fortunate enough not to be hit ourselves, unlike the 24 who lost their lives, not to mention the countless others who had everything demolished, lost or scattered. Morgan was proud of Steph and the baby for braving the moody and unpredictable elements, while he wept side by side with some of those affected.