April 24 2010 : I Predict

Baby Boy Benson will arrive promptly, if not early to join our family with no screaming and plenty of night time sleeping! How I hope I am right!!!!!! I suppose we are safe to say we are having a boy! (although the Dr. says he's only 90 percent sure... I don't totally understand that, but I will take my chances:))

On a smaller note... we need name help! Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have only one issue: I love names that end with the on/en sound BUT I'm not crazy about how it sounds with Benson. So if we could avoid that, I would be grateful. Thanks for your help!!

Fall Update

Apparently we are blogging by season now so expect the next update in oh... April or May. Here's the rundown for the last couple of months:)
Kenadee's 2nd Birthday!!
We took Kenadee and her two cousins Reese and Ally to the Treehouse Children's museum and they had a ball!! we will definitely be spending more time there this winter when we are couped up in the house:) Then we had a Dora bday party at kena's request. She was so excited and seriously planned the whole thing herself. All she wanted (and talked about for a solid month) were Party hats, balloons, and goody bags! oh and cupcakes so that's what we did and she is still talking about it! Doesn't take much to please her!






State Soccer
We had a blast watching Heidi play soccer her senior year and they made it all the way to the state championship! They ended up taking 2nd and Heidi did AWESOME!! that girl can play ball! We made goofy T-shirts for the 3 of us and had a great time cheering for Motown!




Halloween
Kenadee REALLY wanted to be a witch this year (despite my best efforts to persuade her to go as wonderwoman)so I gave in a got her a witch costume. However, when we got the costume home she REFUSED to put it on for DAYS. She kept saying "mom, my witch costume is too scary to try on" I had given up on her wearing the witch outfit when at the last minute I decided to give it one more try. We were on our way to a neighborhood kids halloween party (where costumes were going to be worn and we had none) So I told Kenadee that all the kids who wore costumes would get candy in their trick or treat bags but kids who didnt wear costumes would get nothing. If only I had known it would be that EASY! She immediately said "wears my witch hat and my dress?" and that was that she didn't take her witch outfit of for 3 days after that! She obviously has a sweet tooth (like her mom)
halloween pics to come:)

Summer Fun

Emma, Kena, and Ally "Snack Pack Finger Painting" (yes Kenadee still has a binkie and she is almost two. The kid just won't give it up. and don't even get me started on her "yellow blankie" Ugh!)

So far we have had a great summer! I'm a pretty big loser at snapping pictures of our family activities and this I regret... so I will have to try harder at that. For now here is a quick run down of our adventures!

- Kenadee has Loved and I mean LOVED the park this year! We have gone at least once a week and she can't get enough!! I think she would live on a swing if she could!

-Kenadee loves hanging out with Emma too and we have been so glad to have them around for a couple of months! She also Loves her cousin Ally and basically worships her) They have loved picnics, snack pack finger painting, slippin slide/sprinklers and playing with Thumper our kind of creepy cat.

-We went to Bear Lake this past weekend and played in the water and camped. Kenadee loved the water and pretended to "swim" for hours! When Grandpa Vern asked her if she was a fish she said " I'm not a fish. I'm a girl! and a Kena!" I think she was a little insulted!

-We went to see the Blanks aka Teds Band at the Layton Amphitheater. (We are big scrubs fans!) I'm pretty sure we were the only people under 50 there too but it was still fun to see Ted and his buddies perform live! Kenadee wasn't a huge fan though. After the first song she kept saying "I don't want them to sing anymore" so it was a long night for her!

- Skyler had his company party at classic skating which we thought would be pretty lame to say the least since neither of us had snow balled since the 3rd grade! But... it turned out to be Really Fun!! We had a karaoke room complete with disco ball and a stage, we had a geat time on the blow up slides and bounce houses. Kenadee would go down the little slide and run over to us and give us both a big high five and then go again! She was so proud of herself! The best part was definitely the water slides though! Much faster than you might think! And Kenadee went down all of them with us! Man she is getting brave!

- We also enjoyed GI JOE and Transformers at the drive in movie... sadly... I didn't even make it through the first movie! Skyler was a little bummed about that! I ended up just having wierd dreams about Optimus Prime! Kenadee thought it was cool to watch tv in the car though!

- The Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House was also a lot of fun and so neat to get to take Kena and Ally inside such a beautiful building! Kenadee loves "Jesus Temples" and can spot one a mile away! sometimes any big building is a Jesus Temple to her! It can be pretty funny sometimes! We were sitting in the sealing room when out of nowhere Ally lifter up her shirt to show us a tattoo of nemo she had stuck on her belly earlier that day! it was pretty hard not to laugh at that!!


-We have also had lots of weddings, reunions, birthday parties etc... and have enjoyed spending some quality time with family! My grandpa and skyler's grandma both celebrated their 90th birthdays this year! We are so lucky to have them in our lives and we love them so much!

That concludes our summer fun for this year! Now the fun really starts since Skyler will be starting school tomorrow! more to come on that:)

The Lovely and Talented Fab Five!!!!!!

I am just as proud as punch to have such a talented friend!! If you didn't watch it this week check out this video of my dear Veva and sisters on America's got talent!! And then make sure you vote for the Fab Five!!!!!!!!!!!! They are amazing!!!

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Utah's Hogle Zoo

We took Kenadee to the Zoo for the first time last weekend. She loved it for the most part...we forgot her stroller so that made the day extra special:) Her favorites were the monkeys,bunnies, giraffes, and elephants. She also especially enjoyed the carousel (she rode a kangaroo but called it a bunny the whole time!) and train, and of course the orange dream bar!

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