February

Another busy month! First, Kenadee got to experience first hand the benefits of living in Morgan and having a cowboy for an uncle! Cole took Ally an Kena sledding behind his horse in the field next to my parents house and they had a ball!
Next it was Valentines Day and Kenadee had blast drawing Valentines Cards and making treats for her Grandma's, Grandpas, and cousins. She decorated her own heart shaped rice crispy treats (wish I had a picture of them!) they were hillarious and she enjoyed every minute of it. especially eating the icing from the tube! Kena also got her own flowers delivered to the door on Valentines Day thanks to Papa Cary and a valentines day mix up:) He is going to have to do this every year I think now! She was so proud of her VERY OWN flowers! She had to water them everyday and put them on her own table in her room- funny! And to finish out the month we had a Potty Party at Fat Cats/ the Pizza Factory with Reese (Kena requested the venue-she LOVES that place) Yep- finally potty trained wahoo!! maybe the most frustrating thing I've done as a parent so far. I really have a lot to learn in the patience department! I will say she has done amazingly well with it once she decided it was HER idea and nobody elses:)

January

No pictures to be found for January. Surprise Surprise!Most of this month is a blur... I know New Years was a bust because the 3 of us all got the most violent stomach flu I think I have ever experienced. It was so sad to see my little girl so miserable. Most Firsts are exciting and memorable times. I will just say her first stomach flu was not so much exciting but most definitely memorable- yikes! Then Skyler and I celebrated our birthdays and honestly, I know we met up for lunch inbetween skyler's classes but I don't really remember the rest- better luck next year:)! I can't complain though, I will take lunch out with Skyler anyday! One thing I do remember about January is Basketball, Basketball and more Basketball!!!! Skyler played in his regular Monday night league with his Dad and they had a very successful season winning the championship for the first time ever!!! It was a battle and funny to watch the rivalry between friends! Skyler was also in charge of Churchball in our ward this year so he had two more nights dedicated to basketball since he had to play with the adults one night and coach the Young Men another. I think he was really disappointed that his life was filled with so much basketball (wink wink)

December

December is always an exciting month! We did the usual sledding, snowman building, holiday decorating etc., and it amazes me just how fun such things can be for a 2 year old! Kenadee got the biggest kick out of "Santa's Helpers" that visited her each day and left little treats in her advent calendar. She also couldn't wait to see what they would bring to the door each night as she received the 12 days of Christmas from some other "special helpers"! I can safely say this holiday season was the best ever! Kenadee was a little ball of energy and excitement. The look of sheer joy on her face when she saw her toys from Santa was worth more than any Christmas gift I could have received by a longshot! I had the best time watching her enjoy every little thing so completely! I can't wait for next year! (and as always, I need to post more pics of christmas day, sitting on santa's lap etc.) but here are a few for now:)

Addresses Please!

Hey everyone! It's that time of year again and I need updated addresses! I have last year's saved so if you have moved since last Christmas please send me your new address. If you haven't moved you should be covered:) Thanks for you help and have a very Merry Christmas!!

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:)