Kennedi is Walking

It is official Kennedi is now walking! Yahoo! She is loving her freedom. I tried to get the video to upload but it is not working so I will have to load it later.

Kennedi's Birthday

        (day of her blessing 6 weeks old -cant believe how time flies)

 The little green fish was her cake and the "school of fish" cupcakes were for everyone else.

So Kennedi is almost one. Her birthday is the 26th and I can not believe that she is already one. On Sunday we had family over and celebrated her birthday. I made some cupcakes into fish and her own fish cake to destroy. She really wasn't into the cake and was more fascinated or annoyed with the frosting. I don't know if she exactly wanted to wipe it all off or liked playing with it. I think she ate like 5 bites of cake. She is so funny and so different from Weston. She is starting to get her first teeth and will probably get them soon. She is starting to walk more - 6 steps is the record so far and talking a little. She is just such an easy going baby and really finds her own entertainment and doesn't need anyones help. I am so glad she is part of our family - even with the red hair :)

Christmas

Here is Kennedi in our cupboard of toys she figured out how to climb up into the cupboard with a stool. No coaching involved - just found her like that. She just does her own thing and doesn't need help.

 For Christmas we were down in California and we decided to go to Sea World since in April when we went down we got a year pass for the same price as a day pass. We left Kennedi with my mom and just took Weston. There was no one there and so was fantastic. Weston was telling us where we needed to go on the map.

 Christmas morning at my brother (Mike's) house. All kids right before they saw what Santa brought.

 Weston and Zack playing shuffle board at my parents house. Weston loved being with all his cousins. Can you believe they are wearing shorts in December. What a life!

So I guess I have posted for a while cause I do not understand how this works with posting pictures and stuff. We went down to California for Christmas. We hadn't been down for Christmas for at least 3 years; last time we went Weston wasn't even born. It was fun to be with my family but didn't get much sleep - my kids decide to not sleep thru the night once. Weston I think was scared and crawled in bed with us every night. So we were glad to get home into our own beds. On the way home though (only 80 miles til home) our car broke down and we had to get towed all the way home. Kennedi now cries every time she gets into her car seat.

Westons Birthday

Last week we had Weston's birthday party. It was so much fun. We did a combine party with his friend Garett and we did a super hero birthday party. We had the "super hero trainees" go thru an obstacle course where they had to "fly" (aka jump) over buildings, lift a 100 pound weight (made of sytrofoam) and crawl thru a tunnel and rescue a dog. We had them pin the logo on to the super hero and throw water balloons at a "villain" (aka Joe) and do a pinata. We also made capes for them with their first initial on the back. They had a ton of fun and looked awesome. Here are some pics:

Weston trying to break the pinata

Listening to Garetts mom talk about how we need to fight the villain and to make him leave our party.

After defeating the villain

Weston "flying" over the buildings in the obstacle course
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All their capes

All the "super hero trainees"

And last of all but not least at all.. (probably Weston's favorite part) - getting cake!

Weston's Surgery

Weston had surgery a couple weeks ago on his thumb. A while back he fell off a stool in the kitchen and hurt his thumb. We went to the urgent care that night because we thought he had dislocated his thumb. Come to find out after an x-ray that he had a thing called trigger thumb. It could have been there since birth or not, but it caused that his thumb could not straighten all the way. So he had to get surgery in which they had to put him under and cut his thumb and cut a pullee. It wasn't a super intense surgery but the fact that they had to put him under scared me. Especially since he is scared of a lot of things. He actually did really well and the nurses and doctors were great. He didn't even cry which the nurse says that 95% of the patients do.
Here is weston in his gown watching tv while we were waiting to go in:



After the surgery... to put him asleep they told him how he had to blow up a balloon and after surgery he wanted his balloon that he blew up, so they blew up a glove and he wanted to hold it. He was such a good sport. Here he is recovery and coming out of his sleepiness.

So he kept his cast on his hand for 10 days and the next day we went up to the gateway in which there are water fountains, well Weston was playing in there since he could get his hand wet and slipped and fell. He chipped his front tooth really bad and so below is the picture of his tooth... (POOR KID)

Summer Fun

Well life has been lots of fun especially since it is finally warm outside. We are loving our little girl that is now able to roll over and sit up by herself for at least a little bit.

Everyone wanted to be under Kennedi's play thing

Our lioness (Joe's favorite thing is always put shirts or shorts or dresses over the kids heads because it just looks so funny. This was a tutu dress and so the extra ruffles made a beautiful mane)

We went to Lake Powell a week or two ago. They days are all starting to run together. Here are some pictures:
Joe and Weston on the tubes. He actually loved tubing. I was impressed since he is a scardy cat but I think it is because he didn't have to get in the water.

Weston driving the house boat

Weston trying the knee board behind the boat. He didn't really want to do it but we thought he should at least try it.

This is him after the first attempt. He would not let go of the rope even after he fell off the knee board. He basically was dragged under the water the whole time. I felt so bad for him.

Where does the time go?

Well I have been looking at my blog and realized that I haven't posted for quiet some time. Where does the time go? My baby is now 4 months old and can not believe that these 4 months seem to have flown by so fast. I have been truly enjoying my little girl and so grateful for her sweet spirit. I wonder what she will be like when she gets older? She is so calm and hardly cries unless she is tired or her brother hurts her (which is often). She is very easy going and wonder if she will keep that disposition when she gets older. She has been sleeping through the night since 2 months and so feel like I have been able to enjoy her more than I did when Weston was a baby because I actually get some sleep. We went down to California for Spring Break which was nice to get out of the fickle weather here. I flew back on an airplane for the first time by myself with 2 kids,which actually was fine since the airplane wasn't full and Kennedi slept the whole time.
I have also been able to finally finish Weston's bedroom and I really do love it. My wonderful husband helped to bring a lot of my ideas to life. He built me picture frames and then helped me to screw the liscense plates on the frames. Well here are some pictures...

Westons bedroom (the next 4 pictures)




My liscense plate picture frames that Joe and I made:



Here is a picture of Kennedi at 2 months:

Everyone thinks Weston is such a good kid until they get to know him and realize he is a handful. Since quiting my job - I have been spending lots of time with him and sometimes I wish I can go back to my job so that I dont have to keep him out of trouble. He is so crazy and has so much energy and he never stops. He is also a monkey - always climbing, jumping and hanging off things. (Here is him in our closet)

Weston & Kens

Weston painting eggs for Easter. He did an awesome job.

Weston loves to hold hands with Kennedi

Kens at 4 months: