Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Happy Valentine's Day!











Cupid brought the kids some Valentine's Day gifts and some flowers for me! Kendall didn't want anything to do with the little stuffed giraffe she got, but was very interested in what Blake got....I swear, that kid can sniff out food from miles away! She eats constantly, but you'd never be able to tell that--she stays pretty slim! Blake wasn't interested in putting his red outfit on for pictures, so I took a few of Kendall by herself! Hope everyone had a happy Valentine's Day!



Brad is 20!!!














Happy 20th birthday to Brad! His birthday was the 10th, but we celebrated on Valentine's Day. Mimi was here in town and Pam, Sandy and Ryan also came over to our house and we had a really nice dinner and played some Wii.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Visit to the Park













We took a visit to the park a couple of weeks back when we were all off for MLK Day. It was a beautiful day, so we walked down to the neighborhood park and took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather. I think this is the first time we've gone to the park since Kendall's been old enough to really get what's going on. She enjoyed swinging, though if we pushed her too high, she'd get this look of fear on her face...lol! Blake, of course, loved riding his bike down to the park and ran around like a crazy person as usual. He always has to go down to the pond and thrown sticks or whatever he can find into the water. He loves looking for frogs and turtles, also. It was a fun day! I had to throw a picture from bath time in too...who doesn't want to see two cute little kids taking a bath? I mean, come on!!!


Monday, February 02, 2009

Kendall is quite the dancer..she will dance to absolutely anything! Can't wait to get her enrolled in dance class---oh, so cute! I took this video last night during the Super Bowl. It's not the best quality because I took it on my phone, but oh well...you get the idea! My camera saves videos as HUGE files, so I can't ever upload the ones I take from there...I'm gonna have to figure that one out. Anyway, enjoy!

Oh, and I feel bad because my blog has been Kendall dominated lately...I'll get some posts of Blake soon!!!!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Visit with The Lowry's












I realized I never posted any pictures from when we visited Michelle and her family when we were in Kansas. I didn't get as many pictures as I normally do for some reason, but here ya go. We miss you guys so much and are glad we can spend at least a little bit of time with you when we're in town!!!


10 Months













Well, Pretty Pretty Princess is 10 months old as of the 25th! I always try to take pictures of her on her monthly birthday for her First Year Frame, so here are some highlights from our photo shoot. The first pic is the very first one I snapped and it went down hill from there, so I was glad ot at least have one cute one for the frame!
Let's see....she's still not sleeping through the entire night...we put her down and she wakes up about 15 more times (exaggeration) to be comforted back to sleep, the paci put back in, etc. I have never wanted to let her cry it out because of her heart condidtion. She is off her acid reflux medication, yay! No more spitting up! She started kissing me, but only when it's her idea. You can't ask her for a kiss, you just have to accept it when she opens her slobbery mouth and tongues you! She's a "bye bye" expert, kinda pulls up on things, said "da da" to Bryce once, eats anything and everything--the kids LOVES food! She constantly blows raspberries and clicks her tongue. She's got such a fun, outgoing personality. When we're in public, she'll randomly holler as loud as she can, just so the entire store knows she's there. She's a sweet baby!!!!


Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Kendall


My darling daughter, I love her, but she is just not photogenic. As soon as you whip out the camera, any smiles, giggles, etc that were happening before are completely halted and this blank face is present. I decided we were going to have a photo shoot because I wanted a picture of Kendall with this yellow blanket to give to my Grandma Saundra who we recently found out has cancer. When I was a baby, she made this blanket for me, so it was special to me to be able to hand it down to my daughter! Anyway, out of like 25 pictures, I got one really cute one and thought I'd post it! We recently had Kendall's 9 month check up (I was a little behind due to the holidays) and she weighed in at 18lbs and was 26 inches long. Adria asked me why I always call her small when she seems pretty average, so I decided to look in Blake's baby book for some comparisons....at 9 months, he was 20lbs and 29 inches. So...he was a good bit longer than her and a couple of pounds heavier. I guess she just always seems so tiny to us because she started off so much smaller than Blake and she's able to wear clothes for so much longer than Blake did. She's about average for her height and weight, so that's good. She's crawling all over (her poor knees are red by the end of the day after crawling around on the wood floors, but she doesn't seem to mind) and I think she's trying to say "Blake". This morning when she saw him, she started saying "bah bah bah". I know, it's a stretch, but she doesn't say "bah" too often, so I was just thinking she was trying to make the B sound at the beginning of his name. Who knows? She does think he's rather hilarious! Oh, and she's proven to be a true groovin baby this month! She's quite the dancer! She'll bust a move to anything--commercials, her toys, my singing...whatever, she doesn't care. I keep trying to get a video, but, as I said before, as soon as I pull out the camera, she stops any movement. I'll keep trying....

Thursday, January 15, 2009

One More Christmas














We had one last Christmas with Bryce's mom on New Year's Day. It was a nice, relaxing afternoon hanging out at Bryce's mom's house. We got a Nintendo Wii and a Wii Fit, which has been helping me with my weight loss goal! If you don't have one, you need one! I love working out with the Fit! It's so much fun! Hopefully my booty will disappear soon enough!

Whew, I think I'm caught up now!

This took a long time to get him to do this!!! But, '09 bay-bay!
Virtual hug!!!

Happy New Year!




























Well, I look pretty huge here, but whatever....
This was our Christmas with my mom and everyone...




Christmas Photo Shoot





















We had another Christmas with The Kendall Family (my grandma's side of the family--Kendall's namesake)