Friends

I just got these pictures from Andrea Green and I have to share them. Kennidi and friends.

The Last month and a half

So the last month and a half has been crazy. It all stared on January 26 at 3:30 A.M. McKinlee woke up with a 103.5 degree temperature. SO we call Kristi and my parents and Kristi comes down to stay with Kennidi. So we rush off to the Emergency room and after 3 and a half hours we find out that she has a double ear infection. so she goes on medication. Two weeks later Kennidi gets a fever and yeap, ear infections. So she goes on the same medication. That next week Kennidi gets allergies. Which isn't that big of a deal, she gets them all the time. That next weekend we got to Thomas and Tami's house and Nait and Kennidi are upstairs playing, I hear crying and Cheyanne calling my name. i up up stairs and Kennidi had hit her lip on the back of the couch and her tooth went straight through her bottom lip. Blood everywhere and a lot of crying. We take her down stairs to clean her up. And when she looks at my shirt with blood on it, she stops crying and looks and my and says, "Sorry Mom", it was so sweet. The rest of the day her lip is swollen and she keeps accidentally biting it. A week and a half after the. Kennidi and McKinlee are taking a bath, and I am sitting right there, and usually Kennidi likes to help me with McKinlee , so she has a little cup that she can pour on McKinlee's tummy. Well, she grabs a big cup and pours it on her head, and mcKinlee inhales some water. So for the next few hours we watch McKinlee and sure enough she starts throwing up, coughing and wheezing. So we rush her back to the emergency room. Luckily after only 2 hours we find out that she is ok. The doctors tell us to watch for more coughing and a fever. the next day, sure enough, more cough and a fever. So we take her over to Polly's and McKinlee has Pneumonia. My poor little baby. So she goes back on medication. She is doing well, but then a few nights ago, McKinlee throws up like every 5-7 min. For about an hour. It is ucky mucus. On top of the Pneumonia McKinlee gets a little stomach bug. Now McKinlee is feeling better and Kennidi's lip is almost healed. I sure hope that nothing else happens. And that was our last month and a half.

Family Pictures

For Christmas my whole entire family was here, so we were able to take family pictures. Here is my family.

So much to talk about

I haven't updated anything in 3 months and there is so much to talk about. First we went to Idaho for Thanksgiving (I think i blogged about that). Two weeks later we went to LA for one of my really good friends weddings. It was beautiful. Fortunately we able to see Jason and Elsie while we were down there They where kind enough to watch the girls outside of the temple during the wedding.


On the way home we saw a few beautiful rainbows

When we got back from the wedding, Blake and I got to move into our brand new house. It is so nice owing your first home. You get to do what you want with the colors and you get to make it any way you want. Plus it is nice when your mortgage is cheaper then what you are paying for rent.
Next comes Christmas. We were in our new home and all of my side of the family got together. That is a total of 31 immediate family members. That is a lot. Don't worry we got pictures. Those will come later, they are still on my mom's computer. Christmas morning was a blast though. I got surprised by Blake, he got me Dyson Animal Ball Vacuum cleaner. You know that you are truly a stay at home mom when you get excited about appliances.

Our good friend Karen came and stayed with us for Christmas. We had a lot of fun.

Kennidi totally scored Christmas morning. She got a lot of stuff. Thanks Santa


McKinlee had a lot of fun on her first Christmas. She loved her presents



Family picture Christmas morning. No McKinlee, she was sleeping still.

Kennidi and Santa

For the ward Christmas party we had Santa come, and the only was we could get Kennidi to sit on his lap was to tell her that it was Grandpa, but she did it. The primary also put on The Nativity and the nursery kids were the animals. They were so cute. Kaydn and Kennidi were are wondering animals. Not surprised that they couldn't sit there the whole time.

Fun with cousins

We love seeing our cousins in Idaho. For Thanksgiving we went to Idaho and were able to stay with Jeremy for a few nights and with Lacey and Randy for the rest of the time. While we were at Jeremy's it snowed so all the kids and Blake went outside to play in the snow and hold Blake shovel the drive way. Kennidi had a lot of fun with Conrad and Tyler. Then we went to Lacey's house and she had so much fun playing with all those boys too. Kennidi was surrounded by all boy cousins this year, that's ok though she is used to it. Thank you so much to both families for letting us come and visit.






Karlyn loved having someone to play with but McKinlee wasn't a big fan of Karlyn trying to roll on her and grab her ear.

Halloween

So for Halloween we were a 50's family. I was able to make Kennidi, McKinlee and me, matching poodle skirts and made Blake a lettermen Sweater. We looked so cute. First, Friday morning we went downtown Grass Valley and we got to see Grandpa and Blake at the office. Blake was dressed up as a Gorilla and Kennidi wanted nothing to do with him. She really doesn't like masks, she kept hiding her face in our shoulders whenever somebody wearing a mask walked by. While we were there we ran into Coen, Becket and Summit. It was so cute to see all the little kids dressed up. Latter that night we went to the church for trunk or treat. We got lots of candy there and some delicious homemade rootbeer. Halloween was fun this year.

McKinlee's Blessing and Kennidi's Birthday party

On September 27th, 2009 we blessed McKinlee Mae Smith. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful blessing. First off I want to say Thank You to everybody that came and supported my little family. We are so lucky to have so many family and friends around us.
So the first group of pictures are family pictures. I have to say that Blake and I have some beautiful girls. See for yourself.




Kennidi our little model


She loves her sister.

We are so happy that Grandma Jo was able to come down and stay with us for the blessing.




We are so luck to have so many pictures with four generations.


Grandma's love babies.
Grandma Naydean with McKinlee

Grandma Dixie with Karlyn

Since everybody was already there to celebrate McKinlee's blessing, we decided to take the opportunity to throw Kennidi a birthday party. We know that it was a week early but everybody was already there. Thank you so much to Aunt Kristi for making our beautiful and delicious Cupcake cake. We loved all the cupcakes . . . and so did everybody else.





Kennidi got some great presents. Thank you everybody she loves everything.
Grandma Jo made her a beautiful blanket.

Grandma and Grandpa got her a beautiful coat and this fun music princess book.

Mommy and Daddy sure did spoil her this year.





Kennidi in Aunt Julie's shoes.

Grandma love her kisses.

Kennidi had to hide with aunt Kristi. Silly girls.

Everybody had a lot of fun that day. Thank you all again for coming.