Snow Day!

It's the most wonderful time of year....ok so it is if your name is Allie. She jumped in the snow. She rolled in the snow. She even fell off her slide backwards into the snow (then said "it's ok the snow caught me"). She loves the snow. Kendall had fun sitting in his car seat all nice and bundled up. I think he's going to like the snow too. Crazy kids don't they know it's cold.

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FALL

WHERE'S ALLIE?

Fall Fun

Allie loves Fall because she can jump in leaf piles, throw the leaves that I raked up, drink hot chocolate. The biggest reason why she loves Fall is because that means snow is on the way. Can she really be my daughter?

Nerdy 30

Allan is the big 3-0

Allan had a birthday and turned 30! 30 on the 30th so I decided to surprise him by having his sister and her family and his mom join us at our house for a nerdy 30 party. Let me just clarify that having a nerd party was actually his idea. He thought we were going to do something at his mom's since his sister's family was coming up to watch conference but we changed the plans to make it somewhat of a surprise. If you search for nerd party games online all it comes up with is to play video games so we didn't really play any games it also said to decorate with science and math things so I decided to let the kids play with vinegar and baking soda with watercolor paint and that kept them entertained for literally 2 hours. Now that kind of science is cool. We went through an entire bottle of vinegar and that's when we had to stop since there wasn't any left. It was fun to watch how excited they got over it so if you're looking for a cheap way to entertain your child this is it.

1 month old

sleepy little guy

3 weeks down & first day of preschool

Family Photo
August 28th, 2011

It's now been 3 weeks since our family has grown and it's nice to be able to say we've survived. Allie has been a very big help with Kendall and is very loving and gentle with him. She likes to feed him his bottles and even stops after awhile to make sure he burps. She has also tried to make his bottle for him when he cries even if he just ate so I have to keep an eye on that. The last bottle she made was quite watery. The first little while she was having a few melt downs but really I think the biggest issue was the lack of routine. She was going to bed much later than usual and then throw in the whole idea of having to share mom and dad and that made for some pretty big tears. Thankfully we have been able to get back on schedule and she has been doing much better which also means that mom and dad have been doing much better as well. Kendall is a very good baby not that you can have a bad baby but he does have his schedule and sticks to it pretty good. He eats every 3 hours pretty much on the dot. He has been sleeping pretty good at night too (knock on wood) there has only been a few nights when he's decided that he didn't want to go back to sleep after eating at 2:00 in the morning. At his 2 week appt. He weighed 9 lbs. 3 oz. and was 21 3/4 inches. He'd gained a pound and grown 1 3/4 inches in 2 weeks. Crazy boy already had a major growth spurt. The dr. said that he must be a good eater (which he is) because he's growing faster than normal. I guess most newborns grow 1/4 of an inch each week not 3/4 like he did. Maybe that's why he has an extra feeding during the day when compared to the guidelines for formula fed babies. All in all we are doing good and loving the new addition to our family.

First Day of Preschool
September 7th, 2011
I love the pose. I can't take pictures of Allie now without her either doing some type of pose, making a really cheesy smile, or not smiling at all and giving me the evil eye. She has been "patiently" waiting for preschool to start again. There's a group of moms from our church that take turns each week doing the preschool. It's just one day a week, but Allie loves it so much. She can't wait until she gets to go to "real" school though and that will have to wait another year.