Friday, December 26, 2008

All about Zoey

Zoey is now 2 months old. She is a really happy baby and likes to laugh and smile. She is cuing a lot more and is awake for a lot of the day. She has been sleeping through the night since she was a month and a half and she is growing up so fast! I will be taking Zoey to the Doctor next week, so we'll see how much she has grown then.

McKenzie helps out a lot by getting Zoey her diapers, she picks out Zoey's outfits and will sometimes feed her too. Owen likes to take the diapers out to the garbage. I found that he has been throwing them in the recycling bin, so I have to remind him which one is for trash. They both are really cute with the baby and are a big help.

Christmas Day

On Christmas, McKenzie woke up at 12:45 AM and she stood grinning from ear to ear in our doorway. Matt was watching a movie and he heard something so he looks over and sees her. Then McKenzie says in an excited voice, "I got up to go to the bathroom and I looked at the Christmas tree lights and I saw PRESENTS!!!! Santa came!" Matt took her over to the tree and looked at everything. When they were done he told her to go to bed and that we would open presents in the morning.

At 6:00 in the morning I heard McKenzie up and about. When noticed that I was awake she starts telling me about everything that is in all the stockings and then says, "And there's LOTS of presents!!" So I get up with her and check everything out. Then she starts saying, "Oh thank you Santa! Thank you so much for all the presents for me and my family!" She was really excited not just for her presents that she got, but that everyone got something. It was really cute.

Matt's family all came over for a Turkey Lunch/dinner. We all talked and had a good time together. McKenzie, Owen and Lindsay all played with the play doh that they got. It was really fun.

Later, we went to my parent's house to hang out and open a few gifts. Matt played guess who with my sisters for awhile and I played settlers of Catan. We didn't stay too long, because we were exhausted. Still it was fun. Scott was with Janel's family for Christmas this year, but they are planning on coming to visit the middle of January.

Owen felt better for Christmas, but today McKenzie is sick. I'm not sure why we keep getting sick. I have cleaned and disinfected our house several times and we don't get out too much except to go to the store and to visit family. Hopefully this is the last time!

We hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas!







Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve

Today we spent all day hanging out at my parents house. We played games and spent time together. We also had a Ham dinner with lots of yummy other foods. Owen was really tired and he didn't look very good, so we decided to leave. As we were driving home, Owen got sick in the car. The poor little guy has been sick pretty much every weekend since Just before Thanksgiving. We were supposed to Have Matt's family over at our house for Christmas tomorrow, but we had to let them know that it wasn't going to work out. It looks like this year we will just be hanging out at our house. Hopefully Owen will feel better soon! I don't like it when the little ones are sick.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

My Kenzie is growing up!

McKenzie will be starting kindergarten next year in the fall. I just started working with her on reading to get her prepared. She has learned a few simple words like "dog" and "bed" plus she is learning how to sound out the words. She also has started writing letters. The other day, we were coloring on our whiteboard and she said, "I can draw an H." And she did. I've tried working on her writing, but I admit I haven't worked with her too much on it. Another thing that I've noticed is that she isn't scribbling as much when she colors. Her pictures now actually look like what she is intending them to look like. In primary, she colored a flower for the Bishop and she also colored a picture of herself. It just seems like she is learning new things over night! It's really exciting

She also is a little mommy for Zoey and Owen. She helps Owen get drinks, makes him toast and gets him some ketchup for his hash browns. When Zoey has a hard burp that I can't get out of her, McKenzie almost always can get it out! She sometimes feeds her and LOVES to pick out an outfit for her to wear. She is very sweet and is a very good big sister.



Friday, December 19, 2008

What was Santa Thinking?

I was making dinner when Owen comes running out of My room yelling, "Presents! Presents! Presents!" He was so excited. I hurried to close and lock my door, before he showed McKenzie what he found. How could I be so careless?! Luckily, McKenzie didn't see anything. I told them that the presents were for grandma. That seemed to work great, because Owen or McKenzie haven't said anything since.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Let it Snow!

It has been snowing here all weekend, so today when McKenzie asked if she could play outside, I agreed. We haven't gotten any mittens or some other outside clothing, yet, so I had to improvise on a few things.


This is what Zoey did for most of the fun time.


Here is McKenzie and Owen in the backyard


We used 3 pairs of socks for gloves and Owen is wearing my hoodie, because he doesn't have a winter coat or a sweater that fits.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Can you tell whose who?

I found a picture of McKenzie when she was a baby and Zoey really does look exactly like her. Can you tell which is McKenzie and which one is Zoey? The dates on the pictues of McKenzie is miss leading. We didn't have a digital camera when she was born, so I took pictures of her pictures.







The answer. Zoey is the first picture and McKenzie is the 2nd and so on.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Christmas Party

We had our ward Christmas party on December 5th this year. The food was good and I enjoyed visiting, but Owen would not behave. He was whining and he just wanted to run around while the primary kids were doing the program. Then when Santa came, he kept saying, "I don't want to see Santa!" I kept telling him that he didn't have to. I was getting so frustrated! Then Matt had to help clean up and McKenzie wanted to see Santa, so I took all three kids and stood in line to see Santa. Owen wanted to be held, so I held Owen, had McKenzie stand in line and Zoey was in her car seat next to me. By the time we got to Santa, my feet were killing me and I was so exhausted! Luckily, we got a really cute picture of McKenzie. That made it all worth it in the end.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Sick again!

This weekend we were planning on going to Rexburg for my niece's blessing, but McKenzie got sick and threw up in the car. Not only did she throw up, but Owen and McKenzie also have colds with bad coughs and they passed it on to Zoey. This is the 3rd weekend in a row that I've had to take care of sick kids and one of those times, I was also sick. That was not fun. Hopefully this will be the last time that we get sick for awhile.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Christmas Get to Know you

I got tagged by Kalei!

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not forward) this entire post and paste into a new post that you can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that sent it to you......'Tis the Season to be NICE!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper whenever possible.

2. Real tree or Artificial? artificial. Matt is allergic to something in the fresh cut trees.

3. When do you put up the tree? If it was up to Matt, the tree would have been up the beginning of November. We put ours up on Monday December 1st this year.

4. When do you take the tree down? A few days after Christmas.

5. Do you like eggnog? Nope. Although, Matt LOVES it.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? I always loved getting presents. I remember getting polly pockets and me and my sisters played with those a lot.

7. Do you have a nativity scene? No but I hope to get one someday.

8. Hardest person to buy for? Matt and the In laws.

9. Easiest person to buy for? The kids. They love anything and everything that people give them. Example, my brother in law gave them salt and pepper shakers and they love to play with them. We're really luckily.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? We haven't done Christmas cards yet. Mostly because we are lazy and we don't have addresses.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Um...I can't think of anything.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Elf. Matt likes A Christmas Story.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Whenever. Last year we waited until December 23rd and did all of our shopping at once. I have started much earlier before and spent WAY too much. Because we waited, we saved a lot of money last year.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Turkey. Oh, and candy and cookies and homemade bread and anything else I can get my hands on. I love food.

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree ? I like the clear lights, but this year McKenzie wanted the colored lights, so that's what we did.

17. Favorite Christmas song? I love Christmas music. I don't have a favorite.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay at home. Both sides of the family live here. Plus I don't think that I could handle traveling in the snow.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Yes.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? A star.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? On Christmas Eve we get together with Matt's family for Christmas and open gifts from and for them. On Christmas we open gifts from Santa and my side of the family gifts.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? traffic and how greedy people can be.

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? We have a mixture of all colors and themes. We have Star Wars, SpongeBob, Precious Moment, & M&M character ones and then we have some nice glass colored ones. Probably one day it will all be character themed, because the kids will more than likely break the nice ones.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Turkey with the works. Yum, I'm getting hungry!

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? A Honda Pilot. Or even just a second car would be nice.

I tag Michelle, April and Nancy

Friday, November 28, 2008

Day before Thanksgiving

Scott and his family drove here for Thanksgiving on Saturday. We all hung out together the day before Thanksgiving so that we could get family pictures taken. We just went to the church to get that done. We haven't gone through them all yet, but here is one that I thought turned out pretty good for the amount of people in it.

Friday, November 21, 2008

McKenzie the Announcer!

During the day, I usually watch family feud while Matt is at work. The other day, We were all hanging out together and out of the blue, McKenzie said, "Here's your host, Jooohnnnn O'Huuuuurleyyyyy!" Matt and I thought it was so funny, we were laughing so hard! I love the little things that kids say and do.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Zoey's Blessing date

For all of our friends and family that would like to attend Zoey's blessing, it will be held on Sunday, November 23rd at 1 PM. You can contact me for directions if you'd like to attend.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Owen's new do

So today I cut Owen's hair. I always cut Matt and Owen's hair to save money, but this is the first time I actually like how it turned out. It has only taken me 6 years to perfect my hair cutting skills, but we've saved a lot of money! Oh and Please ignore the fact that Owen is flipping the camera off...

Zoey

I was just messing around and I took a few pictures of Zoey. This is the only one that turned out.

Friday, November 14, 2008

There may be some nudity...

So McKenzie was taking pictures the other day and today when I went to upload them onto the computer, there was Owen with no briefs on! I screamed and laughed at the same time. I knew that McKenzie was taking pictures, but I was doing other things so I didn't realize that he was missing his underwear! I usually don't get Owen completely dressed, because he waits until the last second to go potty. If he wears pants, he may not make it. The only thing is, he doesn't like to put them back on. I usually have to tell him several times and make sure that he does it. Otherwise he runs around naked.

Here are some of her pictures. I deleted the nudity pics. Matt and I decided before we had kids, that we wouldn't take pics of the kids naked, even if they're babies.


Here is Owen in Zoey's baby swing. He knows he's not supposed to be in there...

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This is the disappearing act.



Here's Owen!




Where did he go?



Here he is!

One thing that I like about McKenzie's pictures is that they tell a story about what is going on.


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In this picture, Owen is getting into the cabinets. I think McKenzie likes to take these pictures to get Owen in trouble...

Thank you RCWilley!

On November 11th, there was a knock at the door. I was in my room with Zoey and the kids were playing in the living room. When I went out to the living room, Owen was naked and staring out the windows naked. (He doesn't like to put his briefs back on after he uses the restroom. I have to ask him several times.) Also, I hadn't showered and I was still in my Pajamas. Plus the house was a disaster!

I opened the door and there was a lady there with a thing of flowers. I've never had someone deliver flowers to me before, so I was thinking that she knows us from church or something, so I was trying to figure out who she was. (don't worry, Matt has bought me flowers, he just doesn't use the delivery service. He delivers them.) She said, "Congratulations! on your new baby!" I said, "Thank you" but I was still trying to figure out who she was and trying to keep the door as closed as I could because of the mess. She probably thought that I was rude or something. After she left, I realized that she was just the flower delivery lady. When I looked at the card it was from RCWilley. It really made my day!

out with the old...

Now that we have been married for 6 years, our electronics and appliances are starting to crap out on us.

First, was our dryer. Luckily we got it used and for free when we were newly married. It still works, we just have to go through 2 dry cycles before the clothes dry. This started happening a few months ago.

2 weeks ago, the kids wanted to watch a VHS movie, but when I put the movie in the VCR, it was just the black and white "snow." We tried a few different movies thinking that it was just the movie, but none of them worked.

Last night, Matt and I made cookies and were getting ready to watch the 4th Indiana Jones Movie and the DVD player would just freeze before it got the menu screen. I clean the DVD, removed the dust out of the DVD player, but it would not work. We were still able to watch the movie on our laptop.

We've also have noticed that our griddle will get hot, but if it's on too long, it takes longer for pancakes to cook.

I know that these things don't last forever, but they are all breaking at the same time!! Good thing Matt works at an appliance and electronics store, so we will be able to replace them soon.


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Random, but a good way to get to know us better!

Since I don't usually post a lot of pictures on my blog, I thought that it would be fun to add random pictures with a little story or description about each one.


Most of you know that my sister Angela was in a rollover accident in September. I didn't post any pictures of her after the accident because of the severity of the accident, she did not look good. So anyway, this is a picture of Angela's car. It's a 1995 Pontiac Grand Am. She had to be cut out of the car, so now it's a convertible. Angela is doing really well now. She had a couple more surgeries. Her skull is back in her head and the pins and needles that were in her hand are gone. She is planning on going back to work soon and then going back to school.



Here is Angela now. As beautiful as ever. I love you Angela!



Here is my Handsome Husband. I love you Matt!



McKenzie LOVES to have her toenails painted. I have found many pictures on our camera, taken by McKenzie, of her toes.



This is a picture of McKenzie ringing in the new year 2005-2006. It was really late and she was super tired! Matt and I love this picture. It's just so funny!



This is me and McKenzie when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with Owen.



Here's Matt and I New Year's 2005-2006. We were hanging out at our friends Aaron and Nancy's House. We had a really good time. We miss you Aaron and Nancy!



I was so sick the day before Owen was born. We went to the hospital and found that I my white blood cells were either too low or too high, I don't remember. Because of that, the Dr decided to induce me, because usually the baby has breathing issues when this happens. Owen had to stay in the NICU for 8 days. When we finally got to take him home, he had to be on oxygen. We went to the DR every couple of days to check is saturation levels. Finally, a month after he was born, we were able to get rid of the oxygen!!



Here's Owen on his blessing day. He is a very handsome little guy! Everyone thought that he looked like a little old man.



Here's Matt and McKenzie. She loves her Daddy! I used to put her hair in pony tails, because she had a mullet when she was little. I didn't want to cut her hair, because she wouldn't have much if I did.



McKenzie on her first bike. We told her that as soon as she was potty trained, she could get a bike. So here she is testing it out. She fell down a few times, but overall, she loved riding it.



It was such a nice day out that we all were outside watching McKenzie on her new bike. Here's a picture of Matt.



McKenzie put her helmet on Owen one day. I thought that it was really cute. She is very good to her younger siblings.



This is our first family picture with Owen. We usually don't get a family picture right after we have a baby, because We want to wait until they can hold their head up on their own. We will probably get another one with Zoey in about 6 months.



Here is our most current picture.