The Knudsen Family

Something New

2012-01-21T12:06:00.001-08:00

We have been talking about getting a new car ever since we found out we were having twins, but we've put it off and put it off......this week we finally found the perfect car and bought it!! All of our carseats fit in it so nice AND we can fit the big double stroller in!!! Lol

It's a 2011 Nissan Armada.

We played around with the idea of getting a minivan, I mean how nice would automatic doors be while holding two infant carriers!!!! But, when it came down to it, we decided the Armada was a better choice for us.

I love it...I forgot how fun new cars are!

Big Helpers!!!

2012-01-19T12:21:00.001-08:00

"look at what we can do, this makes our mommy SO happy, we are such big helpers!!!!"

Crazy Hair Day

2012-01-17T22:00:00.001-08:00

Kennedi was so excited for crazy hair day today at her school! She wanted her hair done like this.........

Party Time!!!!

2012-01-17T07:49:00.001-08:00

We had a dinosaur party for Dax on Saturday. It was so fun! All of our family was there to celebrate, and it was like Christmas for him all over again!!!!

Kids Pictures December 2011

2012-01-12T12:09:00.000-08:00

DAX is 3!!!!

2012-01-11T08:07:00.000-08:00

HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY to our little DAXTON!!!!

Birthday Breakfast!!

I took treats into Dax's preschool class and they sang happy birthday to him AND it was his turn for show and tale....WHAT A DAY! It was SO fun to see him at school!!

After school, Shane and I took the kids to Jumping Jacks in Springville. Their cousins, Kalie and Kaydon met us there and they had the time of their lives!!

Dax's best buddy, Talan, brought him a present, Dax was so excited!

Dax got this at his play group!

We are having his birthday party on Saturday, and he is SOO excited for his RAR CAKE (dinosaur cake) and I'm SOOO excited to make it....LOL

So big!!!

2012-01-10T09:45:00.000-08:00

Dax's First Day of School!!!

2012-01-04T08:43:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure how this is possible, but my little boy is going to school?!?!?! Because of his speech delay, he qualified for an early intervention preschool class where he will do speech therapy.

He seems so stinkin little to be going to school AND riding the bus!!! He was so excited though, so I couldn't help but be excited right along with him.

Nunums

2012-01-01T22:00:00.001-08:00

Bronse: "yuckie, I don't want it!!!"
Brody: "my turn, I want more!!!!"

Christmas Dance Recital

2011-12-27T07:56:00.000-08:00

Kennedi had her dance recital the day after Christmas, and as usual, she got up there, shook her little groove thang, and entertained the crowd!!! I had so many people come up to afterwards and tell me what a GREAT dancer she is! I just sit and smile when she dances, she is one talented little girlie!!

Kenna and Payton, her dance partner and best buddy!

BALLROOM

HIP-HOP

CLOGGING

Christmas 2011

2011-12-26T20:51:00.000-08:00

We had a WONDERFUL Christmas this year! All of my family came to our house, sense we can barely fit all of our bodies in our car, let alone luggage AND presents!!

We had so much fun playing games, eating and eating, riding up on the mountain to play in the snow, and just being together as a family! I wish I would have got more pictures of EVERYONE.....but, I didn't!!!

This kids were SOOOO excited!!! Kenna got a Karaoke machine, Dax got a work station with lots of tools, and the babies got some toys! I always love to see the expression on their faces Christmas morning..........it is priceless!!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!

2011-12-15T08:16:00.000-08:00

This year, we got our very first REAL Christmas tree! Shane went up on the mountain and picked it out and I have to say he did pretty good other than he cut it about a foot too short.

I LOVE my house at Christmas time! I love buying more Christmas decor every year so that everywhere you look you see Christmas!!!

Downstairs tree

It seems like we add more stockings every year, can't believe we have 6 up there!!

This is Christopher Hop-In-Kins, he is our Elf that Santa has sent to watch over our kids, they LOVE finding him every morning!

Ward Christmas Party!!

Love our house all lit up!

Christmas Program 2011

2011-12-13T09:39:00.000-08:00

The elementary school did their annual Christmas Program the other night and this year was fun because every year the 2nd graders get to play the recorders and this year that's Kenna's class.

I must say, she thought she was pretty cool (as usual), but she was so cute up there and they did such a great job! I'm always so proud of her.

Oh.....and I don't know how she does this, but, she NEVER sees where we come in and sit in the completely PACKED high school gym because she meets first in a classroom, and every time without fail, she spots us immediately and puts on her smile for my camera clear across the gym. LOL

6 Months Old!!!

2011-12-11T12:18:00.000-08:00

These little guys are 6 months old!!! Oh they are just sooo cute, I can't get enough of them and they seem to be growing up way to fast!!

6 months stats:

Bronse:
16 lbs 9 oz - 28%tile
27 inches - 61%tile

Brody:
16 lbs 13 oz - 33%tile
25.5 inches - 38%tile

November's happenings

2011-11-30T11:06:00.001-08:00

November seriously FLEW by, and here is a little bit of what the Knudsen family was up to.........

Bronse and Brody turned 5 MONTHS OLD!!!! I can't believe they are getting so big! They are so much fun, so smiley, hardly ever cry, and they roll over.

For the big Breaking Dawn premier, Heather and I drove to Moab where my mom and her friend rent out the theater and have a fun little party. It was so fun, and my mom didn't let her first round of CHEMOTHERAPY keep her away!!

Me, Mom, Kenz, and Heather

Dax road on his first Merry-Go-Round while we were at the mall doing a little shopping and he loved it, although you can't tell from this pic!!

The babies love their little Bumbo's.....They think they are sooo big!

For Thanksgiving, we all went to Moab and had a great time!! We played Pictionary Man EVERY NIGHT, and let me just say, things can get pretty heated with my family and games!!

I stole this wonderful picture collage from Heather's blog

We also did a little Black Friday shopping over in Grand Junction and we found this cute wig for my mom for 50% off!!

I don't think I can pull off a Blondie

Kennedi FINALLY lost this dangling tooth, and that's just because Dax accidentally kicked it out!

AND.......then I turned 31 yesterday, yuck!!!

And that was our November!!

Halloween 2011

2011-11-04T11:58:00.000-07:00

Halloween was so fun this year and weather was GREAT!! On Friday night, we went to the elementary school carnival and the kids had lots of fun. Dax actually let me dress him up this year and loved it. Kennedi loved being a vampire, and her mouth of teeth were so funny because she had her fang in and she is missing on of her front teeth. The babies we super cute of course dressed up as little monsters.

On Halloween, we took all the kids out and went door to door until it got too cold for the babies, then Shane took them home and passed out candy while me and the kids went with some friends to MORE houses.

And of course we did some pumpkin carving! Shane and Dax did the one on the left and Kenna and I did the one on the right!

ONE DOWN, TWO TO GO!!

2011-10-22T13:03:00.000-07:00

My little man is officially potty trained!!!! YAY!!!

I have been putting this off because I thought it would be a total nightmare, but man did he surprise us!! The first day, I just had him go naked for about 6 straight hours and he didn't even have a peeing accident. On the second day, he wasn't even telling me he had to go and would run in and go himself. Pooping was a little trickier, the first two days he pooped in the toy room on the floor...FUN FOR ME...but by day three he figured out it wasn't so scary pooping in the toilet and has been a pro ever sense.

Love him in his cute little underwear!

I do still have him sleep in a pull-up, but it is always dry in the morning, he even woke up in the middle of the night last night and went in and went to the bathroom by himself! I'm so proud of him!!

These little guys went in for their 4 month check and here are their stats:
Bronse - 12 lbs 15 oz 25 in long
Brody - 13 lbs 15 oz 25.5 in long

4th Hair Cut!!

2011-10-14T17:27:00.000-07:00

My little Bronse is starting to loose his hair, and it makes me sad! Dax did the same thing. Bronse doesn't have any bald spots or anything, it's just falling out like crazy. In the past couple weeks, I've given him 3 hair cuts just with scissors, each time cutting more and more off.

This was haircut #3 with scissors

Then I decided it needed to be shorter, so I got out the clippers and buzzed all his dark hair off!!

Isn't he handsome??

Love this!! he looks so chunky in this one.

What a year!!

2011-10-10T08:19:00.000-07:00

Our baby boys were created 1 year ago today in a petri dish LOL!! It's so crazy to think what miracles my 3 little boys are!! I got to see each of them through a microscope as little 8 celled embryos before they were put in me, and it is AMAZING to see them now. We're so blessed to have them in our family!!!!

Daxton's School

2011-10-07T20:37:00.000-07:00

As I've explained before, our little Dax has a speech delay because of a hearing problem that we've hopefully resolved with ear tubes (he just failed his last hearing test though).

While he is still 2, we are doing an early intervention program through the Health Department, and then when he turns 3, he can start going to Pre-school.

He goes to his little school/play group once a week and he will start speech therapy tomorrow.

Is he not the cutest little thing you've ever seen??

Later that afternoon, he unpeeled all those stickers and put them on poor little Brody's head....good thing he doesn't have a lot of hair!!

He found Kennedi's old Dora backpack and insists on taking it every week!

Since Dax's surgery the end of July, his speech has improved a TON. He is talking quite a bit and puts words together. The part we need to work on the most is pronouncing the words right. For example, he says OUTSIDE like OWHIDE, so hopefully we can work with the speech therapist and get him caught up to where he needs to be.

And Down He Goes......

2011-09-27T16:49:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, my mom and I took all my kids to Richfield to watch my niece Mikenzee play volleyball. Daxton was running around as usual and fell on the stairs of the bleachers and sliced his forehead open about an inch long.

I didn't see it happen, I was changing Brody's diaper up where we were sitting and a cheerleader from the other team came up and told me that my little boy just fell and split his head open and that some lady (my mom) took him out. I told Kenna to stay with Bronse and I took Brody and ran to the bathroom. Luckily, Shane was walking in at that very moment, so I handed him Brody and went into the bathroom where my mom had Dax. His little head was bleeding so bad, and as soon as I saw it I knew we needed to get him to the hospital. Shane and I took him while my mom stayed with the babies.

Here we are waiting for the doctor.....

They came in and changed his bandage and put some numbing stuff on it......

And then we had to wrap him in a sheet and it took 4 of us to hold him down...so awful! He got 3 internal stitches and 5 external.

The stitches didn't last long though. After church on Sunday he kept grabbing at them and saying "pull out", and we told him he couldn't pull them out or he'd have to go back to the doctors. The next morning we noticed he only had one stitch left, he had pulled the rest out in bed. We asked him what happened to his stitches and was so proud to tell us "pull out". Hopefully steri stripes can hold it together now!!

2 months old....no wait....3 months old!!!

2011-09-06T18:34:00.000-07:00

I think this might be the longest post ever, but I have been such a slacker with my blog and I have so many cute pictures of these baby boys and I need to get some of them on here! So....here we go!!

First, here are some fun facts about Brody and Bronse and almost 3 months old:

1. Brody is now bigger than Bronse.

2. Bronse has reflux. :(

3. Brody has a clogged tear duct on his right eye. :(

4. They eat 4-5 oz every 4 hours.

5. Bronse eats like a turtle, Brody guzzles it.

6. Brody is usually the one to let us know when it is time to eat.

7. They have totally different cries.

8. Brody had LONG brown eyelashes.

9. They usually poop at the same time which is weird.

10. They are just starting to fit into 0-3 month clothes.

11. They love to smile.

12. They go to bed around 9:30 and wake up for a little snack between 5 and 6 and then go right back down until about 8:30.

13. Brody has small ears and Bronse has big ears.

14. Brody has lost almost ALL his hair and the new stuff coming in is dark ???

15. Bronse has really curly hair and is getting lighter the longer it gets.

16. They are rarely fussy at the same time, which is really nice for me!

This has been the BEST summer ever and I'm so sad that it is coming to an end because that means my babies are getting older! This is how I spent most of my days and that is why I'm the whitest I've ever been in the summer time!!

These boys make me SO happy!! I think it is so funny to see how different they look.

AWWWW so cute!!!

2 MONTHS OLD!!! On August 11th, they turned 2 months old. Brody is now bigger then Bronse. Brody was 9 lbs 5 oz 22 1/2 in, and Bronse was 9 lbs 1 oz 22 1/4 in. Brody cracks me up, he has become quite the little chunk, as you can see as you scroll down.

They are finally getting big enough to sit in their little bouncers, but they still prefer their cozy swings most of the time.

This is how we stroll.....

They are both so smiley and it is so fun to interact with them.

This is my good friend Mandii's daughter Riley, she is a couple weeks younger then the boys and has the thickest, prettiest, curly eyelashes!!

We took these pictures at the Sanpete County Fair after the parade. The kids had a great time, Shane and me not so much!! LOL

Here they are with they're new baby cousin Talon, who was born 6 weeks after them.

I caught Dax sucking Bronse's toes...yummy!

This is how they still sleep at almost 3 months old. It is getting a little tight in there though, I may have to move them into the crib in the next week or so.

Brody is my first baby to have fair skin, poor little guy, hopefully he isn't as white as Shane!! LOL

My Little 2nd Grader!!

2011-08-24T13:24:00.000-07:00

Kennedi started 2nd grade on Monday!! She was so so excited, she couldn't wait to get to school to see all her friends. She has Mrs. James this year, and when she got home she told me that her teacher is the BEST!!

This was the second day of school, she just had to have this hat, and she looks so cute in it!

2 Baby Blessings!!

2011-08-16T13:55:00.000-07:00

On Sunday August 7th, we blessed Bronse and Brody. It was such a special day for our family. It was so neat to hear Shane give them individual blessings that fit them so well.

We had all of our family and lots of friends here, which is always fun. We did a luncheon at our home after church and everything turned out just perfect!!

Here is our family of 6......

All of my family.....

The grandkids on my side.......(Dax was thrilled to have ANOTHER picture)

Grandma and Grandp Knudsen..........

Grandma and Grandpa May May (Madsen)........

Daxton.....Summer 2011

2011-08-13T18:51:00.000-07:00

I need to do a little post all about our little Dax. What can I say, he has the prettiest blue eyes I've ever seen, and he is the naughtiest little 2 year old I've ever met. LOL

He is ALWAYS busy and into EVERYTHING!!! You can't leave this little boy alone for a second. He is very resourceful too. We had to put high locks on all of our doors so he couldn't just run outside anytime he wanted too, but he found a way around that by just moving our bar stools to the doors and unlocking them himself. We then had to tie the bar stools to our bar with shoe laces...it looks really nice! LOL It has done the trick though, we haven't had our neighbor text me in the morning before I wake up to let me know Dax was already over there playing in quite a while (good thing we have wonderful neighbors).

We turned the door handle around in his room so the lock is on the outside so we can lock him in his room when he needs to go to timeout (yes we are mean), but this little guy has figured out how to unlock it from the inside. He will search his room high and low until he finds something that he can use and somehow ALWAYS gets it unlocked...then runs out proud as can be and yells AWHA!!!

How can you not just love him though??

He can be such a GOOD little helper!! He cleaned the toilets when I was in the hospital...LOL

His very favorite thing is tools and scissors. We have to hide all the scissors in our house and somehow he still manages to find them and then chase his sister with them, which he thinks is hilarious! A few months ago, I was doing my make-up and had a towel on my head and he had found some scissors and I didn't know it and he just came up and snipped my ear right on the cartilage part on the top....it bled and bled and it didn't seem to phase him much. He got Shane's drill out the other day while I was in the shower and drilled 5 holes in our hallway walls, all the way through the Sheetrock!
Thursday my dad was here and Dax was in his boat with him while my dad was working on it, and found a razor knife and sliced his little finger open....it was awful, we had to hold him down while he got 4 stitches.

Physically, this little guys is above and beyond anyone his age!! He is absolutely fearless!! on one of the many times he has snuck out of the house, we found him on top of our neighbors big camper trailer, and of course was so proud of himself. I just pray every night that in all of his adventures, that he will be protected and kept safe!!!

He can ride his little bike and he has never used training wheels. He gets going so fast on it, it's so funny to watch him. I took this little video while we were in Moab a few weeks ago. They did this about 20 times, and the one time I video, he wrecked...but it is so funny to watch it back. (just tilt your head to watch it).

Another thing....Dax doesn't talk as well as a little boy his age talks, which is so hard because he gets so frustrated because he can't communicate with us. As of June, he was saying under 20 words, and the words he said weren't pronounced well. He didn't put 2 words together either. We had been worried about it for a while, so we finally took him to an audiologist and ENT. As soon as they put the little camera in his ear, the audiologist said "Oh that is a HORRIBLE eardrum!!" His eardrums were both so full of fluid he was surprised they hadn't burst yet. He explained that Dax hears like he is under water, so there are a lot of sounds he couldn't hear.
We felt sooo bad, but we were so excited to get some answers and to know why he wasn't talking yet.

He had surgery on July 21st to drain the fluid and get ear tubes and remove his adenoids because he snores like an old man!!

His surgery was super fast and went great! His doctor told us he had a lot of fluid in his ears and that his tonsils and adenoids were HUGE. He didn't take out his tonsils though, he thought he was a little too young to do that yet.

It's been a little over a month and we've seen a big difference in him. He is talking a lot more and starting to put words together and seems less frustrated...fewer tantrums. We're hoping he continues say more everyday!

Newborn Pictures

2011-08-08T12:06:00.000-07:00

I'm soooo far behind on blogging, but here are the babies newborn pictures that were taken when they were 10 days old and just teeny tiny. My friend Sarah Bogh took them and did an A-mazing job. Visit her websit at http://www.saraboghphotography.com

Here are just some of the pictures.......

Brody......

Bronse......

Bronse.....

Brody.....

Lots of PICTURES!!!

2011-07-04T14:33:00.000-07:00

Ok, it's time to update with some pics of these cute little boys!

The past 3 weeks have been amazing with these little guys! I couldn't have asked for better babies. Having a newborn is so special, and having 2 is even better!

This is how they sleep, They go to bed around 11 and wake up once around 4. They have so far been great little sleepers!

Love the boppy pillow....

Very first bath......

Sucking his thumb.....

Daddy time......

Kennedi and Dax just love them! Dax always has to give them kisses, give them their binkies, and tell them shhhh so sweet when they cry. Kennedi is the best little helper! She helps me feed them and burp them and loves to stand up with them and lay down and cuddle with them.

Softball 2011

2011-06-28T10:00:00.001-07:00

I've been so impressed and proud of Kennedi this year with softball. Shane is her coach, and they have done so well this year. On Saturday, they played in a tournament in Ephraim and took 2nd place.

Kennedi is constantly outside playing catch with one of her friends and constantly improving. She is so fast too....we have quite the athlete on our hands.

Our baby boys are here!!!!

2011-06-16T16:36:00.000-07:00

We are so proud to announce the birth of our twin baby boys!!!!

Bronse Kevin Knudsen was born on 6.11.11 at 8:22 am. He weighed 5 lbs 15 0z, 20 1/4 in long. He has tons of thick black hair and looks just like Kennedi and Dax did when they were born!

Brody Reid Knudsen was born on 6.11.11 at 8:27 am. He weighed 5lbs 5 oz, 19 1/2 in long. He has really light hair and looks just like his daddy!

I will post more details later, but here are some cute pictures......

Getting ready........

Bronse on the left, Brody on the right.....

Waiting to see our babies.....

Our family of 6 (yikes).....

What an amazing moment for me.....

Bronse and Brody....

My twin boys that don't even look like brothers lol....

Kennedi is in love.....

Dax totally loves them, and is so cute with them!

Grandma and Grandpa Nelson

Grandma Darleen

Grandpa Kevin....

Aunt Heather and Brody....

Uncle Matthew and Bronse....

Grandpa Reid......

Enjoying a nap with my baby boys......

My handsome little Brody.....

Time for the chaos to begin.......

When we left the hospital, Bronse weighed 5 lbs 1 oz, and Brody weighed 4 lbs 13 oz.

Welcome home boys!!!

All Ready for BABIES!?!?!??

2011-06-10T02:19:00.000-07:00

Ok.....so it is 3:45 AM and I can't sleep. I'm feeling nauseous and having some contractions, so I thought I'd come post all this baby stuff and start counting contractions to see if I need to go in and get checked. I've been texting my mom, and of course, she is panicking and worried I am in labor and she won't make it on time. So she is packed and ready to go as soon as I give her the word. LOL

Kennedi and I got our toes done in blue for these little guys....love them!

Here are some pregnancy pics I've been meaning to post:

23 weeks....

30 weeks.....

34 1/2 weeks.....

36 weeks........

37 weeks.....

A couple weeks ago, at 35 weeks, me and Heather took some BELLY shots and had a good time with it......WARNING...you're about to see a big bare belly!!!!

I turned Kenna's old room upstairs into the nursery and it turned out pretty cute. I just used all the same bedding I made for Dax. I still need to hang some stuff on the walls, but I need the babies here before I can do that. I set up one crib a friend gave me in here and we set up our crib in our room where they will sleep for awhile.

Complete with 2 of EVERYTHING!

Dax loves playing with the twin nursing pillow...he is so CUTE!!

Our house....the new and improved!

2011-06-09T14:30:00.000-07:00

Since about February, we've made a lot of changes to our house. We worked our little butts off and finished our basement in a little over 2 months and made some changes to the upstairs as well.

First I wanted to show some pictures of our yard that we did last summer. I'm so so happy that our grass came in so good! We had some shrubs and stuff that didn't make it through the winter, so I've replaced all those and things are looking good!

Here are just some of the changes I've made to our upstairs:

Turned the hallway bathroom into a little boy bathroom....

Redid Dax's room, it was sad to take down all the nursery furniture (it wasn't down for long though)......

And here is our basement. We still need appliances in the kitchen and a wood burning stove in the family room, but other then that we are pretty much done....other then decorating it.

Kitchenette/game area.......

Family room.

Family room from a different veiw.....

My craft room......

Toy room......

Hallway.....

Green guest bedroom......

Tan guest bedroom.....

Kennedi's (hallway) bathroom.....

And Kennedi's massive suite......

Complete with cluttered walk-in closet.....

I also turned Kennedi's old room upstairs into the nursery and I'll post some of those pics later.

Boating

2011-06-02T11:55:00.000-07:00

All of my family came to our house for the holiday weekend and we had so much fun! My dad brought his new boat over and surprisingly enough, the weather was halfway decent and we were able to get in the water.

Kennedi is fearless, and loved riding on the tube. Our next trip out, we're gonna try to get her up on some ski's.

Heather and Kenna

Heather and Kyler

My dad...trying to flip Kyler and Heather

Dax enjoying spraying sunblock on everyone

Me with my 3 boys!!

Heather and Kenna

Dance Recital 2011

2011-05-17T11:26:00.000-07:00

I'm way behind on blogging, but Kennedi had her big dance recital on April 29th and 30th and as usaual was the STAR of the show (well at least to us)!

As I've said before, this girl knows how to perform and I absolutely LOVE to watch her dance!

This recital is done a little different then most recitals. She takes ballroom, jazz, and clogging and instead of being in just 3 dances, she was in 17 different dances!! She was running on and off the stage so much, sometimes she didn't have time to change her costume or even put her dance shoes on, but somehow it worked and she did awesome!

I love that her and Payton are best buds and ballroom partners...they have so much fun together!

Here are a few of her dances...I tried to upload some of my favorites but couldn't seem to find them.

WHAT A GREAT 10 YEARS!!!!

2011-05-11T11:47:00.000-07:00

Shane and I just celebrated our TEN YEAR anniversary. I can't even believe we have been married so long. Last weekend, we went up to Salt Lake for a little getaway to celebrate. It's always nice to spend time alone without kids, kinda makes you wonder what you ever fought about before you had kids, LOL.

I feel so lucky to be married to Shane. He is such a good guy and an awesome dad! I feel so blessed at this time in my life....life is good, and about to get even better. Our little baby boys will be here before we know it and we can't wait to complete our little family.

Easter 2011

2011-04-27T10:29:00.000-07:00

This year, like every other year, we went to Moab for Easter. We had a great time:

Coloring eggs.........

Picnicking........

(Smoke in the eyes)

Egg hunt.....

Then rolling the eggs......

Wrestling with Kyler.....

Waking up to lots of goodies.....

And another egg hunt......

More digi pages......

2011-03-22T19:27:00.000-07:00

My goal is to have Dax's first year scrapbooked before I have 2 more babies to do. I am getting closer, I'm probably 3/4 of the way done, thank goodness! Here are some of my latest pages.......

Kennedi & Dax 2011

2011-03-19T11:56:00.000-07:00

We finally took the kids to get their pictures taken yesterday......and let me just say, if you know my little Dax, you can imagine how fun it was! LOL Surprisingly, we did come away with some cute pictures!

This little boy REFUSES to hold still for anything! This picture sums up our picture taking experience, but I LOVE it, and laugh every time I look at it. This is typical Dax!

Kennedi is a natural and every child photographer's dream. She LOVES getting her picture taken and is so dang photogenic, I love it! We got tons of good shots of her, here are some of my favorites....

She's 7 Already??

2011-03-07T07:07:00.000-08:00

Wow....Kennedi turned 7 years old on Friday. I can't believe how big she is getting. I'm so proud to be her mom! Not only is she gorgeous, but she has such a cute and fun personality! Everyone always tells me how funny and cute she is.

This is a rare moment...Dax actually wanted his picture taken AND smiled for it!!!

Birthday Kisses......

She had a small bowling party in Ephraim, which turned out to be so fun (and so easy for me)!!

Then my family came over for the weekend to celebrate even more....it was a fun filled weekend!!

Our little patient....

2011-03-02T12:55:00.000-08:00

Miss Kennedi had Uretal Reimplant Surgery on 2/22 at Primary Children's Hospital.

I think she was the HAPPIEST little girl in the hospital that day. She was so funny!

Here she is waiting to go into the pre-op room......

Here we are in pre-op. They were running behind so we sat there for like 2 and half hours. They kept her entertained though....They had her pretend like she was a doctor and they gave her this doll to color on and then she got to give it shots, IVs, and all kind of stuff.

When they came to get her for her surgery, she asked if she could go back in a wheelchair. I don't think she stopped smiling after that. She kept saying "this is the best day of my life", the doctor thought she was so cute and funny!

About 3 hours later, we finally got to go into recovery and see her, she was still pretty out of it.

Once she got into her room around 6:30, she fell back asleep around 7 and slept the rest of the night.

She was feeling pretty good the next day. She was up and walking but was really sore. She has an incision a little over 2 inches long just below her bikini line, it was a lot bigger then I was expecting.

That hospital is wonderful and has all kinds of things to keep kids entertained. She went and played BINGO, in her wheelchair of course, and then she could call room service anytime she wanted.

She got lots of balloons and presents, and Shane's mom and my parents came to visit her.....

We expected to stay in there 2 nights, but they released her that evening because she was doing so well.

She has now been home a week, and I'll just say the recovery is not fun! Since they did surgery on her bladder, we've had lots of issues with her going to the bathroom. She's been having to go about every 10 to 20 minutes and she just cries most of the time because it stings so bad. I took her to the ER on Saturday night, but there just isn't much they can do because her bladder just needs to heal.

I've been so proud of her through this whole process, she has done so good!

My little Dax

2011-03-02T11:57:00.000-08:00

My little Dax is getting so big! Although he STILL isn't talking, other then the 7 or so words he's been saying for months, he is turning into a little boy.

Life is always crazy with him, and the house is always messy....I think he has something against organization.

He is constantly riding something around the house, either his 4-wheeler, bike, or trucks...and just runs into anything in his path.

About three weeks ago, he decided one night that he was DONE with his crib. He has always went to bed so good and has been my good little sleeper until then. He would crawl out of his crib before we could even get out of the door to his room. So we knew it was time to turn it into a toddler bed....and he was not a fan of that either. We had to lock him in his room and he would cry at his door until he fell asleep, it was so sad!!

After about 2 and half weeks he has finally got used to it and now goes to bed so good. After I read him a story or 3, I kiss him goodnight and lays there by himself and goes to sleep.

Enjoying some pudding after church....

he cracks me up!

He LOVES to read books, whenever we go out to Shane's parents' house, he and Grandpa Reid read book in front of the fireplace.....it's so cute!

Happy Valentines Day 2011

2011-03-02T11:48:00.000-08:00

We had a fun Valentines Day this year. We kept it pretty low key, which was nice, and spent it with our kids.

Kennedi had to make a Valentines box for school and she came up with this idea on her own. It was so fun to make it with her....gotta love her Bulldog pride!

I'm the room mom in her class this year, so it was fun to do their V-day party and see her so happy and excited at school.

2011-02-01T12:38:00.000-08:00

I had ultrasound #5 today, the big one where they measure EVERYTHING on both babies. It took forever! It was so fun to see them though. They are getting pretty big, and still measuring right on the money.

How cute is Baby A!! Notice his little fist on his forehead??

Look at those long legs....definitely like his big brother and sister!

YEP....and total BOY!

I love this picture of both their legs, they were laying right by each other throughout the whole ultrasound.

Here is cute little Baby B!

Here is his back, he also had his arm over his face.

And again....total BOY!!

I'm pretty lucky and get to have an ultrasound about every 4-5 weeks, and it never gets old seeing these baby boys!!

I bought a couple matching outfits for them last weekend, and I think we have 2 pretty cute names for them as well.

Life is so exciting for us!!

Surgery Bound.....

2011-01-26T13:42:00.000-08:00

Kennedi had a check-up at Primary Children's Hospital yesterday. Two years ago, she was diagnosed with Vesicoureteral Reflux (reflux of the bladder). We went in yesterday and did a voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) and an ultrasound on her kidneys. They were hoping to find that it had improved since the tests 2 years ago, but we found out it has gotten worse and it's doing damage to her kidneys. Every time she has a bladder infection, it scars her kidneys, which means it eats a little away from the outer edge. They told us she needs to have Ureteral Reimplant Surgery to fix her problem. They will go in just below the bikini line and change the way her abnormal ureters connect with her bladder. It's about a 2-3 hour surgery, and she'll have to spend 2 nights in the hospital.

When I told her what was gonna happen, I expected her to be scared or a little nervous, but I should have known.....she is thrilled!! She is so excited to get to be in the hospital for 2 days and get visitors, LOL, she is so funny! Nothing phases this girl, thank goodness.

She is scheduled to have her surgery on February 10th.

BABY BUMP at 16 WEEKS

2011-01-18T11:55:00.001-08:00

Well....here it is, the BIG bump at 16 weeks along.....I wanted to get it on here before I'm 17 weeks on Thursday. (love my cell phone photography skills)

I had a check-up today and heard the babies heartbeats...which I always love, and I am measuring at 21 weeks.

YAY....almost half way!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAX!!!

2011-01-11T20:11:00.000-08:00

Our Little Monsta turned 2 years old today! I can't believe he his getting so big.

On Saturday, we had a little family birthday party for him......

He crawled under the table when we starting to sing to him, it was so funny!

He wouldn't blow out his candles....he made Kenna do it for him.

He sure did love that frosting though!

He got lots of fun presents and was so excited!

Today, on his actual birthday, we went to Ephraim and took him bowling and had dinner.......

It was so funny to watch him bowl....he would pick up his ball and then just throw it anywhere he was standing.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAX....................WE LOVE YOU!!!!

We are having.........

2011-01-05T18:48:00.000-08:00

2 BOYS!!!!!!

We are really happy and excited. At first I was really sad. The one thing I've said since we found out I was having twins is I want anything but 2 BOYS!

When we went in today for the ultrasound, I told our tech that she better not tell me I'm having 2 boys. She said it might be too early to tell anyways, but we'd look.

As she was measuring everything on Baby A, before she even started to look for gender, we saw "IT"...plain as day! I started to panic a little but thought we had one more baby to go, so I still had hope.

When she got to Baby B, pretty much the same thing happened. She started measuring everything and when she got to the Femur I saw "IT" again. When I saw it, our Tech said, "yeah I saw it a minute ago but didn't want to say anything". She and Shane just gave me a hard time the rest of the ultrasound.

I did hold my tears until we were walking our of the hospital though. Afterwards, we went and got 2 BLUE balloons and took them to our house before we picked up the kids. We had Kennedi walk in the house with her eyes closed. She was so excited until she opened them and immediately started bawling and yelling that she didn't want 2 more brothers, that she wanted a sister...I couldn't help but cry right along with her!

Now that a few hours have passed....and I've heard from EVERYONE, "Oh just think of how good they'll all be together in high school sports"....I'm getting more excited. We'll have 3 little boys under the age of 2 and when they get a little older hopefully they will all be the best of friends!

Christmas 2010

2011-01-04T12:24:00.000-08:00

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We had a very Merry Christmas! We spent it in Moab, where it was a nice 50 degrees the whole weekend. Santa was very good to all of us this year. Kennedi got the Diamond Back Mountain Bike she wanted and Dax got a little 4-wheeler.

At first he didn't seem to really care about it, but Kennedi showed him how it worked and then he loved it!

And of course, he thought it was so funny to run people over on it......

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We introduced Dax to Toy Story and now he LOVES it. I got him these cheap little boots to wear on Halloween so he could be a cowboy, but he REFUSED to wear them until now because they have BUZZ and WOODY on them. Now he won't take them off....even has to sleep in them!

While we were in Moab, Kenna and Dax were chasing each other around my parents' kitchen and Kenna slipped on something and fell down and ripped her chin open. I took her right down to the hospital to get stitches....

She was really nervous....she wanted them to just glue it closed but the doctor said it was too deep and that she really needed stitches.

She was really good through the whole procedure and ended up getting 11 stitches that she is very proud of!

Busy in December!

2010-12-20T11:49:00.000-08:00

Well it seems like December has been so busy, and I think we are pretty much ready for Christmas. All the shopping is DONE, my mom and I made lots of candy (that doesn't even taste good this year :( ) my neighbor gifts are delivered, and the presents are ALMOST all wrapped. I had my 12 week check up today and the babies seem to be great, and now I just have to get everything prepared for Kenna's school party on Wed. and then we'll be off to Moab for Christmas!

On Saturday while we were making candy, we got a surprise visitor! The kids haven't sat on Santa's lap yet, so he stopped by. Kennedi is a stinker and new who it was the minute he spoke (one of Shane's buddies). Luckily we've always told her that she'll never meet the real Santa, only Santa's helpers.

Dax wasn't impressed! He wanted nothing to do with him!

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Kennedi has danced 3 times this month for the halftime show at the high school basketball games. It just amazes me every time I see her dance. She just keeps getting better and better! I love to watch her!

Here is some ballroom pics with her buddy Payton.....

Here is here Jazz dance....

They danced to "All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth", notice her two front teeth are colored black.

Look how fast they grow!

2010-12-03T15:14:00.000-08:00

I had ultrasound #3 today, and I am 10 weeks 1 day preggers with these little ones. I've had an ultrasound every two weeks and it's amazing to see the growth in the babies. Today it was hard to get them both in the same picture.

Here is baby A's profile. For my early predictions, I would guess this is a girl. This one is always so easy to see, seems to love the camera, kinda reminds me of Kenna!!!

Baby A head on......

Now baby B I'm predicting BOY!! This one is kinda hidden in there and is a little wiggle worm. It took us about five minutes to get it's heartbeat because it wouldn't hold still......kinda reminded me of our little CRAZY Dax!

Now I'm totally just guessing for fun, I'll be happy with whatever they are (maybe not so happy if they are both boys). Ha Ha

I'm OLD!

2010-11-30T13:05:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I turned 30 years old! It's hard for me to believe that I'm that old.

I think I'm ok with it though. I'm almost exactly were I always pictured myself being at this age. I've been married for almost 10 years, and we've made a good life for ourselves and our kids. I always said I wanted four kids by the time I'm 30, and surprisingly enough that has worked out too. I'm so happy and so blessed, I have nothing to be sad about!

We did a little party over the weekend at my parent's house. I didn't feel very good as usual so I look super hot in all the pictures.....

A Little Peek......

2010-11-19T11:20:00.000-08:00

I had an ultrasound this morning and we got to see our 2 little miracles!! It's always so exciting to get a peek and see what's going on in there and what is making me SO SICK!!!

We were so thrilled to see they are growing and developing right on the money. Below is baby B's heartbeat......

So here is the story on these little ones:

As soon as Daxton turned 1, I started to get that anxiety back, that baby making anxiety. I knew the time was coming when we were going to have to start going through the IVF process all over again and it's very stressful and very expensive. We Still had 10 frozen embryos leftover from Daxton's batch in AZ. In May, we made the long trip down and did a FET (frozen embryo transfer). They unthawed 5 embryos. One died and the other four were in poor quality but we went ahead with the transfer. Two weeks later we weren't really surprised when we got a NEGATIVE.

We then waited a couple of months and went back down in July for another FET. They unthawed the remaining five embryos and again one died. The embryos were a little better in quality then the ones in May, but still not great. Again, two weeks later we got a NEGATIVE.

At that point I started looking for a new doctor in Utah and with some help from a few friends I finally picked one in Provo. We started a low stimulation IVF cycle right away ( I tend to produce a lot of eggs). I did 10 days of injections and produced 14 eggs. From those, 10 turned into embryos and three days later I went in for the transfer. We had 1 A 8 celled, 1 B 8 celled, 1 B 10 celled, and the rest were all C embryos.

My doctor planned on just transferring the A 8 celled and B 8 celled but I talked him into putting in the B 10 celled as well. The other 7 embryos weren't worth freezing because they never made it to 8 cells.

Ten days after the transfer I was totally bummed because I was just sure that it hadn't worked AGAIN! I had ZERO symptoms!! Shane was starting to get mad at me for being so negative. So that night I took a pregnancy test to prove to him that I knew my body and I wasn't pregnant. I think as soon as a peed on it it said PREGNANT. I was completely shocked!

Two days later I went in for my blood work and when they called me with the results they said: "congratulations, you are pregnant and it's definitely multiples. Come in in a week so we can see if it is twins or triplets".
We were so excited and a little nervous. We were definitely hoping for twins, triplets is just scary!
When I went in for the ultrasound, my doctor started to look for the sacs and almost immediately said "There's 2!"

We were so relieved and so so excited!

Our little ones are due on their daddy's birthday 6.30.11!!

THE RUMOR IS........

2010-11-06T07:22:00.000-07:00

BUT.............

Let me set the record straight!!

June 2011

LADY A

2010-11-03T11:41:00.001-07:00

So last night I went with my mom and her friends, Carrie and Ellen, to the Lady Antebellum Concert. It was general admission, and since my mom is TOTALLY obsessed with them, we got there at 3:30 to wait in line and the concert didn't start until 7:30!

The good news is we did RUN in and get FRONT AND CENTER when the doors opened.

We were so close, we did actually touch Charles Kelly a few times!

Now I'm not a huge fan of theirs...not a country fan at all....but they really didn't seem country and they put on a pretty good show!

Happy Halloween!!

2010-11-01T12:18:00.000-07:00

The past few months, Kennedi has been obsessed with cowgirl stuff, so of course she wanted to be a cowgirl for Halloween. I decided to go ahead and dress Dax up as cowboy to go along with her.....but he REFUSED to wear his cute little chaps, boots, or hat! He can be such a stinker......so I decided to make him Chucky, it's fitting for him anyways, and all we had to do was MAKE him hold still while we sprayed his hair red.

As you can see......he was not thrilled about this whole Halloween thing!

GRRRRRR

Kennedi's favorite part about her costume was her big huge belt buckle that Grandpa Knudsen gave her.

Dax, Kenna, Kaydon, and Kalie

Fall Festivities

2010-10-26T13:23:00.000-07:00

We went to the pumpkin patch the other day to pick out our pumpkins for our annual Knudsen Pumpkin Carving Contest.

It was poring rain, but the kids still had a blast picking out all kinds of pumpkins for carving and decoration.

They had a little maze for the kids to walk through and they had so much fun.

It was so funny to watch Dax try to get through it.

Then we all got together to carve them and had so much fun!

Kennedi pretty much did her own, other then some carving at the end. She actually did a really good job!

Here is hers all lit up.....

Here is mine and Shane's....

Jessica and Coby's

and Analee and Reid's

Our pet SNAKE!

2010-10-22T11:32:00.000-07:00

The other day Kennedi and I were outside walking around the yard and as we walked by one of our window wells something grabbed my eye and for some reason I looked in to find a HUGE Black Widow Spider. I walked closer to check it out and then saw this HUGE snake that has made a nice little home down there as well. I kinda freaked out and yelled "there's a snake!!" and we both ran in the house. Now I'm not really a wussy girl, I can handle a lot and snakes don't necessarily scare me, I was just completely shocked, I wasn't expecting it.

I then went down stairs to inspect it from the window and here it is. We never stretched it out to see how long it actually was, but I'm guessing around 3ft. I'm also guessing it'd been down there a while because it had shed it's skin.

Sense Shane was out town, I called his dad to come over and get it for me.

Dax decided he needed to help too, so he went into the garage and got the shovel and came back to get it....so funny!

Here is the skin.....

Dax was pretty interested in it....luckily by this time Kenna was at dancing or she would have had nightmares for months!

Have you seen my Hubby?

2010-10-20T12:55:00.000-07:00

It's that time of year....we refer to it as "busy season" around our house. She sells medicare advantage plans for Humana, and from OCTOBER 1st through DECEMBER 31st he is M I A around here. This year he is gone Monday-Friday working either in Cedar City or Kanab and then works the weekends here in Sanpete County.

I can't complain though, because the rest of the year he is home ALL the time (sometimes too much), I'm sure people in town don't even think he has a job most of the time!!

So......anyways......I enjoy my days hangin out with my kids (with no adult interaction), and at night I enjoy my TV shows!

Best one yet!

2010-10-19T12:01:00.000-07:00

Dax is really into hiding. He has a few hiding spots that he always runs to when he wants to hide....like if I want to change his diaper or put him to bed.

This is a new one that he found yesterday. I about died laughing because he thought he was being really sneaky!

Phone Pics

2010-10-09T15:53:00.000-07:00

I need to post some of these pictures I have on my phone that I thought were pretty cute.

This was Dax pretty much all summer. He LOVES to be outside, in fact if we are in the house the doors always have to be locked or he is gone!

He thinks he is so big riding his bike!

My little Kenna is growing up way too fast! She also went very blond this summer, hopefully it darkens back up over the winter.

Love my little Dax!

We got to visit with the Allen family last weekend while they were in town. Dax and Mia were so cute playing then fighting then playing and fighting some more. Lindsey and I just laughed at them as they fought, it was the funniest thing!

(we told Mia to give him kisses...he didn't like that)

A Work in Progress......

2010-09-25T14:56:00.000-07:00

We have WORKED ALL SUMMER on our yard. We dug a hole and put our tramp in the ground, put in a sprinkler system, leveled it, weeded it, raked it, weeded it, got curbing, weeded it, put together our play set, WEEDED IT, planted trees and shrubs, WEEDED IT, shoveled cow poop on the whole thing, planted grass, WEEDED IT, put down mulch, put in gravel, and now we need to WEED IT AGAIN! I guess that's what we get for building in an Alf Alfa field.

It is still a work in progress, we still have LOTS of work to do NEXT YEAR!

Before:

After:

Our grass is coming in pretty good in the front, the back is another story.....

Shrubs are still small, but hopefully by next year they will be bigger...

Ignore the WEEDS in the play area, we still need to put something down in there....

Our door never matched our front arch so I finally made myself redo it....and it was a PAIN!

This is what it looked like before......

Here it is all sanded......

Here it is stained the RIGHT color.....

And the finished product! (bad glare)

Warning:

2010-09-01T09:42:00.000-07:00

WARNING: Danger! Flammable Liquid and Vapor!

Any guesses on what this used to be????

Anyone? Anyone?

Well this used to be TWO of our garbage cans!!

Here is the story.......On Saturday, Shane was staining our big arch in our entry way. The wind was blowing pretty hard and it knocked over the can of stain and spilled some on our front porch. We were trying to scrub it off with things like: Paint Thinner, Pure Acetone, and Gas. Good news is we got most of the stain off our porch.

Well then we just put all the rags and paper towels we used to clean up the mess in the garbage (which was completely full) and didn't give it a second thought.

Jump to 4 am Sunday morning when Dax woke up and was crying a little (which he NEVER does). I went into his room and laid him back down and smelled something pretty strong but couldn't figure out what it was. I checked the whole house and couldn't see anything so I went back to bed.

Dax woke up again at like 7:15 and Shane went in to get him and hollered in at me and asked if I could smell something melting. He looked around the house too and couldn't see anything so he and Dax came and laid in our bed.

Then the door bell rang.....we were wondering who would be ringing our doorbell at 7:20 am. Shane went to the door and one our friends was there and asked Shane if he started a fire on our driveway.....Shane went out to look and saw this (but it was on fire)......

"dude that's my garbage can"

So this was our big garbage can totally full and then we had another 50 gallon can sitting right next to it also full and this is what was left.

We are just so thankful that it didn't hurt our house, we got so lucky!

It was a good story at church though!

1st Grade Already?

2010-08-23T13:02:00.000-07:00

Today was Kennedi's first day as a 1st Grader.

She is getting so big, it makes me sad sometimes, but for the most part I'm ok with her getting older. I didn't cry today.....she was so excited, so I was just excited for her. She didn't want anyone to walk her to class but I insisted that I did.

Here she is all ready to go. She is such a pretty girl!

The sun was in her eyes....

Seven Peaks!!

2010-08-15T09:26:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went to Seven Peaks with my mom, dad, Jason, Kyler, Matthew, and Heather and had sooo much fun!!

Kennedi, being freakishly tall for a 6 year old, could go on all the rides......AND SHE DID!!! Nothing SCARES this girl! The first slide we went on when we got there was the Free Fall. The tallest slide that goes STRAIGHT DOWN! Shane bet Heather $20 that she wouldn't go down it but she did won the bet!! Kennedi wasn't even nervous. I on the other hand almost threw up when she was getting ready to go...but she made it down just fine and loved it, so then I HAD to go down since my little girl just did!

This isn't a great video...but here is Kennedi on the Free Fall....

I love this picture because both of my kids are EXTREMELY dark and Shane is just as white as he can be!!

This slide doesn't look very scary from the video but it was.....

Dax wasn't a big fan of Seven Peaks. We took him down a few slides but he really didn't love them.....

Here is Kenna and Heather going down the yellow slide. Heather is going to kill me for putting this on here for the way the video ends LOL!

Hangin out at our canopy......

Longest Post Ever!

2010-08-04T21:19:00.000-07:00

I have a lot to catch up on so here we go.....

The kids and I went swimming at the Manti Pool yesterday. It was the first time Dax has really been swimming this year (I'm a bad mom, I know) and he cried for the first half hour we were there and wanted out of the water. I refused to let him out and pretty soon he decided he loved it. Here he is jumping to me....

We ran into lots of people we knew including my friend and old college roommate Dani and her two adorable little girls. Here is Dax and her youngest daughter Paisley playing in the water.....

I think this is the first time Dax actually looked at the camera and smiled!!!

Tara and her boys came with us.....here are Kennedi and Jaggar...

.....and Dax and Krew......

Kennedi is quite the little fish! She was all over the place and it was nice not to have to watch her because I had my hands full with Dax.

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We went camping last weekend for the first time as a family. I can't say it was the best camping experience I've ever had. Dax is a crazy man and loves to get into everything and pretty much just wanted to be on the 4-wheeler the whole time. It was really hard to get him to sleep because he didn't have his crib, and then I couldn't sleep because I was sleeping in the same sleeping bag with him. He then woke up in a raging fit around 5:30 am. Kennedi slept great through the noise as usual and slept until about 9:00.

That afternoon we left our camp to go fishing and got to the lake and decided we better go back because it looked like it was about to rain. Although we never saw a drop of rain, we could barely get back to our camp because it was so muddy from the rain poored and once we did we found our camp completely destroyed! All the food was cleaned up but our tent was full of water, soaking everything in it. It was so much fun to clean up!

Just tilt your head to see this pic...

This is the only way we could get him to sleep for his nap.....

Shane's parents came up and had breakfast with us....Here is Dax and Grandpa K...

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About a month ago, the Coombs, our good friends from AZ, came and stayed with us. We always have so much fun with them. Since they are city slickers, we did lots of "small town" stuff with them like:

Shot some guns......

Rode 4-wheelers to the hat holes.....

And had Shane's dad take us on a wagon ride.....

Good Times!!

Fish Lake and Girls Camp

2010-07-19T13:38:00.000-07:00

Two weeks ago we had girls camp. It was so much fun! The leaders and the girls were all great! Here they are after their skit....

And of course there had to be rain, here are the leaders in our smokin hot ponchos...

My parents came to my house to watch our kids because it was also football camp for Shane. When we got back we headed to Fishlake to do some fishing. It is so pretty up there! The kids had a blast and the fishermen didn't. I guess July is like the worst month to fish...who knew??

Eclipse

2010-07-19T13:10:00.000-07:00

I'm so behind on blogging, but I wanted to post all these pics from the AMAZING Eclipse premier.

Heather and I went to Moab again, and we started off the evening with a big group (friends from Moab...mostly my mom's) dinner up at Sunset Grill...which is so Yummy!

My mom and her friend rented out the theater again so we got to come in early and take all these ridiculous pictures that make me laugh when I look at them. (I promise we're really not crazy, we were just goofing around).

I made the tickets again and loved them!

The girls.....Heather, Kinzee, me, and my mom.

River Trip and a Pageant

2010-07-02T11:26:00.000-07:00

I've been slacking on my blog lately. We have had a lot of stuff going on and I really need to get caught up.

We've been working really hard on our yard and it's coming along really well. We had to move a lot of dirt and do a lot of leveling, we got our sprinklers in, got curbing, planted trees and planted all our flower beds, and put our tramp in the ground and put up the kids play set. It's been exhausting and by the end of my days I'm really dirty and really sore (but I'm super dark, LOL). We'll hopefully do hydro seed this week so we can get some grass coming up.

A few weeks ago, we had youth conference in Moab on the Colorado River for 3 days. Even though I grew up in Moab, I've never done a river trip.

I must say we had a blast! All the kids, leaders, and guides were so much fun.

In the pics below, Shane and I are on the back. We are about to hit a rapid and you can see as we get closer to it I start to grab a hold of Shane's life jacket. When we hit it, 3 in the front got thrown off and the rest of us got thrown into the middle on top of each other. It was really scary at the time...but now I just laugh at the pics.
(Don't mind the copyright stamp)

A few days later, Kennedi was in the Little Miss Gunnison Pageant. She did such a great job!

For her Talent, she wanted to dance by herself for some of it and then do ballroom with Payton Dyreng for the rest. So me and Nona came up with a little dance for them.

She did so good. They really didn't crown a "queen", but she won Outstanding Onstage Presence which was kinda the overall winner award.

I can never get a good pic of her and Dax together, he is just too busy to hold still that long.

This is the best one I could get of him....

Thanks to Payton for being such a good partner! They are so cute dancing together.

4th of July Parade.....

Swinging from Chandeliers!

2010-06-17T08:28:00.000-07:00

I don't think people think we are serious when we talk about Dax, and how he is into EVERYTHING, CLIMBS on EVERYTHING, and DESTROYS EVERYTHING in his path.

Well here's a little proof. We caught him literally swinging from the chandelier this morning......funniest thing I've ever seen!

Softball Season

2010-06-09T10:31:00.000-07:00

Softball season is here! Kennedi is playing in a coach pitch league that travels to Manti, Ephraim, Moroni, and Fountain Green.

It's been a lot of fun to watch her play.....she is really athletic, and does a great job for being one of the youngest on the team.

Look at that LEFTY!

More Wedding Pictures

2010-05-18T10:32:00.000-07:00

I stole these cute pictures from their wedding photographer's blog. She does such an amazing job. Click here to check out more.
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Matthew & Heather's Wedding

2010-05-13T11:04:00.000-07:00

Matthew and Heather got married on Saturday in St. George. Everything turned out so pretty...especially Heather, she looked amazing!

Dax wouldn't walk down the aisle without me, and then was pretty naughty the rest of the night....little stinker. Good thing he is so cute!

The Fam....

The girls, minus Kenzee who became a 2A Softball State Champ that day and had to miss.

Cutting of the cake....

First Dance....

I thought this pic was so cute of Kennedi, she was just sitting there watching Matthew and Heather dance all by herself.

Handsome little Dax...

Time to buggy.......I'm pretty sure Kennedi shook it to every song.

Everything turned out great!! It was so fun to have all of our family there together.

Have fun Greece Matthew and Heather!!

9 Years

2010-05-10T14:43:00.000-07:00

Today, Shane and I have been married for 9 years! WOW! I can't believe it. Time flies by so fast.

Shane is an amazing husband and dad. I'm so thankful to be married to him.

Happy Anniversary Shane, I love you!

A day at the field

2010-05-09T18:14:00.000-07:00

On Thursday, we had a day filled with lots of baseball and softball. It was the 2-A state tournament in Spanish Fork and Orem. Shane is an assistant coach for the Gunnison Bulldogs, so we watched them play a game, then headed over to watch my niece Mikenzee play softball for the Grand Red Devils, and the back over to watch more baseball. Gunnison ended up loosing a nail biter to Parowan in what seemed to be the longest game in history. Probably because it was FREEZING, and my little man refuses to sit still. Most of my day was actually spent chasing him....

Ok, there is one thing he will stop for....FOOD!!

Here is Kennedi with Kenzee and Nikita after a game......

The Red Devils ended up taking STATE!!!!!!! Good job girls!! I got this picture for the Salt Lake Trib.

Miss Gunnison Valley 2010

2010-05-01T13:35:00.000-07:00

This week has been so busy! I was a host mom for the t Miss Gunnison Pageant. It was so much fun. We had rehearsals all week. My girl's name was Liberty, and she did so good, I was so proud of her.

It was an 80s themed pageant, her are some of the girls getting ready for the production number....

Me and Liberty.....

Oh course Kenna was in on all the action. This was her 80s outfit....

Kennedi and Miss Gunnison 2009 and Miss Sanpete 2009, Hannah Christensen....

Kennedi and Miss Gunnison 2010, Kayla Bartholomew (also one of Kenna's dance teachers)

Reminiscing

2010-04-25T20:35:00.000-07:00

My little brother Matthew is getting married to Heather in 2 weeks and I'm making a wedding video for them.

As I was going through their pictures, I came across this one of the 2 of us. It totally reminds me of my kids....what do you think??? CRAZY HUH!!

Me and Matthew

Kennedi and Dax

Here are some more cute pictures of me and my brothers......

The Happy Couple........

Born To Perform

2010-04-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

This weekend was the big dance recital. It was Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night (over 3 hrs each night). The theme this year was Broadway's Best. They did a total of 13 different Broadway shows. Kennedi was in 6 - Annie, Hello Dolly, Oklahoma, Hairspray, South Pacific, and Singin' In The Rain and I was in Mamma Mia. The show was long but turned out so good!!

Kennedi performed great as usual. I got so many complements on her. I LOVE watching her dance, I just sit and smile the whole time. She doesn't just dance.....she gets totally into it and she performs!! I love it, it's hilarious!

Annie....

Singin' In The Rain

I have always loved to clog and was so excited when we moved here and they had an adult clogging class. It was so fun.....my sister-in-law Jessica did it with me and lots of other friends were in it too.

Mamma Mia....

Here is a little part of one of our dances.....(This is for you Rachael)!

Hairspray......

Hello Dolly....... ( her partner is our neighbor and best buddy Payton Dyreng)

Oklahoma......

School Play

2010-04-16T21:16:00.000-07:00

Kennedi had her first school play on Thursday.....Goldilocks And 3 Bears.

She got to stand at the microphone and welcome everyone to the play and then she played the part of a Bee. She had the biggest speaking part and did such a cute job!

Dax found some blocks to play with.....Isn't he cute?

These are the videos of her parts from the play..........they're not the greatest but I put them all on here so Kenna can watch them.

This is a super busy weekend for us. Kennedi and I have our dance recital (yes "our" I do clogging and it's so fun) this weekend. It was Thursday night, Friday night, and again tonight....it's exhausting. So there will be many pictures to come!

Easter Weekend 2010

2010-04-05T14:32:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter weekend. On Friday, Shane and I left the kids for the night (first time leaving Dax) and went to Orem for a date night. We did some shopping, ate at Red Lobster (puke, Shane's choice) and went to a movie. It was so nice for just the two of us to get away for a night.

On Saturday, we took out our fishing boat with Coby and Jessica and did some fishing. Jessica and I caught 5 between the 2 of us and the boys only caught 2. Ha Ha guys!

On Sunday, the Easter Bunny came!! The kids did a little egg hunt and it was so cute to watch Dax find the eggs and take them to his basket.

Later, we went out and rolled the eggs we had colored, then went to Shane's parents house for the grown up cash egg hunt.

Hope you all had a great Easter!

Scprabooking

2010-04-01T14:07:00.000-07:00

So I used to be a really good scrapbooker. I alway kept Kennedi's updated and she had about 4 FULL scrapbooks by the time she was three. Well I've become a major slacker!! Poor little Dax has nothing.

I have switched to digital scrapbooking and love it....NO MESS! I've been working like crazy on Daxton's book, trying to get at least his first year done. I've made a little progress (about 72 pages worth of progress) but I'm not done yet. Here are some of the pages I've done for Dax's book.....