Updates

Wow, so it has been an extremely long time since I have updated my bolg (at least it eels that way). I have kind of been avoiding it because the next thing I was going to blog about after Kaydence's birthday was Marley's birthday and her party but it eneded up being ruined so I really haven't felt like talking about it. I just hope next year it turns out better, the families better act like adults next year. So Brittany I am updating now so here you go read your little heart out even though you already know everything. So Marley is officially 1, wow I can't believe it the time just flew by. She is so stinkin cute I can't stand it, she weighs 20 pounds and is 30 inches tall. She doesn't really say much, she says momma, dad, dog, baby, doll and that's about it. She communicates very well and knows everything we say to her and tell her to do so I am not worried about her not talking and neither is her doctor. She has been having some weird health issues that we are still trying to figure out. We are in the process of figuring out if she has a food allergy other than the one we already know of; dairy. The doctor has told me to put her on a soy formula to help her get the calories that she is missing out on while we do this and to gain some weight. We have been having a fun summer, we got a puppy, Kaydence namd him Jake and he is the cutest thing we really love him. He is a Great Pyrenees and he is just now 7 weeks old. We went camping up to Lava Hot Springs with my family and had a BLAST! The girls loved being with my family for 2 days, they loved the pool and we even took Kaydence down the river. We had a little visitor in our campsite, a skunk who wanted to eat everything and could even open bags. We had family pictures taken at the begining of June and I absolutley love them! A friend from highschool has her own company and does amazing work (twicetheglam.com). I am doing really well in school and am loving every minute of it. It's nice to be around adults who are in the same boat as me. Right now I am taking a Medical Billing and Coding class and this one is going to suck bad, I have only been to one class and it is so confusing and it doesn't help that my teacher has only taught it once before so I don't even know what to expect. Well I am bored of typing so I guess I will do more a different day and just add some pictures in now. 

Kaydence's Birthday!!!

Wow I can't believe that it has been three years since I had my baby girl, time goes by so fast. Kaydence's birthday was on Friday the 16th but we celebrated it on Saturday the 17th and I think the party was a success, Kaydence sure had a great time. It was a Mickey Mouse themed party that she chose and even helped me choose the decorations for it, she is completely obbsessed with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the Disney channel and has to watch it every morning. We had the party at our house in the backyard and it was just a perfect day for a BBQ. All of our family came and some friends and we just sat around talknig and eating and watched Kaydence open up presents and then try to play with everything before she would open another. She got spoiled but it's so hard not to spoil her especially with some of the faces she gives and those beautiful big brown eyes. At the begining she had to make sure that everyone had on their Mickey ears and if you didn't then she would hand you some and help you put them on, i think she just wanted everyone to have as much fun as she was having. She had a Mickey face shaped cake that I made and it turned out really good, plus it tasted good too. 

My beautiful cake.

She loves her new bike.

These next pictures are from Easter

They did not want to sit still for me to get anygood pictures of them in their dresses.

swimming

So every Wednesday (well most of them) My stepmom and I take my kids and my little sister to The Clearfield Aquatic Center to swim and they love it. Kaydence thinks she is big enough to swim without any type of flotation device and she does really good but I still make her wear either her life jacket or the little arm floaties. Marley absolutely loves the water, she cannot get enough she just loves to splash and squeal it is so much fun to watch and play with them. Nothing much has been going on around our house except for Marley reaching new milestones. She crawls like crazy and is super fast, she pulls herself up on everything and has started standing without holding on to something it's only a matter of time before she is walking. She can go up the stairs by herself but has not even attempted to go down, she can say a few words but my favorite is momma and then she will look up at me with those big blue eyes and it's so hard not to pick her up so I guess it's my fault she is a spoiled baby. Kaydence is about to turn 3, wow where has the time gone. She has decided that she wants to have a Mickey Mouse party and even told me who she wanted to invite, everything that comes on t.v. that she wants she always says mom can I have that for my birthday at my Mickey Mouse party. I love it. She is so smart and is just learning more and suprising me everyday. This past weekend into the week she had the Chickenpox, seriously who gets the Chickenpox anymore? Since she was vaccinated for the Chickenpox she didn't get is nearly as bad as it's supposed to be, I guess the shot does what it's supposed to and preparesthe body for what it should look like so the virus has no choice but to change and it doesn't hit very strong. She only had maybe 20 spots mostly on her stomach and they never itched but she was also put on a medication so maybe that helped a little too. I am just hoping Marley doesn't get it since she hasn't been immunized yet and she will get the real full blown thing which would really suck. Jared and I were called as primary teachers of the 6 year olds but have yet taught do to Kaydence's Chickenpox but tomorrow should be fun I just hope they listen. 

Growing

So I can't beleive how fast time goes by, I mean my kids are getting so big. Marley is eight months old, she's crawling, jabbering, she can pull herself up on anything that stays in place, she loves food and most of all the water. If she hears the tub water running she crawls in to the bathroom as fast as she can and pulls herself up so she can see the water and as soon as it's high enough for her to reach she starts splashing. It looks like I am going to have another water baby, Kaydence loves to swim it's hard for us to leave the pool so when we go we have to make sure we are prepared to stay for a while. Next week we are going to go swimming with my step mom and baby sister so we will see what Marley thinks of the pool and all the people around I just hope I remember the camera. Kaydence is almost three I can't beleive it and she is so smart I have been looking for a preescholl to put her in to help her become more advanced in what she already knows but all the ones I have found she has to be over three so it kinda sucks, I just wish someone woul make an exception because she fits in so well with older kids but whatever I guess I have to be patient. I love my kids and wouldn't trade them for anything in the world even on our bad days.

Holidays

So I have definately been slacking on blogging but hey I am back and with super cute pictures. We had a great Thanksgiving we went to my grandma's house and spent the day with my entire family which was a blast and Kaydence got to play with some cousins she doesn't get to see very often. Kaydence was so excited for Christmas and she kept asking me when Santa was coming so I told her he would come when it snowed so throughout December every time it would snow she would ask if Santa was coming and I felt so bad everytime I had to tell her no not yet. Christmas this year was so much fun because Kaydence actually understood what was going on and she could tell me what she wanted to get. We took her to see Santa and she walke staight up to him, climbed on his lap and then wouldn't say a word no matter how hard I tried to get her to talk so the picture of her and Marley with Santa is not the best. Christmas finally came around and it was a blast but very exhausting. We had my grandparents on my dads side came in town as well as my step moms parents so we had a great Christmas eve dinner at my dads and then we had to go to my in laws house to have Christmas with them. Christmas morning was fun Kaydence was so excited everytime she opened a new present and all she talked about all day was giving and opening presents. We later went to my dads and then to my moms, both Kaydence and Marley got spoiled rotten. Kaydence's big present was a kitchen and some play food which she absolutely loves, plus numerous other presents. Marley and Kaydence got some combined presents but they both love the wagon they got, they made Jared pull them up and down the hall and around the living room all morning. Marley is now seven months old and is grownign so fast, she is very tall for her age just like Kaydence was/is. She is such a food eater and a HUGE momma's girl which I love but it gets irrating, sometimes I can't do anything without holding her. Since I hate super long posts I will end mine now and try to do better in keeping up on my blog so now here are some pictures I hope you enjoy. I will post the really cute profesional pics we got done of them in their cute winter outfits and their Christmas dresses as soo as I get them in the computer.

These two pictures are from the Chournos Christmas party we had at a tumbling place. It was so fun.

Eight!

So this morning when I was doing Kaydence's hair we were picking ou tthe color of hair bands and I needed two so I said "lets count" 1, 2 then she kept going all the way until 8 it completely shocked me but it was so cute and I was so proud I've made her do it all day. I guess she is finally paying attention to the things I try to teach her or maybe I am trying to teach to much at once so it's taking her a little longer to catch on . She is such a smart kid, she talks so much and you can ubderstand almost all of what she says, she can identify colors, some shapes, some of the abc's and now she has learned to count to 8. She will tell me that Jesus and Heavenly Father love her and can pick Jesus out of a picture. She has been completely potty trained for about 3 months it's great. I know I am babbbling but I am just so proud of my little girl!

It's Been Awhile

So we finally bleassed Marley on September 27th and Jared did an amazing job. We were so lucky to have alm ost all of our family join us, and then after for a great luncheon. I found the most perfect dress online at a store called Hevenly Delight but they no longer had one because the company that made the dress went out of buisness but supplied to a few stores in Utah so it took a long time but I finally found it at a store in Gardner Village and they offered to ship it to their sister store in Bountiful so I got lucky and was able to get the dress I wanted. She doesn't like to smile when the camera is on her so i usually have to take the good pictures with my phone so she doesn't know.

We had alot of fun un the month of October, we went to the zoo on one of the last warm saturdays of the year and Kaydence had a blast. We took Jared's little brother Sam with us so of course that mad eit even more fun for Kaydence who just adores her uncle Sam. She really loved the elephants, giraffes, and lions. There were a bunch of super cute new baby animals, I always love going to the zoo but the poor monkeys make me sad in their small cages. We also celebrated Papa's birthday (my dad) and Kaydence couldn't wait to tell him 'happy happy' she is so stinkin cute and she couldn't wait to give him his presents or maybe it's just because she wanted to help open them. Then of course we celebrated Halloween and I am not quite

 sure if it is going to be her favorite holiday or christmas because all she kept telling me was that it was halloween at mommy's house and trick or treat, but now she keeps telling me ho ho is coming to bring toys and I keep telling her when it snows and only if you are good so needless to say I am so excited for Christmas because she actually knows what is going on and I am looking forward to making the girls' christmas dresses this year so lets just hope I can find the perfect pattern because I have already found a dress I like but I really want to make them. We went trick or treating at the Layton Hills Mall which she really enjoyed, then a couple of houses in my moms neighborhood, and then with uncle Sam. Kaydence got a ton of candy and even some money from people (she really likes getting dollars). This fall Jared and my sister Kindsey have been playing softball on a coed team in Clearfield and their team pretty much sucks but we have all had fun watching and talking

Kaydence usually finds other kids to play with and when there aren't any she climbs all over the bleachers and puts on any article of clothing she can find. Marley will be 5 months next week and she is getting so big. She loves to

play with Kaydence, well sometimes and she is learning how to grab toys and put them in her mouth. She refuses to sit so it's hard for her to play plus she really likes nope LOVES mommy to hold her which can be a little irritating especially when I need to clean or make dinner but I love every minute I spend with my girls.