Kenzie is 9 months old!

I just cant believe she is already 9 months old!!
She is a busy girl.

• Busy putting things in her mouth, it doesnt matter what it is and where she found it. :/


• Busy climbing in things, out of things, around things, and on things.


• Busy eating....all the time! She is eating 4-5 six ounce bottles a day as well as 2-3 #3 jars of baby food, and an occasional snack (cheerios are her favorite!, but she likes Gerber cheetos too)


• Busy being a jealous belly....she does not like for me to hold anyone or anything else. She gets jealous if I am holding Maddie, Chief, or my laptop in my lap.


• Busy SMILING :) - She has such a beautiful checky smile, that I love to look at every morning.


• Busy crawling. She can crawl as fast as Maddie can run, lol...not really, but she is very quick. She does not however seem to have much interest in walking. She will let go of her rail and stand alone for a few seconds or move from one table to another chair close by, but if I tried to hold her hands and stand her up, she will immediately sit down.

She does go to sleep close to 9 oclock every night and wake up between 7 and 8. She is very good at playing peek-a-boo, and can play for a long time. She also thinks the funniest thing in the world is to twist and turn when you are trying to change her diaper. Now Maddie did that like Im sure most children do to a certain extent, but Kenzie is super quick and really flexable which makes it MUCH harder to make her be still. The whole time she is doing this she is laughing like a hyena, which makes me laugh, thus making her want to keep doing it.

I am completely in awe of my 2 wonderful girls, I love them both so very much and just cant get enough of them. Now I am excited to announce that I will be the proud Aunt of a niece! I am so happy for Lacy because she will have a blast with a daughter, and I am excited for my girls that they will have a girl cousin to grow up with and have girly slumber parties and other things that I enjoyed so much when I was a kid. I have such a wonderful relationship with my cousins, and I pray that my girls and my neice will become best friends! My cousin Tina is having a boy and I am also excited about that because he will be the first Grandson on that side of the family and it will be nice to have a little boy running around during family get togethers.

Kenzie's 1st Halloween....she wore the same costume that Maddie did her 1st Halloween...However, we lost one of the feet while trick or treating in Bronte :(

Maddie's 4th Halloween...She was Cinderella!

Maddie and Annalise at the schools trunk or treat.

Happy Birthday Josh

Josh turned 28 years old on the 13th! I love it when its his birthday because other than my girls there is no one that I love giving gifts to more than him. Even though I didnt get him much, just a card, a shirt, and a UT pullover, I still get excited to give him something for a change. He has surprised me several times at work with flowers and chocolate covered strawberries for my birthday, anniversary, or just starting back to school. (So thoughtful) However, he doesnt usually want anything that is within a reasonable price range. (Guns, Hunting Bow, trucks, lol) So its hard for me to just get him something nice that he actually wants. Well this year I wanted to mae him a special cake, and after finding an idea from another blog I made him this cake.

This is a picture of us on his birthday before I had to leave for work...obviously I was still a little tired, lol.

I am behind on blogging, so here is what I have to catch up on:

1. Brontes homecoming

2. Maddies Big Green Tractor

3. Kenzie will be 8 months on Sunday

Its Fall!!

I absoulutely love this season. The weather is perfect, there are football games to go to, and its the beginning of the best holidays!!

This year for Halloween Maddie is going to be Cinderella, and she hasnt even seen the movie. So before we actually dress up as Cinderella, we will have to rent the movie and enlighten her. I still havent decided what to do with Kenzie, but Im leaning towards recylcing Maddies costumes. I might do matching costumes for the 1st and 2nd year for all my kids just to be fair. If thats what we end up doing, Kenzie will be a monkey this year. If not, well...I have no idea what she will be if we dont do that. If they werent so expensive then I would probobly just buy something else, but $30.00 for an outfit they will only wear once is a little much for me.

Here are a few pictures of Maddies first Halloween in the monkey costume. She was only 2 months old, so it was a little big for her, but it should fit Kenzie much better.





On another wonderful note, I am now the proud owner of a 2010 Chevy Tahoe!!! It was very unplanned, but it was a good deal and we just couldnt say no. It only has 21,000 miles on it and was used as a program car (he thought maybe Enterprize used it for a rental) Our original plan was to pay off Joshs truck and buy a Tahoe at the same time, which would have happened right as we were having our 3rd child (at least that was the plan). However, we were going to buy a new Tahoe that would run us about $50,000 (eeeeeek!) Well we were driving home from Rosas and Mitchell Buick had a Tahoe out front that was the dark gray that I wanted, so Josh wanted to go look at it. So we get out, and of course a salesman comes over....and about 4 hours later. We ended up buying it. We got them down to a good price and they paid off the rest of my car loan so I wouldnt have double payments (we wanted to keep the car to use so we dont always have high gas bills). Its pretty much awesome! It has black leather seats, remote start, and 3rd row seating (which i didnt know some Tahoes come without). The only defect is a small scratch/knick by one of the back doors, but other than that....looks brand new!

Already?!

Kenzie had her first tooth come through on 9-9-10. Almost 7 months old....Maddie didnt get her first tooth till she was 10 months. However, Kenzie never acted fussy or got diaper rash or any of the effects that Maddie did. Just another difference between my girls, lol.



Its hard to believe we have already finished 3 weeks of school. I am hoping that the year continues to go by as quickly as the first 3 weeks. We will be busy busy for sure, but thats ok with me!



Josh and I have been dove hunting twice, and will go again tomorrow. I have only shot 6 from the first 2 trips, so maybe tomorrow will be a little better. We did buy Maddie some earmuffs, overalls, and hunting boots, because she keeps telling us that she wants to go hunting. I bet we try to take her next weekend....we shall see how that goes. If nothing else she will look like a hunter, lol.



I have been in the mood to clean lately, and have done what I can, but it seems as if I am making no progress. It is very frustrating to live in a messy house, but no matter what we do, it seems to stay that way. I have to remind myself that I am a full time working Mom and somethings got to give. Sadly its my house. I go to work and when I come home I want to spend my time with my family. Maddie doesnt go to sleep till 10-11 so as soon as shes out, I head to bed also. The downside to this is that I would like to have people over, but am to disgusted with my own house to let others see it. Another reason for our mess is that we have too much stuff!!! We are going to have a garage sale sometime, but who knows when that will be...until then we have boxes of stuff waiting to be sold which also adds to the clutter. OK. So I am done griping about this now, lol.

I have officially experimented with the Swagbucks toolbar, and it is totally legit! I will be recieving my first 5.00 Amazon giftcard shortly. And all I do is use the search bar. You get points for using their search bar and other ways, and then you can trade them in for prizes or giftcards. I choose the Amazon card because its the best deal. You can get Target and other giftcards too, but it takes more points. If you are interested in trying it, I put the link below. Its very easy and free!

They are growing up soooo fast!

Maddie 3 year update:

28 lbs. -18%
35.5" - 12%

As soon as we walked into the doctors office Maddie gently grabbed my face so I was looking at her and said "tell her (the nurse) that I dont need shots" HAHAHAHA!
Even though she was not getting shots, she still was extremely anxious and cried most of the time. We made it through the appointment, everything looks great, and she got a notepad, lol.

Maddies birthday party was AWESOME! We had a great turnout and lots of people came that I wasnt expecting! She got so many great gifts and loves them all. Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate her big day, she is still talking about it.

Kenzie 6 month update:

14 lbs. 14 oz.- 26%
26" - 56%
Head - 16.25- not sure the percentage, but they measured twice because its such a small number, but he said that her soft spot was still open and there shouldnt be anything to worry about, she just has a small head.

Kenzie is (and has been for awhile) pulling up on the couch and her crib, we had to drop her mattress down in her crib already. She is officially crawling now, but when she wants to go really fast she still prefers to army crawl. I am sad to say that she now says "dada", but she doesnt know what it means...so does it count? Haha, Im just kidding, its cute.

Kenzie- 6 months

Kenzie turned 6 months old yesterday, and what a wonderful 6 months is has been :)

• Her 6 month checkup is not until the 24th (I will have to leave early on the second day of school) so I dont have her measurements, but I will update them after her appointment.
• She can get wherever she wants, including up the stairs, by doing her lung or army crawl. She would be crawling if she could figure out how to work her arms.
• She loves to chew on everything she gets her hands on, especially paper. :( Our phone book only has a half of the back cover because she has got ahold of it several times and gnawed on it till it was soggy then tore it off.
• She can sit up by herself, but its more of a side way tilt.
• She LOVES Maddie...she will do the biggest belly laughs whenever Maddie decides to pay attention to her. Maddie has figured out that she is the reason Kenzie laughs and has started to pay more attention to Kenzie, which is wonderful.
• She is wearing 3 month and 3-6 month clothes and size 2 diapers.
• No teeth still, even though she has been acting like a teething baby for 2 months now.
• I still nurse as much as possible, but now that school has started back, she has started drinking alot more formula. Today for instance, I fed her before I dropped her off at Lacys house, she ate 18 oz. while I was at work, I fed her again when we got home, and will feed her at least 1 more time, maybe 2 before she goes to bed. However, she didn't have any baby food today.
• We have tried all the #1 vegetables and she ate them all with no reactions. We have tried bananas and pears for the fruits, so far so good. Up till now we have just been feeding her one tub a day, but I think we will start one fruit and one vegtable now that she is actually 6 months old.
• She still spits out a pacifier most of the time and inserts her thumb instead...this drives me crazy, but what can I do?

Bracing Myself!

August is a VERY busy month for me! Let me explain. (Warning, this may be very unorganized and bounce around a bit.)

• First of all, my sweet darling (independent and sometimes too big for her britches) daughter is turning 3 on August 22nd! So sometime this month, I think we will have a checkup with the pediatrican, but maybe not, because I dont have an appointment wrote down...Im calling Monday to check.
• My other sweet darling (fussy gussy) daughter is turning 6 months and she does have a 6 month check up the week school starts.
• I also have them scheduled for individual pictures at Sears (Kenzie on the 17th and Maddie on the 21st.) I like to have them as close to the actual day as possible.
• Then of course staff development starts on the 11th and actual school starts on the 23rd.
• Maddies party is at the Bronte pool the day before school starts.
• I have an orthodonist appointment on the 24th I believe.
• My classroom is very very far from being organized and ready for school....although I do have a plan in my head, and thats the hardest part for me. I have not been to thrilled with the way my room ended up the last two years, but with my pie shape room its been very difficult to find something that worked well. I believe I may have a good solution this year and cant wait to get it set up to see if I like it.
• This year for Maddies birthday, we have talked to some family and decided to get Maddie a cheap metal swingset (well, not really cheap, but not the really expensive wooden ones that I want them to have someday). Since we know we will not live here forever, I dont want to build a big wooden swingset, just to take it down in 1-3 years when we move. So as soon as I finish this post I will start looking online to get one ordered.
• On top of all the expected August to do items...we are still working on the bathroom remodel. So far the tub, faucets (sink and shower), tile around the shower, and new light have all been replaced. The only things we need to finish are priming (already started), painting, putting up the trim, and caulking the edge around the tile (we had to order it, so we are just waiting for it to come in)
• On a GOOD note, Josh and I will also have our 4 year anniversary on August 19th. What makes it even better, is that since Target was having such a good sale last month on Kitchen Aide Mixers we went ahead and bought it as our anniversary present to each other! So not only am I the proud owner of a Red Kitchen Aide Mixer, I also do not have to worry about shopping for an anniversary gift this month on top of everything else.
• Oh, did I mention that our friends Henry and Stormy will be headed to the hopital in about 6 hours to have their baby girl! Yeah! Shyanne will also be having Jaxon in the near future, so it looks as if we will also make time to do a couple of hospital visits to meet some very beautiful babies!
• I am also still having some issues that occured after having Kenzie, so I will more than likely be going in for a check up sometime myself.

So like I said...I will be bracing myself for a very busy yet WONDERFUL month of August!