Pics from Bennetts Birthday Finally.

We decided to do Bennett's birthday party the weekend before his birthday, because family was here and we would know that Robin would be around.
Well the party day came and Robin had gotten the flu, and stayed in our room the whole time sleeping. poor guy. We had many members of our family still around to party with us.
I made monkey cupcakes and we opened gifts. It was very low key and simple until the eating of the cake. I took everything off the cute little monkey cupcake but the ears and gave it to Bennett. Well after shoving in what he could he started to choke a little bit. It turned really quick. Bennett was full on choking. I ripped off his bib and took him out of his chair, I called for Rachelle to help me and she took him and started the Heimlich, she then called to Randy who is an emt and he continued to do the Heimlich with Rebecca on the ground sweeping his mouth. It seemed like forever but I am sure it wasn't to long. Soon he was fine and we found out he was choking on one of the Oreo ears. sheesh. Why did I leave them on. I just held him and cried for a little bit but soon he wanted down. I couldn't even talk about it for days.
My parents gave Bennett a wagon, and after Robin put it together he wouldn't get out. He cried forever. We have used it once before it got to cold but I think it is going to be a popular item this summer.

Happy Birthday Bennett

Today is Bennett's birthday! It is amazing how fast a year goes by and how fast a little baby grows up and learns so many things in just a year. We have loved having Bennett in our family he is always so happy, even when he doesn't feel good. His smile can make anyone smile. I thought at first he was going to be my little snuggle boy, but he is busy. He does make time out of his busy life discovering new things to give anyone a hug, and sometimes a big of a snuggle. He loves to play with the "big kids" they will be running and then you see Bennett crawling as fast as he can to keep up.
He has started to walk he has gotten up to walk and taken as many as 18 steps alone. the other day when he did this he got quite far then looked at me and started to cry, and sat down and crawled back to me.
He says dada momma de(kenidee), tuck and go. he gives high fives, and loves to play with his trucks. It was funny when robin decided that his son would no longer "drive" his sisters mini van and went and bought him a dump truck. Bennett LOVED it he would not let kenidee play with it. kind of funny.
He would rather feed himself. he gets frustrated when we have to feed him something.
Bennett was hard to get here and was a bit scary, but I love him so much and would do it over again. We love you Bennett boy!

Halloween

Kenidee was so excited about Halloween this year. Everywhere we went she would ask people what they were going to be for halloween. then she would tell them what she was going to be and everyone else was going to be. We would practice trick or treating, and she would get so excited.
Halloween night we went to the ward party and kenidee was being so shy until she figured out that all the kids were playing games and that they were giving candy as prizes.
After that we went to my moms and Robin took Kenidee trick or treating around my moms house. She was more excited about peoples dogs then she was about getting candy.
Before Halloween Kenidee asked Rebecca what she was going to dress up as and Rebecca told kenidee that she was going to be Kenidee. Kenidee was so excited she would tell everyone that Rebecca was going to be her. So Rebecca had no choice but to dress up as kenidee. So she got a red wig and a tutu and wore her big bows. kenidee wasn't so sure about it but now she says next year she is going to be Rebecca for Halloween

pumpkin growing/carving

This year was our first garden. It went ok for a first garden. This year we also had hoards of Grasshoppers who loved our garden. I had no idea how to get rid of them so I guess the grasshoppers just took over. We did, however enjoy watching our pumpkins grow. they didn't get very big but kenidee was so excited. She helped me pick them and move them to the front porch. She was such a good helper. We had 7 pumpkins from our garden we got to carve.

The night of carving we ate dinner first then I really didn't clean up dinner or kids as you can see in the pictures, they still have messy faces. It didn't look that bad in real life I promise. Kenidee didn't mind gutting the pumpkin or anything she just acted like yep we do this everyday. Bennett on the other hand LOVED it. He loved his little pumpkin and wouldn't let me take it from him. He would just cry and cry when I took it from him to do anything to it. when I got his pumpkin open he stuck his hand inside and loved it! he was pulling out seeds and eating them. gross! When his pumpkin was all carved he sat and chewed on it. when I got him ready for bed I saw he still had stuff in his mouth I just assumed it was a seed nope it was a huge chunk of pumpkin he had gotten off something.

I didn't get pics after all the carving was done because my battery died. but they were all so cute!

thirty.... oh boy!

I turned 30 end of September. It was a nice day. It started the day before my bday Rachelle came over and made me pumpkin waffles with Cinnamon syrup. yummy thanks chelle.

I really wanted to go get a real pedicure from someone who really knew what they were doing. So I made 2 appointments at Sage day spa in Rexburg. My sister in law and I went and It was wonderful and really not that bad of a price, lets just say I have spend more for much much less.

Then I ate lunch with my mom at her house. My ever so thoughtful neighbors brought me a gift and a cake! I didn't get a pic. of it but it was wonderful. I ate it for breakfast for days. YUMMY!

My family all came over and brought cake ice cream and pizza! Robin was in class that night. :(

Bri made my fantastic cake. Really who gets 2 cakes on their bday... me I guess. Then as I mentioned in the last post I got chairs from my mom dad and grandma and grandpa.

Finishing up..... in the next few posts.

I hated our table and the chairs were falling apart. I wanted a new table so bad, but it just wasn't in the budget. One night I had my cousin Andrew and his wife Anna over for game night and I was telling them how sorry I was that their chairs were falling apart under them. I started telling them how I needed a new dining set. Well she gave me the idea to just redo the table and then slowly get new chairs. I was so excited so that is what I set out to do. It was a lot of work we sanded down the whole table and re stained the top and spray painted the legs black. best part is my Brother Justen had stain left over from a job, so i had to get spray paint and sand paper. So we redid this table for maybe $15.00! Oh i got the chairs for my birthday from my parents and grandparents. they found them on clearance at target! I do love my "new" table! For awhile Kendiee loved wearing anything that went on her bottom half on her head. bloomers became swimming caps and P.J's become long flowing hair. Kenidee Loves to dance. In order to dance she has to have her tutu on or a "princess dress." She must always have a prince. She will come up to me and ask me mom do you think you could be my prince today. My answer "Sure" who can resist such a beautiful princess. She sometimes asks me, "Mom when will Bennett be old enough to be my prince." I just laugh. I can't wait to see that someday. I know Bennett will be her "prince" and dance with his sister because I can tell that is the kind of brother he will be.

Washington Trip

We went to Washington the first of September. We drove to Boise (thanks Seth and Nicole for keeping our car and stuff) then flew out to Seattle. Kenidee loved flying, I thought take off and landing would scare her but she loved it! Bennett slept on Robin the whole way. Judy takes Kari and her girls to Teriyaki every Thursday night for dinner. So we were able to go with them. Kenidee loves salad. So I asked the lady if she just had a small salad for her, she said yes in her broken English and when she brought it out it was HUGE!!!!! Judy and ellie shared it with her and it was still way to much. Kenidee and Ellie had so much fun together. It had been along time since they had seen each other and they acted like they just saw each other yesterday. Sometimes I wonder if they share a brain.

We went to lunch with Markham(robins grandma) I didn't take pics dang it. then went to Fred Meyers, and Kenidee found this head band and wore it all over the store. I think it is really awesome.

We wanted to see how Bennett measures up to Lexi but we couldn't get them to stand together. But he loved watching the girls run and chase each other.

We went to the Aquarium one day and Kenidee loved it. She wanted to touch everything she could. Bennett slept through it. I will have to post the little clip I have of kenidee trying to catch pigeons. it is classic. Later that day she ask if we could take the sea lions home with us when I asked her where they would live she told me we would just build a pond in our back yard by the trampoline. what a good idea.

This is the Lay Family. We LOVE them. They were in our ward when we lived in Tacoma. They are a great family and I learned so much from them. Michelle threw me a baby shower for kenidee. When we moved she was expecting the twin girls. while we were there on our visit they invited us over for Sunday dinner. It was so nice to see there newly redone house and to catch up on what they have been doing. Kenidee played great with the kids.

Ernie always would play with kenidee when she was a baby but this time she wasn't so sure so he just held her and talked to her until she said they could be friends.

Chuck E. Cheese's is something I have never experienced. This was a first for me as well as my kids. I guess Robin and his brothers would go when they were kids. It was interesting for me I guess it wasn't what I expected.Kenidee loved it. Bennett rode on this little car with Chuck E. most of the time. Robin got into it too. I would catch him playing games for the little kids, I don't know if he was trying to get more tickets or maybe the games were just fun to him.

We were able to go and see Grandma and Grandpa Wright they have never met Bennett. Bennett was named after Grandpa Wright. the pic of our kids with grandma and grandpa are not so good but we got some good ones of grandpa with the kids. Kenidee still talks about grandpa's fish. We all had so much fun. it was nice to get back home to our own beds. Kenidee always asks when she will get to see Ellie again she really misses her other half.