The Evans Family

Mckenzie is 2!

2009-11-19T23:14:00.000-07:00

just wanted to get some pics up

2009-11-19T23:07:00.000-07:00

i will explain them later but its getting late
hope everyone is doing good

Going Private

2009-08-06T14:22:00.002-06:00

So me and Matt have been talking for awhile about going private, but we also come back to its easier for family and friends if we didn't. But our decision was made to go private after the news report this week about people stealing blog pictures and posting them on there adoption website. So sorry for the inconvenience but we have to look out for our Kenzie Lou. We would still love everyone we know to view the blog so just leave your email address in the comments or email us. We will be making in private in a week.
Thanks everyone.

Pigtails and Dancing

2009-07-22T20:51:00.007-06:00

Since the one ponytail didn't look that great yet we decided to put Kenzie's hair in pigtails and she looked so cute...that's how we do her hair most of the time now.

Kenzie's chessy but adorable smile.

Here are a couple of pics of Kenzie one day after class, Grandma Evans came and watched her that day so we tried to get pictures of us both dancing but you can only take pictures through the window of the observing room so they didn't turn out very good.

Looking at the sticker her teacher gave her for dancing so well.

Princess Kenzie

2009-07-22T20:42:00.002-06:00

Kenzie loves to dress up and dance, and since daddy calls her his little princess I knew I had to find her a tiara and I finally did. They had a three pack of these cute tiara's for $1 at Joanns and they also had a cute magic wand for $1 too. She was so happy that there was another tiara so Mommy could dress up with her too. We have tons of fun dressing up and pretending, lately or favorites are to be ghosts and superheroes. (Pictures of those coming soon.)

My Little Fish

2009-07-17T15:20:00.010-06:00

Mommy and Kenzie started swim class this week and it has been a lot of fun. Kenzie is really enjoying she loves to get ready in her swimsuit in the morning and if we have talked to you recently you know her favorite part of class is jumping in the pool. But I was really surprised at how good of a class it is they teach the little ones so many useful skills for the water that can be helpful in any situation...like how to climb out of the pool, how to use your arms to walk along the edge of the pool, kicking and moving your arms of course, how to blow bubbles in the water and to be dunked so they learn to hold there breath now under water in case anything ever happened. Kenzie was so excited because Daddy has the last 2 days off and was able to watch her swim and take pictures of her swimming. It was so cute at the pool he asked her "If he could take lots of pictures of her" her reply was of course "YES" then daddy asked "How many is a lot" and she said, "THREE!!!" but as you can see down below we took a lot more than three.

Here is our city pool it is really nice it was just built last year and we love it.

This is our class in the beginning having circle time. We usually sing "wheels on the bus" and do the movements with the kids in the water.

Here we are listening very carefully to our teacher explain what we were supposed to learn that day

Here is my little fishy back floating.

This is one of her favorite things to do she loves to climb out of the pool all by herself and then jump back in... I think we spend half of our time at the pool doing this :)

Mckenzie just being silly!

Here she is practicing "crab walking " or walking along the wall.

Mommy and Kenzie getting out of the pool after a fun day of class.

Catching Up - Part 2

2009-07-14T15:17:00.012-06:00

Kenzie is just getting so big when I think about it, it sometimes makes me a little sad because she is not a baby she is a toddler in every way now. She has always loved to color but it would only entertain her for like 5 seconds now she just loves it and she gets so into it the other night I think she colored for about an hour. She uses her crayons and markers and she is so cute she just doesn't color the whole page she tells me that she will color certain things like Elmo's eyes orange, (which just for everyone's information is her favorite color right now, if you give her a choice that involves a color it will be orange every time, the other night while driving home she told me she saw an orange dog with a purple spot on it.) Then when she is done coloring she loves to put stickers on her masterpiece. And she loves to show daddy what she has done when he gets home and then hang it on our fridge.

Finally on a weekend when it wasn't raining we brought out the Elmo sprinkler that I bought Kenzie last year which she just wanted nothing to do with last year.... but this year because it was Elmo she was a little more intrigued. She ran through a few times with mom and grandma and liked it but as soon as water got in her eyes that was the end on that she just kept saying "NO NO NO" next time I will have to try sunglasses on her.

These next two pictures are just random ones of our Mckenzie Lou she just makes me smile all the time the one with her under the chair I'm not sure what was going on all of a sudden I look over and thats how I found her. She loves to explore and climb anything and everything.

The last few weeks we have been going to the pool quite a bit. We go every Wednesday with Grandma Evans to the Provo pool, and the weekend of the 4th we went with dad to the payson pool and played with all the kids at the bbq in the kid pool . All of this was in preparation for Mckenzie's swim lessons which we are in now and she is doing really well (more on that later) here are a few pics of are first trip to the provo pool. She did really well it took her about 30 min to warm up and then she was splashing around and having a good time.

Here is Kenzie in one of her 4th of July outfits, She is finally getting some long hair in the back and I was just so excited and couldn't wait anymore I broke down and bought those tiny elastics at walmart ( they were such a good deal 400 for $2 in 7 colors) so I finally tried putting kenzie's hair in a pony I thought it looked cute but Matt said it looked like a guys hair so I tried to put a clip in front to make it look better but I don't know... (the first pic of her is her new smile)

The day before the 4th we went to the freedom festival in provo and spent the afternoon walking around the booths. It was really nice they had alot of free activites for kids to do and I next year Kenzie will want to spend the whole day there. They had this animal show there (the kind where they show spiders, snakes ect..) and Kenzie was intrigued the whole time, at one time the host put a scorpian in his mouth and I said gross and the rest of the day she said "bug gross" it was pretty cute she remembered that for a few days. They had a lot of free bounce houses for the kids to go in and slides, she went down with daddy quite a few times. We made a really cute USA fan at a craft booth, had lunch a tri tip sandwich yumyum!! And just enjoyed the afternoon as a family. We came home a took a three hour nap together.

For the 4th we woke up early and headed to provo to go to the parade. It was a lot of fun most of Matt's family was there so it was great to visit with everyone and Kenzie was able to play with her cousins. After the parade we headed to Orem to visit Adam and Tami and our new niece KATELEE she is beatiful. Then it was off to Grandma and Grandpa Evans for a BBQ and playing in the water. Kenz had a lot of fun in the water especially playing with her cousins. It was a great 4th we just hung out with family till fireworks which was alot of fun this year kenz is really starting to like them. Especially throwing poppers.

Well I think we are officially done catching up... hopefully we just stay that way now:)

Catching Up - On What's Been Going On

2009-07-07T17:09:00.011-06:00

Just to warn you there is going to be a picture overload. I have decided to start posting more regularly and using our blog more as a journal for our family so if it starts to get a little boring for some of you sorry I just don't want to forget everything that goes on around here. Kenzie changes so fast I don't want to forget things.

This picture was taken about a week ago Kenzie still loves to dance and when we are practicing for dance class she always tells me that she needs a necklace and not just one she needs all of them. I always joke with matt that she looks like one of those rappers with all there gold chains. She just makes me laugh though because she has to have her tutu necklaces bracelet's and that night even a lai before she could really dance. And now that we switched to cable we get on demand and we were searching through the shows and we found that we get the Hannah Montana concert for free so I think. Mommy and Kenzie rocked out to it everyday for about a week. It was great exercise for me.

Well we have been potty training Kenzie for a while now she does really good for a few days and then has a bad streak where she won't tell me when she needs to go. We have tried just about everything we give her treats for going to the potty, she wears big girl pull ups(pictured below) we even got her elmo underwear as an incentive but she just always stops telling mom when she needs to use the potty after a few days. It was really funny just last night I could tell she needed to go to the bathroom and said "Kenzie lets go potty come on big girls go potty" and she told me "no baby" I took her anyway but she just kept telling me no that she was a baby. Daddy just kept laughing he thought it was pretty funny. I was just in shock, I couldn't believe my big girl was telling me she was a baby.

Kenzie before church she just looked so cute we had to do a quick photo session and notice the headband around her neck, she put it like that it was her necklace for the day.

Kenz really has started getting into pretend play alot more. So we have tea parties a lot more often and the other day you could only attend the party if you were wearing jewelry.

As most of you know Aunt Renee used to work at Harley Davidson so we are lucky to have so clothes from there. Well one shirt that she had given me before I had Kenz just doesn't fit anymore, I hate to admit it but its true but guess who it does fit.... KENZIE she wears it like a night gown its pretty funny but it works out because I didn't want to get rid of it because it was a pretty cute shirt. Here she is modeling her new night shirt for aunt renee

As we have mentioned Kenzie has started dance class its once a week. Its a mom and me dance class and I think matt jinxed me because the first day he said how much can you guys do there 18 months but i was surprised the moms do quite a bit but its a lot of fun kenzie really enjoys it and her teacher is really great there is just 4 little girls and there moms of course in the class but we are getting to them really well and she knows the wednesday is dance class and says, "class, class, class" all morning till we get there. I didn't get that great of pictures just some with her getting a sticker from her teacher at the end, because remember the moms dance the whole time too.. so i'll have to see if someone can come down and take pic of us while were dancing.

We still have more catching up to do.... but I'm getting tired ...more to come :)

Art City Days

2009-06-20T14:47:00.006-06:00

Last Friday on Matt's day off we went to Art City Days in Springville. It was a lot of fun. We walked around all the craft booths thats were we found Kenzie's tutu. Then we took Kenz to the carnival rides. She saw lots of kids riding this train and wanted to go on. The only problem was the neither of us could go on with her she did really well for the first few minutes then she realized mom and dad weren't with her. I felt so bad because every time she would go by me she would say "mom mom off off" but she made it through the ride with out crying.

Then we went on the merry go round and that was a big hit because mom or dad could go with her I think she went on that three times she kept telling dad "again again"

The last ride she went on was a motorcycle ride and the man running the ride was nice and let dad go on with kenzie even though he technically wasn't supposed too.

The next few pictures are just random pictures of kenzie from this last week.

Our Little Toddler

2009-06-17T15:22:00.004-06:00

Mckenzie is just getting so big. She is 19 months and we just can't believe it. She is so much fun she just cracks us up. The other day she refused to take her nap then while we were eating dinner I looked over to find her knocked out in her spagetti bowl she looked so adorable.
This picture is of Kenzie fastening the buckles on her chair, it is one of her new favorite things to do and when ever she needs to sit in the chair she has to do the buckles or she gets very unhappy she also likes to do the buckle in her carseat and in the grocery carts.

The other night after the bath Kenzie wanted to have a tea party with mommy and some of her animals she just looked so cute I couldn't help but take a few pics.

Heres our girl with her rabbit and the dog she made from her mega blocks. They were all watching elmo together.

Kenzie's new favorite thing to do is run and run fast she loves to say "fast fast" while she is running around. The other night while she was running she took a pretty good fall so mommy gave her a cold ice pack for her head, a little bit of childrens tylenol which Kenzie calls "nummies" and a popsicle and that seemed to do the trick. And it must of worked pretty well because all this week she has been telling me she has hurt her head again and needs ice.

Kenzie will be starting dance class this week so we decided she needed a tutu. We found this cute pink and brown one at art city days, and grandma evans found the cute white one while she was in St. George. Kenzie just looks so adorable in them and now when she is dancing to hannah she says tutu and needs to have her tutu on as well as her necklaces.

Here is Kenzie modeling one of Pop's hats..

Gateway and more...

2009-06-09T22:31:00.010-06:00

Sorry to those who saw this post with just the pictures they are all pretty random. I was tired the night I posted them and didn't feel like typing any explaination. So here it is now.

Well our Dad turned the big 30 two weeks ago. Of course I teased him endlessly :) But we had a fun birthday weekend with him. Kenzie got him some new grilling gear so now he is set to bbq for the summers. And I gave him the new ea fit for the wi it sure gives him a workout. we had dinner at tepanyakies with the family on friday night. And then had a bbq at Adam and Tami's on Sunday it was a fun day.
Here is the birthday banner Kenzie and I made for Dad

Mom and Kenzie making dad breakfast.

Kenzie has a toy wagon filled with mega blocks and this last week she has loved to dump the blocks out and put all of her stuffed animals in and take them for a ride. She loves to get in the wagon too but its not sturdy enough for her she has had a few falls out of it.

Here she is on her chair with all her animals, a little mad at mom because I was blocking her view of ELMO.

Mckenzie loves to play the piano she is so funny this last week she has figured out where the demo key is so she his that button and sits there and pretends like she is the one who is playing the song it is so cute.

Grandma Evans got Mckenzie this cute Mp3 player she just loves it we loaded all of her Hannah songs on them and now she holds her little radio around with her as she dances around the house. (I will be honest I am not so sure if I like the fact that know she can take Hannah with her all around the house :) But Kenzie just loves that she can push the buttons on her own little radio.

Last weekend we went up to Gateway it was such a nice day to go it was perfect in my standards at least mid 70's. We took Kenzie to build a bear. I wasn't sure how she would like it but she did really well. She picked a bunny and named her "Rabbit" I know were not that creative she helped step on the button to stuff her and kissed the heart and put in in Rabbit and gave her a bath and brushed him and picked out her shirt. She first picked out a Hannah shirt for her but the shirt cost more than the rabbit so we coaxed her into another one. She really enjoyed it she was running all around having a great time.

After build a bear we took her to the water fountains there and she absolutely loved them. She loved the mist the best. We really enjoyed our day as a family.

Random Mckenzie

2009-05-27T21:45:00.005-06:00

Just so everyone knows Kenzie has her days too. This picture just makes me laugh she was so mad at the moment and I can't even remember why. But our little Kenzie Lou is sure stubborn. We were at the grocery store today and she saw some Hannah Montana fruit snacks and she wasn't going to stop screaming "annah annah" till she got them. The joys of grocery shopping with a toddler.

She still loves to help mommy though. Today she helped dust and vacuum her room she is to cute

We finally upgraded her toy bin downstairs from this basket to a big plastic bin so I wasn't sure what to do with the basket but Kenz found great use for it.

Here is are little girl all ready for church. She did so well in nursery this was her second week going I was so proud of her now I'll have to be better prepared to go to both classes again

Here she is being cool rocking out to music in the car.

Tonight after the bath she got out her necklaces and put them on her bear and started dancing around with him to hannah montana of course heres some pictures

Matt had the idea to get a slide for Kenzies room a while back and she just loves it. She has finally mastered climbing it just about every way possible. She loves saying so fast as she is sliding down.

How we spent our Friday

2009-05-24T16:24:00.004-06:00

Relaxing in the new chair Grandma Evans got for her eventually it will go outside.

We finally took away her binky and now she chews at everything she can even her car seat the poor thing she was getting tired and normally she would just have her binky to help her fall asleep in the car. She kept saying "binky binky binky" I felt bad but she eventually got to sleep without it

We went to go visit Matt's grandpa's grave site, with the rest of Matt's family. It was nice to see family and remember Grandpa and hear all the stories everyone had to share.

While we were at the cemetery we got a few shots of Kenzie with some flower petals

Kenzie and Jason are so adorable together.

And here is are girl just being a ham for the camera

What we've been up to

2009-05-21T14:37:00.009-06:00

So it has been forever since we have last posted. Our old computer finally broke down and we finally have our laptop up and running so I finally upload pictures onto it. We've just been keeping busy here at home. Mckenzie turned 18 months last week and is becoming quite the handful. Everyday she surprise me by what she can do.
She loves to help me out around the house. She helps me with the laundry, the dishes and now she can even help me vacuum. This past week this has been one of her favorite things she will say "acuum, acuum" and vacuum three times a day.

Now that the weather is so nice we love to be outside and Kenzie would be out there all day if we would let her. She loves to ride her scooter, play with her sand and water table (thanks again Grandma) play ball, color with chalk, watch the dogs, throw rocks and just play outside. And she loves it when dad is home and can join her out there too.

Our Mckenzie loves to dance whenever she hears music she gets up there and moves it. She is so cute she knows who Hannah Montana is and whenever she would hear her music or see her she would say "annah annah" so thanks to my mom we were able to get her the Hannah Montana the movie soundtrack and she just loved it she would say "annah annah and dance around in her room and yesterday she put on all her play jewlry and was dancing around it was so cute. We have a video but it doesn't want to upload right now

Our little girl is getting so big her is a pic of her last night getting ready for bed. I can't believe she looks so big.

Catching Up

2009-03-18T13:44:00.007-06:00

I know it has been forever since I have posted and Matt has been on me lately to post so her it goes... I don't know where to begin

Me and Kenzie were able to go to California for almost two weeks to visit with family it was a lot of fun to see everyone again I hadn't been back to SM since my baby shower in 06. Kenzie picked up walking really well while we were down there. She loved being able to play with her aunt alex or "al" as she calls her even now that we are home she picks up the phone and starts saying al al al and we have to call her. It was nice to be able to be with renee on her birthday I haven't been able to go to a birthday dinner for her since I left for BYU so it was nice to actually celebrate with her. We tried going to the beach but it was a little to windy so we didn't stay there too long. We were able to see Alexis be baptized which was really nice. And it was fun to see kenzie play with laila and bella she doesn't have any real small cousins here so she had fun with them. I definatly enjoyed going to my nieces t-ball game it was a lot of fun she was so cute. The time went by so fast it was just nice to be able to spend time with my family again.
Here is Kenzie with Aunt Alex she loved to do anything that she was doing

Here is kenzie in the rocking chair I used when i was little

Dezi at her t-ball game

Our little princess is turning into such a toddler we can't believe. The day after we got home for our trip I noticed Kenzie was getting ready to go potty so I asked her if she wanted to go on the toliet just kidding and she said yes so i went with it and she did it has now been about five days and almost everytime has been in the potty i can't believe it even pee before bath and she likes it she feels like such a big girl all i can say is i am amazed 16 months and starting to potty train. Kenzie has never liked her crib she has always felt like it traps her she just never liked to sleep in it she would sleep in our bed or the guest bed just fine but not the crib so this last weekend we changed her crib into a little toddler day bed and she loves it. She looks so grown up in it.

Last friday we went shoping with Grandma Evans and we saw this really cute scooter you don't have to pedal or any thing the steering wheel is what moves it so grandma got it for kenz i thought it would be a while before she got the hang of it but nope that night she was moving around the living room and we finally found a helmet that fit her today so we tried it outside and she had a lot of fun with it.

These are just some other side notes about Mckenzie right now so i don't forget.
-She loves the word hot right now even if her food isn't hot she will tell me it is and make me blow on it a few extra times.
- She loves to push her baby doll around in her little baby doll stroller. its so cute and she feeds her a little doll baby bottle
- She loves to play hide and seek(her own version of it) she yells hide hide and goes and hides behind the couch and that is my cue to start saying wheres kenzie and then she pops out from behind the couch and I give her my best surprised look and she busts up laughing
- she is fascinated by dogs right now I am not sure if she likes them or not the jury is still out
- she loves the little slide out in front of our house she can climb the steps and slide down all by herself
- now that she can walk really well she can't stand being in a shopping cart which makes shopping trips pretty difficult:)
- loves double stuffed oreos and gets really messy eating them

As for me I am just taking one class online towards my masters this semester and will be taking a part time job teaching over spring and summer at BYU. Right now I am just happy that the weather is starting to get warmer and we can go outside again it is so nice.

Christmas Eve

2008-12-28T21:47:00.006-07:00

Here are some pictures of our Christmas Eve, this holiday season has been a lot of fun for us Mckenzie is at that age where she is learning and starting to understand so much we have had lots of fun with her this year its amazing the diffence from last year having a 6 week old baby at Christmas to this year having a fun and energitic 13 month old. She is so cute we got her a nativity set this year and it is so cute to watch her with it she will show you where the baby Jesus is and put him in his manger.

Here is Kenzie is her second holiday outfit Grandpa Evans picked this one out just for her.

This is Kenzie after just opening her Christmas Eve present it had Christmas pj's, a Christmas book and a reindeer. (And a piece of chocolate thats what she is holding in her hand)

Later that night we went to Grandma and Grandpa Evans for dinner. Grandpa read us the Christmas story from the bible and we did our family tradition of gifts we will give to the baby Jesus in the next year. After that we all rode up to Spanish Fork to see the lights it was alot of fun.

Here is Mckenzie in her third holiday outfit we realized we hadn't taken a picture of her in it yet when we got home and this was the best we got.

Once we got home we got dressed in our pj's and started to get our cookies ready for Santa (Matt had informed us earlier that week that Santa's favorites were no bake cookies) Once those were done we wrote a quick note to Santa.

Mom and Kenzie with our plate of cookies all ready for Santa (Dad told us that we put too many out and that Santa could eat them all but we reassured him that Santa was a big guy and would need all the cookies he could get so he would have plenty of energy)

Our tree annd stocking all laid out and ready to go.

Here Comes Santa Claus

2008-12-28T21:34:00.003-07:00

The Friday before Christmas we decided to take Mckenzie to see Santa. We weren't sure how it was going to turn out. The pictures pretty much explain...

This is the best picture we could get.

The rest pretty much just look like this.

Poor Santa tried everything he rang his bells, he even had dad come sit by them it was just not going to happen this year. Hopefully she will like him better next year. And the girls working there wondered why we didn't want to spend $20 on a professional picture.

Later that day we went over to Grandma Evans to bake cookies but Kenzie was all tuckered out and took a nap but she woke up just in time for the best part.. eating them.

She was so funny that night because we gave her a little taste of cookie before her dinner that night and while we were trying to get her to eat dinner the cookies were cooling on the table where she could see them and she refused to eat because she wanted a cookie she kept pointing to them, she wouldn't eat her dinner to we finally moved the cookies out of her sight.

So Cute and Blog Frog give away

2008-12-17T09:57:00.006-07:00

Last Saturday was our ward Christmas party so I decided to dress Kenz up in one of her holiday ensembles she looked so cute I had to share. The only problem with the pictures though is that Kenzie refused to smile or look up so these are the best that I could get but stay tuned we still have three more holiday outfits to put her in.

Some of you may notice that I am blogging a lot more now. Thats because I am done with fall semester I took my last finals on Monday. I have three weeks to just relax and spend time with my family so now instead of studying while the little one naps I can post and keep you guys updated.

Oh yeah by the way check out this website theblogfrog.com there doing a giveaway for a target giftcard but it ends tonight.

Oh what a mess

2008-12-16T12:52:00.002-07:00

Lately Mckenzie has been learning to feed herself, so the other night was no different until she figured out hey I can get more by using my hands instead of this dang spoon by the time I came back from clearing the table she was already a big mess so I figured she might as well just keep going.

By the end she was just eating straight from the bowl.

She went right to the bath after dinner that night.

Snow Day

2008-12-15T09:42:00.005-07:00

On Saturday we got our first real big snow storm here in Utah. So Sunday after church we decided to get Kenzie all dressed up in her snow suit and let her go play in the snow for the first time. Since I didn't grow up around the snow I didn't realize that it takes longer to get you ready than you will be playing outside for. It was hard work getting that snowsuit and boots on her but we did it. She was a little hesistant at first but once she realized she was okay she just sat down right in it and started playing in it.

Mommy and Kenzie in the snow

Playing in the snow.

Trying to figure out if she liked this snow stuff

All bundled up and ready to go out.

Christmas Time

2008-12-15T09:19:00.005-07:00

Well we can't believe its already almost Christmas again this past year has really flew by. We put up our tree as a family the day after Christmas it was fun. We made sure we had only soft and non-breakable ornaments this year. Kenzi was a little leary of the tree at first she would always point at it to let us know that this big thing was still in our living room but her fear of it quickly past and now every day she takes all the ornaments off that she can reach and we just put them back on we do this about five times a day but oh well.

Kenzie in the process of taking off ornaments

Our tree in all its glory

This year we were able to go to temple square to see the lights. It was Mckenzie's first time going and my moms too. It was a ruff night getting there lets just say that every thing that could go wrong traffic wise did. But once we were there despite the cold the lights were beautiful and the nativity scences that they have all around really help you to remember the reason for the season. Here are a few pictures I was able to get before my camera battery died.

Mckenzie all bundled up

Daddy and his little girl.

Grandma Nellie, Mom and Mckenzie

Last week after sunday dinner we decided to take a family picture for our christmas cards. It took quite a few tries to get Kenzie to smile but we finally got won here it is. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Evans for all your hard work in getting Kenzie to smile.

Holiday Baking

2008-12-13T10:15:00.009-07:00

Last week before my mom left for California we were able to bake Christmas cookies with her. It was alot of fun Kenzie even got into it. It has been really nice having my mom here these past few months it has been great being able to see her every week and spend time with her.

I know this isn't the best picture of Kenz but her little face is so into what she is doing I just love it.

Decorating her cookie with Grandma

It looks like she is decorating dad's cookie but she is really trying to steal a candy off of it.

The sugar cookie we mad for Dad we think it looks just like him :)

Kenzie with Grandma all ready to bake.

Daddy enjoying the cookie we made him once he got home from work.

Kenzie enjoying the cookie she decorated.

Hard at work decorating her cookie (I don't know why they loaded out of order)

IT was lots of fun makeing and decorating cookies I can't wait till next year when Mckenzie will be more into it. We will have so much fun.

Miss Independent

2008-12-06T23:24:00.004-07:00

Well our little girl is growing up. She is insiting on feeding herself all of the time now or else she won't eat. Which is okay with me it gives me a nice break but it also makes me realize how fast she is growing. Her is Kenz feeding herself some oatmeal for breakfast.

Miss Mckenzie Lou has also become quite the little ham lately too. She can really make me smile. The other day she realized that what smile for the camera means so she was really giving me some big cheezy ones.

Thanksgiving and more

2008-12-06T23:23:00.008-07:00

Well for Thanksgiving this year we had dinner with Matt's family it was nice to visit with everyone. Kenzie really enjoyed seeing her new cousin baby Logan she was actually quite intrigued by him as you can tell by the pictures. She was very interested to see what he was up to. Then later on we went over to my cousin Peggy's for dessert it was nice to be able to spend time with both families this year.

Mommy and Kenzie

Kenzie checking out baby Logan

Unfortunaly I forgot about my camera the rest of the night until we got home and Kenzie was helping me clean out her diaper bag, she took her changing pad out and started putting it over her face to play peek a boo as she did this though the mat would cause her hair to stick straight up it looked so cute I had to get a picture.

Modeling our new hat

2008-12-06T23:23:00.004-07:00

For Mckenzie's birthday my Aunt Helen made her the cutest pink hat. We just wanted to say thanks so much it will definitely keep her warm this winter. Her is Kenzie modeling the hat for us, it fits her perfect. Thanks again Aunt Helen.

Climbing

2008-12-06T23:22:00.002-07:00

Mckenzie loves to climb the stairs, the couches and this last week her little white chair. She loves it because it is just her size the only problem is that its not that sturdy so it always falls over so mom and dad have to make sure ethey are near by. But she loves it she climbs up and then stands up dancing on it. She is so cute I think that Santa might be bringing her, her very own bean bag chair thats safer for her to climb and play with.

Everywhere and in Everything

2008-12-06T23:15:00.003-07:00

These are just a few pictures of Mckenzie's favorite new place to investigate the kitchen drawers and cabinets. We lucked out since they have no handles it took her a little bit longer to figure out that they open than other ones in the house... but once she did this is what we find when we turn our backs.

Caught red handed.

Our Little Hommie

2008-12-06T23:04:00.003-07:00

The other day Mckenzie was sporting her beanie around the house and both Matt and I thought she looked like a cute little thug. Looking back at the pictures they really make me laugh because they remind me of my hometown and of all the want to be thugs there.

This picture above is so cute because she is trying to make a pig face, I guess when we teach her that pigs go oink oink we make our noses get all scrunched up like a pig and now she trys to do it to.

Exploring New Foods

2008-12-06T22:57:00.004-07:00

Now that Kenzie is one and can have just about anything, she loves trying out new foods her are some pictures of her after some new tastes.

Here she is with pizza, she liked this one it was fun to eat and play with.

Here's our girl after some of dad's frosty thus the chocolate lips, she really liked this one.

Last here she is trying out a pickle she wasn't too sure about this one.

Party Pictures

2008-11-25T12:48:00.004-07:00

Here are some pictures from Kenzie's birthday party last weekend. It was alot of fun, she definately got spoiled but she is the little princess of the family so we couldn't help it. She really started to get the hang of opening presents, she just got a little tired at the end but I don't blame her there were alot of gifts. Her cake turned out so cute, the party theme was a baby safari and the and the giraffe and turtle matched the invitations exactly, I wish I could say that I made it but I am not that talented the cutest lady in our ward made it for us and it turned out awesome and was so yummy. Kenzie made out big time some of her favorite new toys have been her doll she loves that thing, her wagon she loves walking around the kitchen and living room with it, her car she drives around everywhere and all of her new books she truly loves each and every one of them- she just absolutely loves reading. Kenzie really enjoyed her cake she couldn't get enough frosting, I was a little surprised she didn't destroy it more I think she was just suprised mom and dad were letting her have it we are usually pretty strict on the sweets. Overall it was a great day. Earlier that day Matt and I were able to think back and reflect on this last year and the night Kenzie was born and of some of the memories we've had as a family of three this last year its amazing how time flys bye it made me think of the talk by Pres. Monson given this last conference on how we need to cherish the moments things and people change, and our children our only little once . Thanks to everyone who came to help make the day special for our little girl, especially Great Grandma and Grandpa Evans the party was during that last week when he was feeling so bad, but he still managed to come and show his love and support. We love him and will miss him alot. Thank you to Grandma and Grandpa Evans for letting us have the party at your home.

First Birthday Present

2008-11-16T12:48:00.002-07:00

When Mckenzie first woke up on Friday morning we let her open one birthday present right away, and I was really excited for this one since it was the quilt that I had made for her. It was the first quilt that I had ever made as I was really excited how it turned out. I think she will really enjoy it. It was a lot of work but she was definately worth it. And I really enjoyed it I think I will definately be making another quilt again soon.

Daddy-Daughter dancing

2008-11-14T11:41:00.002-07:00

Well we are pretty big Dancing with the Stars fans even though Matt might not like to admit it sometimes we watch it as a family every week and Kenzie really enjoys it too, because of all the music she can really bop around to it. (She is quite the little dancer) And every once in awhile she can convince her dad to dance with her.

She Loves Trains

2008-11-14T11:21:00.003-07:00

A few weeks ago we won a free weekend at a resort in Park City so on the way up we decided to stop in Heber to eat. The place thta we stopped had a train track going around the restaurant and Kenzie just loved it. Every time that it would go by our table she would just get so excited, it was so much fun. Its amazing how much she has changed because we were there the end of May with Matt's family and she didn't notice them at all. Anyway we enjoyed our night away as a family it was nice to get away.

Mommy and Kenzie outside on the train.

Our view of the train from our table.

Kenzie resting, she is so cute she is so funny she preteds to lay her head down and rest now like she is going to take a nap even though she is really no where near being sleepy.

Our Princess is One

2008-11-13T08:21:00.004-07:00

I know that this is a day early but if I didn't do it now, I might not get to it by tomorrow. I can't believe our little baby girl is one already this past year flew by. We love her so much she has been such a blessing in our lives. To see her smile melts our hearts, her laugh is the greatest sound in the world and when she sees you us walk through the door its priceless. Kenzie we love you so much and it has been so much fun to watch you grow and learn everyday this last year.

Happy Halloween

2008-11-13T08:11:00.003-07:00

I know this post is a little late but we had so much fun on Halloween we just had to share. Mckenzie was the cutest pumpkin you had ever seen she had so much fun trick or treating that night. After every house we would go to she would laugh and get so excited and have to check her pumpkin to see what kind of treat she got. We went all around our neighborhood but she could have kept going she loves being out and about, but it was starting to get chilly so mom and dad sadly said that was enough. Then we all just stayed home and passed out candy Kenzie would help every once in awhile but she was more concerned with examining and playing with her loot.

Just too cute...

2008-10-18T11:52:00.002-06:00

Yesterday we dressed Kenzie in her halloween shirt and she just looked so dang cute we had to take some pictures.

Pumpkin Fest

2008-10-17T21:15:00.013-06:00

For our family day yesterday, we went to the pumpkin fest here in Payson. They had lots of fun activites for the kids and I think next year Mckenzie will really enjoy it. The only thing she could really do this year was go for a tractor ride. She loved she held on to the steering wheel the whole time like she was really controlling it. I was so proud of her too, she didn't get scared at all and it was a very bumpy ride, Mom was even starting to get a little quesy on it.

Mommy and Kenzie getting ready to take off.

Waving bye to daddy

Kenzie and mom just as the ride was ending.

Halloween Preview

2008-10-17T21:15:00.010-06:00

Tuesday night we decided to try on Kenzie's halloween costume to make sure that it fit. And since this is her first halloween we decided to go with a traditional costume a pumpkin. It fits just about right, we just have to make a few adjustments like figuring out how to get the hat to stay on her.

Here is the cutest pumpkin ever.

This is Kenzies attepts to climb the stairs in her pumpkin suit, she soon realized it is a lot harder with the big round belly.

11 Months

2008-10-17T21:15:00.007-06:00

My big girl in her rocking chair.

Wearing one of her new winter hats.

We can't believe it but in less than four weeks our little girl will be one year. I don't know if we are ready for it. She is getting to be quite the handful, but it is so amazing to see her learn, grow and change each day. This last month her favorite things to to have been dancing whenever she heres music, feed herself with her spoon all byherself, shake her head no, and take everything out of the drawers and then put them back in.

Crazy Hair

2008-10-17T21:14:00.003-06:00

Well everyone knows my little girl is just like her mommy who didn't have very much hair when she was a little baby. But the other night in the bath after we washed her hair its was sticking up all crazy it looked so silly we just had to take a picture of it. Her hair is growing i know its hard to tell but it is. And she looks even more silly because she was trying to attack the camera again like she always does.

They finally came!!!

2008-10-17T21:08:00.004-06:00

Well our little girl finally cut her first tooth last Saturday morning, actually her first two teeth, the two front lower ones. We were so excited for her. She had been a little fussy that week so now we know why. Now we just have to watch out because she had a pretty strong bite before and now she can really get you.

Here she is with her Daddy he was so proud.

Go Bruins!

2008-10-04T22:20:00.003-06:00

Yesterday Mckenzie was able to go to her first football game. My cousin Sam plays for Mountain View, they played provo last night so we decieded to go cheer him on.

Here she is with Grandma Nellie trying to stay warm.

Sam is #20 he is the kicker and he did awesome the half we were there he didn't miss one kick way to go Sam!

Here Kenz is again trying to nibble on a snicker. Doesn't she look way cute all bundled up

FFF (Family Fun Fridays)

2008-10-04T21:48:00.006-06:00

Now that Matt has Fridays off we have decided to make that family day and to something fun together. So this Friday we went to Pumpkin Land in Orem they had a corn maze, a pumpkin patch, animals, a park and a bouncy house it was perfect here are some pictures documenting our first official family fun friday.

Daddy and Kenzie after they picked out the perfect pumpkin.

Look closely and you can see Mckenzie!

Boo!

Mommy and Kenzie taking a break from being lost in the corn maze to take a picture

A picture with the exit sign as proof that we made it out. It seemed like it took forever but we were actually only in there for nine minutes.

Kenzie still isn't that fond of animals but as long as dad is near by she won't freak out

Daddy and Mckenzie infront of the big pumpkin.

Bouncing in front of the bouncy house since she wasn't old enough to go in.

Family picture inside Farmer Grant's lighted storytime.

Mommy and kenzie swinging, which I honestly think was the part kenzie enjoyed the most.

Playing with her pumpkin at home. It was a great day I thing the first FFF was a huge success we all had fun and enjoyed spending time together.

She Made It!

2008-10-04T21:41:00.004-06:00

Doesn't she look just so proud of herself.

Daddy spotted her all the way up.

Well Mckenzie has finally got the hang of climbing up the stairs. She started to do it a couple of weeks ago but this week she really took off and made it up all 14 steps. Here she is with her dad after making it up the first time. Now our problem is that we can't keep her off them. We have a gate at the top as you can see but we haven't gotten one at the bottom. I guess you know what our next job is.

10 Months Old!

2008-10-04T21:30:00.003-06:00

(my princess at 10 months by the way it is so much harder to get a good photo of her now because she is always trying to crawl up and get the camera from me)

Well we can't believe it but our cutie pie has turned 10 months old. We can't believe that she is almost a year old. She is getting to me quite the handful at 10 months Kenzie can ...
*Crawl anywhere and everywhere
*open drawers and cupboards and take everything out of them
*Cruise along the furniture
*say mama
*climb the stairs
*feed herself with her fingers and trys really hard with her spoon
*clap
*wave hi
*play peekaboo
and tons more
(my princess at 10 months by the way it is so much harder to get a good photo of her now because she is always trying to crawl up and get the camera from me)

Feast or Famine

2008-09-23T13:22:00.003-06:00

I have officially started grad school again so my life is very crazy when I am not in school or playing with Kenzie I am squezing in whatever study time I can so that is why we haven't been keeping up on our blog lately so bare with us one day I will figure out how to handle everything so until then I guess it will probably be either feast or famine. Well i better go I am actually in class now :)

Mckenzie's First Masterpiece

2008-09-23T10:19:00.005-06:00

Yesterday Mckenzie created her first masterpiece with the help of mom of course. Grandma Nellie bought her her first crayons the kind for toddlers and coloring book the really big kind and last night we just doodled away. Here is our finished product. It was tons of fun to color and create with her. She is growing so fast. Next time I will have to get a picture of us actually in the act.

St George

2008-09-23T10:19:00.004-06:00

This last weekend we were able to go to St. George with Matt's family. It was great to spend time with everyone. We started out documenting the trip here is Mckenzie rocking out at Wendys before we left.

But our camera never left the hotel pool. We had lots of fun swimming and shopping. It was a great weekend.

Spanish Fork Kite Days

2008-09-07T11:22:00.004-06:00

Last Friday we went to kite days as a family. We thought we would check it out since it was free. It was alot more fun then we thought it would be. They had alot of go green exhibits so Matt got to ride a lot of cool toys. We had a great day as a family.

Here is Matt testing out some of the cool bikes and stuff...

Thats a picture of Kenz after her first Italian Icee it was cherry thus the red lips

Onion Days

2008-08-31T14:55:00.005-06:00

Well here in Payson we have Onion days, I'm not thrilled about the name but it is a pretty fun little festival. While we were there, there was a man making free balloon animals and since Mckenzie's room is ladybugs that is was we asked for. Here is what we got..

Not bad for a balloon. And she loved it she played with it all the way home.

They had so many cute booths there too. But I only had $6 in cash so that was my limit because I can sometimes go over bored at things like that but I think I did pretty good for six dollars I came home with two headbands for Kenzie and a flower clip to go with them. And the cutest binkie holder I had ever seen.

Touchdown!!

2008-08-31T14:26:00.007-06:00

Well yesterday was BYU's first football game and any of you who know my husband know he is a huge fan and that he plans to teach our daughter to be one too. Well the other morning well I was getting ready he taught Kenzie how to put her hands up like the refs do after someone scores a touchdown. So now when someone says the word touchdown Kenzie automatically puts her hands up. Its so cute but I can't believe he has her starting out so young, I'm doomed because most of you know I'm not a huge sports fan. I guess I will just have to be like Lavell Edwards wife she said she used to hate football then after a couple years she realized it wasn't going away and learned to like it. (There was a tv show on them the other night) The first video is of her showing how she can do touchdown. The second one is of her doing the same thing just in her blue and white headband to show cougar spirit.

Big Bear Vacation Part 2

2008-08-28T16:50:00.006-06:00

Well Alexis was determined to ride a horse and she did. She admited later that she was afraid but she did it anyways.

We decided to put Mckenzie on the horse to see how she liked it she lasted about 5 seconds just long enough to get the picture. But at least now we can say she has been on a horse.

After the horse ride the girls wanted to go in the petting zoo, but Bella didn't want to go in alone so I offered to go in with her even though I am not a huge fan of animals here are a few pictures of the girls with some of the animals.

Here is a picture of all three girls from oldest to youngest Alexis, Bella and Mckenzie

Here is our little girl on a saddle.

Well on Thursday it was Alexis 8th birthday and to celebrate we went to the waterslides, the alpine slide, go karts and miniture golfing it was lots of fun we forgot to take pictures for most of it. Sorry but here are a couple that we were able to capture.

Scott and Alexis on the Go Karts you had to be at least 18 to drive.

Renee on the Go Karts she was afraid that Scott was going to bump into her.

Singing Happy Birthday to Alex.

Mckenzie and her Aunt Renee they had lots of fun times together especially in the mornings.

Here is Kenzie on our last day at the cabin as we were getting ready to leave, we were the last to go since we were traveling home through the night. She did well she slept just about the whole time. We can't believe how fast the time went. She learned how to crawl while we were there and has really picked it up since we've been back.

Big Bear Vacation Part 1

2008-08-28T11:37:00.012-06:00

Well we haven't posted in a while because we have been on vacation but we are back now and finally getting things back to normal. We left almost two weeks ago to go to Big Bear, California. It was lots of fun. We enjoyed spending time with family and just relaxing.

Kenzie and I on the airplane we flew out two days before dad. It was her first flight and she was a trooper. She slept almost the whole entire time.

Kenzie at Soup Plantation in California she had her first bowl of macaroni there and boy did she make a mess.

At the Lake for the first time.

Everyone taking in the sun by the lake.

Kenzie playing with the sand by the lake. She really loved to play with it and didn't try to eat it at all.

My little sister Alex and my cousin Bella playing in the sand.

Going into the lake for her first time the water was a little chilly but not bad.

Dad finally came to join us on Tuesday night and kenzie was thrilled.

Kenzie, Matt and Alexis on the swing out back. It was so beautiful there and kenzie just loved that swing.

Kenzie's first fair

2008-08-15T22:18:00.010-06:00

Well yesterday we took Mckenzie to the Utah County fair in Spanish Fork. We went with Grandma and Grandpa Evans it was lots of fun. I think its safe to say that she enjoyed her first fair experience except for the animals part but I don't blame her I was't a big fan of them myself.

Mommy and Kenzie trying out the Big Green tractor, I don't know but I think we are more like city girls.

Kenzies first look at real sheep and she told us she likes the ones in the books better

Kenzie on top of Dad's shoulder's her favorite place to be

Kenzie and Daddy as they finished sliding down the big slide.
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The three of us in front of the ferris wheel.

Below are videos of Kenzies first Merry go round ride and going down the big slide while at the fair.

Figuring things out

2008-08-15T22:18:00.005-06:00

Lately Mckenzie has just been trying to figure everything out around the house and see how everything works. Her favorite thing lately is her car seat she is just fascinated by the straps. After I unstrap her and get her out she will just sit by it and try to figure it out. Hopefully she doesn't. I don't think she will.

Nine Months Old

2008-08-15T22:17:00.004-06:00

Well on Thursday Mckenzie turned 9 months I can't believe in three months she will be a year old I can't believe that I already need to start planning. Well here are two videos of our little girl taken over the past few weeks one is of her rolling all over the living room floor she can scoot and crawl a bit but I think she figures why should I, I can get there faster rolling and she sure can she can get across our living room in just about two seconds. The other video is of her clapping it was taken when she really first figured out how to do it she would clap right after mommy would. Now she knows when someone sings the song when your happy and you know it she should clap its so cute.

Adam and Tami's Wedding

2008-08-15T22:16:00.006-06:00

Last week was Unlce Adams wedding and we couldn't be happier for him. Tami is a great girl and we are happy to have her in the family. Here is a picture of the three of us at the reception it was a fun night to was fun to spend time together as a family and to see everyone and visit with them. Mckenzie looked so cute in her red shoes.

Here is Kenzie and Grandma Evans playing pattie cake I think they played it about 100 times over the two days of the wedding.

8 Months Old

2008-08-01T16:49:00.003-06:00

Sorry these pictures are a little late but we took Mckenzie to JCPennys for her 8th month picture and here are some of our favorites,At 8 months are little girl can...
-feed herself a cracker
-drink through a sippy cup
-roll over anyway to get to where she wants
-crawl, army style but only backwards
-clap
-wave hi
-say mom and dada
We could go on forever but we don't want to bore you.

Leg Warmers

2008-08-01T14:02:00.003-06:00

I found these cute leg warmers today while we were out shopping so we just had to try them on when we got home. I think she looks so adorable. Daddy says she looks like she is from the 80's. But not only are they cute but they will protect her legs while she crawls around.

Harley Davidson

2008-08-01T13:58:00.004-06:00

Aunt Renee bought Kenzie cute harley onsies at her baby shower but until now they were too big. So we decided to do a photo shoot to show Aunt Renee how cute she looks in them.

Lady bugs and more

2008-08-01T13:52:00.004-06:00

Here is a picture of Mckenzie in her cute lady bug outfit that goes perfectly with her room. The rest are just cute pictures of her from this past week.

My little Mozart

2008-07-07T18:07:00.002-06:00

Kenzie loves to sit at the piano and play away hopefully she will take a liking to it and keep up with it unlike her mom.

Opps... Did I do that

2008-07-07T17:59:00.002-06:00

Here is what I found Saturday morning after turning my back for one second tissues everywhere. I guess next time I will have to make sure they are out of her reach. But she still looks so cute.

Caught in the act

Doesn't she look so mischevous in this pictures.

4th of July

2008-07-07T11:28:00.007-06:00

Happy Independence Day! We are so grateful that we live in this country. We had a great fourth of July we hung out with family, went to the parade and did fireworks later that evening here are some pictures documenting the day.

Here is our little girl in her fourth of July outfit, she was so patriotic, and so dang cute.

Here we are as a family at the Freedom fesitval parade in Provo. Mckenzie loved it she didn't get fussy at all, not even when the sirens were going off. She loves being outside and seeing new things so she was just amazed by it all.

After the parade we came home and napped and then just played as a family for awhile. Here is a picture of mommy and Kenzie.

Then we went to Grandma and grandpa evans for a BBQ and fireworks later on.
Playing in the grass.

Kenzie and Crystal during the fireworks, they didn't scare her one bit she was just amazed at what was going on.

Daddy and Tyler

Happy fourth of July

New Payson Swimming Pool

2008-07-07T11:12:00.002-06:00

Our new city swimming pool opened last Thursday and we had to go take Kenzie. It is actually really nice they have a really nice children's area with a padded bottom so babies can sit and splash. They have lots of slides and a lazy river you can float in. Since daddy had a four day weekend we decide to go as a family it was lots of fun and Kenzie really enjoyed the water. And the good thing is its only about two minutes away from our house so we can go whenever we want.

Modeling her swimming suit before we left the house.

Getting her toes used to the water.

Getting ready to go down the slide with Daddy.

Cute as can be

2008-07-07T11:10:00.002-06:00

Here is a picture of Mckenzie I took last week before we went to the park to play. I just thought she looked so cute I had to post it.

Brushing her teeth...ok well her gums

2008-06-24T10:23:00.006-06:00

Mckenzie loves to watch mommy and daddy brush there teeth so I decided it was time for her to start to brush hers even though she doesn't have any yet its never to early to learn a good habit. First mommy did it for her and now she does it on her own and she does a good job she is so cute. We brush morning and night.

Brush... Brush

Proud of a job well done

Shoes

2008-06-24T10:12:00.006-06:00

My poor little girl her feet are so small that hardly any shoes fit them she still wears a size 1. The only shoes that really fit her well are the red pair of shoes that Gradma Nellie bought her while she was here in April. The only bummer is there red and we don't have a lot of things that go with red so right now even if they don't go that well I still put them on so she can have shoes.

If she can't wear them she might as well play with them.

Swimming

2008-06-24T09:40:00.006-06:00

Last week Mckenzie and I went swimming in the baby pool to get her used to the water before our mommy and me swimming classes start in July. She started out liking it alot but i think she started to get bored with it as the days went on. Sorry theres not any better pictures its hard to take some when its just the two of us.

My New Tub

2008-06-19T09:30:00.003-06:00

Kenzie has grown out of her baby tub so we decided it was time for a new one. It is just perfect for her. She loves it. She loves splashing and just leaning back and relaxing it is so cute. The ducks beak quacks when you squeeze it and it makes her laugh every time, bath time is one of her favorite times of the day.

7 Months

2008-06-19T09:22:00.003-06:00

Well I can't believe it but our baby is now 7 months old. She is getting so big. She loves to climb on everyone, she still refuses to crawl unless it is to get something she knows is off limits, she tries to be so independent and tries to feed herself but she is just not quite there yet. She can say mamama, she rolls over now like a pro and still loves to pull herself up. We love her so much and are still blown away at how fast she has grown.

Look At What I Can Do

2008-06-13T17:28:00.003-06:00

Mckenzie has definetly got the standing up on her own thing down pretty good. She cracks me up though because from a laying position she can't reach the top of the crib to pull her self up only if I put her in there sitting up, so if she is laying she turns her self to her tummy and grabs on to the bumper and trys to pull herself up with those but of course those aren't strong enough so she just gets stuck, thats what the last two pictures are of.

Vrmm Vrmmm

2008-06-13T14:33:00.003-06:00

Kenzie loves going for rides in the laundry basket she thinks its her own little car that will take her wherever she wants. And this is where she first stood up all on her own she grabed on to the sides while mommy was pushing her around and stood up, I couldn't believe it

Random Pictures of Kenzie at Dinner

2008-06-13T14:28:00.001-06:00

Kenzie loves meal time now and gets so messy every now and then I just can't help but take her picture after dinner because she is so dang cute. Right now her favorites are green beans and carrots, and in the mornings bananas.

Kenzie the Baker

2008-06-13T14:13:00.004-06:00

Ok the other day while we were getting dressed we were playing around and we put her bloomers on her head she loved it we were laughing and laughing all of a sudden I realized that it looked like she was wearing a bakers hat so I had to take a picture. Daddy thought we were being silly so I made sure to put the pretty pictures of her all dressed up cute in there too for him.

Sippy Cup

2008-06-13T14:02:00.003-06:00

Kenzie has started to drink from a sippy cup, I can't believe it she is growing so fastt. She only uses it at meal times in the high chair and refuses sometimes but is slowly getting used to it. Daddy had to show her how it worked the first time in order for her to try it.

Her first time using the cup on her own

Pictures from the meal she was eating when she first used the cup

She is such a character

Happy B-day dad and uncle adam!

2008-06-13T13:47:00.003-06:00

I know this post is late but we just wanted to say happy birthday again to dad and uncle adam. We had a pretty good day we all went out to dinner at tepanykes, which went well until the fire started it totally scared Mckenzie and she was unhappy for the rest of the evening. The night before everyone came over to our house for cake and ice cream and dad and uncle adam opened presents.

Matt

My baking attept

Kenzie and Uncle Adam

Blankie

2008-05-27T14:15:00.002-06:00

Kenzie has started to become attached to her blanket this past week. She looks so adorable with it.

The many faces of Kenzie!

2008-05-24T14:36:00.002-06:00

Here are some random pictures of Kenzie. Grandma Nellie has been asking for some, we are going to try to update the blog more often for you. Hope your doing great. we miss you.

Daddy's Little Girl

2008-05-23T21:39:00.002-06:00

The other night we were all just hanging out at home together and enjoying the night as a family and I couldn't believe how cute they looked. Matt has the next four days off so were really excited, we are hoping to make it to park city and the zoo.

Summer Outfits

2008-05-22T10:05:00.003-06:00

This past week we finally had some really nice weather here in Utah, actually it got a little bit too hot for my taste it reached the high 80's and low 90's but I was spoiled growing up with Santa Maria weather. The good news is that we finally got to dress Mckenzie up in some of her cute summer clothes before she out grew them. And yes we even changed her more than once on some days :) Kenzie loved not having to wear so much clothes but she wasn't a huge fan of the hot weather, and daddy and grandpa larry even put up a ceiling fan for her so she is all set for summer.

Bouncer

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Kenzie loves her bouncer and over the past few weeks has really been able to enjoy the the toys and music on it. She can turn everything on by herself now and loves it. When Grandma Nellie was here a 2 months ago she was just barely getting used to sitting in it and now she loves playing in it and eating the flowers. This is to show Grandma how talented she has become in it and to say hi and we miss you.

We Love Worms

2008-05-19T13:16:00.001-06:00

Mckenzie has a toy worm that she loves to play with it has become her favorite toy this past week. She loves to eat it as you can see. And yesterday she even had to take her nap with it. It was so cute we just had to share it.

6 Months Old

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Well Mckenzie turned 6 months old last week. She is now 26 inches long and 16 pounds. The doctors said she is doing great. We cannot believe how fast the time goes by it seems like just yesterday we brought her home. She is growing so fast she can sit up all by herself now, put her pacifer in by herself, and loves to try to feed herself even though she can't quite do it just yet. Mom and Dad's anniversay was the same day .We can't believe it's been four amazing.

Yummy Socks

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One of Kenzie's new tricks is that she is learned to take her socks off. Just about the moment you put them on she takes them right off. The other day we thought it was so cute becuase not only was she trying to get them off but she was trying to eat them while they were still on her feet here are her attepts.

Mommy's little helper

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Mckenzie loves to help mommy with whatever she has to do especially the laundry. She loves going for rides in the laundry basket and helping to fold the clothes. She is amazed by everything right now and she loves to see what everything is and what it does.

Some of our favorite pictures.

2008-04-20T21:28:00.003-06:00

Well I think we have got you all up to date on Mckenzie and what she has been up too. As far as Mom and Dad go they are loving there time as a family. Daddy is still loving his job with Adult Probation and Parole and might be getting a new partner soon. Mommy is loving being a stay at home mom but is still planning on going back to school in the fall to finish her Master's. Oh I almost forgot, Mckenzie has now been sleeping in her own bed as of a week ago and is sleeping through the night most of the time. Mommy and Daddy are very happy to have there bed back, but Mommy had a hard time sharing it with Daddy again the first few night's because of his snoring :)

Grandma Rodriguez came for a visit a few weeks ago and loved spending time with Mckenzie (with Joanna and Matt also, but we think she really just wanted to see Kenz :). Here are some of our favorite pictures we would like to share with you, hope you enjoy.

The Park

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The weather is starting to warm up and we thought it was time for Mckenzie to take her first trip to the park. We took Mckenzie to a park right by our home in Payson. Daddy took her down the slide several times and she loved it. Then Daddy and Mckenzie sat on a purple dinosaur and bounced up and down on it (we are not sure if she liked this as she seemed a bit scared of the dinosaur). Mommy and Daddy also each took a turn holding Mckenzie and swinging on the swings. All in all it was a fun outing and we are all looking forward to doing it again. Daddy also got a taste of how tired he will be when Mckenzie is big enough to drag him all over the play ground. Here are some pictures of our outing to the play ground. The last picture is of Mckenzie holding on in her stroller( we think she was holding on so tight because daddy was driving.)

Is it a Bird? Is it a Plain? No, it's Super Kenzie!!!

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Mckenzie loves it when Mommy or Daddy put their arm's under her and fly her around like Super Man and dthe other d ay her bib was a little big so it turned all the way around and looked like her little cape. The only problem with Mckenzie flying around is she has not learned to control her drool yet, so you get her drooling all over your arms and all over the floor. Here are some very cute pictures of Mckenzie flying around the house.

5 Months Old

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Mckenzie turned 5 months old on April 14, 2008, and we can hardly believe it, time is flying bye. Mckenzie has been holding her head up since she was about a month old and because of that she loves to sit up but cant do it on her own quite yet. So Mommy went out and got a chair to support Mckenzie's back to help her sit up on own. Mckenzie likes to sit in her chair and play with toys. Mckenzie is still trying to crawl and roll over but has yet to figure out how to do either of these things (but she is getting very close).

Mckenzie always has her had in her mouth chewing on her fingers. Mommy is convinced Mckenzie is about to teeth, so we will keep you all informed on her teething progress.

GO COUGARS!!!!

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Daddy is trying to teach his girl and BYU and sports already. On April 12, 2008, was the spring football game at BYU. Daddy made sure Mommy and Mckenzie were in attendance for the game. This turned into a family day as Grandma and Grandpa Evans, Uncle Adam and Aunt Tami joined us at the spring game. Needless to say Mckenzie had a hard time following the game but with time will come to love going to games with daddy. Mommy is planning on getting Mckenzie a little BYU Cheerleader outfit to attend games in. Here are some pictures of Mckenzie at her first spring game, her first time in the football stadium but far from her last time. Daddy will post pictures when Mckenzie attends her first really BYU football game.

Getting ready for the bath

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Even though daddy doesn't like it mommy loves to leave kenzie's undershirt on her head for a few minutes before we get in the bath. Daddy always says what is your mother doing but I can't help it she looks so silly and cute.

Getting Ready For Summer.

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Spring is here and that means it is time to get Mckenzie ready for the summer. Mom went out and got Mckenzie some sun glasses so she can chill with mommy. I know what you are all thinking, there is no way she will leave them on her face. That's was daddy thought but Mckenzie seems to like them and loves to go for car rides with her sun glasses on.

Mckenzie is also getting ready to go swimming this summer. Grandma Nellie went a little crazy on the swimsuits I think she now has one for everyday of the week, but they are so cute I don't blame her. She is looking forward to go to the pool with Grandma Evans and in late August she will be going on vacation with mom and dad to Big Bear in California to play in the lake with Grandma Rodriguez. Daddy is already becoming protective of his daughter and will not let her go out in anything other then a one piece swimsuit.

Easter Day

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Spring is here and that means Easter. Mckenzie must be on good terms with the Easter Bunny, cause she received three Easter Baskets this year. We are so excited for Easter next year when Mckenzie will be able to hunt for her Easter eggs (with some help of course). For Easter Mckenzie received some baby Einstein video's, several stuffed animals and more clothes. Here are some pictures we took from Mckenzie's first Easter.

Kenzie and Big Bird

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Mckenzie is growing up so fast and is learning how to use her hands more and more each day. Now that she can hold some things Mckenzie likes to carry around some of her favorite toys. One of the toys she likes to play with is Big Bird, and sometimes were not sure if she really likes big bird or just likes to bite him . Some of Mckenzie's other favorite toys are her rings, a musical duck, her bouncer and a Giraffe. Mckenzie is also trying to use her hands to hold her bottle when she is feeding but is not strong enough to hold the bottle up.

St. Patrick's Day

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Boy it seems like time goes by so fast and we still have not got to post more information about us. Well Mckenzie made it through her first St. Patrick's Day and thanks to mom, she did not get pinched once. Here are some pictures we took on St. Patrick's Day. Her dress was a little small it fit more like a shirt but it was so cute we had to put it on her anyway.

Talk, Talk, Talk

2008-03-16T20:14:00.006-06:00

well this past week Kenzie has been talking up a storm, she loves to coo and talk all day long. It is so much fun to talk to her and see her as she learns new sounds, lately her favorite thing to say is ahhh over and over again, it is so cute. Here is a video of her talking to mom.

Kenzies first meal

2008-03-16T12:07:00.003-06:00

Well Thursday was Mckenzie's 4 month check up i can't believe its been four months already. The doctor said she is doing great, she now weighs 13lbs. 11oz and is just about 24 inches long. Well the doctor said she was good to start trying some rice cereal, so that night we put her in her new high chair and let her have her first taste of something besides formula. She seemed to enjoy it for the most part. Here are some pictures of her first real meal.

Valentines Day

2008-02-14T19:33:00.004-07:00

Well Mckenzie made it through her first Valentine's Day. She loved her Valentine's Day outfit and was dressed for the big day. We all want to wish you a Happy Valentine's Day.

Our favorite Pictures

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Here are a few of our favorite pictures with Mckenzie. We hope you enjoy them.