Catching Up - On What's Been Going On

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

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

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...

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

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.