Mckenzie is 2!

just wanted to get some pics up

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

Going Private

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

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

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

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

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:)