Bye-Bye Bink

So, I learned my lesson the hard way. If we have another baby, and that baby takes a binky, we're taking it early on. I was a sucker with Makenna... I am aware of that. I was not ready for the fight she would put up when it came time to "pull the plug". She is SUCH a stubborn little thing. We decided to take her to Build-A-Bear, so she could put the binky in a stuffed animal. It worked really well, she had a great time and acted like such a big girl I was shocked!

Until we got home and she said "Mommy, where's the hole?" I said "What hole?" She started to panic and said "the hole.... the hole for the binks!?!?!?!" I then had to explain to her that she wasn't getting them back. Guess I should have gone into better detail when I informed her of the trade off...woops. She cried for about an hour that day, and every day got a little better. After about a week she stopped asking for it, and we are finally done! YAY!!!

The New Years Baby is THREE!!!

Makenna's third birthday was on January 1st. She wanted a Tangled (Rapunzel) party. The family always goes to my parents for a big New Years Day feast, so we decided to just roll the party in with that. I can NOT believe she is three years old already. Probably because I always thought we'd have had another baby by now, but I still think of her as a baby... probably always will!A little bit about the 3 year old Kenna. She gets more sassy and spunky with every year that passes. (didn't know it was possible)
She still talks non-stop, we call her chatty-Cathy.
She gave up the binky on her birthday (pics to come).
She is getting better and better every day with potty training.

She LOVES to learn and can't wait to start school.

She is a CHOC-AHOLIC!
She loves her dog Maddie.
She LOVES to play dress up. She is more often than not in a dress, crown and glass slippers.
She's a night owl. She'll stay up until midnight if we let her!
She only drinks chocolate milk warmed for about 35 seconds in the microwave....she knows.
She loves to DANCE!
She likes her hair to look like the girl on hairspray (and she's never even lived in Utah!)

SO much personality in such a little body. I love her more than life!

Christmas 2010

This year, we spent Christmas at my parents house. We always do a Christmas Eve devotional at church and then go home and start the rest of the Christmas traditions. My mom always gets all the grand babies Christmas jammies, so the girls had to model them:

The girls had been begging for MONTHS for pillow pets. Why do kids love them so much? They were thrilled when they saw them!

i love THIS PICTURE!!! Kenna had just woken up and turned the corner to spot what Santa had brought her. Even behind the bink you can see her smile. Priceless.

Marlee was SO relieved to see that is was presents and not coal. I guess I had done some serious threatening in December. Ha ha.

Ugly Sweater Party

Our friends Sarah and Maggie had an Ugly Sweater party this year. It was HILARIOUS! We all looked perfectly hideous and had a blast. There was great food, warm drinks, good friends and Maggie has an amazing backyard. Since the winter has been so mild we were outside almost all night sitting by the fire and reminiscing with old friends. The girls all wanted their hair done like Cindy-Lou-Who, so they also looked appropriately ugly. I am really sad I didn't get a single family picture! Oh well, still lots of fun!
Todd even shaved a Chrsitmas tree into his chest hair to go with his ugly sweater. I was truly disturbing.

We're Alive

The last couple months have been kind of a whirlwind. My mom had surgery the week of Thanksgiving which started of the holiday rush with a bang. We did a lot of back and forth between the Springs and my parents house. Before I knew it, it was Christmas, then the following week was Kenna's birthday. My sister Nicole had the same surgery (gall bladder, weird right?) about a month after my mom. My computer kicked the bucket, and now I cant even get it to turn on. Sufficed to say, blogging has been pretty impossible. This week my sister Jenn had an unexpected surgery and we have had between 1-3 extra kids since Monday. What a crazy couple months! I am going to try to post some of the pictures I have on my moms laptop til I figure out what we'll be doing for me.

Anyways...

I FINALLY got a family picture for 2010...about 3 weeks before it was over. Pathetic, I know.