Dad has a new name

Kenzie randomly calls Anthony by name, instead of dad. The other day she yelled to him to come help her in the bathroom, it made me laugh to hear her say "Anthony." I took this audio standing outside the bathroom.

She says "Wipe my bum-bum Anthony"

Snow

Today it snowed

all day long

she loved it

he loved it

he loved the snow, not the shoveling.

Thanks Grandma

Anthony's mom made this sweater for Kenzie. It fits perfect.

I tried for 5 minutes to get her to smile and put her arms down, this was the best picture I could get.

Christmas Video 2009

Here is the video you have all be waiting for. Enjoy.

Santa

I took the kids to see Santa. To sum it up:

He laughed

She loved

She cried

Rodeo

Anthony has a 2 week break from school and is getting pretty creative with how he keeps himself busy.

Kenzie turned 2

We started the festivities by having her make her own cupcakes. She loved it.

That night we had a party that my parents (who live in Utah) were able to attend while sitting in their living room, thanks to skype. (Skype is a free program on the Internet that through web cams my parents could see and hear us and we could see and hear them). It was so fun to be able to have Grandma and Grandpa sing Happy Birthday with us, watch Kenzie blow out her candles, and see her open their presents. Kenzie was spoiled rotten from both sets of grandparents. Here she is wearing her new fairy outfit showing off all her presents.

Christmas Miracle

Saturday December 12th one day before Kenzie turned 2 we had 2 Christmas Miracles:

The first was: Kaitlynn took a bottle. (For the past month I always have to stay close because she absolutely refuses a bottle, no if's and's or but's, she wants me end of discussion).

The 2nd Miracle: Kenzie told me she needed to poop, I put her on the toilet and she pooped. (Although I have talked to her about potty training and sat her on the potty before we haven't even started potty training yet).

Merry Christmas to me I don't need any presents these 2 things were all I needed for Christmas.

P.S. If you were thinking about sending money still send it, I guess it wouldn't be to bad to get presents along with my 2 Christmas miracles.

What they think we do

The other day Anthony and I walked in our room to find our kids pretending to be us:

Parker pretended to be Anthony studying

Kenzie pretended to be me, she was trying on all my shoes to see which one went best with her outfit.

New Supervisor

Being a mom is a tough job, but I recently got a new supervisor that makes work tons more fun. Little Kaitlynn loves to sit in her Bumbo and supervise me all day long. I enjoy her so much she never criticizes and smiles with approval at everything I do.

Here she is supervising me while I eat breakfast.

While I check my email

While I wash the dishes and make all the meals

The only thing that is not so fun is when Kaitlynn's supervisors show-up. They are not so pleased with everything I do and have no trouble telling me what I am doing wrong.

Ready for Christmas

Today we put up all the decorations and are ready for Christmas.

Thanksgiving

I am thankful that we got to spend Thanksgiving with my family and for cameras so I don't have to write much.

My parents, sister-in-law Alex, Maddie Parker, and Kaitlynn

My parents took the kids geocachingMy dad had the kids fish for toys from the 2nd floor. Here are the boys showing off their loot.

Worlds best mom with worlds best baby

Parker showing off his turkey made of junk food

Kenzie was quick, she made and ate her turkey in 10 minutes flat.

We had a competition to see who could make the best looking turkey out of Junk Food. Anthony and I were both in it to win it, but when the votes were revealed I lost. I still like mine better, I am convinced if I put my turkey on a turkey farm no one would even notice, it looked that good.

Anthony was nice to give my uninsured brother a cleaning.

Uncle J and Kenzie

My brother is from the future

My older brother and his wonderful family moved to Australia a couple months ago. I got to talk to him the other night and it was so weird I was talking to him Friday night, but for him it was Saturday afternoon. It was fun to get to talk to him, but the whole time I wanted to ask him questions like: are there any stocks I should buy?(since he is a day ahead of me he could tell me what would happen before it happens and I could make millions quick), should Anthony go to school tomorrow (maybe a plane will crash into the dental school). I know he isn't really from the future, but really isn't he? The coolest thing is the uniforms kids will be wearing in the future.

Kaitlynn 4 months

Kaitlynn is now 4 months old.
Weight: 13lbs 11oz
Height: 24.75 inches
She is happy, healthy, rolling from side to side, likes to sit in Bumbo, sleeps 9 hours straight, smiles all the time and is the perfect baby.
Note to self: next time take pictures before going to the doctor and getting shots. She is normally nothing but smiles, not for this photo shoot.

Not exactly as planned

Today I had a fun, productive day planned for me and the kids. So far nothing has really gone as planned.

2:30 a.m. my day starts with Parker crying because he has thrown-up all over his bed.
3:00 a.m. more crying, more throw-up more dirty sheets
5:00 a.m. Kaitlynn ready for something to eat
7:30 everyone up for the day
10:00 2 men here to give me a new fridge (yesterday mine broke) I empty out everything from the fridge and freezer covering the counters in food.
10:30 start cleaning up the nastiness left from the old fridge and put everything back in its proper space but not finishing the job before having to leave and take the kids to the doctor. I left the house a disaster.
11:00 lucky for me my husband is amazing and was able to come home and stay with sick Parker while I take Kenzie and Kaitlylnn to the doctors for shots.
12:10 leave the doctor's office with 1 screaming girl in each arm (thinking to myself: today maybe would be a good day to start drinking:)
12:30 Come home to an immaculately clean house. All the food in the fridge, freezer and all the stuff put back on top, and on the fridge. Freshly vacuumed house (the trail of nasty under the fridge gunk that the nice fridge men left as a remembrance of the old non working fridge no longer present). Dirty sheets from the night before nicely folded and ready for me to put away.
Kitchen swept and mopped.

Now because of Anthony I can put the kids all down for there naps and go take a nap myself instead of spending the time cleaning the disaster. Oooh yeah while at the doctors Anthony also found time to de-fuzz one of my sweaters that very much needed it. Isn't he amazing:)

Ms. Independent

Kenzie was adamant she did not need help to get her pants on this morning. Here she is showing off her accomplishment:

Lets take a look at the side view:

Toronto

I don't think an appliance(wheat grinder) qualifies as a present, so this weekend I got my real b-day present. Me, Anthony and Kaitlynn took a road trip to Toronto.

We got to see tons of fun things.

We took a Trolley ride of the city and got to see everything, while staying warm.

Anthony and Kaitlynn in front of the C.N. Tower the second tallest man made structure in the world.
Thanks to Melanie who was so wonderful to watch my kids even though she was already watching Erica's two girls since Erica was in the hospital having a baby. Parker and McKenzie had so much fun we had to drag them from Melanie's house screaming and they didn't stop crying for 30 minutes.

15 minutes in front of a fence

My friend snapped these pictures in 15 minutes they turned out great:

She even got Parker's first kiss:

My 29th year

I had a great birthday this past week. It started with breakfast in bed. The day was nearly perfect I didn't cook a meal, I got lots of calls, emails and presents, from everyone, I felt so loved.

You might think I am old, but I am still in my twenties and feeln' good.
While in my twenties I have:
Seen Bill Cosby, and Regis and Kelly live
Got a degree and worked as a nurse

Got married
Had 3 kids
Changed careers (from nurse to mom)
Changed at least 2 million diapers
Ran from a hurricane
Learned how to make everything there is to accessorize a girl (that is right I said everything, you name it I can make it: hair bow, bracelet, necklace, tutu, etc)
Been to NYC
Been in the White House
Saw Jack Dawson's grave(the guy in Titanic)
Peed in an airplane bathroom while 8 months pregnant with 2 kids in the bathroom with me
Learned to cook without a recipe

I have done a lot, and I still have one more year in my twenties. Stay tuned to see what other amazing things I accomplish while being so young.P.S. I got a wheat grinder for my b-day, can you tell how excited I am?

Kaitlynn 3 months

Goodbye Halloween

It came and it went and we loved every minute of it.
Here is the family shot:
Anthony: disco man
Kristie: Mummy(in a not so functional costume, turns out crepe paper rips when you move, and I hated having stuff on my face so I ripped the crepe paper off before the picture). Next year I'll do better.
Kids: zoo animals

We did so much stuff this past month to celebrate Halloween:

Dressed up many times

Had the house covered in spiderwebs

Preschool Halloween Party with a skeleton treasure hunt and homemade root beer:

A spider so big it almost ate Parker

Anthony found a good use for his $100 skull he bought to help him study

Craft, after craft, after craft

And lots of parties with our friends.
I think I know why I am sick, we did a little to much last week and it is finally catching up to me.