Alright...so I haven't blogged for a long time but I have a good excuse. We took our family trip the first part of October. Me and the girls were exploring tide pools. Mia started to slip and I tried to grab her...then I started to slip and BAM. Mia and I both ended up falling and my camera went flying in the air and landed in a tide pool. I quickly grabbed it. It wasn't in the water long...but long enough that my camera no longer works. There is a funny part to this story though. There was a little piece of the camera that broke off and a sea anemone quickly grabbed it. Mckenna and I worked for a while trying to get the anemone to let go of it. Finally, we successfully retrieved it. At least we have a fun memory. Luckily my card still worked and I didn't loose any of the pictures I had taken. We had bought Mckenna an underwater camera that morning to use while she was snorkeling....so at least we had some type of camera. You forget all the nice conveniences of a digital camera....mainly knowing what you captured instead of waiting for the prints to realize you missed the moment.
This is a Sea Anemone
Any how...Besides an excuse with the camera...life is just so dang busy. I feel like there is always somewhere to be or something that has to be done from dinner to changing diapers. It's all good though! I have added a few posts below of the Kids. Hopefully we will post again before 3 months go by!
One Little Indian Girl! Mckenna came home from school yesterday and said she wanted to dress up like an Indian for their Thanksgiving feast. The Feast was today....Short Notice.....but we pulled it off. I started working on it and the rescue party (a.k.a. my mom) came to help. Good thing. We found all the supplies in her basement - material, beads, headband ribbon. Mckenna was so excited about it.
This is a Sea Anemone
It is a rare Sunday morning when I have the kids ready for church with time to spare....so we took those few extra moments we had and captured it on film. I really wanted to get a picture of Mckenna. She just looks so grown up to me and this cute little dress (Thanks Sierrah!). When we got to church even Matt commented - Mckenna looks older. (FYI - Matt doesn't see the kids on Sunday morning until we arrive at church...which means Sunday mornings are.....you can only imagine!!).
Mia was ecstatic about going to her first dance class. The night before dance Mia was saying her prayers and said "...bless me to be pretty and to be a pretty dancer..." Oh how she loves to dance. The morning of her first dance class she woke up early and wanted to get her dance clothes on. It was all I could do to convince her that dance wasn't until later. She was all smiles at dance. When I picked her up she kept telling me how much fun she had and how she gets to dance in a Halloween Recital. She is so excited. Oh the other hand, we have singed Mckenna up for tumbling -NOT DANCE!! as Mckenna would put it herself. One of our neigbors was talking to Mckenna the other day and said I hear you are going to take dance. She said no I am not taking dance I am taking tumbling. She hates when I accidentally call it dance. Mckenna wanted nothing to do with performances either. She made me make sure that if she singed up that she didn't have to be in recitals. We went to her first class last night to check it out. She may wait and start after her soccer season. We'll see???
Kaden is growing up so fast. Hard to believe 7 months have gone by. His personality is starting to really come out. I just love this little guy. His favorite things at 7 months are blowing raspberries, Mckenna coming home from school, the TV remote, phone, playing the piano and baby food. He is starting to get up on all fours now. Can't wait for him to start crawling!!!
Mckenna's first school assignment was to draw a character from one of her favorite books. She chose Harry the Dirty Dog. She loves this book and loves to draw.
