MCDONALDS!!!

So we found a McDonalds the other day and as much as I really dont like Mcdonalds it was great! It tasted so good after weird nonflavorful british food, and it was cheap (well for here). It was just a little bit more than we would pay in the states. For example a happy meal, in Mtn. Home was $4.77 yes I know thats pathetic I know that. Here it was 2p40 so it was about $4.80 american dollars. YAY! Kennady was so excited when we saw the golden arches! lol Anyways, it was kinda funny because I was going to share a meal with Taylor so we large sized it so we could all share the fries and drink, yeah a large here is really a medium and a medium is really a small. Weird huh? So I guess you dont get as much for your money, but hey maybe its like putting yourself on a diet with out suffering too bad!

We Made it to England!!

So we arrived in England a couple days ago and so far we really like it. The city that we are going to live in is very old english style. All the building are brick or stone and just really really cool looking! It is very green here, which doesnt surprise me because it RAINS all the time. There are tons of sheep here, you leave the city and there are herds of sheep everywhere (Kennady likes that). Right now we are staying in a little apartment until we find a house, which will hopefully be very soon! The plane ride actually wasnt that bad, except that they lost our luggage. Yeah we still dont have it so we have been wearing the same clothes for like 4 days now. It really sucks! Kennady was awesome on the plane, she slept a lot of the time and the rest of the time she was happy and playing. I will hopefully post some pictures soon, so stay tuned!

BOYS, BOYS, BOYS

Im sure most of you know this by now, we only found out 2 weeks ago, but we are expecting twin BOYS! When I first found out I was pregnant I could have swore I was having a boy because everything was SO different, I felt different, craved different foods, it was nothing like my pregnancy with Kennady.... then I found out we are having twins. NO WONDER I thought, of course its different, so I settled into thinking we would have at least one girl (that seemed to be what we were good at). So when the ultrasound tech announced that they were both boys, I was speechless. Bill tried to control himself but he had this HUGE smile on his face. We are all SO excited to welcome our two already wonderful and adorable little boys into the family! I just cant wait!

A New Bike!

So our great friends the Kluckens are apparently bribing our kids now! Kennady recently potty trained and as soon as she started going "like a big girl" she made this announcement, "I go potty like a big girl, I get bike like Natty!!!!" She was SO excited. What happened is Natalie got a new bike when she potty trained so Kennady assumed that she should get a great prize just like her! Well, how could we resist, she was so excited, so here she is learning to ride her brand new, bright and shiny bike.... SHE LOVES IT!

Yep, IM BACK!

So I was thinking that since we are moving in about a month now, I would start blogging again... I will try anyway! Im just going to start out with a few pictures of what we have been up to lately...

This is Taylor cheerleading. Lets just say she ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! She is done with the season now, but she looked forward to every day of practice. She is the girly girl of the family and loves anything that a "girl should love". Isnt this picture cool, it looks like she is jumping over that little girls head... Taylor was pretty proud of that!



This is what we have been doing ALL SUMMER.... swimming. My kids love the water. They would spend every waking moment of their lives in the pool, sprinklers, or just being sprayed with the hose. I think its funny how much Taylor enjoys the little 6 inches of water that you get in the kiddie pool.



Okay this picture is REALLY old, but I just have to share it. It is one of my favorite pictures that I have ever taken of Kennady because it captures her attitude so well. Almost any day of the summer or winter for that matter, you will find Kennady in sunglasses, whether its warm or cold, indoors or out, she will have them. Its a real fight to leave them home from church and sometimes she sneaks them anyway! Kennady is the most stubborn little girl I have ever met (she gets it from her dad) and this face is her typical "what are you going to do about it" look.

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes, and MORE SHOES

I know I havnt posted in a while. Sorry for the 3 people that actually look at this blog! lol Anyways, I just thought I would share something that is, well kinda funny about Kennady. She is already 100% completed addicted to shoes. If she could pick one toy and throw all the others away she would with out a doubt keep a shoe. So just a few seconds ago she walked up to me and started pulling on my shoe. She wanted me to take it off so she could play with it. When I wouldnt cooperate with her plan she decided to lay on the floor and kick and scream until I found her a different shoe. Ay ay ay I am in for it with her.

Oh and she would also prefer clothes over toys most of the time. My mom and I went shopping in Boise one day and Kennady was fussy on the way home. We gave her her sippy cup, toys, anything we could think of. Then my mom pulled out a new outfit she had bought Kenna and she played happily the rest of the way home, just trying out her new clothes. One thing is for sure... she is ALL GIRL!

Sorry the picture quality is so bad. It was taken with my cell phone in the cell phone store! lol

Okay...

I am SOOO MAD!! I got my new camera on thursday and I have been trying to post some pics that I took and blogger WILL NOT UPLOAD MY PICTURES!!!! AHH!! I guess I will try again tomorrow!!!

My New Camera....

is on its way!!! I cant wait! As soon as I get it I will be posting a lot more often! (Right now I am completely cameraless, if thats a word!) I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!!!!! It is supposed to arrive here at my door by thursday! YAY!!!!

6 weird things....

about me! Hmm this could be hard!

1. I am left handed and so is my husband
2. I am 20 years old and have 2 daughters a 7 yr old and a 1 yr old (Im sure my parents think thats weird)
3. I HATE strawberries and grapes... my daughter thinks that weird
4. My baby turned one today... thats really weird to me, wasnt she just born yesterday?
5. I hate feet, and I will not touch anybody's!
6. My Dad's nickname for me is Androopalopalis... see if you can pronounce that! lol

Well I am supposed to tag 6 more people to make their own lists but since all my friends that look at my blog dont have their own... I will just tag my mom!


And I cant forget to tell you all that my baby girl turned one today! I cant believe it, she has been such a blessing to our family! She can make anybody laugh and gets along great with Taylor! I know everybody says this, but man time sure does fly! I just wish her Daddy were here to celebrate this awesome day with her! One thing is for sure Kenna Benna... WE LOVE YOU and HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY GIRL!!!!

Cute Little Angel

My good friend Amanda came over today to take some pics of my kids. Heres a couple from today. Isnt she the best photographer ever? Thank you so much Amanda!!

What a Crazy Week

Well Im hoping this wild week is over. I guess I will start from the begining. During the weekend we went to Rexburg to see my brother Matthew wrestle and we also have family over there so we decided to kill 2 birds with one stone and visit them while supporting matthew with his wrestling. Anyways... on saturday morning taylor woke up sooo grouchy... i mean like bad bad grouchy! So I was thinking... this is going to be a FUN weekend! Well she ended up saying she didnt feel good and slept the whole day. By sunday she was still sleeping all day and had a fever so i decided to take her to the doctor. Well we found out she had strep and a fever of 103. No wonder she wasnt very happy. We drove home from rexburg that day and on monday kennady is being CRANKY!! I took her to the doc and of course she is sick too! She had a double ear infection. Tuesday i wake up and guess what... im sick! So this last weekend... everyone is on meds and relatively happy so i was thinking, yes its finally over! Well monday morning i get Kennady up and she is covered... and i mean covered in a red rash... I took her to the doctor today and apparently it is a virus called rosieola. Thats what the cold like symptoms and fever are from, it aparently wont cause her any pain or itchiness though so hopefully we are done with the sick bug we have been getting!! Here are some pics of her rash just for you Bill! As you can see despite all this she has been in relatively decent spirit!!





P.S. I dont know why that last picture is sideways... and I have no idea how to fix it so... sorry!

Nice Shades Kenna Benna

Okay this is one of my favorite pictures of Kennady. I love it because she is totally cheesin it up! Everytime you put her sunglasses on, she looks up at you and just smiles away! She thinks she is the coolest kid ever when she wears them!

100 things about me

Okay since my life is finaly starting to slow down at least a little bit... I am planning on being a better blogger! My friend Amanda is trying to get everyone to do a "100 things about me" list. So I am going to try. Who knows I might have to stop a little early but we will see!

1. I am a brunette
2. I am a brown eyed girl, but both my girls have blue eyes and blonde hair!
3. I LOVE taking hot baths, but I dont get to very often now that my hubby is gone.
4. By the way my husband is in afghanistan right now, and has been for a month now.
5. I really do like the military life, but I hate this separation.
6. I love being pregnant, and after I had Kennady I missed being pregnant but loved having her here!
7. I loved labor and delivery! I did have an epidural though!
8. In fact the nurse anethesist that gave me the epidural is one of my heroes!
9. I am twenty years old
10. I have a 7 year old daugther
11. Yes if you do the math that puts me at 13 years older than her... she is actually my step daughter, but I was the only "mom" in her life for a long time
12. I have an 11 month old... I cant believe she is almost 1
13. I absolutely love ice cream, almost any kind
14. I dont like most fruit... Taylor thinks Im weird because I absolutely hate strawberries
15. I love my veggies though!
16. My very first car was a 1989 Honda Accord known as the "Honda Hopper"
17. I love watching wrestling, not that face wwf stuff though! I like real wrestling like high school and college, especially when its my bro!
18. I love watching football games but only when its a team that means something to me. Like BOise St or my brothers high school football games
19. Can you tell I grew up with 3 brothers
20. I am the oldest though so I was always the baby sitter and the peace maker!
21. Sometimes I wish I had more patience
22. I'll admit its hard sharing a kid you consider to be yours, with another mom
23. In my opinion right now there isnt anything much harder than being away from your husband!
24. My husband really is my best friend.
25. I write him a letter or email everyday, and I havnt missed a single day yet
26. I have been married for almost 2 years, time sure does fly
27. I would like to move to england or germany or somewhere overseas, while my kids are young
28. I used to never drink soda until my mom got me hooked on diet coke or pepsi
29. I am trying to drink more water again
30. Im not in as good of shape as I would like to be
31. I live in the same town as my parents and I love that!
32. SOmetimes I secretly wish i could just move in with them, they probably think that I already have because Im over there so much!
33. I miss my husband so much
34. I dont realy like to cook, in fact my husband is a much better cook than i am.
35. I started college but I never finished
36. I would love to start school again in something medical realated
37. I work at a cell phone store and I get to take my baby to work
38. I love silence because I dont get it very often
39. I love loud music though when I am in the car by myself
40. I got married at the age of 18 but its the best thing that i ever did
41. I love to dance but rarely do it
42. I wish I would have stuck to the piano and really learned to play it
43. I love a clean house, but I hate cleaning
44. As soon as my baby is over her double ear infection, I am going to start weaning her from the bottle, but I know she is not going to like that!
45. My older daughter has strep throat so lets just say we have had a very intersting week!
46. Im very thankful for religion in my life
47. I hardly ever make my bed, but my daughter makes hers almost everyday (she does not have a clean room though!)
48. My baby has never had any stranger anxiety.. she will let anybody hold her that will
49. I would like to have at least 2 more kids
50. I have always hated saunas, it gets way too hot in there
51. I used to be kind of a daredevil, but since I have had kids, I wont even go bridge jumping.. I know its weird!
52. I love going boating with my family
53. I love water skiing, but i still havnt figured out the whole wake board thing
54. I love pictures and want to try some photography
55. I finally started scrapbooking again, when i realized all that was in Kennadys book were her ultrasound pictures
56. I hate doing laundry, actually i just hate folding it and putting it away
57. Im terrified that Kennady wont recognize her dad when he comes home
58. Ive always wanted to be a doctor, and if i could i would be an ob/gyn or a neonatologist
59. I can not wear socks to bed, no matter how cold my feet are (thats what my hubby is for)
60.I get cold very easily and my husband gets hot very easily so there is usually some sort of fight over how many blankets go on the bed
61. I usually go to bed pretty late
62. I hate getting up early in fact 8:00 is early to me
63. My daughter thinks Im a great cook and I even get compliments as to how good my tuna fish sandwiches and bowls of cereal taste
64. I was born in Canada, but have lived most of my life here in Idaho
65. I love the beach, but im terrified to go too deep in the water
66. I have swam with string rays twice, both times it freaked me out and I ended up waiting in the boat... you think i would have learned my lesson the first time
67. I have never spent a night with out Kennady
68. I love seeing my husband with my daughters, he is such a great dad
69. I love seeing my brothers with my baby, I know they will be great dads someday too!
70. Im very greatful that my kids know my parents so well!
71. I would love to learn a foreign language
72. I love spending money, but Im am very frugile so i guess i like to spend other peoples money!
73. I am pretty short, only like 5'4" but its a good thing because my husband isnt much taller than me
74. I can actually shoot a gun, and hit what I am aiming at (most of the time)
75. I grew up a sort of country girl
76. I love camping
77. I love outdoors stuff, like dirt biking, snowmobiling, boating
78. I think I am a pretty good mom but there is always room for improvement
79. Respect is the number one thing i try to teach my kids... sometimes I dont think I am doing a very good job at that though
80. I have to be on time for everything... except not always church
81. I love to laugh
82. I love dancing with my kids, and think its so funny when Kennady starts dancing
83. When I was little I used to get so mad that my dad would take my brother hunting with him and not me
84. Now I dont have the desure to go hunting
85. I love back massages
86. I hate it when somebody touches my feet, and i will never touch somebody elses
87. I love it when people play with my hair
88. I love getting manicures, and feel better about myself when i do, but I rarely get it done because like I said, I am very frugile!
89. I love dressing my kids up, most the time they dont like it as much as i do
90. When i go shopping I rarely buy stuff for myself because I cant get out of the kids section
91. I really dont watch tv, Bill has to turn it on as soon as he walks in the door though
92. I have a bad habit of chomping my ice when I am finished with the drink
93. I love to go on vacation, but most of the time i am ready to come home before it is over
94. I cant leave the house with out at least mascara on
95. It used to take me a long time to get ready, now im quick... it takes me longer to get the kids ready than it does myself
96. I dont enjoy gardening, but I wish i did
97. Sometimes I love having a day that I dont have to do anything! Just sitting around the house and watching movies all day
98. Once I get started on something I get addicted really easily... like scrapbooking
99. I love wearing jewelry but I dont very often... Kennady rips it off of me!
100. I have never had my ears or anything pierced.

Whew, Im all done and i have to go tak ecare of my baby!

I found some old photos!

Okay, so I was sitting at work when I came across these pictures...

This is Jason wakeboarding... im not sure if I took this picture or who did... but I thought it was a pretty cool one!



These are pictures that I got done of Kennady when she was about 3 weeks old. I cant believe how little she was! Look at those big blue eyes... I love her eyes!! Dont you just love the blanket that she has... my Grandma made that for her! You have to admit that she is just the cutest little baby ever!

Ive been a bad blogger :)

Sorry, I have fallen a little behind on my blogging lately, and everything else for that matter! haha We just found out that my husband will be leaving to go fight the war shortly after Christmas... so I guess you could say I have been a little stressed! Anyways... I plan on posting some pictures from Halloween tonight when I get home from work! That is if I have time and if I remember! I got some really cute ones though!

Road Trip to Rexburg

Taylor was in Boise over the weekend and Bill and all the guys were going hunting so I decided to take Kennady and go on a little road trip and visit all my family over in the Rexburg area. It was a LOT of fun!

This is my cute little cousin Ashlyn. She is going to be one next month! I cant believe it! Isnt she just adorable?

This is Kennady enjoying her first pony ride with her cousin Shaylee!

Here are the two brothers, Tucker and Korby, enjoying their turn on the pony! Korby wasnt so sure if he wanted to get on at first but once he was up there he LOVED it! They are deffinately all boy... Tucker can tell you the name of every peice of farm equipment and exactly what it does!

This is Kayla doing her "queen salute"! She is deffinately all girl and cant wait to be a rodeo queen when she grows up... just like her mom!

Happy BIrthday Taylor!!

Here are all the cousins taking a break from all the action!

Taylor is getting ready to open her presents in the big princess chair!

Look at Cassidy fly down that slide!!

Even Kennady got in on the fun!

Taylor Baylor and Kenna Benna

I made the cutest tutus for the girls and so I just had to get some decent pictures of them! I couldnt get Kennady to cooperate so most of them are of Taylor. They all looked better in black and white too! Here are the ones that turned out okay!

This was the only one of Kennady where you cant see her frowning face. She is deffinately still cute when she is mad though!

This is Kennady giving Taylor one of her famous SLOBBER KISSES!

Here is the only one that turned out pretty good in color. Beautiful Taylor in her big fluffy tutu. She loves getting her picture taken. I was trying to get some of just her and some of just Kennady but everytime I would go to take one of Kennady she would run right into the middle of it.

Kennady's New Tutu

This is Kennady in her new tutu. I didn't get any good pictures in it because Kennady was very tired and unhappy, but I had to post one for you Amanda. I will try and get some better ones tomorrow!

She could be a Gerber Baby!

Kennady and I had a little photo shoot today. Isnt she just the cutest baby ever. I think she should be the next gerber baby, with her chubby cheeks and such a happy smile!

This was the last picture that I took. I think she is getting a little tired of all the pictures. She's probably thinking... "Okay mom I know Im cute but I have had enough!"