Blue Bonnets 2012

Here in Texas the state flower is the Blue Bonnet. Everyone and their dog takes pictures in the Blue Bonnets and I have always wanted to do it but never got around to it. They are only in bloom for a short amount of time and last year we didn't get many due to the drought so this year I decided I would take advantage while I could. Hopefully before they are gone we will get some family pics but in the meantime here are some of my beautiful Kennadee:

Kennadee lost her first tooth!

Just before her birthday I noticed that her permanent tooth was growing in behind her baby teeth and I was really concerned that it wasn't loose enough to pull out. I kept wiggling it and it got a little looser but then it started hurting her when I would try so she refused to let me do it. Last night she threw a big fit when I tried to pull it so I left it alone. After brushing her teeth I could see that it was laying flat if she pushed it out with her tongue so I knew it was ready to come out. Then tonight I asked her again if I could try and she freaked out and cried and wouldn't let me near it so I begged and pleaded to let me just try once to pull it and if it didn't come out I would stop. So she finally calmed down and let me try. It took one tiny pull and it was out. She was so surprised she started laughing it was so cute! We got it rinsed out and she just couldn't stop giggling with excitement! A few weeks ago a friend at school told her the tooth fairy isn't real and the parents are the ones that leave the money. I asked her if she believed that and she said she is choosing to believe in the tooth fairy so we'll see! 

Kennadee's 7th Birthday!

I know I haven't even finished my Christmas posts but I wanted to post about Kennadee's birthday while it's still fresh.

    Kennadee started off her day with a delicious pancake breakfast made with love by mommy.

After she ate she got to open a present which was a new Hello Kitty outfit including a Hello Kitty Crown, Shirt, & Sparkly skirt. She has wanted this outfit ever since the first of the school year so she finally got what she wanted.

After she got dressed I did her hair all fancy. She shares her birthday with Dr. Seuss so at school they got to have crazy hair/ bright colored clothes day so I thought this all worked perfectly for that. 

 Here she is all ready for school:

 It was a busy busy birthday not just for her but for me as well. I dropped her off to school and then an hour and a half later had to go back and get her to take her to the Dr. for her check up. I know, what a great Mom I am to make her go to the Dr. on her birthday but it just worked out that way. Plus I figured since she didn't have to get shots it would be okay. The Dr. appt. went really well. She now weighs: 47 lb. (up 5 pounds in a year) and her height is: 49.5 in. (she has grown 3 inches since last year) she is in the 50th percentile for weight which is great because she has never been that high! And she is in the 80th percentile for height which doesn't surprise me because people are always thinking she is older than she is. The Dr. said everything looks good and she is perfectly healthy! Hooray!!
      After I took her back to school I went and ran some errands and then I went and got her a happy meal from McDonalds to take to her for lunch at school. I don't know why I didn't take any pictures of me having lunch with her.
      In the afternoon I went and picked up Hannah (Kennadee's cousin) to bring her with me to take the cupcakes to Kennadee's school. Kennadee was so excited to get to see her cousin at school and even more excited when we told her Hannah would be spending the night.
     Here are the cupcakes I made to take to her class. They are chocolate with chocolate frosting. We ended up doing Hello Kitty because they didn't have the supplies for the Strawberry Shortcake character at Party City.

Click here to see a video of her class singing to her: http://youtu.be/Bu-AaOKk2Hg

 Kennadee enjoying the first bite of her cupcake.

 After school as soon as Russell got home we went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. You can see Kennadee and Hannah in front of the fence.

 Ready and waiting for their food to come.

 Kennadee focusing really hard on buttering that bread.

 When their food finally came they were taking a bit to finish eating since they were playing around so Russell told them to hurry and finish or else they weren't going to have Cheesecake so Hannah shoved the rest of her Hamburger into her mouth and Kennadee found it really entertaining! I love Kennadee's face in that pic!

Click this link to see a video of them singing to her at the Cheesecake Factory: http://youtu.be/4QsCjkeC6F4

 Here she is all ready to eat her yummy Chocolate Mousse Cheesecake.

 Before bed we had her open her presents:

 She got some stationary from Aunt Michele & Grandma

 She was not too thrilled about the tights I got her. 

 She got a jumprope. She is really excited to start practicing. They have been learning how to jumprope in P.E.

 She got a Pinkalicious book that has stickers and paper dolls in it.

And She got an Angelina Ballerina Matching game.

The next day we took them to see the Lorax. It was a really cute movie!

Tomorrow we will have cake and ice cream with the family.

Happy Birthday to my cute 7 year old girl!!

Oh and by the way Kennadee is way excited that she finally has her first loose tooth!

Christmas Vacation Part VI: Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was fun. Grandpa Mote, David, & Sarah came down to spend it with us. 

 Pete reading the Christmas Story out of the Bible

 Aren't we cute!

 Mom reading Great Grandma's Story

 Kennadee reading Twas The Night Before Christmas. That particular book was given to me by my Great Grandma when I was two years old.

 Opening Christmas Jammies

Christmas Vacation Part V: Sledding

Since there was no snow in the valley in Utah we had to go up into the mountains. Luckily there are mountains close to my parents house so we didn't have to drive to far to find snow. We had a blast sledding that day! Before we left Kennadee said that she did not want to sled and that she was too scared. Luckily we were able to talk her into trying it out and she absolutely loved it!

 All bundled up ready to go!

 Let's GO!

 Kennadee's first time down the hill. 

 Cole and Grey climbing the hill.

 Grandpa & Kennadee

 Law going down the hill.

 Making a snow angel.

 Ashtynn wasn't very happy to be there! She fell asleep shortly after this picture.

 Kennadee throwing a snowball at Daddy!

Daddy getting ready to throw one back!