Partaaayy Week!

This past week my parents were in town and we had a week full of partying! My great grandma turned 100, my nephew turned 12 and received the priesthood, my brother-in-law turned a year older, my niece turned 8 and got baptized, and we celebrated Kennedy's first birthday (even though her birthday isn't until Nov. 15th, we just did it while my parents were here)!

Here are some pictures of our fun week... (prepare for a picture overload)


This is my tender great grandma that is 100 years old!

My mom and I went to the Apple store and Kennedy was really into the computer games...
Kennedy and Grandma!
Kennedy and Grandpa!
Kennedy loves playing with her cousins.
Kennedy and Grandpa playing trot trot to Boston...

At Lochlin's birthday party enjoying a tasty appetizer. Lochlin's 12 candles in one.
Cousins!Kennedy's birthday party!

Mom and Kennedy
I love these two more than anything in the world!
Our family of 3
4 generations... (Great Grandma couldn't make it for the 5 generation picture)
Steph, Kens and me
Uncle Brodie
Grandpa Payne
Kennedy and Grandma Allen
My dad and sister Dawn
Uncle Mike and Aunt Shannon (she really doesn't hate them, she was just really sick and tired)
Alyssa with Jason and Krystal's baby Paisley
Aunt Erin, Uncle Sean and best friend Saidy
Josh and Nate
The Payne Brothers

Her birthday cake...
She did not like it...

After the party we opened some presents.
She got some fun books for church.
And this is her new face... the "OOOO" face... she does it ALL the time.

action shot...I didn't get any pictures of my niece Ashlyn's baptism, but it was beautiful, and she was beautiful! It was so much fun having my parents in town for a whole week to celebrate all of these birthdays! I love my family!!!

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11 Months

I can't believe Kennedy is 11 months old already!! She is growing up so fast! These pictures are from Kennedy's play date with Griff and Titan.


Kennedy loves to take Titan's binki...
Although she totally looks like a boy, is this not the cutest smile you've ever seen?!!??!
Kennedy sure can give some dirty looks...
Thank for the pictures again Molly!


I took Kennedy out into the rain the other day and she did not like one bit of it. So she decided to just hang out in her bath robe.

We went on a walk the other day with Emily and Titan and the kids just could not stay awake. I think Kennedy got my dad's ability to fall asleep in any position... no matter how uncomfortable it is...
This is one of her favorite faces. She breaths really loud and does this face when she's excited.
Grandma Allen got her her first pair of Halloween jammies.

Kennedy is so much fun to have around! I love every second of everyday that I get to spend with her!!

Some Awesome News!

So we have some awesome news, but I'll get to that in a minute. First I would like to share some cute pictures of Kennedy. The other day, we took her to the park for the first time. At first, she wasn't too sure what to think of the sand, but after a few minutes she started to love it!

She is just the cutest baby on the planet!!!!
She is FINALLY crawling like a normal child on her hands and knees, and pulls herself up onto everything! The only problem is that she doesn't know how to get down once she's standing up. So we have some work to do there...
My studly husband...

Kennedy and Titan love to watch TV up close and personal. I think they feel like apart of the backyardagain crew if they are that close.
She just found out how to wrinkle her nose. She does it ALL the time now, so this is one of her new smiles.
Kennedy's fairy God mother (Mini) got her this dress and I think it is the cutest thing!
Now... for the news...



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Nate got accepted to P.A. school in Philadelphia!!!!!!! We will be moving, most likely in June to west Philadelphia, born and raised. On the playground is where we'll be spending most of our days...
I am so proud of Nate. He has worked so hard to get into school by having good grades, doing oodles of community service, and working so hard at his job at the hospital... I am so grateful to have Nate as a husband. He is so patient, loving and willing to sacrifice to make me and Kennedy happy.

Along with getting into grad school, one of his dreams is to own this gun....
Gosh I love this boy!