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!

Oh how I love my life

Hello world. Nate here. I just thought I'd get my blog on for sec. I Love Kennedy, Steph, and our life. We are happy. Exhibit A.

She loves to feel every new texture with just her dainty pointer finger

She's ready for G-Pa Allen to take her to Hawaii!

Steph thinks she looks like a dancer.

"What's that you say?" " Halla"

Rosy Cheeks Payne

She sneezed sweet potatoe all over me, tooted, then laughed for a few minutes. I managed to snap this pic wut wut.

Thanks Molly for the bomb photo shoot. Hot diggity dog!

FINALLY!!!!

After 9 whole months, Kennedy is FINALLY scooting!



Nate calls it a zombie crawl because she only uses her left leg and right arm to scoot.


Kennedy just had her 9 month check up and she weighs 20 lbs 12 oz.(75%), she is in the 90th percentile for her height, and 95 percentile for her head!



Kennedy and Titan are so cute together... Titan loves to give Kennedy hugs and kisses.


Kennedy has started sticking her tongue out like this, and she thinks it is so funny.

I just love my daughter to bits!

Picture Overload

Kennedy is almost 9 months old and still doesn't crawl... I'm totally ok with not having to chase her around, but I am just a little concerned that she will be the 18 month old weirdo in nursery that doesn't know how to walk...

This is how we practice... I put her in this position and she just sits there. She can rock but just plops straight down and doesn't go anywhere. When she is on her belly, she can push herself backwards till she's under the couch and can't go anywhere.
So we are still working on that...

This, however is classic. Nate just happened to have is phone out taking pictures of Kens when she decided to put on a little show...

Can you guess what she's doing in this sequence?




Pooping?! Oh on the contrar my friend. When I went to change her, there was NOTHING! haha my daughter is so stinken awesome!


Last weekend we went to Utah for a little family reunion. Nate and I had to take our car to get fixed so while we were waiting, we had a little photo shoot.




K, I know I say this in every post, but how can you not think she is the cutest baby on the planet?



So, while we were in Utah, we noticed that Kennedy had a couple more teeth showing through...
Gotcha! Those are fake teeth we used to sing happy birthday to my grandpa who was a dentist. But Kens loved them.

This is just another cute picture I thought I'd share.
One morning we went to ihop with Taylor and Dane, however we didn't get any pictures with them, so I will just describe the time we had together... We ate, talked, laughed, and rubbed Taylor's cute belly!
She really liked that straw...


After Utah, my parents came back to AZ with us and we went and visited my great grandma. Again, I didn't get any pictures with my parents but this is Kennedy's great great grandma who is almost 100 yrs. old! She is the most tender and precious grandma ever. She has tons of scriptures and all the prophets memorized in order.
Maybe next time I get together with my family I will take pictures of them WITH Kennedy instead of just her...

Another post about Kennedy...

I figure, since Nate works all day, and I just stay at home with Kennedy, we are pretty boring people to blog about. But Kennedy on the other hand, is so stinken cute and fun that I thought the whole wide world would LOVE to see some more cute pictures of her. So here they are.

Her hair is growing very nicely, I sometimes get a little bit too excited and can't wait for it to get longer to actually fit in these piggy tails.

Kennedy has graduated to a sitting up car seat (facing backwards), so she now has to sit in the shoping carts everywhere we go. So I made this cover and it has turned out to be pretty multi-functional.

She LOVES to drink water from a spray bottle. One day, it was 115 degrees here, and I thought she might want to cool off, so I sprayed her with water and she was in heaven! (I might have gotten the idea from a certain seminary teacher, except instead of punishing her for not knowing her scripture mastery, it was just for fun.)

I just can't get enough of her! She is so beautiful and funny! I love being a mom!!!!

2 Years!

Many moons ago, Nate and I were just friends. When I was in 10th grade, he and his family went on vacation to Hawaii and he came and visited me!
Almost 5 years after that visit, a bearded Nathan,

and a onsie wearing me, fell in love,

and got married!

Happy 2 years Nate! I love you!!!

Pink Eye

So the other day I noticed Kennedy's eyes were kinda pink and had some really green, slimy boogies, so like every other time she has a boogie (in her nose or her eye), I picked it. 10 minutes later, it was back. So I wiped it again. This continued for a couple hours, so I thought... "oh great, my child has pink eye and Nate and I are going to get it too!!" So I called the doctor to get her in to get some "pink eye drops"

Here is what she looked like before we went to the doctor

Pink, watery, boogery eyes...

So while we were waiting for the doctor, I noticed her eye was starting to swell quite significantly.

Exhibit A:

So the Dr. checked out her eyes and said it was pink eye and prescribed some drops. When I got home, I attempted putting the eye drops in. After a lot of wrestling to keep her arms and legs from kicking me in the throat and trying to open her screaming, squinted eyes, I got the drops in. By now, the swelling was pretty bad...

Exhibit B:

I knew her eyes would be nasty and crusted shut in the morning, so I went in while she was sleeping and tried to get some of the crusty-ness off with some cotton balls. It did absolutely nothing. In the morning, when she woke up, I could tell she was trying to open her eyes, but they were so crusted she couldn't open them. It was so cute to see her with her eyebrows up, trying to open her eyelids and looking around trying to figure out what was going on.

Here is what she looked like when she woke up.

Not normal...

I've had pink eye before and all that happened to me was itchy, red, boogery eyes... no swelling. So I looked online to see if maybe pink eye in a baby was a little different... nope. Pink eye is the same for everyone. So I called the Dr. and said something is wrong with her eyes, so they told me to go the ER.... THE ER?! It's THAT serious? Is she going to be blind?!?!?! (those are just a few of the thoughts that went through my head.)

At the hospital they gave her a shot of antibiotics and some Benadryl to help with the swelling then they sent me home with some medicine and a different pink eye cream to give her instead of the drops that she apparently is allergic to.

Now the swelling is gone, and she is looking semi normal again...

(minus the hemorrhage in her eye ball)

Thank you insurance for taking care of all the bills!!