Saturday

Saturday was spent at a funeral (Gino) and reception with family. I just wanted to add some pictures. Kendra with her Granny Sandy, playing in the fountain and sleeping on Aunt Jenny. And the last three are of a little boy who came up and was giving Kendra some love. Dad walked out (you can see him in picture #2) and was not very happy. He had to shoo the boy away. Dad is apparantly not ready for his daughter to be getting attention from boys! I thought it was adorable though!

Courtneys 2nd birthday!

This is a little late as well. Courtney turned 2 on September 1st. This was her party on August 30. She had a pool party at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

10 months old (and a month late)

So Kendra is officially 11 months old, as of yesterday. But I still have not posted her 10 month pictures!! I'm way behind. I hate having two jobs at work! And a piece of crap computer at home, my computer is non-fixable and my old laptop is a sorry excuse of a computer with viruses and spyware infested that I can't seem to get all cleaned up! Anyway, here are the 10 month pics! I can't believe this was a month ago! Time flies by way too fast! In 4 short weeks my baby will be 1! I could cry!

Molars suck!

Kendra has two molars!! She has been a crying mess all week when I have tried to put her to bed and I could not figure out why. Last night, I tried to take her picture for her birthday party invites and she was just not cooperating. She just wanted to sit on/near me. Then before long, she was in tears. And would not stop. I tried feeding her and she cried while nursing, so I knew something was wrong. It got to the point where I was sitting on the floor and she was on my lap and she just cried, and didn't want to be touched. I though maybe she could be teething, so I gave her a couple teething tablets and a popsicle to chew on. Brent doubted my idea, but she jammed the popsicle in her mouth, verifying to me that it was her teeth that hurt. Then I was finally able to look in her mouth and could see them! It looks like it would be pretty painful. With a front tooth, there's just that one edge that needs to get through. With those molars, man. It's both sides that have to push through! I'm glad I don't have to experience it, though it's pretty bad dealing with a little one experiencing it! We gave her some Motrin too and about 20 minutes later I was actually able to set her down and give her some dinner (she ate up my chicken quesadilla!). That's 10 teeth now, how many more do I have to go?

Swinging away at the Park!

Kendra's first time on the swing! I don't know why I haven't taken her before. But she liked it. I'll post a video too, she kinda giggles while swinging.

Finally!

Okay, it's been way too long since I've last posted and I have a ton of pictures to update. Here are a few to get started and I'll try to add more later. Brent weighed her on the scale at the grocery store and I couldn't help but make him put her back on there for a picture! A lady walked by and stopped and laughed at us too.

Camping-Sunday

We all woke up and kind of hung out and ate breakfast. Packed up and hung out some more (this was taking way too long). Brent and I drove around the campsite so Kendra could fall asleep in her carseat to get her morning nap-which worked out well. Then we went out on the boat. Kendra and I rode in Jennifer and Joe's boat. We all went across the lake and found a shore to hang out on. Kendra and I stayed on the boat pretty much. Brent took Kendra in the water for a little bit and she seemed to have fun. I'm glad she can't walk because everyone that stood in the water got leeches on their feet!! Gross! They were small ones, but I still wouldn't want them on me or my baby!

Camping-Saturday Continued

Jana, Greg, Matt and Whit all left pretty early. Kendra was exhausted, so we headed back to camp to give her a nap. She fell asleep in the car (less than 5 minute ride) and I thought if I took her out and transferred her to the pack n play, she would stay asleep. Well, it didn't work. It took me 2 hours to get her back to sleep. I finally got her back to sleep (and could barely stay awake myself), so I took a nap too and Brent called his family to go meet up with them out on the water. I didn't think about the fact I would be stuck in the hot campsite when Kendra woke up a half hour later! It was a boring, miserable afternoon to say the least. I pushed Kendra around the campsite in her stroller, then we hung out in the shade for a little while.
Brent finally came back and I was in a horrible mood (Kendra was tired, I was hot, bored and moody) and just wanted to leave. So, I did. Then Kendra finally fell asleep again, so I turned around and went back to the campsite. She slept in the car for a while, we ate dinner and hung out and she went to bed pretty easily in the tent once it cooled off. We all hung out and had smores again and talked/visited (we were with Brent's family-sister and cousins and stuff on his Dad's side).

Camping Saturday

We woke up bright and early. Here we are in the tent. Yeah I look like crap, oh well.

Brent and Kendra went back to sleep for a little while and I got up. Greg, Jana and Matt were all up and ready to wakeboard again. Matt dragged Whitney out of bed so he could pack up their tent to get going. Poor Whit! The four of them took off early. Brent, Kendra and I caught up a little while later. Here are more pics from out with them in the morning.

Camping-Friday

So we went camping at Hogan lake (Aug 8-10). We got up there early evening on Friday and set up the tent and the air mattresses and everything. Then we met Greg, Jana, Matt and Whitney out on Greg and Jana's boat (they didn't wait while we set up the tent-they were ready to wakeboard!). Kendra got her first boat ride. She just sat there and took it all in, expressionless. It was kind of funny. I don't think she knew what to even think about it all. We took a bunch of pictures of her on the boat. The first is with Aunty Jana. I handed Kendra to her while I climbed in, then I took some pictures of them. Then Brent and I had to take a bunch of pictures of her with each of us (we wanted to make sure to get a good one!). Boating wore her out fast! We went in as the sun was going down and once we got back to our site, she was ready for bed. She fell asleep in the tent pretty quickly and slept while we ate dinner and made smores and hung out around the campfire. She slept pretty good for being in a tent in the cold (for the first time). She didn't even wake up when I climbed onto the air mattress with her (Brent had his own).

More pictures

My computer at home took a poop. Hopefully my work IT guy can fix it without me losing everything on it. I hate that computers do that! So, I haven't been able to upload our camping pictures and I have no time at work to do it. I am typing one-handed now as I pump so I can post these other pics from JCPenney. She is so cute. (haha, of course I think so). The lady gave her the flower to play with to get her to sit still for pictures. I had to hide it from her once I took it away from her because she kept trying to get it. I had to keep pulling it away from her mouth too because she wanted to eat it!

A few pics

We went camping over the weekend... I'll post about it later when I have more time. I just wanted to quickly post a few pics and a story about this morning. Brent took Kendra to daycare as usual. He sat her down on the ground and she started screaming. He picked her back up and she immediately stopped. Then it repeated. One of the girls that works there (Kendra knows/likes all of them-finally!) came over to take her and Kendra turned away from the girl and grabbed/squeezed Brent's neck (like, don't let me go Dad!)! He felt so bad. He had to leave with her crying. I would've felt really bad too! He said he looked in the window a few minutes later and she had calmed down, but it was still hard. The separation anxiety must finally be here! These are 9 month pro pictures I had taken at JCPenney. They finally got posted online for me! I got pics in two different outfits, so I'll post the one's in the other outfit another day (something to look forward too)!

9 months old!!

Okay, so this is getting posted a little late, but at least it's getting posted. I was so frustrated with everything (I'm a little stressed out). I gave Kendra a bath and she kept trying to climb out, then I was trying to get her dressed and she kept trying to get away from me and was getting mad at me. Then, I'm trying to take her picture and she wouldn't sit still or smile for me. I about lost it! I said, "UGH!!! Just smile so I can take a picture!! That's all I want!!" I said it in a very frustrated, fed-up voice. And this is how she replied (I had to quickly change my camera to video to get this):

I thought it was cute! Anyway, here is her 9 month photo shoot. I had professional 9 month photo's taken over the weekend. They won't be back for 2 weeks, but they are pretty cute.