April 2017

4/15- "happy easter mom""happy Christmas, Happy Valentines"
4/23-talking to her and trying to let her know when this baby is born ill always love you so much. She just looks at me " my baby comes out when I go ice skating"

Kenleys birthday month. On her actual birthday we had planned to take her to the aquarium and go to panda express. Stacy ended up having a very bad day so Kelly went there straight from work. We headed up there for a bit then I took Kenley to boondocks where we did bowling and arcade games. She had a lot of fun and we were out late. I seriously love my time with her. We did the aquarium the next day. She had been wanting to try the fish pedicures  since we got the aquarium pass  and wekept telling her she could do it on her birthday .  So we let her do it and she liked it for about 10 seconds  just like I thought she would .  Walking through the aquarium  she saw a tornado simulator  and wanted to do it .  I knew she would hate it so we told her not today  and she turned to us and said" but for my birthday."  Of course we had to let her do it  and of course she hated it  it was pretty funny . She got a birthday week. She asked for a party with friends and wanted a pink cake with diamonds. She had a lot of fun at her party. We had games and face painting. Mostly the kids just ran around and played. It was a good day. We spent a lot of time in April with Kelly's family as Stacy's health declined.

march 2017

Funny Things Kenley Says:
Kelly was tossing K onto the bed into a pile of blankets and pillows. He said "We need more pillows, lets add the pillows that are just for show." (decorative pillows) Kenley replied "yeah and ones for ciera too!" To her show pillows = Chanelle pillows.

Kelly was going to the priesthood session of general conf. I told K he was going to have a boys night then asked her what we were having(girls night) " a baby sister!"

Disneyland! A present from Christmas/an excuse to go to Disneyland. It was such a great experience and doing the princess lunch was completely worth it. She loved meeting characters and did so good both days at Disney. We stayed in Vegas on our way down and went to a cirque show. Kenley did really well and at one point got super excited saying "wow so beautiful,  thats so cool"
My Grandpa Allred passed away and his funeral was at the end of our California trip. I bought a plane ticket home and stayed a few extra days. All my siblings were able to come which was nice to get to be together and be there for my Mom.

For Kelly's birthday our plan was to go camping but it rained lots of weekends so instead we set the tent up inside, made s'mores and watched petes dragon.

February 2017

Chan moved to Georgia
Got my 20 week ultrasound and didn't find out the gender. I had Kenley with me thinking she  might like to see the baby...she didn't have any interest
Had a girls night at station park where she told people "its family night....no, its girls night. we go to dinner" & got a big lollipop
tried out ice skating
Made chocolate strawberries for Valentines
Got her first set of pig tail braids
lots of princess dressing up

2017 January

Kenley in her play kitchen. Takes off her clothes, brings over a giant bowl and asks if she can please pee In it.
 Kenley just told me mom we need to go to the exercise. You play with the the toys and watch me get strong muscles.
We started off the New Year with the Nordfelts at their annual new years party. This years theme: Black and White. 5 of the wives there were pregnant which was kind of funny. Kenley from day one has said shes getting a baby brother. We will see. Kenley is still super into makeup-eyebrows and lips. Her favorite food is noodles from panda. she stole some "duckses" from nursery...it was hilarious. she cut her hair. After months of asking I let her try on my wedding dress
We did two aquarium trips to sea quest.One with the Farmer family and once just our family where Kenley met a mermaid and fed the birds.

December

It snowed! A lot but one the inital snow stopped and it was safe to drive I love the snow. Kenley loves it too and always wants to go outside. She loves me to pull her on the sled through the park.

We had to upgrade her snow clothes, She was wearing all 12 month stuff. Too short on the arms and legs and she would get super wet and cold.

She makes winter much more fun because she loves the snow so much.Shes been quite the helper this year with shoveling our drive way. Whenever we go on walks she has to step and jump on the snow piles.  We took her sledding on some bigger hills after Christmas and she and Bradley went down by themselves. Kenley liked the initial ride down but at the bottom she was never very happy. It was so nice having Kelly home from school and actually around. 

Christmas was pretty low key. We went to the Sappenfield Christmas Eve party. Christmas morning we spent as a family, opening presents. Kenley was not happy to be woken up but warmed up to opening presents quickly. Santa gave her a doll that goes potty and she loves it. Kelly and I kept Christmas small this year since we just bought a car and don't need much else. Kenley was spoiled by everyone getting a play kitchen, a trike and a little people airplane ( plus a ton more). We took Kenley to her first movie The Good Dinosaur and she did really well until the last 20 minutes or so. It was a 2 hour movie which is too long in my opinion for a kids movie but it was fun to do that with her. Shes still loving dinosaurs.

November

November

Went got to watch Gabe for a few hours and Kenley loved having a little buddy over to play. She kept following him around and rocking him in her chair

We visited Ciera in San Antonio for her Air Force graduation. Kenleys new favorite airport toy is the bag size checker. San Antonio was kind of cold and I did not really like it there. I made told Kelly not to apply to school there, I would not like living there.

coloring at church and visiting the Alamo

cozy little flier

Hair styles

 
Thanksgiving was fun and low key. We went to my Uncle Sheldon's . Kenley had fun with the dogs and playing with her back pack

October

We started out October with Blake's birthday party. They are at an age where they can play together and like the same things. Its fun to be with friends and see our kids play together.

Spending some time with dad. I love when she will actually wear her sunglasses

Making some chocolate banana bread. Kenley is my little kitchen helper. She makes cooking and baking so much fun. She has to taste test everything. One ingredient at a time as we add them in and she loves them all.

My moms dog got too excited to see her and knocked her over. Sad little scrape on her chin

Making and eating cheerio necklaces in prep for grocery shopping. Any thing to keep her occupied. Shes so adorable

trick or treating at this is the place park, she was extra sassy

We went to Cornbellies and had so much fun. I wasn't sure if Kenley would be old enough to enjoy the things but she loved most of it. Her favorite was probably the cow train. She cried when she got off.

Bouncing on the giant "pillow"

One Sunday we took a picnic up to the mountains. It was so fun and beautiful

Sharing with her baby

Halloween- Thursday before Halloween Kenley had a fever but seemed fine other wise. By the time Saturday and Halloween came around the fever was long gone but she became grumpy and was a little wheezy when she would breathe in. We went to a trunk or treat with The Days and Kenley loved it and was pretty happy. By that night she wasn't feeling good and we didn't go trick or treating. We visiting grandparents and then went home so she could go to bed. Sunday she  was worse and Sunday night was super scary and no one slept. She had a hard time breathing and by that point I was pretty sure it was croup. Luckily I had a Dr appt scheduled already for first thing Monday morning. They gave her abuteral and by that night she was so much better.