Baby Kennedy

Our second baby girl came into this world March 14. Kennedy was born 16 days early (exactly the same as Audrey) and she weighed 6 lbs. 8 oz.

So far she is extremely pleasant. She never really cries, is starting to get her days and nights straight, and loves to be held.

Audrey has handled the transition okay (not great, but okay). Most of the time she is interested in her tiny toes, tiny hands, poopy diapers, and all her squeaking and sneezing. But other times she wants us to "put her down" so we can play with her instead.

She's absolutely beautiful and we're so blessed to have these two girls in our life.

So this is Christmas.

Having Christmas at our own house this year was absolutely amazing.
Christmas 2007-Our Christmas tree was too tall to put up in our apartment.
Christmas 2008-We moved on the 26th and 27th so the decorations stayed in the boxes and we didn't celebrate with just the three of us until New Years' Day.
Christmas 2009-The Christmas village was up two weeks before Thanksgiving and the tree was about a week after that. We just couldn't wait for the season to begin.

Here's Audrey Christmas morning with her doll that Santa brought her. They're dancing.

We have to throw in some Christmas traditions with our families...
like gingerbread houses...

and reading/dressing up/acting out Christ's birth from the Bible.

(Actually, Audrey insisted she was Tinkerbell- not Mary.)

This is Audrey's fake smile because she was pretty tired of opening presents by about 9 or 10:00. The next day when she got to play with all the toys was when she realized how much she really loved Christmas.
The best part of this Christmas for us was that Audrey got into the WHOLE thing. She loved going to stores where they had decorations. She got excited anytime she saw Santa (not enough to go sit on his lap, but from a safe distance). She sang "Jingle Bells" and "When Christmas Comes to Town" (from Polar Express) about a million times. She liked helping me buy presents for everyone and wrap them and put their names on them. She was obsessed with the Christmas village and the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree lights had to be turned on the first thing in the morning when she came downstairs and they were the last thing we turned off before we went to bed.
It was so much fun. By next Christmas we will be blessed with another precious baby and Christmas will mean that much more.

Fall/Winter

Here are a few of the things we did in the fall and winter. (When you see them, you'll see how unexciting it's been.)

Ryan went to New York for work including a trip to both Yankee and Mets stadiums.

We went camping with Audrey for the first time.
She was okay. She didn't really love sleeping in the tent which meant we didn't love sleeping in there with her. But it was a fun family experience. My mom and dad, sister, and brother-in-law came as well.

More recently, Ryan has become BFFs with the BYU basketball coach's wife. She went into the Derm Center a couple of times and told him she'd get him some court side tickets to a game. Since then, I think Ryan's been six times. He has been a very happy guy. (It helps that the Cougars are currently one of the best teams in the country.) The seats include dinner before the game and snacks at halftime from a banquet room. But who needs all that when you get to sit close enough to smell the sweat on the floor?

Audrey is such a great fan! But she was not too great at sitting still at this game so she hasn't been since. Ryan has tried to spread the wealth to everyone in his family instead.

One of Audrey's favorite things about winter...shoveling snow. I wish Ryan and I felt the same way. For a few weeks there it seemed like we were shoveling a few times a week.

As for me? I have been growing a baby! (Hence, no pictures of me.) The first few months kicked my butt. Since then, things are going pretty well. I'll update more on this later.

A weekend in Denver

Last weekend Ryan, Audrey, me, my mom, and my dad packed about 20 suitcases and made the drive to Denver, Colorado. As with most trips, this trip included not one, but two baseball games.

We made the mistake of showing Audrey the playground at the ballpark. My mom and I spent half the game there.

We had some great box seats (courtesy of Meadow Gold) which included a waiter to bring us our food! P.S. The Giants won.

On Saturday we spent a couple of hours at the Outlet mall. The boys got to spend most of the time outside with Audrey walking on this rock wall. She just never got bored with it!

That night Audrey had been completely worn out so she slept in my arms or my mom's arms for two hours waiting for the game to start, then an hour during the game. It also rained on and off throughout but we still had a great time. P.S. The Giants lost this one :(

On Sunday, we did a walking city tour. This is a picture of the city center taken from the steps of the capital.

This is me on the steps of the Capital. This particular step is exactly one mile above sea level.

Last of all, here's Audrey posing for the camera. This is actually her silly face.

Devin and Megan Got Married

My brother-in-law Devin got married on Friday. The beautiful bride in the pictures is Megan. I'm excited to have a new sister-in-law and it's nice to have all our brothers and sisters married. Now we don't have to worry about welcoming someone really strange into the family!

Megan chose black and white for her colors and had her two nieces-in-law (Halle and Audrey), two of her sisters, and (I think) a couple of cousins in these polka dot skirts.


Audrey doesn't really understand how to sit in a skirt without bearing all to the world. But she looks adorable regardless.

Audrey and Halle get a c+ grade for taking pictures here. They couldn't hold still and the smile would only last for half a second. It was a long day. But again, pretty dang cute.

Here's the newlyweds cutting the cake. Or cakes in this case. The cake cutting somehow ended with Megan on the ground! Let's just say Devin and Ryan both take their competitions very seriously.

This is the one picture of the three of us all day.

It was miraculously a beautiful day (it was pouring rain on Thursday and Saturday). Weddings bring the whole family together and make us remember how lucky we are. Good luck Devin and Megan! We're excited to spend this lifetime with you.

Easter Sunday

(This is Audrey's SURPRISE!! face.)

Since the sun won't shine for longer than one day at a time, our yard is still 100% dirt. So Audrey's Easter egg hunt was in our house.

She loved it. She kept saying "more eggs!" So it got to the point where we would just fill them up over and over. The funniest part was that she didn't want to eat the candy. She just wanted to put it all in her basket.

She got some toys from grandparents and parents and she's loved playing with those.



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Jazz Fan

This year we were able to go to lots of Jazz games with Ryan's parents.
I think these pictures of Audrey say it all.

Do you think this is a sign of the sports fan to come? Or do you think she's trying to get a closer look at Kyle Korver?