My Little Trouble Maker

I don't know how many other moms have had one of those days where you feel like your child is plotting against you. One of those days where you can't get a mess cleaned up before your cute little child has created another one. Monday just happened to be one of those days for me. And of course these days only occur while daddy is gone. Then as soon as Dad walks into the house they turn into Daddy's little angel and your husband can't figure out why you are so frustrated. Monday had been a down hill slide that kept getting worse as the day went on. During dinner I got to clean the kitchen floor twice. Once it was a glass of applejuice and 15 minutes later it was something that looked a lot like apple juice, oh.. but it wasn't. I cleaned up McKinley and was in the process of cleaning the "not" apple juice when I started wondering how she was conspiring against me at that very moment. I knew that when I went upstairs I was going to find another mess. Sure enough, I reached the top of the stairs just in time to watch McKinley finish applying lipstick to her eyebrows. At first I was frustrated. GREAT, another mess. After a few seconds I couldn't help but smile. She looked so cute with lipstick all over face, and she was so proud of herself. Instead of getting upset I got the camera. As you'll notice from the picture she thinks she is pretty dang cute, and I'd have to agree. I loved in conferenc when President Monson talked about how our kids dirty fingerprints will fade and then we will miss them. Its time to "Enjoy the Journey". Monday was a perfect reminder for me. I sure love my little "Trouble Maker", even when she is conspiring against me. :)

McKinley's New Room

The past month has been kind of crazy. I'm definately going through my "nesting" phase. Which I'm sure makes me almost intolerable to Brett, because I'm already obsessive compulsive about getting things done. We decided to switch McKinley rooms so that the baby could have her room, which is right across the hall from us. Her room turned into quite the project. It took a lot more time and energy then we were expecting. So for about 3 weeks while we were working on the room we had her stuff spread out amongst 3 different rooms. Yes, this drove me crazy. The worst part was that I couldn't just do the room myself and that Brett had no spare time to do it. Hallelujah, it is finally done. McKinley has moved in and adjusted well, and I have been able to get my house put back together.

The pictures don't really do the room justice. It turned out really cute. Good Job Brett! We also had a lot of help from one of our friends (Thanks Roger). During the 3 weeks while I was waiting for the room to be finished I made all sorts of decorations for her room. Now poor Annabelles room looks empty compared to McKinleys.

Last week we went in for our 35wk check-up and found out that the baby was breech. The doctor wanted to schedule me for a C-section on the 19th of December. We were uncomfortable about having a C-section and about having it 2 wks before my actual due date. We went back in to see the doctor today and found out that Annabelle had turned back around into the correct position. We spent the past week telling her that she needed to turn around, and she did. What an obedient daughter. Hopefully, she stays that way.

Catching up

Well, it has been awhile since I updated our blog. McKinley and I took a trip out to Idaho over Halloween, and then when I got back our computer crashed. I never realized how dependent I am on my computer until I didn't have it. We finally got our computer fixed and back to us, but unfortunately we lost all of our programs and files. The most disappointing part of the whole situation is that we lost all of our pictures. We save all of our pictures on the computer and the last time I saved them to a disc was last Christmas. All of the pictures we have taken since then are gone. I had our scrapbooks up to date through April, so atleast we have copies of some the pictures we took before April.
On a more happy note, we had a great trip out to Idaho. McKinley really enjoyed getting to spend time with her grandparents and her cousins. It was the perfect weekend for us to go out because Brett's uncle was getting married. So we were able to see a lot of Bretts family.

The last time we saw Brett's Grandma was 2yrs ago. McKinley was only 8 months old. It was really exciting to get to see her.

Brett was supposed to be in Honduras while we were in Idaho, but he was too sick to go. He got feeling better by the end of the week and his parents surprised us by flying him out for the weekend. He was only there for 2 days, but he was able to see his brothers and sisters that he hasn't seen in a year and a half. This was his first trip back since we moved. McKinley and I were really excited to have him out there with us.
While we were out there we got to see our new nephew Mason. He is adorable.

We were able to celebrate Halloween with family and with all of McKinley's cousins. My parents had a little Halloween party at there house for all the grandkids. It was a lot of fun. McKinley got a pair of vampire teeth and ran around trying to scare people the entire night.

We also played the game where you eat a doughnut off of a string. McKinley did impressively well. I was sure that she was going to just rip the dougnut off of the string, but she didn't.

On Halloween night we took McKinley to a Halloween party at my grandmas assisted living center.

While we were there I was able to get a 4 generation picture with my grandma. We were excited to get 4 generation pictures on Brett's side of the family and mine.


It was a great trip and we were excited to get to see all of our family.