Goin' to the chapel and I'm gonna get married...

With everything going on last week with the family and wedding I just have a quick minute to tell a cute story. Kelsey was playing dress up in her Ariel wedding dress and looked up the pictures of the temple we have on the wall. And this conversation followed:

Kelsey: "I'm getting married at the temple on Sunday where mom and dad got married."

Me: "Mom and dad got married on Saturday because the temple is closed on Sunday."

K: "Well, Saturday then."

M: "Who are you going to marry?"

K: "I don't know yet, I'll tell you when I get there."

She just says the funniest things.

Isn't she the most beautiful bride-to-be you've ever seen. And her most recent addition to this story is that she will be wearing this dress when she gets married. I sure hope it still fits!! :)

Look what we did

Well, getting our house ready for the wedding has been ongoing for about a month, but this is the best part. After cleaning the windows inside and out on Saturday, we were looking for some activity to bring us back inside out of the heat and we found it. We've talked about removing the border since we moved in and finally 3 years later, it's gone. I think just because in our last house taking off some old wallpaper left a sour taste in our months for the stuff we just put if off. But this was pleasantly surprising at how easy it was to remove. For Christmas a year and a half ago, my wonderful husband gave me a gift certificate to Home Depot so I could finally paint one wall red. Well, he said one wall, I heard one room. Needless to say, he told me if I wanted to paint the kitchen, I'd have to do the taping. So I just started taping and got a little carried away. I taped off all three walls of the kitchen and compromised with starting with 2 and then we'd see. In my defense the amount of paint on the wall does not equal the amount of one blank wall so since we had the cabinets, I painted 2. We decided not to do the wall with the window on it because there just wasn't a clean line to end at, other than the corner. And I gave in and thought it looked better without doing all three walls. Anyway, long story short I absolutely love it and finally have my red wall. And we had it done Saturday night, with 2 coats of primer and 1 coat of paint.
Now it's only a matter of what to do next!

Anyone need a nap

Apparently she still needs a nap! She missed it today and just wasn't tired when she normally lays down. So while I was on the phone making prep work with my sister for college, she fell asleep at the dinner table. And just couldn't resist.

A rough day at the doctor

After a rough day at the doctor for what we thought would be a routine visit for her 3 year, turned out to be a long, little scary trip. To just fill you in briefly, since February, Kelsey has run little fevers off and on, no other symptoms, but of course when she would go in, it would be down. They haven't been too high to really worry about, but just concerned. When she went in February the doctor said to watch for a rash, but nothing happened it just went away. Then it came back again when she started swimming and had swimmer's ear so she was put on ammoxicillin. Then she had one just after returning from Panguitch. It was up over 102 and would not come down with cold showers, Motrin or Tylenol. With prayers and blessings, it went down but then right back up. So this time, it was only 5 weeks between visits, they gave her something a little stronger than the ammoxicillin. Well, then 5 weeks later, the day before her 3 year check up, it was back. Her doctor was not in so we just waited till the next day, when of course it was gone, again. I told her about it anyway so she got to pee in a cup (yeah, for potty-training) and had to get blood drawn. Oh, yuck. To my utter enjoyment, no shots!! But I would've taken the shots over blood being taken. They took 4 viles and as you can tell, it completely wiped her out. But she was such a good little trooper through it all that she got suckers and even a Cinderella sticker when it was all over. Katelyn was quite worried for her sister during this whole ordeal as well. However, we got the results yesterday and nothing out the ordinary came back to worry about. So we just have to keep an eye on her and as soon as it gets up at all above normal they want her back in. But I had to be a mean mom and hold her down while the other two nurses took the blood. Oh well, just another day in the life of being mom.

Hey mom, look what I can do?
And apparentely Katelyn is having the time of her life!!

She's growing up

Katelyn had her 9 month well check and everything looked good, she's just on the petite side of the scale now. She has 3 younger cousins, 2 weeks, 3 months and 4 months younger and they are all bigger than her. So, more than likely she will unfortunately not be facing forward at a year when Kelsey was. But I like it because she's not quite too heavy that I can't still carry her. And she loves that too!! She knows she's not allowed to have the remote, but I had to snap it before I took it away!!
She's such a poser for the camera. How quickly she's learned from Kelsey!!
She won't let go and walk on her own yet, but she cruises all over the house with this!! This is the first night she actually took off on her own!!
It's hard to see, but there is a little white tooth on the bottom gum. It's all the way in and now the other bottom one is coming in. And so teething begins. It seems we just got through with Kelsey getting all her teeth in, just to do it all over again!!

Our little Cinderella

The only difference between the two is that Kelsey actually enjoys mopping. Whenever I'm done vacuuming, she immediately comes asking, "Can I mop, mommy?" What's great is that I don't even need to help with this one!! Oh, and this is what she wore the first day of school, since it was so hectic that morning because Katelyn had a doctor appointment that same morning so it was a little crazy getting out of the house on time. But we were successful and she picked the outfit out all by herself.

The biggest fish story

Well, it's been a little while but last month we ventured up to Pine Valley for a little fishing excursion. A great time was had by all. And it's always better when you actually catch fish. We had some bites and a few escapees before we could actually get one out of the water. They put up a good fight but this one was just not getting away.
However, after reeling the first catch of the day in, we were not quick enough with the camera to get her smiling. She was all about getting it up on land until we put it on the stringer and the fish "flipped" at her while holding it!! It took a lot of persuasion for her to take hold of it again, but by the end of the trip she had no fear.
We even got a little smile from Katelyn in the whole thing.

I am 10 months going on 16...

Both girls have loved driving the car while I unload groceries from the car. I was never able to snap any of Kelsey when she was little and driving, but this was just too cute to pass up!! You better hold on, it's gonna be a wild ride. Kind of like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland

Bumps and Bruises

Well, it's not the first and it definitely won't be the last that we see but Katelyn has a visible bruise on her forehead. Unfortunately she's crawling and standing and trying to walk all the time so I'm not really sure how or when it happened. Bad mom for not watching her kids, right?! It was bound to happen sometime. :) Dave and I are convinced she will have horns to match his. If you ever look closely at Dave's forehead he has two permanent bumps from multiple hits to the head. I guess that's what happens when you have 7 siblings, 5 boys in a row!!