She Has

Right before Kinley was born I received a priesthood blessing in which we were told that Kinley would bring  heaven to our home.

update:  She Has.

Some of my favorite moments include:

*When she grabs my cheeks with both of her hands, puts her face up to mine, and just starts giggling

*At night before we go to bed, we always sneek into her room and watch her sleep for a few seconds.  Those are magical moments.  She's a little angel.

* When Colby leaves for work I sneak her in bed with me and I cuddle with her until she wakes up.  (probably a bad habit, but she's only a baby once, right?  I can't give up my cuddle time!)  It's so fun because instead of crying from the other room to let me know she's awake, she just opens her eyes, looks at me, and smiles.  It happens every morning and it never gets old.

*She's our newest beehive.  It's so fun to take her to church and young men/young women and let the youth enjoy her.  She's such a fun little buddy to have around.

*  I've started having morning prayer/blessing on the breakfast with her (even though she's too little to know what's going on, and she doesn't actually eat breakfast with me yet, it is still funner than saying it by myself in my head.  We always pray for daddy to have a good day at work :)  It's very funny to watch her observe me eat and reach out for everything as if she's begging me for solids, but the moment I let her try anything she just spits it out or gags.

*books!  she's loves herself a good story.  Don't we all?

And the list could go on.....

It's TRUE. It really is.

I am grateful to be able to celebrate the Resurrection.
http://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/jesus-is-resurrected?lang=eng

3 Months!

Oh how we love this little girl!  She is growing up so fast.  Her smiles and grins NEVER get old and her giggles are becoming so addictive.  I find myself talking in high pitched voices and making silly noises with my mouth just for the reward of her giggle.  So stinkin' rewarding!  I have no idea why Heavenly Father blessed us with such a good-natured baby, but I have a feeling it might be because #2 is gonna be a real doozy.  Hope not. 

Kinley hardly ever cries.  And this might mean I am a bad mom, but the last 2 days she has fussed just to let me know that she would like to be put down for a nap. What?! This is new for me because I have been trying to find the perfect timing to put her down for naps so that she doesn't just cry and become more alert.  Apparrantly she knows better than I do when is the right time! Last night Colby was watching the BYU game with her and was trying to figure out why she was becoming fussy. I said, "Maybe she wants to go to bed," and tried putting her in her crib. She smiled, shut her eyes, and went right to sleep.  Oh how we love her!

Lately she has started to take an interest in toys, which is super fun....and she's also learned  this funny squawk/scream that sounds the exact same when she's excited and when she's annoyed. If I'm doing something, I have to turn to look at her face to know if she's screaming in delight or frustration.  She's also started doing this funny cough when she is not happy with something.  At first I though she had gotten sick from all the germs exposed at the wedding, but I soon realized she only makes the noise when she is not happy with something.  I'll have to get in on video sometime. 

Kinley has something to say...

I meant to post this like 3 weeks ago...

INSPIRING

Caution: This may cause you to stand on your seat and start chanting RSL.

Bucket List for 2012

Things We Plan to Accomplish this upcoming year:

We will continue to edit this post as we think of more things.

1. Run a half marathon together
2. Take a summer trip to either D.C., Florida, or....Nauvoo
3. Visit Colby's mission
4. Teach Kinley to swim or slam dunk
5. Visit a National Park
6. Plant a garden. or a plant. Or at least one vegetable. Or maybe just prune our trees.
7. Tile our kitchen and bathroom floors
8. Read the D&C and both general conference Ensigns as a family
9. Attend 3 sibling's weddings
10. Take Kinley to her first RSL game
11. GO CAMPING!!!
12. Eat at least 10 bags of PB M&Ms
13. Go to a rodeo and convince the family to come with us
14. Start a food storage
15. Teach Kinley how to say "true dat"
16. Go horseback riding
17. Have plenty of dance parties
18. Kiss under 5 major landmarks in the city of Price (Wingers doesn't count)
19. Take family pics next fall and have one to hang on our wall
20. pid ynniks

Kinley's First Photo Shoot

We will forever be thankful to have a photographer in the family.....Thanks to Jon, we got some snapshots of Kinley at 2 weeks. She cried most of the time so it wasn't the most successful photo session, but we got a few good ones that we like and will appreciate that they were taken


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