Sunday's Best

Our Family Christmas Picture

This is our family Christmas picture.  Kendall wasn't feeling too good this day due to teething, but she still was photogenic...ha!  This was the picture that we sent out on our Christmas cards.   I just love it!!!

Christmas 2012

Here are pictures of Nana and Kendall in their matching Adidas jogging suits.  Too Cute!!!!!!!

Here are pictures of Kendall on Christmas morning.  My mom thought that it was soooo hilarious to compare Kendall's height to her Santa figurine.  I must say that Kendall did look cute standing next to Santa...lol  And of course Kendall had to be festive in her very own Santa suit.  Kendall was too funny opening up her gifts.  She enjoyed the wrapping paper and boxes more than the presents themselves.  Typical Kendall.  All in all, we had a great time celebrating Jesus's birthday.  The true reason for the season.

Christmas with the Girls

Amauri, Emoni, Me, and Kendall

Amauri getting ready to open her gift

Emoni all ready to open her gift

The girls posing with their ripstik caster boards, which are similar to skateboards but you kind of do a wiggle motion to move on them.  Can't wait to see the girls on them!!!

The girls are all smiles!!!!!!!

Christmas Decor'

I just love decorating for Christmas.  I usually like to put up my decorations the day after Halloween, but that was quite hard with a one year demanding my full attention.  Any who, I added a Christmas tree in Kendall's room to the mix.  My thoughts are when she makes different Christmas decorations at school, we can put them on her tree.  I can't wait.  Here is our tree, front door decorations, and Kendall's tree.

12 Months....I'm 1 years old, Baby!

Age:  12 Months (November 27th)

Weight:  17lbs 10z (as of her last doctor's appt)

Height:  26.25 in (her height tends to vary depending on the nurse that measures her)

Diaper Size:  Size 2, but she is about to move up to size 3 here real soon

Clothing:  12 months.....she can wear 12-18 months in shirts, but 9-12 months in bottoms

Shoes:  She is officially wearing shoes all the time now.  She is in size 3 shoes.  She wore some pink converse to her birthday party, and they were so cute on her.  We recently got her some white Keds, and she keeps those on well too. 

Milestones:  Kendall can pull up and stand.  She does this on anything sturdy....coffee table, our legs, chairs, etc.  She is totally off of the paci.  No paci made it hard for her to sleep through the night at first, but she is doing a lot better now.  We have started transitioning her from the bottle to the sippy cup.  She drinks water and juice out of the sippy cup better than she does milk.  She can wave bye-bye by waving her hand from side to side instead of the traditional baby wave where you open and close your hands.  Da-da is her favorite word, and Stop is her second favorite. 

Likes:  Spaghetti Os, chocolate cake, all sweets, being held, sleeping on pillows, sleeping on her back, standing up and playing with toys that are her height, playing with both mommy and daddy, grabbing our lips on our face, being pushed in her toy car, and crawling

Dislikes:  Being put in her car seat, us leaving the room even for a second, the dark, and lying on her back to get her diaper changed

Happy Birthday Kendall

Kendall turned the Big 1 on November 27th.  We sang Happy Birthday to her before school, and she was all smiles.  I just can't believe that my baby is 1...tear (smile).  After work and school, we all went to GiGi's cupcakes, so she could enjoy some cake.  She got the "Birthday Surprise" cupcake, which is white cake with pink icing and sprinkles.  She ended up liking Scott's chocolate turtle cupcake the best.  I guess she's a chocolate cake lover.

Kendall's birthday was at Parkway Place church.  It was a Sweet Shoppe theme.  The colors were pink, green, and turquoise.  The sweets at Kendall's Sweet Shoppe included sugar cookies decorated like lollipops, rice krispy treats, chocolate covered marshmallow pops, chocolate covered pretzels, cake pops, jolly ranchers, twizzlers, strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla cupcakes, and chocolate cake.  Whew!!!!!  If you had a sweet tooth, Kendall's Sweet Shoppe was the place to be.  The giftbags included an eraser, silly straw, and small toothbrush to keep your teeth nice and healthy.  Each bag was filled with all the sweets from the sweet shoppe.  The kids table were decorated with lollipops centerpieces that I made from styrofoam circles covered in tissue paper and cellophane paper.  Kendall wore an onesie that had a pink number "1" on it with a lollipop and her name on it.  It was accessorized with pink leggings, a pink and green tutu, and pink converse.  It all turned out great!

Kendall having fun

Kendall standing up playing with her Uncle Brant

The Dismute Family

Kendall looking around being nosy as ever....lol

Kendall enjoying her smash cake.  Icing was everywhere....lol

Thanksgiving

I know this is late, but oh well...ha!  Thanksgiving was Kendall's last "first" holiday.  The biggest memory was when we all went around the table and told what we were thankful for.  We all ate good, laughed, and even went to the woods and shot guns.  No, Kendall didn't shoot, but as you can see she had on her ear protection.  We also got to see that her big cousin Emoni handles her pretty well.  I think Kendall gained about 2lbs while we were down there because she was eating up everything that we would allow her to eat.  Just a lil hungry something....lol  All in all, we had a blast.  Definitely some good times were had.

Open Season = Meat on the Ground

Yesterday marked the first day of hunting season (modern gun season).  It was Scott's turn to provide the lunch this year, so Kendall and I went to the deer camp to support him.  I must say that it was a good day.  What made it an even more awesome day was that Scott got him an 8-point buck.  Yep, he put meat on the ground.  Me, being the person I am, named him Dusty.  I came up with that name since it was so dusty at the deer camp due to cars passing by fast and kicking up dust.  Scott was one happy hunter.  As of now, Scott has gotten one doe and one buck using his muzzleloader and rifle.  Now, he just has one more mission to get a deer with his bow to seal the deal on the triple trophy for this deer season.  Kendall and I are rooting him on....Go Daddy, Go Daddy!!!!!!!!

Below are pictures from Saturday. 

Kendall and Daddy

Kendall and Granna

Miss Kendall on daddy's 4-wheeler

The Dismute Family on the 4-wheeler.  Kendall would not look into the camera for anything...lol

The men of the deer club (left to right clockwise:  Uncle Jim, Uncle Frank, Scott and Kendall, Michael B., Brandon, and Uncle Roy

Kendall and Uncle Jim

This is a video is of Kendall and Scott riding the 4-wheeler.  Super Cute!