Look what I can do!

Kenley gets bigger and smarter every day! She's so beautiful and I can't believe I got so lucky to get to raise such a fun, sweet little girl. Each time she learns a new "trick" she does it non-stop for 2 days and giggles when you watch her.

A few of her favorite new things are:

Waving

Giving High fives

Clapping

Crawling

Pulling herself into standing

Feeding herself cheerios

Scratching/hitting things to make noise

Getting chased

Running her hands across the bars of her crib

Singing

Talking

Squealing

She just recently learned how to climb the stairs and will bee-line for them any chance she gets.

If you're not looking at her and she wants your attention (or singing to her, or have a beard), she will cock her head to one side and gently touch your face.


I can't wait til she starts talking and I can learn what those faces she gives me mean! It has got to be some funny stuff!!

My Thankfuls

This Thanksgiving I have so much to be thankful for. Heres a quick list of some of my favorite blessings:

-My family
-Heating (especially the heated seats in my car)
-A Dishwasher (now that I finally have one to use I don't know how I ever went without one)
-Diapers
-Netflix
-Hot showers
-Kenley sleeping 12 hours at night
-Mineral Makeup
-My cell phone
-Cheerios
-Diet pepsi
-The end of football season!

And a very happy thanksgiving to Carrie Driggers!! Soon to be Carrie Smithson this coming May!!

Blog satisfaction

I cant seem to fall in love with anything i've done to our blog. Please bear with me as I try once again to create something that I will be satisfied with for a while.

Money-Bags and Gold-Diggers

I am hopelessly addicted to TV and love to have it on to keep me occupied or just as background noise. I cant stand to have a quiet house, if its not the TV I have my ipod playing while I flit about the house cleaning and doing homework.

I feel better about using my ipod since a lot of the time I'm listening to audio books. (thats better right? gotta keep these things balanced!) But my TV addiction has exposed me to the trashy-dirty-self indulgent shows I cant turn away from.

(I even gave Dr. Phil and the Trya show a chance, but even this addict cant stand those big mouth, self-righteous hot air balloons. Who gave them a microphone in the first place???)

But one show I started watching and now I can't seem to tear my eyes away from the carnage- The millionaire matchmaker. Which I lovingly refer to as "Money-bags amd Gold-diggers".

I really don't understand how this crude, intrusive, surly woman is so successful. Especially since I haven't seen an episode yet where the matched-up couple actually sticks.

But STILL, i'm amazed at the amount of men and women that line up and stand through her abusive scrutiny!

I guess I shouldn't be surprised what people with no self-respect are willing to do for money.

I joke with BJ that my next marriage will be for money, or maybe I should just have a rich baby-daddy.

But really, anyone that snags themselves a millionaire will earn every penny-Ms. Patti has proven that to me!

On a crafty note

Look what I made!!

It was our wards relief society craft exchange yesterday and I learned how to do so many fun things!

Just a few of the crafts:

Little girl purse/baby doll carrier

Christmas sweaters

Beaded watch bands

Ruffle-y t-shirts

Hair bows

and these head bands...

We also had a "tasting table" so we could taste the recipe before taking a copy and trying it at home. I have so many talented women in my new ward. I'm looking forward to learning from them.

(not the greatest quality picture but I thought her face was priceless!)
Do you ever have those "blah" days? Where nothing is really bad or wrong but you're still in a funk? Well I have the cure for your "blah"s! Go bowling with fun people like Morgan, Phil and Maddie! And hopefully you will, like us, have a sweet little bowler neighbor girl who just wants to hold your babies hand, and Maddie will bust out her awesome break dancing moves.