Finally....Mama's

After hearing so much about this "wonderful" breakfast place, I finally went. Ben is on break from school so we decided to try a late breakfast one morning. It was delicious! Ben ordered an omlete and I got french toast. Yummy!!

Lovely Evening

Ben, Kenadee and I took a walk over to the Palace of Fine Arts to feed the ducks. While we were there we heard some loud noise in the sky and looked up to see four smalls planes doing tricks in the sky. We watched them for several minutes and then decided to walk over to the bay so we could get a better view. They were amazing to watch! At the bay we also saw this tiny little car. It serious looked like a micro-machine on steroids. It was licensed though, and we watched a full grown man get in it and drive away. I'll bet that car doesn't have problems finding parking in San Francisco! We stayed around long enough to enjoy the beautiful sunset on the beach and then headed home.

Fall Break

For the start of Ben's break we went camping up to Lake Sonoma with the Chappells, Hinckleys and Curtiss'. It was perfect weather, warm but not hot. We went hiking, played games, cooked smores, all the normal camping stuff. This is Ben and Kena on the hike.
This is Ben and Garrett swimming in the lake, can you even see them?
Kena and Camry spent a lot of time in the pack-n-play, thanks Jenny for being so smart to bring one!
Stephanie and Kenzie, Jenny and Camry and Me and Kena by the lake side.

Let's Go Fly a Kite

Another reason that I love this city!! San Francisco has an annual kite festival where people come from all over to compete in kite contests. It was such a fun thing to go and watch. They had contests for biggest, most beautiful, longest tail, etc. kites. There were also these go carts that people sat in while holding huge kites that made the carts go. They controlled their steering with the kites too. It was cool to see!
Can you see the specs in the sky? They are all kites. They also had little stands where kids could make their own kites. At the end of the field they had bouncy toys set up for kids.
This is the kite that won for the longest tail. It's tail was 1000 ft. long! Crazy!!

Funny Faces

Kenadee likes to imitate us now. If we look at her and close our eyes, this is what she does in return. I love this crazy girl!!

Pay it forward

Are you ready for a contest you can really have a chance to win. Have fun with it. I won. PAY IT FORWARD I will send a handmade gift to the first three (3) people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. You may not receive it tomorrow or next week, but you will receive it within 365 days! The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog. (So, you must have a blog to participate.)I can't wait to see who I will be giving to. To join just cut and past and comment away.

Happy Birthday Brother!

Happy birthday to my cute brother Nate! He has put up with a lot being the only boy in the family. Thanks for all you do and for who you are! We love you!!!

9 Months

Time is flying for me with this cute little one. She is now 9 months and very playful! She has started copying us a lot more. She loves being able to crawl around. (We love it too!) She is also so much more ticklish than she was before!
This is the hat my cute friend Ashley made for Kena. It fits now and is adorable! Thanks Ashley!!

The Entertainer

Crawling pro

Busy Week

Last week we had the priviledge of going swimming at our friend Katie's place. Kenadee is a huge fan of the pool. She could stay in there all day!
Saturday Ben didn't have any studying to do so we packed up and drove down to Santa Cruz to check out the boardwalk. It was so hot! We were wishing that we had brought swimming suits.
In answer to Ben's question, "Do we really need to strap her in?" The answer is YES!
For Labor Day our friends Pepper, Mark and Oslo invited us to join them at China Beach. We had a great time talking, walking and trying to keep our babies from eating too much sand!

Walking along the Couch

Kenadee Crawl

1st Teeth

Well, here they are Kena's first teeth. You may have to double click on the picture to see them up close.

Package from Grandma

A few days ago I was talking to my mom on the phone and mentioned that Kenadee's bottom two teeth were coming in. My sweet mom immediately went to the store after our phone call to get her grand-daughter some teething toys. Thanks mom, you are the best! Kenadee loves ALL of them! We are still trying to get pictures of her teeth, but are failing miserably! :)

How many men does it take to unlock a car?

So today I had what I would call a traumatic experience. In hindsight it is actually kind of funny, but at the time it was tragic. I went to a self-serve car wash to give our 4runner a well deserved shower. I attempted to wash the car with Kenadee in the BabyBjorn. After about two minutes I realized that this wasn't very effective, so I put her in the drivers seat and let her play with her favorite toy, the keys. I continued to wash the car and play peek-a-boo with Kena. Once finished I went to the door to open it and to my horror, it was locked! Kena had locked herself in the car with the automatic lock on my keyring. I naturally started to panic and ran around the car trying desperately to open all the doors. There was a man in front of me who noticed my panice and asked what was the matter. I told him my baby was locked in the car at which point he kindly called the police for me. It took them about 5 minutes to arrive at which time Kenadee was done with the peek-a-boo games and wanted mom. When I was told the policemen had arrived I turned around only to see two cop cars and a firetruck! The cop cars had turned on their lights and were blocking off the street. Naturally this brought on any civilian onlookers in the area! After a few minutes of trying to get in the car with a Slim Jim and having no luck a lock smith was called. He was there within minutes when they told him there was a baby in the car. Now at this point I am crying along with Kenadee who is trying to figure out who all these people are that are looking at her. (All the policemen and firemen kept commenting on her beautiful blue eyes, hello, not the time for compliments, get my baby out of the car!) So, the question becomes, how many men does it take to get a baby out of a locked car? I lost count after ten!! In the end, with kenadee safe in my arms and flirting with the officers, I felt as though I need to take a bow to the crowd around me and accept an award for worst mom in the world! I know accidents happen, but I felt so aweful! So, if any of you moms or dads out there ever have a day where you feel like a bad parent, don't worry you are not alone!

8 Months

Here is Kenadee on her eight month mark. She loves to stand and walk around while holding onto Ben or my fingers. She has yet to crawl, but she is getting closer.
I found this dress at a cute baby store on Castro and 24th. They sell great new and used baby clothes. I couldn't pass up this polka-dot piece.

Super Surprise

Yesterday Ben called me up at lunch to see if I could find a babysitter for the night. My wonderful friend Stephanie was with me at the time and volunteered to watch Kenadee. Ben wouldn't tell me what he had planned until we were in the car. Once we were on our way, he told me we were going to the Tim McGraw/Faith Hill Soul2Soul concert! Hello, what a great surprise from a super husband!

This is us at the concert.

This is the vehicle we drove to the concert in San Jose. Thanks Krommenhoeks for driving!
This is part of our group. The three couples who rode in the blue machine! (Jamie and Dallas Krommenhoek, Tyson and Courtney Davis, Ben and me, Eryn and Paul Rogers were also there along with a cute couple from the Davis's ward.)

Some Favorites

These are a few pictures that I liked from the last week. This first one is Kenadee using her toothbrush. Am I doing it right? :)
Here Kena is trying to eat a giant squash. Yummy
Look everyone, no hands. Kenadee is becoming increasingly better at this whole standing thing. For those of you wondering, no she is still not crawling. Some days I wonder if she is planning on just passing up the whole crawling thing altogether and go straight to walking.

Ice Cream Cone

So I realize that it probably isn't a good idea to let a baby have ice cream, but when those huge blue eyes look up at me I can't say no! Kenadee loved the ice cream cone!!