Kennedy Talks

Her is a list of words that little miss Kennedy has mastered.

Momma
Daddy
Mamaw
Papaw
Owie
Ow
Get Down
Night-Night
Meow
Bottle
Diaper
Muah
No
Love You
Bye-bye
Hi
I did it
Who's that

and she can almost say her own name, in syllable form of course. It sounds like de-duh-de, pretty cute if you ask me.

She can also blow kisses, wave hi and bye, give real big, wet kisses, and make the kitty run the other way.

She is such a character and not to mention a climber. Move the chairs away from the table all you want, she will push them back over to the table and be in the center of it before you know it. She is soo curious and is absorbing stuff left and right. She already knows how to throw a fit, thanks to all of her older sisters. We are trying to get them to grasp the fact that she learns by example. Something we are all working on here.

Hope you enjoyed the update!

Something To Think About

Ok....I must say that I am finding myself disappointed by people who disappointed me long ago. People who would smile to my face and couldn't wait until I turned my back so that they might pull out the knives. I don't understand it really. People are suppose to be good. Especially people who claim that they are good Christians and strive to be righteous. People make mistakes, some make mistakes often. Some people continue to make the same mistakes over and over just because they need a little help. Some people just need to say things outloud so that it can be heard through their owns ears to realize what they are REALLY saying. Other people say things out of anger or on the defensive. I am so very guilty of that. I am not perfect by any means, but I am sure trying my best to become a better person. I struggle everyday with things that have followed me for years. I have demons that want to show their faces again but I beat them down daily. I have made horrible choices and each day I have to live with those choices. I have not forgiven myself for some of the things I have done and truely do not know if I will ever forgive myself which means, that at some point I will stop growing as a person, which is really scary for me. Through each one of my hardships, I have been judged, quietly to my face or loudly behind my back. It literally nauseates me to think about certain times when I was standing in front of someone baring my soul that they were putting on a show, waiting for the curtain to come down so they could begin the process of unjustice. I can clearly see certain moments like this in my head. Sometimes at night when I lay down on my pillow and my life begins to run through my head, and sadly it is mostly the bad parts, I get physically ill and then I get sad and then I fill with disappointment. It is a horrible process that I feel I have no control over. I have been put through hell by myself and others wether they know it or not, more than likely they know, they have to know. I struggle with forgiveness because if I can not forgive myself how can I forgive others? I just think that we should remember who we are and that we are not here to judge. That is not one of the duties God gave to us for it is his and his alone. So with that I will leave you to ponder. May your day be full of blessings and fabulous Karma.
Peace

A week without church

So this past Sunday we did not make it to church. Darren and I both knew that our week was going to be a bit harder because we did not go and sure enough it has been. Darren started feeling a bit ill on Sunday but when he woke up on Monday he was wishing he felt like he did the day before. Tuesday was no picnic either. When he woke up yesterday he was still still quite ill. So finally last night he was feeling much better. We had put the baby down and she was asleep until Lucy so graciously woke her up by climbing into her crib with her. Thanks Ladybug! So Kennedy finally goes back to sleep. Then about halfway into our movie, Pineapple Express, Kennedy starts to cry again. What on earth is going on in this house! So Darren makes his way to check out the situation when I hear my name. I go to see what is going on expecting to find a child naked in her bed expecting, well you know. But no not this time, this time it was vomit. So about 11 o'clock Kennedy is in the tub getting all cleaned up for bed, again. She fell asleep in our bed for the 2nd time in the past two weeks, which compared to Lucy when she was Kennedy's age is not too shabby! So needless to say, but I will say it anyways, Kennedy does not feel well today with a low grade fever and will not let me put her down for more than 10 minutes before she wants to me to pick her up again. Bless her little heart. So the moral of the story is.....

Do not miss church unless it is absolutely necessary or unless you are willing to put up with the bad that is SURE to follow you throughout your week. Happy Hump Day Everybody!

NO SCHOOL!!!

There will be no school tomorrow, January 16th due to extreme temperatures and for the health and the safety of our students and staff. We are also closed Monday, January 19th because of Martin Luther King Jr. day.

This is the note that was sent home with my children today. The temperature is suppose to be around 5 degrees tonight. For all of you that have or do live in Idaho, you can appreciate the humor that I felt when I read this. Seriously, what are these people thinking?

Catch Up

So this is the third time I have tried to publish this blog. The video of Jasmine's solo is refusing to upload and keeps freezing me up so I will not be trying to upload it again. Sorry guys! Anyways, let me start with Malorie's birthday. On her birthday we went to Cici's pizza but actually had her party on Thanksgiving. We thought it would be nice to have my brother and his wonderful family here to share it with us, after all the more the merrier! It was great.







The girls went to the Christmas Inn in Pigeon Forge to sing with show choir. They have a beautiful clock above the fireplace that chimes on the hour and follows the chimes by playing a Christmas song. It really is beautiful and it is Christmas time there all year long. Google it if you ever get bored. The performance was a success and as I stated before I will not be uploading the video. Malorie has since decided that show choir is not for her and Jasmine is really not enjoying it as much as I expected her to. Malorie needs to be in gymnastics so Darren and will have to work that out for her and Jasmine really likes to sing but this choir is just not what she thought is was going to be I guess. What do you do?

Moving right along. Thanksgiving and Christmas all went great. We tried not to spoil the kids so much this year and thank goodness we didn't because everyone else did. Darren finally recieved a powertool for Christmas. I think that is the most excited I have ever seen him. Our Christmas started at about 5 in the morning so it made for a very long day. At one o clock we proceeded down to the river where we had a great Christmas feast, the missionaries joined us and I believe they left pretty satisfied. From there we went to my mother's to open more presents and then we stayed the night there. What a day it was. You will notice the pictures of Kennedy. That is the face she use to make when she was about 10 months old then she mysteriously stopped and we are happy to report that she is back to making that cute little face.

So it snowed to day and this is what it looked like......for about an hour and now it is gone. I know you are all so jealous right now. But just think that you all get to go create wonderful memories with the white stuff while the rest of us get to keep our heat turned down and walk around in short sleeved shirts.

Now I must wrap it up for I just recieved a call from Jasmine's school saying that I need to pick her up due to her vomitting. That's right...it is in fact on of those days. Peace love and a great day to you all!

Up and somewhat running

So our computer is finally working again. I am so stoked about it I have been on here for 2 hours! Sadly, we lost all of our pictures and videos because I am a ding a ling and did not put them on disc. We have no fun games or cool programs on our computer anymore and all of our music is gone.....soooo sad. The good thing is that our computer has a fresh brain. I can not believe that I was so stupid not to put everything on disc. We had almost 2000 pictures and such on it. AUGHH! OH WELL! That is life isn't it.

So the new year is off to a great start. I stopped smoking on December 10th and couldn't be happier about it but to make that an even greater experience you will all be happy to know that Darren also quit smoking about a week after I did. That's right people! SMOKE FREE! Now to stop being a potty mouth...that is going to be a big chore. As ugly as it is, I do like my swear words. I have been trying to stop by just saying, what the, but as it turns out the kids pick up on that A LOT easier than any old dirty word. Funny how that works. One thing at a time I guess.

I told Darren I was becoming a prude and he gave me a strange look. Imagine me a nice girl...can you imagine? It makes me laugh just thinking about it.

We all had a great Christmas and as you noticed did not send out cards...I am a slacker what can I say. The kids were very happy with their presents this year. I think Ladybug was the most excited because this year Santa brought her a guitar, the one thing she really wanted. Now we hope that she is able to learn a little something and become a famous musician..wink wink. Jasmine is growing up and has informed me that next year gift cards will be what she is expecting. Ahh the joy of girls.

Anyways, I am glad to be up and running again and will try to post some pictures soon. By the way I loved catching up on all the blogs, I really missed being able to check up on the family.