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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Warning!!! Christmas Explosion!!

By Christmas Explosion, I mean it's going to take several posts to get all these pictures posted in somewhat chronological order in a timely fashion. (I'm already being bombarded with requests for pictures!!)
This first post is from Christmas Eve.Van and Kristin were going to be flying out on Christmas Day with her family to go skiing in Breckenridge, CO! Kenzie had a blast with her Uncle Van and Aunt Kristin. She can say both their names...mostly...I mean you can tell what she's trying to say. OH!! My biggest (and BEST) present came from mom and dad! They took Brian and I and Van and Kristin with them to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert tuesday night! Dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe set the tone for the night and the rest was sensory overload with music and lights and lasers and THE best pianists I've ever seen. Really made me miss playing the piano (though I could never play like that!). It really was the best concert I've ever been to and it was even more special because I was able to share it with my parents, husband, and brother and sister-in-law! Allison babysat Kenzie and they had a ball. I don't think she missed us at all!
Ok, let me explain that picture in the middle. Kenzie opened one of Van and Kristin's gifts and...I kid you not... as SOON as she saw it was clothes she started jerking her clothes off to change!! We were able to catch her doing it on Christmas day on video, but I don't think that would be appropriate to post, so you'll just have to ask me about it later! hahahaha So in the next picture you can see that she successfully got the cute pj's on. It really was hysterical.
Van was excited to get his Carharts (for work), but thankfully he jerked them on OVER his clothes. Guess I know where Kenzie gets it from now! Kristin was pretty pumped about her gift card to Ann Taylor Loft, that's a moment of bliss you see there. Mom and Dad are great shoppers!!

Backtracking...gobble, gobble

I tracked down my dad and got pictures from his camera from Thanksgiving! Happy, Katie? ;) He didn't take a whole lot of pictures, but I snagged a few cute ones! Just about everyone was there and we had the best time! Rachel and I looked at her bridal portraits (more pictures coming from her Dec. 20th wedding soon!) and Kenzie chased Carmen around. Carmen is Steve and Kim's Golden Retriever. Anytime Carmen was out of her sight, she'd start calling "Ca-men? Ca-men!". It was so cute! She and Lanie "played" foozball alot, though I don't have any pictures of that! Sorry. Kenzie's a sticker fanatic and only likes to stick them on skin, so we end up walking around with them on our cheeks, nose, elbows, whereever she decides they look best.
Van will eventually figure out how to get the grandfather clock to his house.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Christmas Time!!

It's my favorite time of year!! Kenzie is so excited about all the lights and the tree and baby Jesus's birthday! She likes snowmen ("momen") and santa ("ho ho ho") and penguins. She loves all the fun ornaments we have around the bottom of the tree! These are just a few random shots we've taken recently.
Night, night time with Daddy. "May we HELP you?" And today was unseasonably warm (low 60's!) so she wore her cute new vest!
We took this video of Kenzie playing with her daddy's deer grunt call. Yes, he's breaking her in early. Thankfully she still loves to shop!