Kinley's first attempt at crawling

Kinley is really trying so hard to be mobile. I just love watching this!

7 Months old

Here is Kinley just over 7 months old. She is finally getting bigger than her teddy bear.
She weighed only 14 lbs. 2 oz. when I toke her to the Doctor. He wasn't to concerned though. I guess she is just going to be petite.

Finally we got a smile. She kept trying to reach for the camera or eat the bear. She is just so much fun. Here are some of the new things she is doing. She is starting to eat more foods actually like them. She is eating little banana puffs. She is rocking back and forth on her hands and knees. She says "Dada" and it sounds like she says "yeah" every now and then. She also has discovered a love of bouncing. Kinley also has a serious case of stanger anxiety. Well I don't know if it is as much that she doesn't like strangers as is it that she wants me by her side at all times and if I walk away she freaks out. I guess I know that she loves me. :) She also loves to stack her toy rings on the pole. Good job Kinley!

Don't you just love cute little profiles!

Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary

I can't believe that Ryan and I have been married for 3 years already. Time goes by so fast! We had a great night out together. We had our good friend Erin watch Kinley. Even though Kinley is only 7 months old we have sort of forgotten what life is like when it is just the two of us. We were able to just relax and talk to each other. We ate at Outback Steakhouse and it was delicious. We ate so much food that we were both sick. It was great. I am so thankfull that I have such a great husband. He doesn't like it when I talk him up but oh well. He deserves it. He is the best husband and father. I don't know what I did that made me so lucky to have him in my life. He works so hard so that I can stay home with Kinley and he supports me in everything I do. Being married has been better than I ever imagined. I can't wait to spend the rest of Forever together.

Fun shopping trips

Ryan is starting early with Kinley and batting practice. As you can see I don't think that baseball is really something that she enjoys at this point in her life. I am sure that Ryan will keep trying and maybe someday it will come. :)

Poor Kinley she is such a good sport. We were at our favorite store Walmart and I found Ryan playing with her and making her try on the new Batman masks. I know he needs a son to torture -but not in the near future.

The trip Home

I didn't want to put this picture on the blog due to how terrible I look, but I felt that our trip home needed its own post. Kinley never sleeps like this and I just think it is really cute. I also decided to post this after I finished the other post so sorry it is out or order. But here is how our trip home went. First we got to the Philadelphia airport after already driving 2 hours and we thought things were just going to go as planned. I had not been feeling well for a few days but didn't have a choice on when we were going home and also Kinley was not feeling well. Then our plane was 3 1/2 hours late. Then we sat on the runway waiting to take off for another hour because so many other planes were taking off. Then we flew 31/2 hours to Denver and we had already missed our other flight. So luckily our great friends Justin and Lyndsey live in Denver and they came to pick us up. Then we drove 1/2 hour to their house, listened to poor Kinley scream for 3 hours then we drove back to the airport. Then we had to check back in then fly back to SLC. It was so crazy. You know when you want to cry but don't have the energy it was like that for 2 days. We were so happy to be home I don't think Kinley and I left the house for like 4 days. But all in all I guess we are just so thankfull that we got to see family and that we are all home, healthy and safe. So if anyone is thinking of flying with a small child anytime soon I might think long and hard first.:) Sorry Kinley for dragging you all over.

Kinley's first trip to Pennsylvania

Here we are at the SLC airport waiting for Ryan to get back from parking the car. I just thought that she looked so cute being stuck with all the luggage. She was just taking it all in and was in a pretty good mood at this point. She is definantly the most precious piece of cargo.

Here we are getting ready to take off and as you can see she still has no idea what is in store for her. She did pretty good flying from SLC to Philadelphia. Much better than we expected. The best thing was that I didn't have to throw up at all the whole flight. This was quite an accomplishment considering I always get sick and now I had an infant to nurse and take care of without taking my usuall dose of Dramamine.

We thought we should get a picture of all of Kinley's cousins in PA. We didn't really get all of them because one is on a mission ( we love you Derrick) and some of the others were being silly and didn't want to be in the picture. As you can see we had 2 cousins that had little broken bones and had to have casts on. Olivia broke her arm during our trip and little Cole broke his leg just before we got there. I don't know if I am emotionally ready for "little kid" war wounds with Kinley. Hopefully she will make it through her childhood without to much trouble for my own sanity. We had a lot of fun spending time with our family. Ryan and I were able to have a night out alone at his best friend's, from high school, wedding. We ate good food and spent some time on the dance floor. I was able to go to NYC with the girls( minus Kinley) for a day. It was a much needed break and in my favorite city. We went to see Mary Poppins per Alexa's request. It was really cute. Then we just spent the rest of the trip spending time with family and eating more food. Thanks everyone for such a great week!

Kinley with her Grandma Jackie and Grandpa George.
She was not so happy during this picture. We were just getting ready to leave and come home. She did not feel very good and had a fever. We knew we were in for it.

6 Month Baby Pictures

Here is our new family picture and once again Kinley is sitting up like a big girl all on her own. Notice the red toenails. I know it is crazy, but also so fun to dress her up. I can't get the pictures any bigger but you can just click on all of them and they will enlarge, FYI.

6 Month Baby Pictures

Well I am not good a rearranging the pictures, but here a few more pictures that we had taken and kiddie Kandids when we actually made the appointment. I just can't even believe how big she looks sitting in that chair with her arms and legs crossed. I just can't even believe that she is growing so fast. We love her more than words can express.

6 Month Baby Pictures

We got her this cute TUTU ( if that's even how you spell it) at the baby contest we put her in last month. I know it was a splurge but she just looks so cute in it. She did so well the whole photo shoot she just smiled and giggled the whole time.

Cutest baby ever!!!

About a month ago we were shopping in Babies r Us and we were pulled into the Kiddie Kandids that they have set up in the store. The girls told us that she was just so cute they had to take some pictures. Now we realize that this was probably just a ploy to get us to buy pictures, but it was still flattering right :) Well they didn't make a sale but it was sure fun to see her smile so big on the spot and hey we got a free 8 by 10 picture out of it anyways.