Please Help!!

My cute cousins have asked for some help! They have been trying to conceive a child for many years now and have recently been told that they should give IVF a try. As alot of you know it is very expensive. My cousin Lyndee has set up a blog for the adorable crocheted hats that she makes, hoping to get some donations for them. They are so cute. She makes them in all sizes and colors. Here is her blog address if you want to check them out. www.wilkersonivffund.blogspot.com
Please take a look and help them out if you can! You will love the hats!

Ryan has already been starting with the basketball training :) She absolutely loves anything to do with basketball. I take her outside sometimes just so she can watch other people play and clap for them. She starts yelling and clapping anytime she even sees a ball and immediately starts running for it. Ryan has played alot of church ball lately and I take her to most of his games for her to watch. I know he really loves having his own little cheerleader cheering just for him. She will watch him while standing on my lap and be so entertained. She screams and claps for him as he runs by. I love seeing how much she loves her Dad. He is a great Dad and I am sure he will be a great coach for her someday.

Crazy Hair

The other night we gave Kinley a bath and when we took her towel off this is what we saw. Her hair is awesome when it is wet. It is finally starting to grow. It has been the same length since she was born for so long. We thought it was so funny and as you can see so did she. I can finally get a few pig tails in now, even though she usually pulls them about within the hour anyway.

This is Kinley and one of her best friends Turin. He is so much stronger than her so when they play together they both love to play this game. She just sits in the stroller with her hands in her lap and he just pushes her all around the house. It's so funny. I am so happy that we have good friends to play with.

Pet store outing

We have some great friends in our ward. The other day Katie called and asked if I wanted to get out of the house. So of course I totally did and we decided to take the little girls to a pet store to see the animals. They of natually loved looking at the animals. Kinley's favorite was looking at the puppies. She was squeeling and clapping the entire time. I love seeing her happy and best of all it was totally free. I am sure we will be back soon.

What happens when ...

What happens when you leave a 15 month old alone in a room for 5 minutes??? Well I found out the other day just how creative they can be. I was in the kitchen doing dishes when she wondered into our bedroom. I thought that I had closed the bathroom door, but I was wrong. It wasn't but a few mintures later that I realized that she was quiet. Too quiet. So I went to check on her and this is what I found. She had multiple rolls of toilet paper shredded from one end of the room to the other. At first I just thought of the mess that I now had to clean up and then soon realized that it was actually really cute what she was doing. There was no way I could get mad at her. I ran and got my camera hoping to capture this fun moment. At least she wasn't playing in the toilet.

She is so proud of herself and she is even trying to get me to shred right along with her. I just let her have fun and decided that we can always clean up later :)

Just Cute Pics

Ok, so I know have been so bad lately about updating out blog. I appologize to all of our family members who have really been waiting to see some updated pictures. I have just been working so much lately and Kinley has decided that she does not require much sleep anymore. Well I guess she has always been a bad sleeper but now I just try to keep up with her :) These are just a few of the cute pictures we have taken lately. She is cuting more teeth and always wants to brush them. I am soooo glad that she finally enjoys something that is good for her. She would carry around her tooth brush all day if we let her.

This is the look I get when I ask if she is done. I am guessing that she is thinking that I must be crazy:)

I just love these pictures because rarely will she have food on her face,because she hates to eat, but this day she decided that oreo cookies are delicious. She loved them, but I am a mean Mom and refuse to give them to her anymore because if I did that is all she would eat. If I leave any form of junk food or candy within her reach she will surely help herself. One of her favorite candies are the Valentine's hearts with words on them. Her Grandparents sent her some and she begs for them at least 10 times a day :)

Christmas 2008

This year for Christmas we went to my Mom's house. It was a great Christmas. We made lots of cookies and ate lots of food. We went to look at Christmas lights around town after a Christmas Eve dinner and then just hung out as a family. It was great. Kinley loved playing with her cousins and was busy the whole weekend trying to steal every ones toys. We are working on the whole sharing thing. Anyways Christmas morning was so fun watching Kaden get excited about his toys and watching the little girls pull everything apart. Kinley just loved the bows and went and stole them off of every ones presents. Then she proceeded to try to make them stick to her. Oh how we love her. She is such a girl.

A one year old's play ground. She thought it was so fun!

Not the best picture but it is once again the only one I have of just us three.

The little girls were given these adorable outfits by Grandma Becky. We of tried to get a picture of both of them together, but they had a different agenda. Notice the blur from them moving.

Kinely opening presents

What a Beautiful Baby!

As I was just posting all of her Birthday pics I decided to go back and look at all of her pictures from the last year. Here are just some of my favorites. This was the morning after Kinley was born. She was not the typical baby. She wanted to stretch out and just lay there. Most babies like to be wrapped up tight, but not Kinley she wanted to be free and she still has such a free spirit.

This was the night we brought Kinley home. We just sat on the couch and stared at her for what seemed like hours. I could not even believe I was so blessed to be this precious, beautiful, little girls mother. I already loved her so much it brought me to tears and it still does.

Kinley is just a few days old here and was already showing us how to smile. I am sure it wasn't intentional but we didn't care, we still loved it everytime she did it.

This is Kinley in her carseat for the first time. She was all ready to head out on her first journey. I can't even believe how small she was then and how much she has grown since. I just wanted to post some of these pictures, and for jounals sake, tell Kinley how much I love her. You are the light of my life. You have brought our family so much joy since you have been on this Earth. You have taught me so much and for that I am eternally greatful. This year has not been easy, and at times I am sure you deserved better from me, but it has been the best year of my life! Thank you for choosing me to be your Mommy! Happy Birthday Kinley!

Birthday Cakes and Pony Rides

Right away we knew that Kinley was not going to get to dirty playing with her Birthday cake. She kept pulling her hands away and looking at my like "What do you want me to do with this, it is gross":)

Well eventually I put her hands in it for her and got her dirty. She then kept trying to shake it off of her hands, but would not put it in her mouth despite all our coaxing.

Now she decided to just pick at it for awhile. Silly girl :) She does not like to be dirty.

On her actual Birthday we took her the see the animals at a local animal farm since that has always been her favorite thing to do. Her Daddy even gave her her first pony. Well a ride anyway, but I am sure he would have bought it for her if she wanted it :) She did quite know what to think about and was happy for the first few times around and then decided that she had enough.

More Birthday pics!

I have not yet learned how to post more than 4 pics at a time through Picassa, so sorry that all the post are all split up. But here is Kinley being the life of her party. She was loving the attention from everyone and all the other kids to play with. If you saw the many bows on her head it is because she is in love with bows and wants to wear them all at one.

This is one of the few pictures we have of us and Kinley on her Birthday, and best of all she is smiling. Here we are with some of our good friends Andy and Consuelo. They love Kinley so much and she sure loves them!

Sorry this picture is blurry but it is the only one that we have of us three on her Birthday. Apparently with all the crazyness we forgot to get one.

As you can see she is already not very excited about her Birthday cake. She was probably just wondering why everyone was looking at her and singing and laughing.

Kinley's First Birthday!!

So I am a little bit behind on my blogging, but hey when am I not:) Kinley turned One on the 6th of December!! I can't even believe how fast time has gone by. I spent most of the day thinking about the day that she was born. It is crazy how far our family has come. Kinley is growing so fast, even though she is still the smallest one year old I have ever seen. We had a little birthday party for her on the 5th and then we just spent the whole day on the 6th doing things for Kinley. I hope she had a good day! Here she is starting to unwrap some of her gifts from our great friends. Of course she absolutley loved everything!

I WANT TO BE YOUR SCENTSY CONSULTANT!

For those of you who I haven't told yet, I am now and Independent Scentsy Consultant. I am loving it so far! So for any of you who are looking for some great Christmas presents for all the women on your list just give me a call. I am going to place an order on Wednesday so that I can make sure everyone will recieve their candles by Christmas. You can also tell you husband to call me if he needs some help finding you the perfect Christmas present. I promise you will love the way your house smells!! Just give me a call or stop by anytime.
Natalie 801-592-1173

Grandma, Grandpa, and Auntie Jenn come to visit!!

A few weeks ago Ryan's parents and oldest sister Jenn came to visit us. I regretfully didn't get more pictures of them with Kinley, but here are a few that I did get. On the last day that they were here we went up to Gardener Village. We had a great lunch and walked around to see all the little shops. Kinley's favorite part was when she got to watch the little ducks walk around. Of course she loves animals. She was also very fond of her Grandma Jackie by the time they had to go home. We were very sad when they left and we already can't wait to see them in the summer.