Fair Season...

Last year Kennedy had a great time at the County Fairs, but this time she REALLY got into it!! She loved the animals, all the people, the games, the food and the rides! This year we got her a wristband at each fair and she got more than her money out of them :). She rode every ride she could at least 5 times and really wanted to go on the big kid rides...this girl has NO fear, it's crazy! Poor Will-Will wasn't big enough to go on the rides (the didn't even have a merry-go-round!), but he sure wanted to! I felt so bad for him having to watch Kennedy have all the fun...next year will be different buddy!!

He wanted in SO badly :)

Random Pics...

Here are some random pics from our June trip to California. I thought there were too cute not to include!!

 Having a summer dinner outside with my Opa Neil (my Opa)

 Playing at the park! Kennedy KEEPS asking to go back there!

With all of her loot from shopping in downtown LA :)

Tante Jillian and Boom-Boom watched Kennedy and Will while we went to a wedding and taught her how to play doctor. She loved being the patient!

Will's 1st Birthday Party (up north)

The weekend after Will's 1st birthday in Tulare, we had a birthday party for him up north. Jenny and Mark we beyond gracious, opening their home up to us for his party! We transferred the decorations up north, bought the same food and had a new group of people to celebrate with. I always feel so loved when we are in California and our friends and family go out of their way to see us...it is such a great feeling to know how much people really care about you! Thank you so much to everyone who made it...it was so nice to have you celebrate with us!!!

Kennedy, Will, Paul and Danika

Robby, Lisa, Sam, Jackie, Jarrid and Gianna

Arnie, Jenny and Jeannine

Boomer, my mom and Jillian

Davis, Trisha, Stacey, Grandma Mary, Trevor, Grandpa Merv, Bill and Sharon

The birthday boy, loving round 2 of dirt cake!!!

Love this picture of Kennedy - no swimsuit and those googles, hilarious!

The birthday boy!

Sam and Lilia

It turned into quite a fun swim party for everyone, especially the adults!

Mason and Mark

I'M BACK!!!

I know, it's...been...FOREVER!!!  If you have a blog, you know if you get behind, it's so very easy to keep putting it off!  I had put it off so much, 3.75 months to be exact, that I was wondering if I even wanted to keep doing it. I thought about it and realized this is the only thing I have documenting these years in our lives, no scrapbook or anything like that, so I should probably keep on with it. Then the question was, start from now and skip that last 3.75 months or back track and include all of it. I decided to start where I left off, so without further ado :)....

Will's 1st Birthday Party (in Tulare)

We had a Very Hungry Caterpillar themed 1st birthday party in California for Will on his actual birthday, June 24th. My parents let us throw the party at their house and we a wonderful time! Almost all of my family and girlfriends from both high school and college were able to make it! It was so much fun getting to see everyone and their expanding families, but it was also MORE than chaotic! We had 7 kids under the age of 1 and 14 more from the ages of 2-7. Fun, fun!! Thank you to everyone for being there to celebrate Will's big day...it was awesome!!

Grace

Kennedy

Will

Kennedy, Quincy and Kamryn

Trying to manage the chaos :)

Baby Jack

Baby Kate

The Anker kids - Case, Jack, Liv and Claire

"little kid" pool fun

High School friends - Brooke, Brittani, Julie and Grace

The crew...trying to get a picture with my girlfriends and our kids (a lot of the girls had already left, so bummed I didn't get everyone).

Tante Diane, Allison and Case

College friends - Michelle (w/Will and her daughter, Quincy), Mark, Robin, Dan, Andi and Jeffrey

Time for the cake! (Oma, what's this?)

I like everyone singing to me!

Not sure about this!

I'll give it a try?!

Success!!!

Poor Opa!...he got the stomach flu the morning of the party, so we had to get a picture with him the day after.

Will is 1-year old!!!

Our little man turned one-year old on June 24th!! I can't believe he's not a baby anymore and is now a toddler! He has developed so much since our last post...He now loves standing on his own and walking along furniture and has started walking on his own, taking about 7 or 8 steps at a time...there is such determination in his eyes, he wants to do it SO badly!! He doesn't talk much; he says mama, dada, uh-uh, un-huh and grunts a lot when he wants something :). We have tried to teach him the signs for "more" and "all done", hopefully he will learn those soon and grunt less! He is an okay eater, he really likes junk food and it is constant struggle to find healthy food he will eat. He has 12 teeth and drools more than I thought possible! He is long and lean, 32 inches long (99th percentile) and 21 pounds (41st percentile). He is ALL boy, loves to climb on everything and bang things together. He is not nearly the content baby Kennedy was, he has to be entertained constantly; if he is bored, watch out! What keeps him most entertained is taking walks around the dairy, playing outside in the water and climbing up and down the stairs - you can find Kennedy, Will and I doing one of those three things at any point in day, except when he is napping and he is a great sleeper! He is OBSESSED with his feet...putting his shoes on and stepping on everything. He LOVES trucks and tractors and anything loud and HATES animals...he is so scared of our dog and all the cows, but is starting to get a little more comfortable with them. I keep telling Paul, with a love for trucks and tractors and a fear of animals, he is bound to be a farmer :). It has been truly awesome watching him develop over his first year of life, he is so much fun and is constantly keeping us on our toes! They say boys are harder as babies and get easier as they grow up...I sure hope it's true :).

Too Cute!

The other night, Kennedy was hungry after dinner...this has been the norm lately, so I leave her dinner out until we go to bed and she can finish it if she wants to. After I sat her in her booster, I realized we hadn't heard from her in awhile; we looked over and this is what we saw...too cute!