April

So... April was pretty eventful because Devin graduated from BYU-Idaho! After he graduated, we were both working tons to save money for our move. So, we mostly just worked and packed!

We always have lots of cute pictures to share. Sure love this girl!

Our last time rock climbing in Idaho.

Devin's graduation!!!

Once again, we have a lot of cute pictures to share. Mckenna is getting so big and learning new things every day. This is a very fun age!

After loading the dishwasher, I noticed that all of Mckenna's spoons had somehow disappeared. This is where I found them...

It's funny that she gathers all of her spoons from among the other utensils and takes them all out.

Just like most other kids, Mckenna loves bubbles!

Despite not having much hair, she is definitely a girl! She loves accessories and wears them all day!

She has to wear these shoes every day. She has lots of cute shoes to choose from, but she loves these ones.

For some reason, she really loves chairs. She will sit in our recliner for hours reading books. She loves this little camp chair.

So much that she just sat there until she fell asleep.

(There is another post below... as always, I got behind) :)

My Little Helper

Mckenna loves to color in her coloring book...

on the fridge...

and on the floor...

She is great at unloading the dishwasher...

and cleaning out the pantry.

"Eating" lunch

She's such a good helper, that she gets tired.

Helping me clean

We sure love our little girl!

Random

Alright...I am getting caught up! Again, mostly pictures as always :)

Getting into Aunt T's wallet. I don't know how she figured out how to open it.

Yummy Ritz crackers


So, since we are moving in May, we have been going through things and trying to sell stuff that is not worth taking with us. I have learned that when you are moving a long distance it is tons cheaper to sell most of the big stuff and just buy it again once you get there. Even though we are selling lots of our big stuff, it is still going to cost a lot to move. Anyway, so we started a moving blog of the things that we want to sell. We included our couch and loveseat, dressers, our entertainment center, and other random things. If you have been to our house, you know that our couches are pretty to look at, but not comfy at all. They are really springy and not the best quality. Anyway, we knew that we wanted to sell them for sure but thought they wouldn't sell very fast because they aren't comfortable. So, we posted those on the blog for a higher price than we thought we could get out of them just to see. We also posted our dressers for the price we bought them for to see if we could get that much out of them also. Well, the day we posted it someone called asking if they could come see our couches. She came over and I was thinking, yeah she will sit on them and then not want to get them. But, she gave me cash right then! I was so surprised! So we have no couches until we move, but at least they are gone!

The next day, two different couples came and bought our dresser and Mckenna's dresser (which we got what we paid for on each of them). And then just the other day, someone came and bought our entertainment center for $50! This is the same entertainment center that we found at the side of the road with a FREE sign :). We did fix it up a little bit, but we are pretty excited about that. So, it is nice to know that we won't have to take those things with us, but now we have to live without them for 4 months! :) We didn't think they would sell that fast! Especially at the price that we got them for.

I was cleaning out our entertainment center and Mckenna was having a blast playing with everything.


She loves spaghetti!


Yeah, I think she is done :)


She is pretty excited to take a bath!


Weird sleeping positions are common around here


We have started teaching Mckenna sign language and she loves it! Here she is watching Baby Signing Time. So funny


Often I will find her sitting in her room with books all around her just jabbering away!




Mckenna is walking now! She learns something new every day. She can say quite a few words now. Her latest trick is folding her arms during an entire prayer. She is so fun!

Yes, I am finally updating!

It's been a while. We have been crazy busy as always. Getting all the toys out. (You can tell these are old because she is crawling still) This is all December. lol





Our friends let us borrow this hippo to help her walk around. She loves it! The back handle folds down for a seat but whenever we put it down, Mckenna freaks out! She prefers to scrunch her legs in and make her own seat :)

Practicing early







Christmas morning. I guess the pictures are better late than never :)






We had an exciting Christmas with family from Texas and Washington. The highlights include going to my parents cabin, spending time with family, Devin's little sister and her husband getting endowed sealed in the temple, my little sister getting engaged, seeing some family members we haven't seen all year, and relaxing with no school for Devin! Devin was supposed to graduate in December...but the Monday before graduation he was looking at prerequisites again for his master's program and under English it said "composition and speech". Devin hadn't taken a speech class. So, he called his advisor in Des Moines and turns out two different advisors in Des Moines both looked over Devin's classes and requirements two times each and missed that class! So, he deferred graduation until April so he could take that class. So, this semester he is taking Speech, Advanced Anatomy and Physiology (by choice, crazy kid), Intro to Piano, Beginning Basketball, Advanced Raquetball, Book of Mormon, and Computer Basics. So, he is home a lot more and not so stressed! He did get a job though so he is working part time and going to school full time, so we are still busy. That's about it! I'll work on January now :)