Bowling, Swimming & Potty Time!

YEA! Kennedy is doing so good at going in the big girl potty! We started being consistent with her potty training on Tuesday of this week and she has done so well, I'm so proud of her! She loves her "big girl pants" (pull-ups) She'll go pee in the potty every single time she has to go. Nap & bedtime are bigger tasks than I want to accomplish right now but as far as daytime goes...so far so good!I love my big girl pants!

Last Monday Chris had the day off work so we decided to take Kennedy up to the Life Center and take her swimming, or should I say Chris took her swimming (I am a huge baby when it comes to cold water) Kennedy didn't mind the temperature at all, She loved every minute of it!

My little fish!

Kennedy swimming with her dad

A couple of weeks ago my parents, Sierra & Chris's parents all went bowling at All Star Lanes.

It had been awhile since we all had bowled, we had alot of fun though!

Kennedy loved pushing the ball and watching

it go down the lane all by herself!

Aunt Sierra, the worlds greatest bowler! ha ha!

Kennedy with her Grandpa Pew

sLaCkEr...Lots to Report!

Christmas...Wow! It seems so far away and yet I still haven't blogged about it yet. I know, I'm so over Christmas myself but I had to do a Christmas post.

We did have a great Christmas! We spent the 23rd of December with all of my dad's side of the family, Santa came to our party which was so fun for everyone! Instead of doing gifts this year we each drew a name out of a hat and wrote a short poem about that person. I wasn't that excited about it at the time but it turned out to be a great idea and the best Christmas yet! We have some very good, funny poets in my family! Christmas eve morning we invited both mine and Chris's parents (and Sierra of course) over for breakfast, it was alot of fun and sooo yummy! For Christmas Eve evening we spent the evening with just the 3 of us, we went to PF Changs for dinner and back to our house to make cookies for Santa. It was such a great relaxing night that we may have to turn into a tradition! Christmas day was very fun (especially for Kennedy) but very tiring for mom and dad. Lots of traveling to both sets of grandparents. But if I say so myself it was the best Christmas I've had in a while. It was so fun to see Kennedy walk into the family room and see her toys sitting there not knowing exactly what she should do with them! She loves her kitchen and plays with it everyday! We are so grateful that Kennedy has such wonderful grandparents who spoil her like crazy! I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas! Better late than never I guess.

Santa came to our family Christmas Party... So Fun!

Kennedy's presents from Santa

Walking into the family room for the first time
not really sure what's going on.

Still examining the situation

Finally comfy in her new chair with her new Dora book!

I love my new kitchen!

My new trike from grandma & grandpa

Opening presents at grandma's house

Santa trying to entice Kennedy to sit on his lap!

It worked!

The whole Smart family!

(except my parents)

What a good lookin' group.

Like I said above instead of presents for eachother on my dad's side of the family we wrote poems. This is me reciting my poem to the family and also announcing that we will be expanding our family and are expecting baby #2 due August 10th!

We are very excited for Kennedy to be a big sister (and so is she)

Run..Chris...Run!!

The first weekend in December Chris, his sister Amy & her husband Brent all ran in the Las Vegas Rock n' Roll Half Marathon (I chose to sit this one out.) It was such a fun race to go and watch (which our whole families did, they all came down to support them! What great families we have!) They all did so great even though it was sooo cold on race day! I'm so proud of Chris for doing so great! His PB of 1:55 with about 4 weeks of half-a training, go figure!

Great job to Amy & Brent as well! We had alot of fun watching you 3!

Chris at the finish line! Way to go!

25,000 runners in this race! It was seriously never ending, So cool!

Almost there!

You can't do a Las Vegas run without getting a picture with a running Elvis!

Our Family at the finish line

Me & my little athlete

Brent, Amy & Chris!

Way to go Runners!

HoLiDaY PiCtUrEs!

The other day Kennedy and I went out to try and get some cute Christmas picture of her, I think I accomplished my goal. These are just a few, but I think they turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. She's quite the little model!

This year Kennedy got to help Dad put up the Christmas tree and she had a blast doing it, She's definetly our little helper. She loves being in the middle of everything, but we love having her there! She's the funniest little thing who makes us laugh all the time!

Family Time

A couple of weeks ago Chris's sweet grandparents came in to town to visit so we had to get a picture of them with all the grandkids. It turned out pretty cute except for my child off to the left pulling a face she just learned how to do. Crazy girl!

It was so great having the grandparents in town & getting to spend time with them! We love you both so much!

Kennedy with all of her cousins!

Avery, Kennedy, Gracie, Zac, Owen & Logan

My sweet little Kennedy with her newest cousin Logan, she just loves him!

Isn't he the cutest ever?

"Dear Lizzie"

On Thursday me and two of my good friends Amy & Heather (along with our daughters) went to the cutest little boutique/cafe for lunch called "Dear Lizzie" out in Alpine. It was such yummy food and the cutest boutique I've ever been to. If you have time I would definetly check it out! Cute holiday decor stuff too! It was such a fun afternoon!

Kennedy and cute little Gracie out with the ladies!

HaLLoWeEn!

My Sweet Little Minnie Mouse

This year for Halloween Kennedy had alot of fun because she actually got to do a little bit of Trick*or*Treating! She had no idea what was going on, she just kept staring at all of the other little kids dressed up and couldn't quite figure it out. But people just kept giving her candy, so she was ok with that!

Chris's mom always has a party at her work where the kids go from office to office trick or treating, so of course we did that with all of her cousins (except new baby Logan.) And we always have fun there. This year we also went to my sweet Grandma Smarts nursing home to visit her and trick or treat there also. And finally, we went out to Chris's sisters house out in South Jordan where there are a 1000 children and Kennedy got to go from house to house trick or treating with her cousin Avery! She had so much fun, and aboslutely loved being Minnie Mouse (It's her favorite thing in the world right now!)

Kennedy with mom & dad

Kennedy is ECSTATIC to be going trick or treating

for the first time. (If you can't tell by her face)

SO CUTE!

Going from house to house with her cousin Avery

My two sweethearts

Kennedy & her Aunt Sierra

Grandma & Grandpa with Kennedy visiting

great grandma Smart

My sweet grandma loved having us come visit her

Grandma Pew and all of her cute grandkids, minus 1

The beautiful girls

The hansome boys

Cute cousins!

2 witches, a motorcross rider, a baseball player & a Minnie