Explanation

Just so quick notes. I put a lot of pictures up so you need to scroll down a little ways to see all the posts and also the last post about my kiddos the pictures sometimes have a hard time showing so if you click on them and the wait for a second and then get on my blog then they should show up. I don't think that made any sense to anyone reading this, but it made sense to me and that is how I get it to show so sorry and good luck! Thanks and have a great day!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas this year we spent in Kimberly with Brandon's family. It was a lot of fun and really enjoyable. All of Brandon's brothers were there and my two new sister-in-laws (welcome to the family Sara and Rachel!). I was sick with really bad stomach flu the Thursday before Christmas so we weren't sure if we were going to be able to make down there, but luckily it was only a rough 24 hour bug. We made it down there on Christmas Eve and it seemed that almost everyone was either already sick or just got over from being sick so we were quite the bunch :o) It was alot of fun and we all got spoiled. I can't even list off everything that we got. Brandon got me a GPS which I love and I got him a pair of pants, a awesome shirt, and a new razor which he desperately needed. The were spoiled by everyone. My mom and dad got us this beautiful and amazing children's primary book that is really unique and tells you the history of the songs with beautiful illustrations so thank you mom and dad! It was a truly an awesome Christmas and fun! Thank you everyone for the great couple of days. We love you all and we hope your Christmas was special and had a great time with the ones you love.

 

 

 

 

Decorating for Christmas

For Family Home Evening we decorated the Christmas tree. Dawson was sick that day so he went to bed early so it was just Sydnee, Brandon, and I. It was so much fun. Sydnee absolutely loved every minute. She was so cute. We let her decorate the bottom of the tree with the decorations that weren't breakable or could get ruined (so we thought). Dawson, that little stinker figured out how to get to decorations that were somewhat edible and tried to eat others that were not edible. so more than half of the decorations got thrown away and so not even half of our tree ended up decorated. I wish I would have taken a picture of the tree before we took it down to prove how pathetic our tree ended up looking. It was truly sad.
I Love this time of year. I love the smells, the lights, the fun activities, but most of all the spirit that is felt all around. This is truly the giving season. I wish I was more like those people that are truly amazing with service. I admire and love those men and women like that and I hope that I will be better by their example and light. Christmas is truly the season and reminder of our Saviors birth and I am so grateful for that reminder. I learned a lot this season and it has made me a better person so watch out new year a new Kandra is coming full of service and gratitude. Thank you to all those who made the year of 2010 so special and wonderful. I love you all and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

 

 

 

Fun in the first snow

We woke up one morning to snow. Not a lot of it, but enough to go out and enjoy our first snow of the season. Sydnee was so excited and loved every minute. Dawson on the other hand was a little skeptical of it. He liked it, but couldn't quite figure out how to walk in those darn snow boots so he kept falling and it was so cute and funny. Brandon helped make a snowman, but it was a naked snowman because it got destroyed and kicked down before we could put anything thing on it. Oh well it wouldn't have lasted either way with all the older kids we have that live in these apartments. We had such a great day that day. It was such a fun family day and it was actually pretty warm. the pictures are pretty self explanatory so enjoy!

 

 

 

My kiddos

 

Dawson is so silly and funny. He makes us laugh all the time all day long. He is into everything and does everything. Dawson loves to talk and give anybody hugs a kisses. The kisses are not always the slobbery free, but they are so sincere. :o) Dawson will throw anything away in the garabage if you ask him to and even if you don't ask him to. Things keep coming up missing so I am pretty sure he as thrown many things away and we haven't realized it. What a stinker. Dawson is our very good eater. He will eat almost anything that you give to him and he is always eating all day. And yet he only weighs about 21 pounds. We wonder where it all goes. We started time out with him a while ago and he know he is in trouble and sits in that corner for one minutes and just cries and runs his little finger up and down the corner and it is so funny to listen to him becuase he's mostly just fake crying, but hey he stays in there and knows exactly where to go. Dawson is loves his coat and loves wearing it all day long and gets mad when we try and take it off. It's amazing how much he understands from us. When we ask him to go get his socks and shoes he will get the socks and most of the time the matching pair of shoes. He loves to talk. The words he says are;
"I fall
"ball"
"I want"
"UH-OH!"
mommy, mom, momma,
dad, daddy, dadda,
no
want
go
"ood" = food
he signs more and says more and signs please most of the time anyway.
He is defiantyly our goofball and he is so sweet with other people. He'll go to most anybody even though he is becoming a little more picky with that, but he is so helpful and loves to clean up toys and books. He love to sit down in is littl recliner chair and look at book and he loves sitting on Daddy's lap everynight when he reads scriptures. He enterains himself pretty well, but also loves to have lots of attention especially when your laughing at something he is doing. He does throw some pretty good fits, but he gets over them pretty fast. He is constantly hitting his head on something, but most of the time he just laughs about it. Just yesterday I put a towel over his head and he thought that was awesome so I told him to go show daddy who was in the kitchen and he totally ran into the wall and fell back and almost hit the couch and I couldn't help but laugh and he got right back up and put the towel back on and went to show daddy laughing the whole time. It was classic. We are so bless to have Dawson in out little family. We love him so much!

 

Sydnee is such a sweet little girl that is so so so so dramatic. She is such a girl is everyway.She loves to dance, sing, and be a "Princess". She makes us laugh and cry all at the sametime. She love to try new things to do. She is still our very picky eater, but I pray everyday that she will grow out of the very soon. Syd loves preschool and speech therapy. She gets to start sunbeams this up coming Sunday and she is so excited. I think she will do really well. Like I said Sydnee is very dramatic and sometimes very unpredictable. Sometimes is almost frightening not know for sure how she will react. The old waves tell says "Terrible Two", but I think it is the age of three. Oh my goodness we have some major fits in the house and other places. But the sweetness and good times outway those fits. She really is so sweet and so in tunes with other peoples feelings. She absolutely loves Dawson. They do fight, but for the most part they play pretty well together. Sydnee does really will dogs now which not too long ago she was terrified of almost any animal, but now loves almost all animals, which is a huge improvement for those who really know her. She loves to play with other kids and does really well them. She is such an amazing little girl and we can't wait to see how her personality blooms and figure out how to handle all her craziness and moods. :o) We are so bless to have her in our lives and love her so much!

 

Syd and Dawson are so sweet together and love eachother so much!

Happy belated HALLOWEEN!!!

Dear Mom and Dad,
I know that I am now your slacker daughter and I am sorry, but always know that I am the best blonde, youngest, daughter ever and you wouldn't ask for anything more or less. ;o) just kidding. Really I am sorry for now just posting about Halloween and the month of October. I have been a slacker that is always tired and should be doing homework, but am not. So really my only excuse is that I have just been lazy. So once again I am sorry and I am not going to say that I will do better becuase maybe if I don't say that than I might actually do better. We'll see I guess. Alrighty than ENJOY!

 

These are just some random pictures that we took yesterday and now that I think about it I think I have other ones to post, so I promise that I will do that oh and I still need to post pictures of Sydnee's birthday that I got from Vern's camera so I will do that also today. Anyway I just need to tell a funny story about Dawson. A couple of days ago Dawson pooped and came up to me pointing at his diaper with a disgusted look on his face, so I being a good mother (sometimes) changed his diaper and while I was changing his diaper I just kept saying "Did you poop Dawson?" Well maybe about 20 minutes after I changed his first poopie diaper he pooped again, but this time he came up to me with a diaper and package of wipes and said "I poop, I poop, I poop.." over and over again. It was so funny and cute that I went to go get the camera to record it, but of course as soon as I got the camera in front of him he froze and refused to repeat himself. Oh well just know that is was really cute. Syd and Dawson are quite the characters. They make us laugh and frustrated all at the same time. My house is never as clean or organized like I want it be, and dinner is not always ready when Brandon comes home from work or school, but everyday I have a smile on face becuase I have these two to entertain me and make me laugh. Dawson loves to wrestle with his sister. He loves, loves, loves to cuddle and give kisses. He's becoming quite the clown and just laughs at himself everytime. He so funny and goofy and we love him so much!! Sydnee is very dramatic and sometimes very unpredictable, but she is also so kind and loves her brother. She is so imaginative and loves to play. She loves preschool and is learning a lot from it. We love Sydnee so much and are so grateful for her spirit. One thing that is always saying is that she loves Jesus and she tells us all the time that "Jesus lives in Heaven with Heavenly Father and he is in the castle called the Temple." We are truly a blessed family.

 

For one of Sydnee's preschool field trips we went to a local corn maze and pumpkin patch. It was cute and the kids loved it. Syd was a little scared of the corn maze at first, but then she saw some of her friends and then all was well. She picked out a little pumpkin for her and Dawson and they carried it around everywhere with them. Syd also loved being able to sit on the "Big train" which is the big tractor. It was a fun family activity.

 

For Halloween this year Sydnee really wanted to be Tinker Bell and Dawson Peter Pan. So my sister Jami made Syd's Tinker Bell costume while I made Dawson his Peter Pan costume. Sydnee loved it and she still talking about going trick or treating and wearing her costume. The both were so cute and it was so fun. Thanks Jami for all your help. Oh we got the pattern from the make-it-love-it site on my side bar. She is so amazing! October was a lot of fun. We went to a friends halloween party that was just for the adults and it was a BLAST. I loved it. I dressed up as a witch and Brandon was my broomstick. ;o) We had an amazing dinner and dessert, we sang karoke, played some way fun games, and just enjoy the company of some amazing people. THank you Lindsey and Logan for and awesome night! Stay tuned because I will be posting more!

A buck makes it all worth it!

Well 5:00 a.m. rolls around this morning and Brandon's alarm goes off and I was not a happy camper because I kept waking up during the night, but of course Brandon is ready and rearing to go. I on the other hand kept reminding myself that I bought a deer tag and I didn't want to waste the money. I got up and headed towards Rockland Idaho to go hunting with Brandon, his Dad (Vern), and his brother Radlee. It started out as a pretty good hike, nothing too bad, but then it started to rain and right off the bat we got soaked. So we waited under a tree while Brandon headed back to get to school. We waited under the tree for quite awhile until the rain stopped for at least a little while and started to head down to the valley a little. Radlee walked up a little to try and scare any deer that could be in the brush and trees, while Vern and I headed down on the other side of Radlee. Then all of a sudden I looked over and I was sure I saw something so I hit Vern in the arm and said "Vern is that a deer does it have horns? Quick get your binoculars!" I was so excited and nervous all at the same time. And sure enough it was a buck. We had no idea how big it was because it was laying down with the butt towards us and his head turned around looking right at us. So Vern and I got down and he helped me figure out where to focus to shoot him and I shot. I got him the first shot but only wounded him. I broke his leg and it went through his gut. He got up and ran so I shot two more times and missed then he layed down under a tree with the brush in front of him and at first we couldn't see him but we knew he couldn't have gone too far because his leg was broken. Then we spotted him and got down again and he was laying down looking straight at us. I aimed for his head and shot him right in the throat. It was so awesome, but we still didn't know what size I got until Radlee went up to it and he started cheering and said that it is huge. I really don't know what huge is, but all I do know is that it was a 4 point buck with a 23 3/4 inch spread and Brandon is so proud of me. And to be honest I am pretty proud of myself because I was borrowing my Dad's .243 rifle and I think the last time I shot it was when I was 12 and the last time I actually shot a gun was right after Brandon and I got married and we only shot at pop cans. Anyway I had a lot of fun even though we got soaked and that I got it at the beginning of the season so now I'm done and I don't need to try and find a baby sitter every weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped out and thanks again Dad for letting me borrow your gun and taking such good care of it and sighting it in for me. Love ya all!

 

 

 

 

Update

Yes, once again a fell behind. I know I need to do so much better and I get reminded everyday. I can actually say I have a decent excuse now. (kind of anyway). I decided to go back to school after almost 4 years of not going to any type of school. I'm only taking 6 credits because I needed to ease myself back into the whole school thing. Brandon and I have worked it out where he is home when I have class and I am home the rest of the day. It's been busy because on Monday and Wednesdays Syd has speech therapy in the morning while Brandon has school. On Tuesday and Thursdays I have school while Brandon drops Syd off to preschool, then after my class I go and pick her up and I also have class Tuesday and thursday nights. Fridays are really my only free days. It is working out really well so far. I am loving school so far and Dawson is such a trooper because he spends most of his mornings in the car hanging out. Brandon is doing really well with school so far also. He did have a mountain bike accident that messed up his shoulder and he is still recovering from that since it has been over a month. We bought a Chrysler town and country which we love so far. We weren't too excited to get a minivan at first, but it has been a blessing. That gas is pretty good and the room is AWESOME!! Brandon also got a Geo Tracker for his four wheeling and hunting needs. He loves it and has been fun to go four wheeling in it as a family. The kids love riding in it without the top on. Let's see what else has happened. Brandon is in the process of applying for PA schools which is stressful and really exciting. Live is really good and busy, but we are loving it. Well it is actually getting really late and I am starting to not focus so for now I am going to say goodnight and until next time. Oh and scroll down because I put a ton of pictures and posts on so enjoy!

Dawson

Dawson is not our chill little boy anymore. Somedays I dream about how he used to just sit around content to watch everything and everyone around him. Well those days are mostly gone. He is such a busy boy! He loves to climb anything within his reach. He gets in everything which makes it extra hard to keep my apartment clean becuase I turn around and there is a brand new mess or one that I just cleaned up. I seriously don't remember Sydnee being this crazy into everything. He is so much fun though and so sweet and cuddly. He is doing better with his sleeping at night which is an answer to a prayer. He is a biter so we have to really watch and disciplin him if he does bite. He has four teeth on top, four teeth on bottom, and one molar on top also. This kid also eats like a champ and will eat anything and everyting, He will sometimes out eat me and defiantly out eats Sydnee becuase she doesn't really eat. She's just picky. Dawson says: Go, daddy, mommy, uh-oh, Yd (Syd), hi, want, and every once in awhile throws a few more words in there. He can throw fits, but luckly hasn't figured out the thoughing himself back and on the floor thing yet. He is such a fun boy and his smile just melts you. The doctor was a little worried that Dawson has a wheat allergy becuase he lost a pound and that automatically calls for a blood tests, but this kids all the time and everything so we were kind of worried to, but luckly and thankfully he is just fine and doesn't have a food allergy. We do have to go in and reweigh him though. I think we are just made to have smaller kids. Well see though. I'm just grateful and we have healthy kids. We'll let you know the update.

 

Preschool!

Sydnee turned 3 in August and we do have picutres of her party, but we are just waited for them from Brandon's parents so I promise when we get those you will get a much more detailed post on it. Anyway becuase Syd is now three we decided to she was ready for Preschool. We were kind of nervous because we didn't know how she was handle getting dropped off to a new place with a teacher and students she didn't know. Well come to find out there was nothing to worry about becuase she absolutely LOVES it! She is so cute about it becuase since both Brandon and I are going to school she just thinks she is so grown-up becuase she gets to go to school too. Her teacher Miss April is awesome and we couldn't be more thrilled. These pictures were her second day of preschool and I couldn't resist taking a picture of my beautiful little girl. She knows she is cute too becuase she would look in the mirror all day if I would let her. We are in so much trouble. She likes to get dirty and have fun outside and play rough, but she is also such a girl and has to have her hair done with either a bow or a headband in her hair. She is also way fiesty, but also so sweet and very in tune with other's feelings. We really love her and are so grateful to have her. She also is a great older sister. She loves Dawson and gives him hugs and kisses 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time they are fighting, but they both get over it pretty fast. We are so proud of her. She is learning so much in Speech Therapy and loves Jacie her therapist. She is just growing up way too fast and is dynomite in a little package. Love ya Syd!