Road trip to Paige's wedding

 Leslie, Allison, Kendall and I drove to Rexburg to my cousin Paige's wedding. We left super early on Wednesday and got there in time in see the ceremony at the new Rexburg temple. It was perfect. We also got to see my cousin Jake! He just flew in from his mission in Costa Rica the night before.

Jake, Jill and her husband Peter

PJ pie and me!

Allison loves her some PJ too!

The three of us.
Here are some pictures of us back in the day:)

Paige and I dressing up all stylish at one of her birthday parties.
 Jealous of my bullcut?

More birthday festivities. Can you guess who is who?

Grandma B with her grandbaby.

 Now for the extras

Here is a pretty good video. Kendall started making this face whenever she gets super excited. We call it her "funny face." And here is why....

Kendall is a big girl eating yogurt all by herself. Oh my goodness.

Kendall has figured out what keys are for. Now on to the plans for escaping...

Climbing and Talking

Kendall is getting more mobile than I can ever keep up with. It seems like every few days she'll find a new place to climb. And I think, "How did she get up there?!"

So I walk into the living room the other day and this is what I see.

At first I thought, "Oh my goodness, my baby is going to fall and die!" But after I calmed down, I wondered how exactly she got up there. So I sat back and captured my little acrobat with the camera.

Here we go.

Pretty fast learner isn't she?

Here is a clip of Kendall jabbering up a storm. It is hilarious how you can basically have a lengthy conversation without her saying one real word.She is half naked because she got real messy at dinner and her parents are apparently too lazy to put new clothes on her. I love her facial expressions. Enjoy.

Crazy October

October has surely been interesting for us. We didn't have internet for nearly 3 weeks and oh my goodness, I thought I was going to die. Its all those little things that you don't think about until you aren't able to look it up...like, for instance, your doctor's phone number, or recipes for dinner, or what channel the BYU football game is on, plus a zillion more. Well, life is all good now because we have a wireless router again and now I can look up whatever I want, whenever I want.
Our first big story is how Kendall locked herself in the bathroom. That is right, Kendall locked herself in the bathroom and it took us 45 crazy long minutes to get her out. How, you ask? Let me tell.
We were hanging out with our friends that live upstairs from us and Kendall was doing her thing, playing with toys and roaming around. When suddenly I hear a muffled Kendall-cry in the distance. I wasn't too worried because Kendall loves to open and close doors and sometimes she'll trap herself in a room, so we just follow the wimpers and let her back out. I start walking down the hall and sure enough, she is trapped in the bathroom. I start to open the door but it stops with only 1/2 inch or so gap in the door. It turns out, Kendall walked in the bathroom, shut the door, and then opened the top drawer in the cabinet (another habit of hers), prohibiting any way for us to get in.

We start frantically gathering tools and whatever else and shove them in the crack of the door or underneath attempting to close that cabinet drawer. Meanwhile, Kendall is crying in the dark bathroom. In attempts to soothe her, we shove some cookies under the door and shine a flashlight so she can see them. Then we see little fingers grab the cookies and she stops crying for a minute or so until it is gone. After a lot of trial and error, our friend Joe finally took one of his shotgun cleaning rods and bent it 90 degrees. He shoved it underneath the door, and was able to close that cabinet drawer and finally open the bathroom door. Poor Kendall had tears mixed with cookie crumbs all down her face and was gasping between cries. Traumatic for both baby and mom.

In other news, Matt bought a motorcycle. You heard me, a motorcycle. He wanted a fixer-upper, so he bought a 1981 Kawasaki 440 off of KSL for $350. It didn't run so he has been stripping it apart and fixing this and that. He has been learning a ton which is what he wanted but at the same time, he just wants to go ride it. I don't particularily like the idea of Matt on a motorcycle so I'm trying to focus on one thing at a time. I will upload pictures once it gets put back together, because as of now, it doesn't look much like a motorcycle.

Kendall is growing like a weed. She is climbing on all the sofas and chairs in the house. (She hasn't fallen yet either:) She has become a picky eater lately, which is super annoying. One day she will eat bananas and the next, she'll gag like she's going to throw up if you attempt to feed her any. Her top 2 teeth have finally popped through, making a grand total of 4 teeth.  Here's some fun extras.

Trying on daddy's hat.

Playing with music ear buds.

Trip to Washington

We had been planning this trip to Washington for a few months so we were super excited that the day had finally come. We flew out real early on Kendall’s birthday hoping she would sleep through the flight. In reality, it didn’t go as smoothly as hoped but oh well.  Once our flight landed in Seattle, we made our way over to Woodland Park Zoo with Grandma Deighton, Crystal, and Renae. I think Kendall had a pretty good time looking at all the animals. Her favorite was most likely the monkeys/gorillas. They were pretty active and she would point and smile at them as they moved around.

Checking out the competition.

If you paid $1 you could feed some birds.

Crystal did it too!

Kendall preferred pushing the stroller rather than riding in it.

After the zoo, we went home to Grandma and Grandpa Deighton’s house up in Sedro-Woolley for a big family dinner and birthday party for Kendall.  I felt bad because you could tell that Kendall was kind of out of it from her long day but she perked right up once she could eat some cake and ice cream. She was a big fan, just like her mama:)

Throughout the week we tried to keep really busy because we had a big list of things we wanted to do. Matt went shooting with his friend Mike, he went fishing with his dad, we visited his grandparents in Oak Harbor, we went 4-wheeling by the river, and we spent a day walking around LaConner. In LaConner we found some pretty neat shops including a glass blowing place. Matt got super excited so we took a bunch of pictures!

Matt shooting a AR 15.

Fishing with Grandpa.

4-Wheeling

You can choose the colors you want the glass to be.

Then he rolls it to make the swirly shape.

He likes to put it into this furnace-thing a lot.

Matt started blowing into this tubey-thing to fill the glass ball.

Its getting bigger!

Cutting it off.

And its done!

While in Washington, Kendall had a run-in with my flat iron. I was being stupid and was doing my hair in the living room where Kendall was currently barricaded. I put it down and turned away and within seconds Kendall had grabbed it and burned her little hand.

Owweee!

Oh man, I felt absolutely horrible. I knew exactly what had happened the moment she started screaming. (In my pathetic defense, I never had to think of this situation before since our entire bathroom at home is gated off to Kendall.) Anyway, it burned her left hand, the tip of the middle finger and the 2 top sections of her ring finger. She took it like a champ though. She, of course, cried for a good chuck right after it happened but went back to doing her normal things without fussing much at all. Now, they are 90% healed up and she is doing great.

We also worked on a few projects in Washington taking advantage of Grandpa’s sweet shop and all of his tools. We made a Kendall-sized mop to go along with a Kendall-sized broom we bought. We got the idea when we visited Matt’s grandparents who have a child-sized mop that Kendall refused to put it down. So we ground down a wooden stick to size and used white yarn and copper wire to secure the mop portion. Kendall loves it!

I worked on making some wooden-block-things I found off of pinterest. We cut down some wood with a table saw and I painted them just the way I wanted.  I don’t have any pictures of the finished project but here was my inspiration.

I also made these pumpkin books, also found off pinterest. We found these old hymnals in a ”free” box, pulled off the covers, and cut them in the shape of a pumpkin with a band saw. Again, I don’t have a picture of my finished project but this is the idea.

Once we got back to Utah, we threw another little birthday party for Kendall with our friends and family here. It was fun. We got to see a lot of people we hadn’t seen in a long time. I made Kendall a little Elmo cake and a bunch of cookie monster cupcakes since she’s a fan of Sesame Street:)

Elmo didn't have as much fun as everyone else at the party....

Kendall's birthday pictures

We went to JCPenny to get Kendall's first birthday pictures. We went right after Matt got off work and Kendall was in a crazy mood. It was just one of those days. So anyway, I expected Kendall to be a complete nightmare for the photographer.
She was the complete opposite. Kendall stayed still for every pose, gave cute little smiles right on cue, and even followed the photographer after she left the room. I was shocked.  Here are a few of those pictures. Enjoy.