Happy 2 Year Anniversary!

We have made it to the 2 year mark, wahoo!!!  Brandon and I have been through some rough times these past 2 years and we are still trying to learn more about each other :)  Brandon worked so hard to plan this special day for me and I had a BLAST! We took Kinsey to my moms house where she stayed the night.. it was tough leaving her and knowing I wasnt going to be the one putting her to bed :( but I did it ha ha.  Brandon wouldnt tell me where he was taking me or what we were doing so it was all a surprise and for anyone who knows me knows i LOVE surprises.  He took me to the Melting Pot for dinner and I think that was a brave move on his part because that is now on my top 3 list of fav restaurants.  We had a 4 course meal that consisted of spinach artichoke dip, then a Cesar salad, then our main dish that was oh so yummy!, and last but defiantly not least our dessert ;)  We had so much fun just talking and trying all the different foods in the different sauces.  It took us over 2 hours to eat lol  He also had set up to have flowers delivered to me at our table!! Isn't he just so sweet!! I am so so lucky!!
After dinner he took me to the hotel he had reserved for us and it was the nice Marriott in Salt Lake :) I am so spoiled.  We dropped our stuff off at the room and headed over to the Gateway where Brandon let me shop and pick out a shirt to go along with my salt water pearls he gave me!! YEA :)
We then decided to go back and sit in the hot tub for a little bit and boy was that an adventure lol  we were the only Americans in there.. everyone was speaking a different language (mostly Chinese) and taking pic of everything.. me and Brandon are prob on someones facebook by now lol
The next morning we both woke up at 8am!! Our one chance to sleep in and we get up so early because we missed Kinsey and wanted to hurry home to pick her up :)  She was spoiled by Grandma Kristy!!

School Has Started

Well I am back into school and loving it so far.. I am taking Biomed Core with Lab, psychology, and Math 1010.  My classes are so much fun and I think its because I lucked out this year with great professors :)  I am trying my hardest to stay on top of studying and so far so good!! GO MEEE!!  Life is a lot more crazy now and I am so glad I have such great family to help and support me and most of all watch Kinsey while I go to school.  I will blog more about school as I get more into the semester.. I hope my positive feelings don't change too much ;)

Strike 3

So I have came to the conclusion that I am a total klutz!!  I fell down my stairs AGAIN and this time I have to blog about it lol  I was trying to be the neat house wife that I totally am not ;) and while I was carrying the vacuum down my stairs I fell.  The best part of it is the vacuum made it safe to the bottom, I just didn't think to step on the last stair so I fell forward and landed on my knees on our TILE floor.  I sat there for a minute thinking to myself "ouch that's going to leave nice bruises on my knees!"  Then when i stood up I noticed blood running down to my foot and my pants were ripped on the knee.. I then lifted up my pant leg and yep there was a nice split on my knee gushing blood!  I sat there laughing at myself for a few min while trying to get it to stop bleeding.. but it just wouldn't.  That's when I decided to take a closer look at it and realized I needed stitches ha ha  I called my mom to see if she was home and luckily she was so she came over to sit at my house while Kinsey slept and I went to get stitches in my knee :)  Everything went well and it didn't even hurt ha ha  5 stitches later I was walking out of my work with a smile! Thanks Dr. Christiansen!!

beautiful huh?!

This is the bruise on my other knee

6 months old arlready?!

Wow how time has flown by these past few six months!!  It just seems like months are turning into weeks and weeks are turing into days :(  Kinsey had her 6 month Well Child Visit and everything went really well as always.  She is now 25 1/4" tall (30th%), 14.14lbs (25th%), and her head is only 40.5 cm (5th%).  She is just our little petite girl :).  Kinsey is eating at the same times every day and now we have added a solid food at her 11 (lunch) feeding.  She doesn't complain about that because I usually give her a full serving of fruit and a little bit of veggies.. we save the big serving of veggies for dinner lol.  She goes to bed between 7-8pm and will wake up around 7am.. sometimes later if I am lucky!  She is sitting up all on her own and people always comment when I have her sitting in the shopping cart at the store on how well she sits up for her age!  She is very coordinated!!  I had to move our coffee table into our closet under the stairs so Kinsey would have more room to roll around in our living room ha ha she will start out on her back in the center of the blanket and will end up clear on the other side of the room on her belly playing with a toy she found.  She is so much fun to just watch and observe. 
I have started "baby proofing" some of our house thanks to Grandpa Rob for buying the outlet covers :)  I will probably only put locks on some of the cabinets in the kitchen but other then that I want her to just learn what is ok and what is not so wish me luck with that lol 
Brandon and I both came to an agreement to space out some of the immunizations for Kinsey since her visit for 4 months old left her sick for about a week!! So we only had her get half of them at her 6 month visit and she did so much better :)  We will catch up with the rest at her 9 month check!

First Tooth!!

YEP Kinsey officially got her first tooth on August 6th (her half birthday ha ha)!  She had been teething for quite awhile and wasn't sleeping very well, and we could just tell she was uncomfortable..  Kinsey and I were over at my mom's house and my mom was feeling around in Kinsey's mouth to see if she could feel anything.  Sure enough she felt a little sharp tooth in there ;)  I will try to get a pic of it now since it is a little bit more noticeable and post it on here!  I love her little pumpkin smile!!!

Summer Days

I am enjoying every minute of being at home with Kinsey during the week!!  She is so much fun to play with and at such a great age where her personality is defiantly coming through lol  Kinsey is now only taking 2 naps a day and I LOVE it because now she is awake so much more which means more playing time :)  She has been eating solid food for a couple months now and enjoys it so much ha ha she even yells or gets mad if I take to long for the next bite!  I have been doing really well with making my own baby food - I buy organic from Good Earth and take a couple hours every other week to make it..  So far I have done sweet potatoes, butternut squash, apples, pears, green beans, peas, and peaches.  I am thinking I might have to start buying her food when I start school in a few weeks though :( 
Kinsey is now sitting up ALL on her own and prefers to play that way.  When she is on her back she would rather be on her belly and when she is on her belly she would rather be on her back ha ha.  Watching her sleep and all the different positions she puts herself in at night is quite funny as well!  She is her own little lady and already knows what she wants!
Yesterday we went to my mom's house like we normally do on Monday nights.  Kinsey loves her grandma and grandpa and uncles so much!!  I love the way she flirts and smiles at them as soon as she sees them!  After we went to my mom's we stopped by my dads to pick up some things and he gave her a Green Apple licorice and man did she LOVE that!  I would take it to bite the soggy part off so she wouldn't choke on it and as soon as it would leave her hand she would start screaming and pull the pouty lip out ha ha she is only 6 months old and already knows how to get her way!!

Blessing Day

We finally got Kinsey blessed!!  I wanted to make it a special day for her and I think she had a lot of fun :)  Our sacrament meeting starts at 9 am and even though that is pretty early for most of my family, everyone still came to support her.  Brandon and I splurged on her outfit and spent over $70 but she was so dang cute, and it only happens once right?! I don't even want to know how much we are going to spend for her first birthday yikes!!
The night before her blessing I made homemade cinnamon rolls that are so much work but I think they are worth it :)  Then that morning I had to get up super early to set them out to rise and get myself and my princess ready.
Brandon's dad gave Kinsey her blessing and it was such a great one!  I knew he would do a great job :) In the circle with her grandpa was her daddy, Uncle Tyson, Great-Grandpa Schwartz, Uncle Shane, and Bishop Bingham. 
I along with my mom left the sacrament meeting a little early to get back to my house to set everything up.. When people started coming it reminded me of how small my house it ha ha but amazingly enough everyone fit!!  We ate my homemade cinnamon rolls, a breakfast casserole, fruit, and milk and juice.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the food because we only had a tiny bit of leftovers :)  Thanks everyone for coming to support Kinsey on her big day!!!