Growing like crazy!

Our little Andi girl will be 8 weeks old tomorrow. Time has completely flown by and I can't believe how much she has changed!

 She is a very happy little girl and only fusses when she actually needs something. Some of her favorite things are her play mat (she loves the owls and coos at smiles at them constantly), her bunnies that hang over her play pen, hanging out with mom and dad and singing.

At her last appointment she was over 10 pounds and I am not sure how long she was, I have it written down from the doctors office.  

She loves to play in the morning. 6 - 6:30 am is play time :) so I'll often find myself swaddling her and laying her in her playpen and she will coo and talk to her bunnies for quite awhile, eventually falling asleep again so I can get a bit more sleep!

She's pretty good at entertaining herself for the most part but gets bored of things after about 15 - 20 minutes so I'll usually let her play on her play mat after eating and then she'll want to chat with me when she gets bored and fussy!

                                      

 Mom and Dad Kennedy and Maryn and Janessa came for a visit for a couple of weeks in July so it was nice to get to visit with them! Andi had a good time! It was a great help to me as I took advantage of the time to catch up on sleep and shower :)

She is our precious girl and we love her to bits. We can't remember what our life was like before she was born and it seems like we have so much more love in our lives with her here. She gets tons of hugs and kisses from her mom and dad, that is for sure :)

 I went to Edmonton about 3 weeks ago because my sister had a baby girl the day before Andi was born so we wanted to meet each other's girls! It was so fun and it's amazing at how different the two are! As dark as Hailey is, Andi is fair :) It was so fun and I can't wait for these 2 sweet hearts to grow up together. They will be best friends!

My mom and dad with their girls

 Andi and Hailey, so totally different with looks :)

Hola Dominican Republic!

We went to the Dominican on our honeymoon and it was fantastic! It was extremely warm though! It felt like it got to around 35 degrees Celsius every day! Needless to say, Logan and I got sun burnt pretty bad that took a few days to recover. We decided it might be best to wait until the hottest part of the day was somewhat over before we ventured outside again.

Married!

Our room. They were really nice! The first time we got there there was a towel swan with flower petals on the bed! They also tied balloons everywhere for us too :)

This is pretty much what the resort looked like the whole way through! So nice. Amazing the world change though once you leave the resort gates.

First day there, had to go to the beach!
The buffet at the Resort had a really great arrangement! Almost every little tray had some decoration like this!
A picture of my wonderful husband and a sample of the buffet place. Pretty fancy!I don't know how it happened, but at some point I was eating with 2 forks and didn't realize it for awhile....I think this is the only picture of the two of us...other than para sailing!So one night I got up to go to the washroom and this big cockroach skittered across the floor, I jumped on the bed and repeatedly *screamed for* asked Logan to kill it...so gross!Relaxing in his new favorite shirt :PWe went para sailing! I was so scared. I hate heights, but Logan really wanted to do it, so we did! It was so fun!! It's actually not that bad once you get up there. I was quite relaxed and enjoying being that high in the air (far above the palm trees!)

I'm having issues with uploading videos, so I will try to upload them a bit later!

Parental Discretion Advised...

You don't want to miss this....

Clara's Birthday

We had the pleasure of going back to GP this weekend to attend a family friend's 65th birthday party. It was a really great weekend! She had a music night with many musical acts. The Kennedy's played and she had her family do a few songs and they were all so good! She also called my mom awhile ago and asked if Logan and I would do a song that we did before I moved to Edmonton, so we did! We were unfortunately only able to practice for not even an hour, so we didn't do as good as we could have, but it was still fun! We were both pretty nervous too! Anyways, here's the video so you can see for yourselves. This version of "On Christ the Solid Rock" was arranged by Janna McPhee.

A New Favorite Band

My Brother-in-law showed me this awesome band, and I just love them! They are called "Needtobreathe" and are a christian band. They use the banjo in a lot of their songs and they just have a really neat style take a listen.

The Outsiders

Lay 'Em Down

Girl Names Tennessee

The last one is one of my favorites, unfortunately I couldn't find one with good sound quality, so this was the best one! You get the idea though :)

Christmas 2009

Well, it is the last day of 2009 and the holidays sure were great! We spent the Christmas week down at my sister's place in Medicine Hat and just had a lot of fun together. We got there on the 21 and spent the next day or so doing Christmas baking and playing lots of games of course! We made a batch of lefse this year and it sure didn't last long! It's one of my family's Christmas traditions and we don't fancy skipping out on it often. In case you don't know what it is, it's a thin potato pancake thing and you put butter and sugar on it and roll it up! So delicious, although a lot of people don't really like it. It might be an acquired taste ;). The next morning we went and did some last minute shopping for food and stuff for boxing day and whatnot. That proved to be a busy one because of all the last minute Christmas shoppers! Superstore and Costco were a nightmare!! But we got out of there without a bruise, so all was well! The next night we went to Terry's mom and dad's place and visited with them on Christmas Eve. We went to the Christmas Eve candelight service at their church first and then went over to their place afterwards. Then on Christmas morning, we woke up around 9 and began opening presents, and boy did we all get spoiled this year!! It was really fun to watch Evan "open" presents this year, although he was definitely more interested in the wrapping paper than he was in the presents! So Marlys just opened his presents and gave him the wrapping paper to play with haha. Christmas day, Terry's mom and dad were having the Christmas dinner at their place and they invited all of us over so we spent another day at their place feasting and playing games, and again, hot tubbing. We went home pretty late and all just crashed from the hot tubbing I think. The next day, my dad, Terry and I went snowboarding out at Hidden Valley ski hill in the Cypress hills! It was so much fun, but I hadn't done it in probably 2 seasons so I was pretty sore for awhile afer, and I actually still have a sore ligament in my hip that I pulled pretty bad near the end of the day! But it was still worth the pain. When we went back home, Mom and Marlys had gotten a early Birthday fondue party going to me! It was so fun. We did meat and veggies in oil, and then of course the fruit and chocolate. My birthday "cake" was half an apple with sparklers in it, but I loved it :) Then the next day, we had to say goodbye and we headed home. Now we're looking at just a quiet evening at home tonight playing games and welcoming in the new year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a safe and Happy New Year!!!!Mom, Marlys, Evan and I on the couch (just Evans head haha)

Dad and Evan playing under the table. Too funny!

Evan "opening" Gifts

His Christmas Loot!

Mom and Dad bought Kyle a used Guitar for Christmas! He loved it.

My Birthday "Cake"

Birthday Fondue!!

The big 9 month old boy!

So funny! I was playing with Evan, and halfway through, Marlys comes and my mom says
"oh look there's mommy!" and he turns and looks at my sister and just holllers at her. Too good!

Love the laughter!

I found this video of Evan from about 2 months ago. Just a video of him laughing! I tried to get him to laugh on the other video I posted of him but it didn't work to well, so here's a good one :) He's five months old today!



Also, I've been in Edmonton for exactly one year today. Crazy! It's gone by pretty fast now that I look back.

Family Fun Time

This week I was able to get off of work because for the next two weeks, another girl at work will be gone on holidays and my boss wanted me to take this week off, So my mom and I went to Medicine Hat last friday night and came back on Wednesday, but Marlys and Evan came back with us! So we've been having quite a fun time with them all. Kyle and Terry were able to get off of work yesterday at 1 so they got here at about 7 ish yesterday and they went golfing today while us girls went to the farmers market (even though it's crazy hot today!!) we didn't go for long because Evan was getting too hot so we came home and have been quilting since! I finished my first quilt yesterday and will post pics at a later date when it's all quilted and everything, and now I'm starting on my second quilt! It's going really good anyways :) I'm enjoying it! I really just wanted to post a video of my mom and I trying hard to make Evan laugh. He is a bit camera shy me thinks :)

What a cutie!

Marlys and Evan are here in Edmonton right now visiting and he was just so "talkative" today that I had to get a couple of videos of him. He's pretty adorable.

Beautiful Song

This is a beautiful song someone showed me by Brad Paisley and Sara Evans called "New Again"
I'll post the lyrics, and the video will follow....

Mother - do not cry for me
All of this is exactly how it's supposed to be
I'm right here. Can you hear my voice?
My life, my love, my Lord....my baby boy

As they nail me to this tree
Just know the Father waits for me
God how can this be your will?
To have your son and my son killed?

Whatever happens...whatever you see...
Whatever your eyes tell you has become of me
This is not...
Not the end...
I am making all things new again

I remember when you were born
In that manger where I first held
You in my arms
So many miracles and lives you've changed
And this world repays you how?
With all this pain
As they nail me to this tree
Just know the Father waits for me
God how can this be your will?
To have your son and my son killed?

Whatever happens (Whatever happens)…whatever you see (I don’t want to see)…
Whatever your eyes tell you has become of me
This is not (Tell me it is not)…
Not the end…
I am making all things new again

Whatever happens (Ohhhh)… Whatever you see (Ohhhh)…
Whatever your eyes tell you has become of me
This is not (Noooo)…
Not the end…
I am making all things new again

Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7wEa8YTGhM

Hilarious Comedian!

Ok, So funny! My parents bought this guys DVD from a Laugh for Life seminar they went to this past weekend, and I didn't stop laughing! my throat hurt from laughing so hard. He's a christian guy named Tim Hawkins. Anyways, here's some clips from www.Godtube.com and there's more at his website www.timhawkins.net. Enjoy!!

Scary Bedtime Prayer


Hedge of Protection


Moms


So hilarious. Check out his song "Cletus take the reel." It's a spoof of Carrie Underwood's Jesus take the Wheel. Hilarious!!

Give Me Jesus

In the morning when i rise
in the morning when i rise
in the morning when i rise
Give me Jesus

Chorus:
      
Give me Jesus
give me Jesus
You can have all this world             
But give me Jesus

Verse 2:
    
And when i am alone
oh and when i am alone
and when i am alone
Give me Jesus

(chorus)

Verse 3:
 
And when i come to die
oh and when i come to die
and when i come to die
Give me Jesus

^(chorus)^

- Fernando Ortega