Snowman, Lil' Danni and PB&J

I got to snuggle this chubalicious girl for three days this week! This is Danni, Parker and Hana's sweet baby. She is seriously the best baby ever, she was so laid back and easy going and is not a crier. She makes me baby hungry again.

The other day for lunch Kairi asked if she could make her own PB&J sandwich. She was so excited that I said yes.

She was super careful and had some trouble with the peanut butter but would not let me help her.

She even had to smush it together very carefully.

I told her that it was an amazing sandwich and now she won't let me make them for her any more. She has to do everything herself. Today for lunch I let her make another sandwich while I made myself a turkey sandwich. When I finished and sat down at the table to eat she looked at me with a huge smile and said, "Mom! You did a GREAT job on your sandwich!" I almost choked I was laughing so hard!

Yesterday it snowed quite a bit and Danny had the day off so we bundled Kairi up and he took her out to play.

She immediately dropped on her back and made a million snow angels.

They also made this cute little snowman on my back porch. About an hour later his face had melted off. Kairi was really sad that the carrot nose fell off, she was even sadder when it was missing this morning. Yes, my crazy husband is in shorts playing in the snow!

Then they circled around to the front of the house and I found this guy snaked along our walkway!

Notice the tail with spikes! When they finally came in I had some hot chocolate waiting for them along with Kairi's slippers and robe. Her boots are not snow boots and were soaked when she came in so today we went to walmart and bought some Hello Kitty snow boots that she wanted to wear to bed :)

We Moved!!

Wow, I'm really crappy at updating my blog. I will be much better at it in the future since I am now a stay at home mom! (Cue the Hallelujah chorus) On February 18th we packed up and moved to Coeur d'Alene. We had been discussing our options for quite a while and had a duplex open up that we had to get. So I put in my notice at Westport, and Danny put his in at Walmart and we started packing. We didn't give ourselves enough time to say goodbye to everyone, I'm still sad about that. In the three weeks before the move, I spent all of my free time packing and going to my parents' house. I also worked until moving day. Friday the 17th was my last day at Westport, I worked until about 3:30 while all of our belongings were being loaded in the moving truck. As soon as I was off work, we packed up the last few things and headed to my parents' house to stay the night at load up my piano :) It was so hard leaving my family and I'm tearing up right now thinking about it. Even my dad cried, I cannot for the life of me remember ever seeing him cry before. We left on Saturday morning and drove 10 hours and immediately unpacked the truck. (I cried off and on through most of the drive and Kairi kept saying she missed Grammy) Anyway, we made it and we are loving it. It has been my goal to stay home with Kairi since she was born and we never could make it work financially. I'm loving being with her all of the time. It's been an adjustment but we're finally getting into a new routine. Coeur d'Alene is beautiful and there is so much to do.

I've uploaded some pictures of the apartment but I'm technologically stupid and can't get them to upload in order.

Kairi's room and her "princess vanity" that we got from Annika.
Wall to wall toys, do you think she has enough?!

Dining room/workout/music room :) What? We went from a 3 bed 2 bath to a 2 bed 1 bath, we had to improvise a little.

The awesome luv sacs that we got from Parker and Hana. Seriously the most comfortable things in the world. I told Danny that when we got rid of our couches, we traded for the furniture we should have had as newlyweds :)

Living room. I LOVE the floors and my sweet new rug from Target, which is only about 10 minutes away!

Super comfy chairs that we got from Cari.

I finally have cupboard and counter space. The down side is, there is no disposal. I wanted to cry when I realized this.

Looking over the fence on the side of the apartments.

Standing on the back porch. See it's super pretty here.

Kairi out cold on the drive there. She did awesome and didn't have ANY accidents the entire 10 hour drive.

Busy

We've been a little busy lately. Sadly 95% of the pictures on this post are from Shelby's blog because I never take pictures. Here are some pics to let you know what Kairi was up to this summer.
Picking wedgies

Watering the flowers

Swinging at the park

Casting spells

Ring around the rosie

Finger painting

Jumping

Rehydrating with LOTS of Capri suns

Intense fairy conversations

Getting confused

Saving the world

Hanging out

Turning three

Riding bikes

Grossing out cousins

Cousin time

Kairi had an awesome summer.

Catch up

I just went through my camera and found some pictures that I had forgotten about.Kairi's Pirate face, she's saying arrr matey! She also does ninja moves...yep, my kid is awesome.

The other day she was playing a little too quietly in her room. When I went to check on her I found this. She told me that they were pretty glasses. A little while later she brought the pictures to me and she had put some more stickers on her chest.

For Valentines Day I made these white chocolate raspberry cupcakes...yes from scratch. Everyone seemed to like them but I personally thought I needed to add a little more sugar to the frosting.

Sometimes Kairi randomly brings me the camera and asks me to take pictures of us.

Here she is in her skinny jeans. They are adorable. They're so tight that she has a hard time walking around.

More random pictures of her falling asleep.

I love her little wedgie! Don't mind the mess around her.

M U S I C

I used to go to concerts...a lot. When I worked at State Hospital I had Wednesdays and Thursdays off. It was perfect because Wednesdays were usually concert nights in Salt Lake. I would grab a friend and we would drive to Utah, go to the shows, then always head to Denny's because it is the ONLY place that is open in the middle of the night in Utah...then we would drive home, getting there around 3 or 4 in the morning. I had all day on Thursdays to re-energize for work the next day. I was pretty dumb then and am completely shocked that I never fell asleep driving home from any of the shows. It was always an adventure.
I've seen Andrew McMahon from Something Corporate dance on a piano, I've talked about religion with Andy Hurley from Fallout Boy, I've gasped as Bert McKracken of The Used stage dove off of a 20 ft. stack of Amps in a dress, and I've closed my eyes and felt so thankful that I was fortunate enought to be one of 20 people to hear William Beckett from The Academy Is sing an accoustic set. I've had some amazing experiences, many I've already started to forget, which is why I'm writing this now.
Most of the time if tickets to a show were sold out we would make the drive anyway and stand outside and wait till they would let us in. Usually they would keep you outside for the opening band and then charge you more to get in. I've been kicked in the face, stepped on and body slammed during shows, I've even left a few with shoe prints on my face. The pain was always worth being surrounded by the music.
It's strange to me that I no longer feel the need to go to concerts. My priorities have changed. My taste in music has changed...I've changed. I no longer fall asleep to my favorite bands, it was an adjustment falling asleep to silence, but listening for my child sleeping in the next room is much more important to me.
I don't expect this post to be interesting to anyone other than myself but if you are still reading, I'll leave you with one of my favorite poems. It's by Dan Arnold from A Static Lullaby

"...Of course I hear you!
You're the taste upon my lips when I wake.
Sometimes you're the only faith I have.
Searching...always searching for more.
I'm enslaved by you, but you make me feel as free as can be.
I want to touch you.
I'll catch your scent on the air and my feet don't stop, they can't stop!
We must keep dancing in your name!

M U S I C
The only air I breathe."


I love it, and I hope you do too :)

CHRISTMAS!!!!!

We had a great Christmas this year! Santa came a little early so we were able to have our own Christmas before going and spending the weekend at my parents'. Kairi was spoiled rotten! Grammy and Bompa got her a princess table and chairs. She always has to sit in the "pink princess chair" They're identical, but somehow she knows if she is sitting in the wrong one and will go switch chairs!

They also got her this cute tutu and wings. She wears them EVERYWHERE! They got us a memory foam mattress pad and a bed frame. Our bed is so comfy that I never what to get out of it now.

We also went out to the annual Christmas Eve party at my Aunt Deona and Uncle Rick's house. I love going there at Christmas time. It's always so warm and cozy and decorated so fun. I got to see my cousin Casey who I hadn't seen in 2 years. One of my goals is to spend more time with her. We always have so much fun together. There was some amazing food at the party. But the best part were all of the treats. There were pies, hand dipped chocolates and truffles. My favorite were the white chocolate raspberry truffles that Casey made...yum!

Kairi wore her cute Christmas dress and I only got one picture of her in it.

On our way to to party!

I also gave my sister Sierra a little makeover before the party.

Kairi's sweet toys. Notice how almost all of them are Dora.

Dora dress up. She loves it!

Adorable scarf and gloves that Danny's parents sent me. I need to take a picture of the jewelry they made me too. I'll post that picture later.

Kairi having a heart-to-heart with her stick unicorn!

She came running out of the bedroom so fast that this is the first picture I could take!

The tree before Kairi got to it. Yes that is a trunk full of dress up stuff.

Here is the necklace/locket that I got from Casey during the white elephant game from my last post. I didn't get a super good picture of it but it's a bluish green. I love it!