The fairy is gone....

My mom - the laundry doing, bed making, kitchen cleaning, bath giving, meal making, grocery shopping (and basically every other function I usually have to do) fairy - left yesterday, so today was the first day that the reality of having 2 kids sunk in. Not that today was anything difficult...Makenzie basically sleeps all day anyways...it was just nice to have Kaitlyn constantly entertained (and of course having my mom around too). One of my favorite things about having my mom around was that every night my mom and Kaitlyn would pick out books to read together the next morning and put them by the door of the guest room allowing Dan and I to sleep in.

As usual I am the worst at taking pictures, but here's what I got of the last week. Mostly just of Kaitlyn and Makenzie because every time Kaitlyn sits down next to Makenzie she tells me to take pictures of them.

Also I would like to know if it's just my family (due to my mom's obssesion with vaseline) or if it happens to everyone, but do most 2 year olds find the tub of vaseline and manage to cake 2 inches of it all over themselves and everything else within a 5 foot radius?

Here She Is....

Makenzie Anna Liddle was born Wednesday morning! My water broke at 2:30am we got the the hospital by 3am, then 1 epidural, 3 hours, and 2 pushes later she was was born Jan 2 at 6:04am, weighing in at 6lbs 6oz. She is such a cutie and such a good baby. Kaitlyn absolutely adores her and just wants to hold her all day.

Christmas

We had a such a great Christmas! It started out with my aunt Cathy's Christmas party which included some yummy food, gift exchanes, an appearance from Santa, and of course a lot of fun! Altough we had been talking about Santa for nearly a month when it came time for Kaitlyn to meet him she decided that she didn't like him anymore and was glad when he left Cathy's house to go back to the North Pole.

Dan's family came and spent the week of Christmas with us. It was fun to have our first house guests and a house full of family. Kaitlyn sure loved all of the extra attention she got from everyone! Over the week we all enjoyed opening presents, going to temple square, bowling, and of course lots of yummy food! Unfortunatley most all of the pictures ended up on Grandma Liddle's camera so we don't have much to show for that. Kaitlyn sure was spoiled this Christmas and she LOVED opening all her presents...once she realized there were more presents to open she would gasp and say "oooooooooo" every time it was her turn.

Nevermind my hugeness but here she is opening her first present...Christmas is definately more fun with a little one around.

Shout out to my Husband...

Hooray for Dan! Last night he took his last final, and assuming he will have earned a passing grade in all of his classes he will be graduating from BYU! So to celebrate we went out to eat at Cheesecake Factory!!! YUMMO

Gingerbread House

Tonight for FHE we decorated a gingerbread house. It was a lot of fun, it's just a shame it didn't turn out that well (the roof ended up sliding off...oh well) Kaitlyn had tons of fun putting the candy on the house and in her mouth, and once she found out that the frosting was like candy too all she wanted to do was eat that as well. Needless to say our house looks nothing like the picture on the box and more like a 2 year old did it. But at least we all enjoyed ourselves!

And can someone please tell me why I always find my daughter in the most random positions?

Thanksgiving Point

Today Kaitlyn, Lisa, Keaton, and I went up to Thanksgiving Point and visited the petting Zoo. It was SSSOOOOOO freezing cold, but a lot of fun. We were the only people there, and the animals are obviously fed a lot by people because everytime we would come near they came right to us. The llama was the most friendly...Kaitlyn and I were trying to get our picture and the llama came straight at my face and then tried to eat my shoulder, which took me by surprise which consequently freaked Kaitlyn out.






And I just thought this was the cutest picture of Kaitlyn and Keaton and the pony that you can't see...thanks Lisa for being the photographer!

SNOW

*Background info - it snowed over the weekend and I left my car out in the driveway so it was covered in snow. Yesterday rather than spending 30 min to de-snow the car before church we decided it would be easier to switch the car seat over to Dan's car. Last night the wind was super strong and howling all night so when we woke up in the morning my car had provided a nice wall for all of the snow to build up against making a huge pile of snow infront of the garage where Dan's car was parked. We haven't invested in a snow shovel yet, and being the first house to close in our neighborhood we have no neighbors to borrow from.


Lydia: Why don't you take my car today, I can just stay home
Dan: No I can get out of here
Lydia: Are you sure, that's a pretty big pile of snow and you're not driving a big ol' truck
Dan: Ya I can make it, I'll just go real fast...

Needless to say, the car did not make it through the pile of snow (top picture taken at 5:30pm and bottom picture taken at 2pm so a lot of the snow has melted, it was almost knee high at time of Dan's attempt to plow through it). We ended up using our dust pan to shovel a path out for Dan to take my car for the day, so I'm still stuck at home with our car hanging mostly out of our garage. And on his way home, Dan will be buying a snow shovel.