Thursday, July 9, 2015

Three Rivers

This year we joined the family on the annual Three Rivers trip.  My family has been going to the Kaweah Resort campground in Three Rivers for years, since before I was born!  I wanted to take Kenzie at least once since she loves being outdoors.  We headed to the campground on her 2nd birthday, what a fun way to celebrate with the whole family.

We got there pretty early and our tenters were able to set up their sites rather quickly.  We opted to stay in a cabin since we had Bean.

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Kenzie immediately started exploring her surroundings and collecting a ton of “rockies”.  She even found one big enough to sit on.  Her cousins got her a kitty book for her birthday and she just plopped down to read it.

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Whenever her cousins are around, she always tries to keep up with them.  So balancing on the curb was a new “big girl” thing she learned.  So cute!

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Once we were unpacked, we headed down to the water to check it out.  I made the mistake of thinking Kenzie would hang back.  Nope, straight into the water she went.

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We had dinner and then played some birthday games for Kenzie’s birthday.  She wanted all the badges for herself. 

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Bean preferred to watch. 

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Our group was split half in cabins and half in tents.  The way we booked, all three tent sites were next to each other.  Unfortunately another group came and took a large area in between Danny’s and Chad’s tent sites.  The group was part of a family reunion which made the last minute site, loud and obnoxious.  Danny stuck it out the first night on his site to see how loud it was, spoiler alert-it was loud. 

Happy 2nd Birthday Mackenzie

Dear Mackenzie,

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I cannot believe you are 2 years old.  You are the spunkiest little girl I know.  You’ve gone from being an only child to being a GREAT big sister.  You love to be silly and goofy and enjoy making people laugh.  You also have a temper though and will push the limits when you don’t get your way.

You are slowly looking more and more like a little kid instead of a toddler.  I love see you learn and grow but man I’m going to miss you looking like a baby. 

Your current favorite movie is anything Toy Story, hence the homemade birthday tank & the Buzz Lightyear toy in that red bag.  You say a ton of words and love to carry on conversations that are half baby talk and half real words. 

You are a great eater and eat most things.  Although Daddy is always worried that you are on the lower end of the weight percentile.  Mommy just knows it’s because you run around playing all day. 

Sleeping will never be our (Mom and Dad’s) friend.  You are definitely a codependent sleeper and love to cuddle (sideways!) with Mommy and Dada in bed.  I’m counting down the days until Bean is older enough to sleep with you.

And just a short trip down memory lane – when you were first born.

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And from your first birthday.

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My crazy girl, we love you with all our hearts.  Happy 2nd birthday!!

Sunday, July 5, 2015

How We Recover

This is how we recover from having fireworks at our house for the 1st time.

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And then we ate chicken…

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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Our 4th

This year we celebrated 4th of July with Jeff’s mom.  These crazies did their traditional pool bbq.

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We got the girls dressed up in their red, white & blue!

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This year was the 1st year we were able to do fireworks in front of our house.  As soon as it started getting dark we head out and enjoyed our mini show.

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We only had 1 minor incident, Kenzie’s sparkler spit out a errant spark that landed in between her toes on her closed toe sandals.  Only Kenzie.

Friday, July 3, 2015

My almost 2 year old

I cannot believe she’s almost going to be two…

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