Chico Visit

Trent and I spent a day visiting small towns, hospitals, househunting, etc. and then took the girls to Chico. They have the best parks there! This one is our favorite and is very Fairy Tale Town-esque. We love the pretty recent addition of the pirate ship.

The crooked house.

Their copycat cheese(don't know why the girls love it so much, but they do!)

Some crazy high slides.

Bathrooms that look like castles.

Castle walls to climb around and run through.

While we were there, we also took in the National Yo-yo Competition. I bet you didn't even know there was one. I bet you didn't know it was held in Chico every year and people come from ALL over the US to compete and watch. I didn't either. But, we rode our bikes downtown to see what the buzz was about and LOVED IT!

In this competition, they used 2 yoyos and routines set to music. They spun around, did somersaults with the yo-yos going, and all kinds of amazing tricks! I was thoroughly impressed.
And just a few of Kendra sporting some new piggy tails. Her smile just makes my day!

Fairy Tale Town

I saw an ad for a free admission day to Fairy Tale Town. Naturally, being a Saturday, Trent was working at the hospital and I was on my own. So, I wisely dressed the girls in matching hot pink shirts that would be easy to spot in a crowd, loaded up the stroller and we took off! We had a blast! I realized while there that Megan hadn't been since she was Kendra's age(bad mom again!) and she's the perfeect ageto enjoy it all.

Me, surviving.

They went down the Old Lady's shoe.

Climbed all over poor Mother Goose.

Went down slides together,
and sometimes pushed each other down slides.

Don't worry though, no cute babies were hurt in the making of this fun day.
And who doesn't love to drink water straight from a hippo's mouth? I mean come on, that is excitement people.

This hunk of cheese was perfect for my three little mice!

We had a great day and I'm glad to say that I came home with all 3. Trent was relieved.

6 yr old pics!

And not to be outdone by her younger sister, Mikayla also wanted a painted number and some pics in the park. It is much easier to pose a 6 yr old and ask her to hold still and keep smiling too, let me tell ya! She loves having her picture taken and we left because the sun went down, not because she was done. I love this age and was happy to capture her sweet smile and joy in her eyes.

3 yr old pics

I finally got around to taking Miss Megan out to get a few pictures of her. I think this first picture may very well be one of my favorite ever of her!

I love when she lets me put a little mousse in her hair and scrunch it, love the curls!

She looks so big and grown-up here to me. She picked out her own outfit here and HAD to wear a necklace. That's Megan though, bows, necklaces, rings, stick-on earrings, makeup, she is definitely a girly-girl.

My mom cut out this number 3 from wood and I spray painted it white. I love the big number!

Don't Tell Trent!

What I let Kendra do when he's gone!

Yeah, he may have had a school paper up on the computer, and I may have let her add her own opinions and commentary into it.

She would type a letter or two and then look at me quickly and laugh--she knew she was not supposed to be touching the laptop and thought she was totally getting away with something! It was hilarious!

Guess it's time for her to get her own Facebook page--she loves the computer!

September is Flying By, But Here's An Update!

Trent thinks this is such a redneck picture! Our little girl in overalls with one top tooth hanging out! I think it's cute though. She has 4 teeth now(2 upstairs, 2 downstairs) and has just barely broken 17 lbs. We got her bloodwork back from the Dr. and found out she's pretty anemic, so now she takes iron supplements twice a day producing the most profoundly na-hasty dark black poop imaginable. TMI, I know.

In her spare time, she works on spelling her name. She's pretty advanced for a 10 month old.

and quite proud of herself. And I'm quite proud of myself for finally getting a few pics of my baby in a bath. I think with baby #3, bathtime has become a quick in and out, get 'er done kind of job and I haven't thought to take the time to take the camera in with me. Bad mommy, I know.

In other news, we got new couches! We found this sectional for a steal and updated our living room! We had plaid couches from before we got married and decided it was time for couches without pee, puke, and cracker crumbs. My favorite feature: the storage ottoman! It lifts up and holds games, a tv tray, Kendra's nebulizer, my pump, a blanket--in other words, it's fabulous.

Also, more updating! We got a free mirror from a family in our ward and a free dining table from someone else! We had to scrape the white paint splotches off the table, sand, and re-varathane the table top, but it's real purdy now and opens up with built-in leaves for a longer table. Love it. We kept our old dining room chairs. The mirror just needed a good cleaning and some staining and it's a lovely addition to the room. We had my grandmother's hutch against that wall before, but it found a new home on a different wall. I love the new changes and was definitely ready for them!

Megan Started Preschool!

Megan started preschool and just loves it! Here she is on her first day of school. She was so excited to have somewhere to go that was just for her. She wore her favorite dress and some stick-on rhinestone earrings--girl loves her bling. She knows how to spell her name, knows all her colors, can count to 15, can recognize most of her letters, and lovese writing the letter "M" over and over!
They eat breakfast and lunch at preschool and it's an everyday program. Mikayla had the same preschool teacher for 2 years and we just love Teacher Noel! It's a wonderful program and Megan is already learning lots.
She also started back into ballet on the same day. Mikayla is not doing ballet right now because it conflicts with her soccer practices, so again, Megan is overjoyed to have something that is just for her. I think it's wonderful too--makes me feel like she fits the "neglected middle child" role a whole lot less!

Our Baby Rascal!

We heard about a photo contest to become the 2010 Baby Rascal for the Chico Outlaws baseball team. So, I entered a photo of Kendra and she won! She got her picture in the paper and up on the Enloe hospital website, as they sponsored the contest. We won free tickets to a home game in Chico and got to go to the game last weekend for Kendra to be presented with her title as Baby Rascal of the year. I got to take her down on the field to receive her gift bag from their mascot, Rascal the Racoon, and wave to all the fans as they announced her as the winner. It was lots of fun! This is her winning picture! I decided to dress her in the same outfit to be more recognizable at the game.

Uncle Dusty works the home games as an usher, so that was lots of fun to see him at the game too.

Proud Chicoans, Magaw and Papa loved holding Kendra and showing her off at church as the new Baby Rascal.

Here's Dusty with Kendra and Rascal right after her presentation.