Park City!

Some friends of ours have a time share in Park City. They could only use it for like 4 days so they asked if we wanted to use it for the other 4 days, of course we sayed yes. We had so much fun. My sister came up with her family and stayed two nights and my parents came up and stayed one night. It was lots of fun. We went for walks, went to the park, swimming, and just hung out and relaxed.

One busy summer!

This summer has been very busy and fun. My brother Matt got here on July 3rd with his 2 boys and stayed for 2 weeks and while he was here one of Dave's friends and his wife and 2 kids came and stayed with us over the 4th. Then Dave Kenadee and I took off for Idaho for a few days (that was our little family vacation). The day we got back from that we had a neighborhood block party which was lots of fun. 5 days after getting back from Idaho my brother Steve his wife and 4 kids came and visited for about 4 days. The day they left Dave's mom Flew into town from california and 2 days later Dave's sister and her 2 kids drove into town and stayed for a week. Also during this time Dave's brother John and his wife adopted a baby (they have been married for 12 years and have been trying to have children for 12 years and now they finally have their own little bundle of joy).

I love my family and I love David's family so being able to see everyone was a ton of fun.

Here are a bunch of pictures that we took throughout the summer.

The wonderful world of potty training

About 4 months ago I posted that we had bought a potty training chair for Kenadee. She liked it for the first two days and then did not really care for it. I was being kinda lazy and not really wanting to do it. I kept going back and forth with it and not being real commited. Finally I pulled my self together and decided that I just needed to do it and I am proud to say it has paid off! Kenadee is offically potty trained!!! I am so happy, of course we have accidents but that is expected and she does wear diapers for nap time and bed time. I can take her out in public and she does fine. This morning Kenadee took her self to the bathroom and wiped herself and everything. That was very exciting!

SHE IS HERE!!!

Rylee Nicole Colon was born at 2:55 pm today (July 11, 2008). She weighed 7lbs 3 oz and 20 1/2 in. long. She has got ALOT beautiful black hair and it has a slight curl. She is so cute! Mom and baby are doing well. Alicia got the baby out in a push and half (actually she was clearing her throat and the babies head came out so really she only pushed once).

Her brothers are so excited for her to be here. They could not give her enough kisses.

Can you tell Kenadee got a little bored at the hospital.(She is not sleeping in the picture she is just being silly)


Baby Rylee hours old. We thought the headband was so cute that we had to put it on her for the picture.

Aunt Brittnee, Rylee and proud mommy Alicia with her precious baby girl!

I Love My Family!

This week for FHE we went took Kenadee to Temple Square and she loved it. I love going there. When Dave and I lived in Salt Lake we lived really close to Temple Square so we would go there often, but of course since we have moved away we don't go as much.

I love my little family so much and love spending time with them. I have come across to blogs in the past few weeks that are really sad. Both families lost their babies to a tragic accident. As I have read their blogs I have been so touched and have been reminded of what is important in life and to not take the days and moments I have with my family for granted. I am grateful for my testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ and for the peace and joy it brings to my life. I find great joy and comfort in knowing that I can be with Dave and Kenadee for eternity.

As I have read these blogs I am working on being more positive when Kenadee cries in the middle of the night. Instead of being irritated I try to find joy in hearing her cry and express grated to my Heavenly Father for giving me another day with her and then I go in her room hold her sing her a song and take another opportunity to tell her how much I love her.

There really is no greater joy than motherhood ( I love being a wife as well, I have the best husband but there is so much fulfillment in motherhood). I am so blessed!

Princesses

Kenadee has just recently discovered the disney princesses and she loves them, she cannot get enough of them. She needed a new bathing suit so I took her to Target to let her pick out a bathing suit, I was picking up all kinds of adorable bathing suits but her mind was set on the pink princess bathing suit so that is what she got. When we got home she put it on a played in the pool and loved it and kept looking down at the princess on it. She had to wear it for dinner and when it was time for the bath she insisited on wearing it in the bath and then she wore it to bed (at least it has been really warm so she did not get cold). I ended up hiding the bathing suit so she was not tempted to wear it every where. Her favorite thing to do now is sit on Dave's lap and look at pictures of princesses. Her favorite movies now are The Little Mermaid and Cinderella and she has princess sippy cups bowls and plates. She also got a princess night gown. I love that she is into the princesses, I think it is so cute.

I finally got it!

I finally made my decision between getting a treadmill or elipitical and the treadmill won. We bought like a month ago. I love it. I work out on it all the time, I cannot wait to see some results, it would be nice to look good in clothes again. Thanks again to everyone for all your feed back it really helped in my decision making.