Friday, March 6, 2009
Video of McKenzie "crawling" ??
She has been doing this for about a week, but Hey! It is getting her around everywhere when she wants to play. She is at the same place that Melia was at this age so we will see if it continues with the walking. If so, it will be when we are in Vancouver.
Monday, March 2, 2009
It has been a while...
We are so sick of winter here in Rexburg... only a month and a half left. We both would LOVE to have rain any day over this weather. We reserved our moving truck a couple of weeks ago and we will be leaving Rexburg on April 15th then stopping for the night in Boise to split the trip up. Then we will be getting into Vancouver on the 16th. Treven will be starting classes with WSU Vancouver on May 11th. He has not planned his classes yet because at WSU you have to meet with your advisor every semester before you sign up classes which I think is awesome! Treven plans on going year round and he has around 5 semesters left so that would be he would be done by December of 2010... Kind of stinks that way because he will have to wait a full year to begin Medical School. It is just crazy to think that there is an end in sight.
As far as jobs in Vancouver for me, I am trying to contact Vancouver Public School District because there is a health teacher retiring this year from Alki Middle School (in Salmon Creek where Mom and Dad are at) which would be perfect. The school district is weird in the fact that they don't really post jobs on their website or so I have heard from teachers that work there. But they say they will not look at applications that are not from a job posting. I also heard from Mom and Dad that they are coming to Idaho and Wyoming to do job interviews for teaching positions so I am also looking into that. We will see if they respond back to me in the next week. Please keep us in your prayers that I may be able to find the best possible option for us! Of course even if I do get the job I will have the summer off for the most part. If I don't end up getting a full time position... I will probably just substitute around 3 to 4 days a week since they are having a subsitute shortage in the Vancouver area right now... That is enough of that rambling.
The girls are doing great. I cannot believe that McKenzie is 7 months old! She is scooting all over the place... so close to crawling. She was sick from about a week and a half, but now my giggling active baby is back and all over. She started sitting up on her own about 3 weeks ago and she is getting stronger. She loves to stand up or pull herself up on our hands. She absolutely LOVES electronics... controllers, the laptop, and cell phones and such. Her personality is really coming out and we are loving it. Melia loves being able to play with her sister more. Melia loves church. We had to miss church a week ago due to the girls and I being sick and so everyday she has been asking to go to church. Today we pulled up and she just screamed YAY! CHURCH! The other day she walked over to the corner of the room and folded her arms... We asked her what she was doing and she said " I am in BIG trouble!" We have never said that to her so we have no idea where she got it from! Also when McKenzie was sick our neighbor Andy and Treven gave McKenzie a blessing. Ever since then Melia pretends that she is being Daddy and giving McKenzie a blessing. Melia loves to paint so I buy these wooden cut outs of different shapes and animals and I starting making them into magnets for the fridge when she finishes painting them... Papa and Grammy, look for yours in the mail! She wanted to send some to you. Those are some things lately that have been going on with the girls.
I did get my diploma and Idaho State Teaching License like a month or so ago. I took pictures just to prove it to Mom and Dad... I need to post some recent pictures of the girls and stuff since I haven't lately so sorry if there are a lot!
I have been trying to stay busy with crafts and such. I am on the fellow shipping committee and in charge of birthdays so this weekend I made a little wall hanging for each of the girls on their birthdays. I will have to take pictures and post those as well. I love them and got many compliments at church and that girls couldn't wait until it was their birthday... only problem is I will only be here for another month and a half. So I am going to make extras for them to have for a little while until they have someone take over my calling! I was going to be coaching a club team in Idaho Falls, but since we are moving I would only be there for 5 practices. I didn't think it was fair to the girls, but I am helping them with this weeks practice since they haven't found a coach yet.
Sorry for the long boring post... just thought an update from us could help with the blog moving along! If there are grammar problems it is because I am tired, but waiting for Treven to be done studying! So deal with it!
As far as jobs in Vancouver for me, I am trying to contact Vancouver Public School District because there is a health teacher retiring this year from Alki Middle School (in Salmon Creek where Mom and Dad are at) which would be perfect. The school district is weird in the fact that they don't really post jobs on their website or so I have heard from teachers that work there. But they say they will not look at applications that are not from a job posting. I also heard from Mom and Dad that they are coming to Idaho and Wyoming to do job interviews for teaching positions so I am also looking into that. We will see if they respond back to me in the next week. Please keep us in your prayers that I may be able to find the best possible option for us! Of course even if I do get the job I will have the summer off for the most part. If I don't end up getting a full time position... I will probably just substitute around 3 to 4 days a week since they are having a subsitute shortage in the Vancouver area right now... That is enough of that rambling.
The girls are doing great. I cannot believe that McKenzie is 7 months old! She is scooting all over the place... so close to crawling. She was sick from about a week and a half, but now my giggling active baby is back and all over. She started sitting up on her own about 3 weeks ago and she is getting stronger. She loves to stand up or pull herself up on our hands. She absolutely LOVES electronics... controllers, the laptop, and cell phones and such. Her personality is really coming out and we are loving it. Melia loves being able to play with her sister more. Melia loves church. We had to miss church a week ago due to the girls and I being sick and so everyday she has been asking to go to church. Today we pulled up and she just screamed YAY! CHURCH! The other day she walked over to the corner of the room and folded her arms... We asked her what she was doing and she said " I am in BIG trouble!" We have never said that to her so we have no idea where she got it from! Also when McKenzie was sick our neighbor Andy and Treven gave McKenzie a blessing. Ever since then Melia pretends that she is being Daddy and giving McKenzie a blessing. Melia loves to paint so I buy these wooden cut outs of different shapes and animals and I starting making them into magnets for the fridge when she finishes painting them... Papa and Grammy, look for yours in the mail! She wanted to send some to you. Those are some things lately that have been going on with the girls.
I did get my diploma and Idaho State Teaching License like a month or so ago. I took pictures just to prove it to Mom and Dad... I need to post some recent pictures of the girls and stuff since I haven't lately so sorry if there are a lot!
I have been trying to stay busy with crafts and such. I am on the fellow shipping committee and in charge of birthdays so this weekend I made a little wall hanging for each of the girls on their birthdays. I will have to take pictures and post those as well. I love them and got many compliments at church and that girls couldn't wait until it was their birthday... only problem is I will only be here for another month and a half. So I am going to make extras for them to have for a little while until they have someone take over my calling! I was going to be coaching a club team in Idaho Falls, but since we are moving I would only be there for 5 practices. I didn't think it was fair to the girls, but I am helping them with this weeks practice since they haven't found a coach yet.
Sorry for the long boring post... just thought an update from us could help with the blog moving along! If there are grammar problems it is because I am tired, but waiting for Treven to be done studying! So deal with it!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Melia's Haircut and a little update
Well since both girls are asleep at the same time, I have some time to blog! We took McKenzie to her 6 month check up today... she is really 6 1/2 months old, but oh well! She was 20 1/2 lbs and 29 1/4 inches long. She was 100th percentile in height and 99th in weight. They actually told me that they want her eating more than she is! I was like WHAT?! Anyway, she is a well baby and definitely tired from the whole immunizations ordeal. Melia got her hair cut yesterday. She did well except she peed her pants during it... yeah, she was sitting on my lap and I was still in the middle of getting my hair cut. Luckily, it was at a friends house that lives around the corner so Treven just ran home real quick. Melia was concentrating so hard on staying still that she completely forgot. She started crying so hard and kept saying sorry! It was so sad that she was so disappointed in herself. Then she had like 4 accidents throughout the day which is NOT like her at all... We haven't had any accidents today though so maybe it was just a one day thing (hopefully).
One funny thing from Melia is that she has this princess crown light which burnt out so we took off the cord and it is just the crown now. She thinks it is a "Happy Birthday cake" so for the last three days she has had us sit down and sing happy birthday to her and blow out the candles. (We will post a video on our blog). Then there are five points on the crown and she named them... It was hilarious. The middle one is Papa. To the left is Daddy then Melia (or Ma na as Melia says her name). To the right is Grammy and Mommy. I always want to see through a toddler's eyes just to see what it is like since I don't remember when I was a toddler!
I had a month long time period where I couldn't seem to go to the gym or anything with the girls and Treven studying and going to school and work. BUT I finally figured it out! I am so sick of not being where I would like to be and not exercising... so I started this week with going in the mornings before Treven goes to school or work. Mondays and Wednesdays I go to a cycling class from 6:30-7:20 am, Tuesdays I lift weights and do the elliptical from 5:30-6:30 am, Thursdays I go at 6:30-7:30 am but do the same thing as Tuesday, then Friday I go from 5:30-6:30 and run the indoor track. I have done through Tuesday and it has been wonderful. I also started counting my calories which is a lot easier than I thought it would be. I have already lost 3 lbs which sounds good to me! Anyway, I really am loving getting back to exercising and where I want to be. My reward for losing 20 pounds is a trip to San Diego to visit my sister, Marnie! I am determined to get there! So only 17 more to go!
My birthday is coming up this next week on the 18th so I am looking forward to that and turning 23! I think we may go out somewhere on Monday since that is the day Treven has off from school.
Well that is the little update and here are some pictures of Melia's hair cut.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Video of Melia dancing
There is a video over at www.sundryseven.blogspot.com of Melia dancing if you would like to see it... it took 35 minutes to load so I didn't want to do it twice... sorry!
Kim
Kim
Friday, January 30, 2009
Beautiful Baby Contest
I entered the girls in the Regis and Kelly Beautiful Baby Contest... I figured it doesn't hurt and the winner gets a 125K scholarship for college and the 4 runner-ups get 25K... I think they are beautiful, but I am their mother. Anyway, if you want to enter your kids, you have until February 13th. Then people get to start voting on the website.
These are the pictures I put in for it.
Kim
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