Happy Birthday to Berkley !!!

I can't believe that our little baby Berkley is one years old! It seems like only yesterday that I was at the hospital getting ready to have her. What a fun little addition she is to our family. She has such a sweet disposition. Whenever Berkley gets excited she will clench her fists together and straighten out her arms and shake them. It is so funny to watch.

With the size of Birdies cheeks you would think that she has a healthy, hardy appetite, but she is far from that! She eats like a bird, if at all. I was looking forward to moving her from formula to milk, but I'm worried about taking her off of it. As long as she's on formula, if she doesn't eat, I know that she's getting all the vitamins and nutrients that she needs.

When it came time to eat her cake, Berkley wasn't very interested in eating it. She licked her fingers a little and then was more interested in playing with it.




Berkley takes after her father with a love of music. She just recently discovered grandma & grandpa's piano and loves it. Any music that she hears sends her into a wiggle. Not only does she bob up and down like most babies do, but she also shakes her hips back and forth, moves her shoulders up and down, and will wave her hands in the air and clap her hands. The other day she found Emree's I Pod sitting on the coffee table and was trying to figure out how to use the headphones. She kept putting them close to her ears and then letting them go. It was so cute. I put one in her ear and she started to dance.

We love our little birdie and are so glad that she is in our family. What would we do without those chubby cheeks to smooch!

Easter Egg Hunt!

Grandma and Grandpa Livingstone have an Easter egg hunt for the kids every year. We are so excited to be back in Utah so that we can be here for it this year. Grandma uses caution tape to block off the backyard into three sections . She puts the kids into age groups so that the hunt is fair for everyone. The kids love it! Cassy and Kennedy in search.

Emree had so much fun gathering up her eggs!

Morgan and Sydney just beginning!

In each of the three groups grandma hides a special egg that has money in it. When Maggie started she was not at all interested in anything else, but the special egg. She was so excited to find it, especially since grandma put more money in it this year.

Thank you mom & dad for such a fun egg hunt for the kids and adults. We love you!

Our little baby Birdie!

Kennedy gave Berkley the nickname Birdie while we still lived in Georgia and it has stuck with her. We'll see how long she gets called that, but our family hardly ever calls her Berkley anymore. She can thank Kennedy when she's older!

I've had a request for more pictures of Berkley so here they are. I can't figure out how to turn my flash off so most of the pictures I get of Birdie are with her eyes closed. This is one of the few where she had her eyes open. On our way to St. George Berkley was crying and wanted to get out of her seat. She got herself so mad that she threw up all over herself and her car seat. That is definitely one way to get out of your car seat!!! We pulled over and had to clean her up. While I was cleaning her seat she was up front with daddy. She was so proud of herself and loved to be at the wheel. She was not happy when we put her back!

Berkley LOVES to play with cell phones and computers. If you have a computer in your lap she's all over you. Whenever I have the computer she wants to play with the keys, but when the girls have the computer she will sit quietly and watch them play Webkinz. She loves it!

There are quite a few of you that don't know what a Webkinz is. It's a virtual pet. You buy the Webkinz (stuffed animal) at the store and it comes with a password on the tag that you enter in and you get to name your pet and then play with them. You have to feed them, cloth them and take them to the doctor if they get sick. You work jobs to make money to buy them things for their homes. The jobs and games are educational. The kids love them. It's a fun gift to give someone. This is Kennedy's Littlekinz room.

Happy Birthday Dad Curtis!

Mom & Dad Curtis

It was dad Curtis' birthday so we headed down to St. George for a little visit and to celebrate his special day with the family. It's so nice to be living closer now so that we can see family on a more regular basis. Fun was had by all as we made pizza's, eat cake and ice cream, and enjoyed each others company! We love you dad!!!

Brackon and his baby sister Kacie!

A Little Taste of Georgia

Since our move to Utah we have missed our friends in Georgia!! Last week we were able to feel somewhat at home when we got together with our good friends the Shelley's . Rachel and her kids are here in Utah while Steve is in Iraq. Steve gets home on March 11th so they'll be heading home soon, but we are so excited that we were able to spend time with them while they were here and have just a little taste of Georgia in Utah!

Cheerios Has a Birthday!

Those of you who are familiar with Webkinz will understand the excitement that surrounds these cute little stuffed animals. Well, grandma Livingstone is just as excited about them as the children are and I'm sure that there are more adults out there that are just as excited as well! Here are grandma's webkinz Cheerio the pug and Penny the penguin! On Cheerio's birthday Penny threw a birthday party and invited all of the grandkids webkinz.

As you can see our families have a TON of webkinz! All of these Webkinz belong to only 16 grandchildren and a lot of them came from grandma & grandpa themselves! Grandma made all of the party hats with help from some of the mom's. It took us 2 1/2 hours to make them all. That's love!

Of course we had to have some great goodies for Cheerios party so grandma whipped up some delicious cupcakes. What a fun FHE we had celebrating Cheerios birthday! Thanks grandma & grandpa!

Here are Kennedy's!

Berkley has one too!

Emree got all three of here's from grandma & grandpa!

And finally are Morgan's. She has four!

Tiki Snowman!!

We've gotten a ton of snow here in Utah! On the way to pick kennedy up from school there was this guy outside of his house playing in the snow! You can see how big he made his tiki man! He ended up on the front page of the local paper. It was so much fun for the kids to see.

All finished!! For those of you that are Dew lovers take a close look at what he's holding in his hand!

Long Past Due Up Date! (Christmas)

I know that it has taken me forever to get a new entry up, but to my defense, we moved across country, had Christmas, moved across country, and did I mention that we moved across country!!! We are now living in Utah. We love to be around family again, but we miss Georgia & all of our friends a lot!! I'm still have a few boxes to unpack and I'm trying to get all of the decorating in all of the rooms done. Anyways, I thought I'd start at Christmas!

Christmas morning was great there were three families at grandma & grandpa's and we had so much fun.

Kennedy

Morgan

Emree

and Berkley!

How fun to be with family again for Christmas!

Kennedy Gets Glasses!

On Sunday at the youth fireside we realized that Kennedy needed glasses as she tried to read something off of the projector screen and couldn't until she was literally in front of it (winner mom of the year for not picking up on that one)!!! We took her into the eye doctor where they told us that her world would look a little different to her from here on out! She found some glasses that she loves and just got them today. She's excited and we wanted to be able to get a pic of her up on the blog with her new spec's on!!!



Morgan now wants glasses and keeps taking Kennedy's and mine to try on. Of course, I finally had to have the whole, 'if you break Kennedy's glasses you will have to pay for them' speech to which she responded, "How much are they?" Our sweet Morgan!



The only thing that bothers Kennedy is the fact that her mile long lashes hit the lenses so she has to use an eyelash curler to try and remedy that situation! I'm sure she'll get used to it. Either that or she'll have to get contacts.

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween everyone! Our girls were so excited to get out and do some trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. Kennedy was a monster bride, Morgan a pop diva, Emree a cheerleader (she threw the cat ears on for special effect), and Berkley was a bunny. Berkley's outfit didn't fit her as you can see from the bulging of the cheeks out of the hood, but I didn't realize it until five minutes before we head out the door when I put it on her and it was too late to do anything about it. She couldn't straighten out her legs because it was a 'bag' that their lower body zips into. She was a really sport the whole night. She loved to watch all of the kids walking around in different costumes!

We went around the neighborhood with our friends that live in our little 'pod' (our street) and had a great time. This is Kennedy and Morgan's good friend Amanda. She lives across the street from us. They are glued at the hip and will all suffer from withdrawls when we move. Poor Amanda started to cry when we told her! What a crazy pair!

Cardboarding Down The Hills!

Morgan's really good friend Kennedy Garmon and her family are moving to Alabama this week so we got to spend some time with them riding cardboard down the hills at Heritage Park. The kids had a blast! It was the first time our girls had done this. We've gone sleding or ice blocking, but this was new to us and the girls loved it. I was very surprised at how fast you could go on a piece of cardboard!

It was fun to sit on the hill opposite them and take pictures. Berkley loved to watch them! We will sure miss little Kennedy and her family. We wish them the best in Alabama!!

Georgia on Their Mind

Patti and Ben came out to visit us a week ago. It was so much fun to have them here with us! We got to spend a few days with them and one of the places that we went to was Jim & Nick's BBQ. Brackon and I went on and on about how delicious it is and how much they would love it. Patti ordered the 'Pig in the potato patch' that was literally the largest potato that any of us had ever seen!!!
We all finished eating and patti was kind of leaning over in the booth. The guys were standing up getting ready for us to leave and patti said, "I don't feel very good." To make a long story short she threw up her potato. She started at the booth in a bag and then in the car on the way home. Of course, Jim & Nick's only have paper bags so when she lost it in the car the bottom of the bag ended up breaking out. Poor patti! Luckily, we have a plastic mat down and it didn't get anywhere on the car. We pulled over on the freeway and cleaned it all out and continued on our way. Brackon was driving and later told us that he about lost his lunch when patti lost her's! A fun little adventure for all!!

Berkley didn't know quite what to think of patti and ben when she first saw them, but warmed up very quickly. Here are just a couple of recent pics of her. Sorry that I don't have one of all the girls on here. For some reason I can't get the pics of all of us with patti and ben to pull up so I'll have to take pics of the girls and post them later. You can see one that I was trying to pull up on patti and ben's blog.




Berkley's latest stats - just weighed in at 18 lbs, has her 1st tooth, and is starting to sit up all by herself. Such a big girl!

Hilton Head Vacation at the Grande Ocean Resort

On Labor Day our family headed out to Hilton Head Island & met up with Rob & Flori (my cousin) & their girls for a little vacation. We had a blast! We stayed at the Grande Ocean Resort & relaxed for few days. Flori & Rob's 4 girls are around the same age as ours and they all LOVE to be together! In the mornings around 7:30am we would walk on the beach looking for shells & investigating the tide pools (shocking I know for some of you, the 7:30am bit). We were quite the sight to behold for most people. Walking around with 8 kids was surprising to some & even more so with the fact that they were all girls! We got asked if some were twins, especially the babies. It was always fun to be the one trailing behind the group to hear the comments people made.

Thank you so much to the Christensen's for joining us! We need to do it again soon! Here are a bunch of our pic's. Enjoy!

This is Berkley's new face that she's been making.