Keira's Growing

Keira is getting so big already! She started smiling a few weeks ago, and it just melts your heart!

(Sorry if the picture is blurry... it's from my phone)

Firefighters

In case you didn't know, Kevin is trying to be a Firefighter or a Paramedic, something in that area. My Aunt had contacted someone who she knew that worked at a station out here, so we took the kids to an open house they had. It was fun and quite interesting. We got to see them put out a fire and the station was beautiful! The kids enjoyed it.

Kaylee the Chef

Recently Kaylee has been obsessed with cooking. Anytime she sees you by the counter she pushes the chair over and wants to help you. I got my mom to let her help make some cookies a few weeks back, it was so cute! :0)

P.S. My sister made the adorable apron... thanks Heather, she loves it!

The Buchanan's Came to Visit

Last month my sister and her two kids came to visit my mom, which meant us too! We all had a ton of fun! Colby loved playing with Ian, I wish we lived closer to each other because they get a long so well, and Ian is a good example for Colby. While they were here we went to Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo. I'm so glad to have gotten to spend time with them. Here a couple of pictures of our two trips!

Uncle Rendal and the boys.

Picture with Cinderella

The crazy kids waiting for Nemo... no one was staring or anything! LOL!

With Snow White! (Funny story, there was a "little" man working there with Snow White, and all the kids around us were scared of him, but not my daughter. She kept saying "He's small, he's small!!!" Good thing he wasn't offended!

Ian with the cute Gorilla (Colby's favorite part)

Kaylee with the Polar Bear!

UFC 104

Sorry, but I'm still trying to catch up on my bloggin'. So a few weekends ago Kevin and I started re-watching How I Met Your Mother, and the kids started getting all crazy screaming and so forth. So we decided to turn it off (it was on the computer) and deal with them. I actually got the privilege to calm them down while Kevin got on the internet. He decided to look up some stuff on twitter and saw if he posted his information he could win 2 tickets to the UFC fight which was in a couple of hours. He felt his phone buzz in his pocket and thought no way could this be the tickets... But, it was!!! My husband won two tickets, and not any old tickets... luxury sweet tickets at the Staples Center!!! Of course I have to be breast feeding, and couldn't go, so he took my brother Josh. I was super jealous! Oh yeah, and he got to hang out with a fighter too! UGGG!! :0)

Pumpkin Patch

This year I decided that we should try out a new pumpkin patch. I got an e-mail about the Irvine Park Pumpkin Patch and it was awesome! There was so much for the kids to do, and half of it was free! (Which is always good in my book!) The kids had a ton of fun, it was really great!

Our little family!

Me and my Girls!

Face Painting was a big hit! My little butterfly

Colby loved being a Tiger!

Auntie Krista and Colby!

Disneyland

We finally got back our Disneyland passes thanks to our friends!!! We got them back in September and hope to use them as much as possible!!

Happy Birthday Colby!

My baby boy turned 4 years old! I can't believe it! He's getting sooo big. We took him to his favorite place on earth... the San Diego Zoo!!!! He just loves, loves animals and is extremely obsessed with them, which is sometimes good and sometimes a little extreme but we deal with it. Kevin's parents, Krista and Matt, Nana and Papa, Grandma, Aunt Becky, Jenny and the kids, and our friend Kelly and Braylin all came to join us. It was a fun day for Colby!

CATCH UP WITH KEIRA

So I have totally been slacking off with blogging, but I'm all caught up on my shows! I guess that is the sacrifice I have made... TV shows before blogging... I need to re-think that.

Anyways, I need to update about our new addition in the family. On September 2nd, I went into the hospital to get induced with Keira. It was a super hectic time, since Kevin was in his final days of his EMT course. Luckily I was in labor all night, and then finally delivered Keira around 12:00 p.m. just before Kevin had to get back to Long Beach for his last test! Keira was perfect at 8lbs. 8oz. and 21 3/4 in. long (my smallest baby). ((that day I had an ultrasound and the tech told me she was only 6lbs. what the heck did he know???)) I was able to spend 3 days total in the hospital which was new for me... and quite nice to spend time with just Keira. She has been a super good baby the past 2 months - already sleeping through the night, and is mostly happy! This probably means she is going to be a crazy toddler just like her sister! Oh well, toddlers sleep right?! Well, here's a few pictures of her when she was newer...