Christmas Eve!

Christmas eve we always spend over at the kunz house and this year we came up with a new tradition we decided to always go to Texas RoadHouse for dinner and then we open the gifts we drew names for that night before we go home and then we always get a new game to play with the family. So here we are playing with kennadys new toy she got from conner.
Cody got Almond Roca and the movie Inception from Laurie he loved it i think he ate all the almond roca before we left. Way to go Laurie!

Cody had Sylvia so he made her an apron and one for kennady to match along with a recipe book and place mats that all match good job hunny..... ;) Cody might have had some help cause clacie got the same thing minus the apron for kennady and placemats. Which i made.

Kennady had Emmit and she made this cute dinosar blanket for him one side is fuzzy and the other is not.

We also got him a teething ring he mostly liked the wrapping paper. Who knew i could have saved so much money and just bought him a roll of paper

Conner got kennady a tinkerbell magnet dressup doll she loves it . Thanks conner

Here we all are at Texas Roadhouse.

I sure love my hubby he was awesome this year he really spoiled me he got me Brian Reagan tickets, tickets to a hockey game, beautiful necklace from him and mackenzie and tons of other stuff love you babe.

Mike and Clacie.

The Parents who started it all.

And of course Kennady and Cindy best buddies.

Christmas

Christmas was a little different this year. Christmas is my favorite holiday of the whole year i love the snow and how pretty it makes everything i love the feeling you get around christmas time the giving and all the excitment of whats coming and who is coming and then of course all the family time together and all the traditions i just love it but this year i had a lot harder time getting into the spirit of things or even wanting to plan things to do or go places. I had to put a lot more effort into this year and i think it was just because i knew that we were missing one person in our family and this year and all though i know she was here in spirit it was hard to not have her hear to open presents with or even to buy her things. Before we knew anything was wrong my mom and i had already started talking about christmas and what we wanted to make for everyone this year and of course we talked about making mackenzie blankets and little things for her to play with so when christmas came around it was harder than i thought it was. We did do lots of fun things which helped get me more in the spirit of things. Kennady and I went to the mall to see santa she loves going to see all of those things at the mall.
My parents got kennady a new bike with training wheels and she loves it she is learing to ride it really well.

Cody always gets movies cause i go out the day after thanksgiving and they always have movies for 3 bucks so i get a few for everyone each year. This year he got the men who stare at goats and princess bride.

I of course got eclipse.

Kennady and Cody opening stocking stuff from santa.

Kennady was excited about her silly bands

She also got bath markers which have been a hit.

It was a good christmas and we had a lot of fun i know that each year it will be easier and easier not having mackenzie here but she will always be here with us in spirit.

Thanksgiving

This year our plan was to head to Idaho Falls to have thanksgiving with my grandma Eva but because of all the snow we werent able to head down there so instead we went to st. Maries and spent the weekend with my grandma Sharon playing in the snow and sledding. Kennady loved it. This is kennady and i sledding.
Cody going down

Kennady got brave enough and started going down by herself.

kennady and papa

papa pushing kennady to get her started.

and of course kennady eating the snow.

Girls weekend in Seattle

At the beginning of November Arah and i took the girls and we went to seattle for an over night trip. It was really nice to get away for the day and spend sometime out of town. We went to pikes market, Ikea and the outlet malls we had a lot of fun.

We went to the gum wall and added our gum to it.

We Are Going Private!!

I have decided to go private with my blog. I have had on a number of occations had people leave comments who i have never met or even know at all and their profile pictures are a little scandalise so i dont feel comfortable letting them read my blog and see my life when i dont know them and some times i feel i put some things on here that are very personal and i dont need to share with the whole world so....after my ranting if you would still like to be part of my blog leave your email address and i will add you thanks everyone!!!

This last week has been a hard one for me. One that i didnt think would effect me the way it did. Thursday was Mackenzie's Due date, i didnt think that it would really matter since what baby is born on their due date anyway, mine never are and i havent meet a person so far that has, unless of course its a C-section. Anyway it was hard not to think all week that i would love to be in labor right now i would give anything to be in labor getting ready to have a health full term little girl. But things just dont always turn out the way we plan. It was nice to have her due date near a holiday because it gave us lots of things to do so i didnt end up sitting at home feeling depressed. During this week it did give me time to think about how thankful i am for my family and friends. I'm so grateful to my husband who is willing to let me talk and cry on him. Without him i never could have made it through all of this. I am also grateful for this time of year, i love christmas its my favorite holiday by far and i love getting into the spirit of giving and thinking of others. I have found that through all of this the things that help me the most are thinking of others and giving to others. Its been nice to think of christmas and what i can give to others and how cody and i can help those arounds us. Its also nice to have this time to focus on christ and think about all he has given for me and if all i have to do it let my little girl be with him right now and let her do the work she needs to do then i can do that cause after everything i will still be able to raise her and she will always be my little girl.

Things i've made recently.

Sorry for the lack of posting but things have been super busy, Cody has been working as usual and i have been trying to get a head start on christmas. My mom and i have been sewing like crazy but i cant post those things right now since it would ruin the surprise. But i did make this dress for kennady today and it is my first by myself clothing i have made normaly my mom is there to do most of the sewing while i cut and iron but i did this one from start to finish alone.
Kennady was modeling it for me.

A little while ago cody bought me some flowers and i didnt have a vase to put it in but i had this funny little three dish thing so i decided to take the flowers and make a center piece for my table and i think it turned out pretty cute.