Trip to Utah!

Kennedy and I were able to go to Utah for 8 days last week.  We had a great time and kept quite busy! We started out in Ogden at a baby shower for my cousin, then spent a few days in St. George with family, then back up north for two cousins’ weddings. We crammed a lot in and loved seeing lots of family and friends. 

Kilee’s Baby Shower Kilee with her favorite cat stuff :)  

St. George Fun All the Johnson cousins Grandma Barb made this cute dress for Kennedy! Having fun playing at Allie and Bree’s new house!

 

The Newlyweds  Jake and Serena  Amanda and Blake

Provo Canyon We miss these beautiful mountains! We had a picnic up Provo Canyon, and it was so nice to be back up there and enjoy the beautiful surroundings. Kennedy had a great time running around wherever she wanted! She loved being on the bridge And had fun chasing Grandpa Jim at the park Kennedy and Uncle Spencer

It was fun being back in Orem, visiting with people in our old neighborhood and catching up with friends and family, wish we could’ve seen more of you, maybe next time.

Catch up

This post is kind of a hodge podge of pictures from the last month. It’s been a busy one, but good as we were moving into our new house (pictures to come), unpacking, getting organized, and having Grandma Barb here for a visit.

Kennedy is at such a fun stage right now, learning and doing new things each day! She’s always amazing us by all the things she does. She signs lots of things which has been very helpful for us! She signs: more, eat, drink, milk, all done, kiss, sleep, please, baby and ball. She can point to her nose, hair, toes and mouth if you ask her where they are at. She also says yes, no, Jesus (so cute), nose, mom, dad, hi, bye, baby and dog. She says woof woof (she’s really good at this one and loves dogs!!), meows like a cat, can gobble like a turkey, and makes the monkey sound. She loves all kinds of animals and loves looking at all her animal books over and over again! She really loves any book though and could sit and look at books for a long time.Kennedy thinks it’s time to take a break from moving and do a little boogie boardin!Having fun playing in the packing boxes with dad

Our Honey Bunches of Oats Kennedy likes to grab anything she can get her hands on in the pantry, this time she came out with a bag of cereal and was helping her self. “Want some mom?” She comes running when she hears the dishwasher openShe LOVES to read and look at her books. She’s always making us laugh! She likes to take all of her books out of her bookcase, climb in and sit in the corner reading her books. (I know it looks like we never dress our child…) Bath Time FunPutting on Elmo’s nose at a friend’s birthday party Fun with Grandma Barb, too bad we didn’t get more pictures. We love this cutie!

Our Little Patient

The day before my family came into town Kennedy started not feeling very well, at first we thought she was teething, but then it seemed to turn into a cold. The evening my family got here Kennedy was having trouble breathing so we had to take her into the Emergency Room. I guess they don’t take respiratory problems lightly, because we were in a room and had nurses surrounding us in a matter of a minutes. They weren’t sure exactly what was wrong, but they ran a bunch of tests on the poor girl. They drew her blood, gave her an iv, took x-rays and gave her lots of breathing treatments. Right off they found out she had ear infections in both ears and was dehydrated, but they weren’t sure why she was having trouble breathing. After all the tests came back, they ruled out pneumonia and the flu but at 1 am they decided they needed to keep her over night to keep monitoring her. She improved a lot over the next day and they released her the following afternoon. It was scary stuff, but we are glad they took good care of her and that she is doing much better! We sure think she made a cute little patient though! Once they unhooked her from her iv, monitors and all the cords and she could roam around free she was one happy camper and back to her normal self again!

They still aren’t exactly sure why she was having trouble breathing, but they treated her for asthma, I guess asthma and allergies are very common in San Antonio. But they can’t officially say she has asthma unless she has another episode, so we are just hoping it was a one time thing and we don’t have to deal with it again! We feel so grateful that she is ok and healthy!

Poor girl :( She’s enjoying the freedom from cords!

It’s kind of hard to put something in your mouth when you can’t bend your arm huh Kennedy?!

Although it was frustrating this happened while my family was here visiting, we feel very blessed that they were here to give us support during the whole thing! Kennedy had fun playing with Grandma and Grandpa at the hospital and just before we were released she fell asleep (not surprising since she didn’t sleep much that night or day) in Grandpa Jim’s arms. So cute!

We love our ‘sweetness’ and are so glad she is feeling better!

Jensen Family Reunion!

My family came to visit us in Texas for a few days last week. It was so fun having them here and showing them around San Antonio! We went downtown and saw the Alamo, Riverwalk, took the rivercruise and enjoyed a yummy mexican meal. We played lots of games, enjoyed Texas bbq, spent some time in the hospital, (more on that later) relaxed and just enjoyed being together. The AlamoReminiscing of old times. My family lived in Texas for about four years when we were younger and took a very similar picture here on these steps. (Except no balloons this time…that’s why we look like goofs acting like little kids and “holding balloons”) We should’ve looked at the original picture right before to get it a little more accurate though.

On the rivercruise Our little family Just outside Casa Rio, a really yummy mexican restaurant we ate at along the Riverwalk. On Saturday Gma Rose got her dream and got to have Kennedy to herself all day while the rest of us went to Schlitterbahn Waterpark, which is ranked one of the top waterparks in the world! There were tons of slides and it was lots of fun!

From Wikipedia: “The New Braunfels park now boasts over 3 miles of inner tube rides, 7 water playgrounds for children, uphill water coasters, 17 water slides, and the world's first surfing machine”

Cute picture of Kennedy signing ‘more’Kennedy with Grandma and Grandpa Jensen just before churchOne last group picture before heading to the airport. Thanks for coming guys we had a blast having you here, come again soon!

Santa Monica

Kennedy and I got to spend some time down in Santa Monica with sisters, cousins and Grandma Barb! All the little kidlets kept us busy all weekend, but we had a blast together with all the girls! We enjoyed the Santa Monica Pier, ferris wheel, beach time, farmer’s market, movie time, delicious food, relaxing, and lots of good shopping! Thanks for the fun trip girls! Jer & Sharla’s beautiful home we stayed at across from the beach! View of the beach from the house I didn’t take very many pictures of the girls, but I’ll post what I have. The girls loved watching all the people and dogs out the window. Kennedy would wave and ‘talk’ to everyone that went by. It was pretty funny to listen and watch her! Bree and Kennedy

The girls with Grandma Barb

Corpus Christi

On Saturday we wanted an adventure, so we headed down to Corpus Christi. We toured the USS Lexington (an old aircraft carrier that’s a floating museum now). It was interesting to learn more about and neat to explore.

Captain Kennedy Zak trying out one of the aircraft guns

We then headed over to Port Aransas and took a ferry ride to Mustang Island. We did a little boogie boardin and had fun in the sun. Kennedy loved the beach and had a blast playing in the sand, oh and eating it too :)

Beach Babe

Kennedy looks like a goof in this picture, but we think it’s funny and it’s the best we could do with the sunglasses on.

We’ll definitely be back again to get more sand in our hair, we had a great time together as a family!