Six months

Check out Michelle Wolf's blog under the "Encahanted" heading for some of Kenzington's 6 month pictures! She was awesome. http://michellewolfphotography.blogspot.com/

Kenzie now sleeps in her crib, her playpen will clash with our bedroom decor no more!

Happy Birthday to Me

Well, on Thursday morning we got a call at about 5:00, the babysitter was sick. Ok, no big deal, I will just bring Kenzie to work, I've done it before, we can deal with this. So about 4 hours into our work day, Kenzie threw up everwhere, all over me, her, the floor, etc. So, we went home. She was sick for the rest of the day and had a temp. the next day, but by Friday evening she was back to normal. Then on Saturday morning about 1, I woke up puking (yuck!). So I was sick my entire b-day. We were supposed to go to Spokane shopping and to the fair, but needless to say we never made it. We are both better now, but Waylon has a sinus infection I think, he sure is good at complaining! As for what else is new, Kenzie can sit up really well now and she is starting to learn to crawl. She gets up on her knees and rocks back and forth, its really cute. I took a little video and I am going to see if I can upload it. Stay tuned.

September Pics

2 weeks in the life of the Blevins Family

Well let’s see, it seems as though there has not been a lot going on in our house lately. Since we put in the new floor, Waylon has been working 12 hour days in Moscow, so we don’t see him much, he gets home around 8:30, when Kenzie is already in bed and then leaves again about 5:45, right before she gets up. He has been elk hunting on the weekends, with no luck yet, but hopefully he will get something soon. Kenzie and I went camping with my mom and dad on Labor Day, we did not do much, but it was a good relaxing time. I had to keep driving into Three Rivers so check the status of Christel’s labor; she finally had her little girl on the 30th, around 8 at night. I went to visit her last week and she looks really good. She is lucky that Richie takes so much on and helps her out as much as he does, although I am sure that she will handle it great when he gets back to work. Kenzie has been eating applesauce and oatmeal for the past few days, she really likes her fruit, including bananas and peaches. However, I tried some peas with her the other day, definitely not her favorite thing, I think it may be in the genes, as neither my mom or I like peas all that much either. She has also been sitting up really well the past few days. Last week she could sit up for a few seconds and already she is going for over a minute before she falls over. Usually the reason for this tippage is that she is reaching for something as she does not enjoy just sitting there doing nothing. Yesterday, I gave her a bath in the tub instead of the sink tub like we have been and she sat up almost the whole time, and kept grabbing for the drain cover. Not much else happening with us. We are headed to Spokane this weekend for some shopping and to the fair, it should be fun. Also, I am starting to get a little older as I turn 23 on Saturday. I realize that 23 is not anywhere near old, but is still seems weird to me, as just the other day I swear I was only 18 and 23 was a long way away. I guess that goes to show you just how fast time flies!

We did it!!!

It's done, can you beleive it. 300 sq feet in 2 days. Thank goodness my dad, Uncle Larry, and Uncle Mike came to help on Saturday or we never would have finished. When we were buying the stuff at Home Depot, Waylon put 26 boxes on the cart, (that was how many we figured that we needed at 11.6 sq feet per box), and I added one more to my cart just to be safe. Well, I am taking back that one box today! They finished the laundry room with the last piece of the 26th box, thank goodness. Here are the pics!

The weekend we stayed home (a synopsis)

The finished product

The beautiful pattern of the current kitchen floor

Next weekend's project

Taking a break

Just hanging out

My Blankie

Practicing my diving moves,Guo JingJing from
China is my favorite diver.

Watching some baseball, I

think the Mariners lost (again).



Well, this past weekend we actually stayed home….the whole time. I am 99% sure that this is the first weekend since Kenzie has been born that we have not gone ANYWHERE. We needed it too. The upper part of our lawn in finally green and it needed mowed, the weeds in our little jungle needed to be pulled, and our shrubs badly needed to be trimmed. We got all that done before 9 o’clock on Saturday morning, thank goodness too, ‘cause it was a scorcher. Then we took a little trip to HD (home depot) and got tons of stuff. I am still so excited about this I can barely stand it. I’ll start from the beginning. Ever since we moved into our house (almost 2 years ago now), we have need new flooring in the, well in the whole thing. We got new carpet in the living room soon after we moved in, but the rest has been put off. The linoleum in the kitchen, entryway, laundry room and two bathrooms was just nasty. I probably spent over a month of my life trying to clean that darn floor, but no matter how much time I spent on it, it still looked bad. So, we bought some hardwood laminate for the kitchen, laundry room, entryway, 1 bathroom, and hallway and then we got tile laminate for the other bathroom. We started this project with the first bathroom and actually got it completed before the weekend was over. The only issue we had was getting the toilet back in, the screws kept screwing wrong (I guess) so we went through 3 toilet wax rings, but all is good now. Next weekend we will do the rest of the house, with my dad to help. Kenzie has been good, she rolls onto her stomach every time I try to change her diaper, so that is a challenge but it makes me laugh every time. She is also into baseball, at least it seems that way, she likes to watch it when it comes on TV.