Oh Kendyl, I promise it will be winter soon enough!

I know our house is not this cold (it was 90 degrees outside), but for some reason she loves her winter clothes.

I keep on boxing up her too-small winter coat, and she keeps on finding it.

I just love the mullet peeking out it the pic above.

Gotta love hat hair.

Smarties

The purpose of this post is to brag just a little......but not about me so that makes it okay (?)

My husband is a smarty. 

Apparently all those long days and very, very, very early mornings paid off. 

He made it through his first quarter in only 4 weeks....and with a 4.0.

Congratulations Nathan! 

Our first visitors....

literally.... besides the missionaries who we fed once.... came all the way from CA a few weeks ago.

Gramma and Auntie Laurel flew in "on the way home" from dropping cousin Will and Sadie off in Tremonton, UT. 

And with them they brought a working camera.  So here are of few pictures that we finally got. 

Kendyl and Gramma

Kendyl (wearing a dress I made out of a maternity top)

Nathan doing what he does best (or rather most)...homework

We look sooo happy here

Kendyl playing with her new Play-doh. I have since learned better and have hidden it away. She can occasionally play with the white. And the extra Play-doh cutouts make excellent bath toys.

Kendyl and Auntie Laurel

Gramma reading Kendyl's books (without Kendyl)

Don't know what I am doing here but Laurel's cute.

The three girls!

I WILL go crazy

if I watch these one more time!

Its pretty sad when your kid wakes up and the first thing she says is "mooo, mooo!!" (translation: "movie, movie!!")

Look at those glazed-over eyes.

I think we will go on a walk. 

"Bad idea Mom"

The pictures don't do it justice....

I have no idea why I thought this would be a good idea. But I did get the kitchen clean while she "ate" breakfast.

Our Rapunzel

Well not quite....but she is working on it. Her hair finally made it into pigtails this last week.

So cute!

And quite an improvement from this post.

Cinderelly, Cinderelly

(Just picture little mice singing)

And the sweeping and the dusting
They always keep her hopping 

morning makeover

Kendyl woke me up this morning with a bottle of mascara in her hand... and a new look.

The summer has been fun so far here. Lots of things to do in our new ward. Kendyl and I go swimming every week and to lots of different parks to play with the "mom group" in our ward. They say CO is like Utah... in UT there is a church on every corner, in CO there is a park on every street. 

Nathan is still looking for a job. Hopefully something will turn up soon. His joblessness (is that a word) is definitely not due to lack of trying and filling out countless applications. Nate starts summer school next week and has shoulder surgery a week from today. He has a SLAP tear in his left shoulder.  :-)

Kendyl has been very inventive in the ways that she communicates with us. For the most part we understand her. Except when we ask her a question, her answer is always "NOOO!" 

"Kendyl do you want a grape?"  "NO!"

"Kendyl do you want a cookie?" "NO!"

"Kendyl do you want to go outside?" "NO!"

We have finally realized that "NO!" means "yes" unless in is accompanied by a head shake and then it really means "no." Way to go Dad for figuring that one out.

**Post edit- no surgery as pain minimized. Hopefully it stays that way**