Exciting News

What a Rocky Road the last 6 months have been.

But we finally feel "Safe enough" to share our very Exciting News.

We hope you love it as much as we do.

***** Keep reading below for all the fun updates of our last few months. The Insomnia that comes with Pregnancy is kicking in.... Yeah for having time to update the Blog!!!

October

A fun trip to the Pumpkin Patch Kaedyn Loved the Petting Zoo

Kaedyn's first try at carving pumpkins

She was disgusted by their insides.

And kept trying to touch it and saying Eeewww!!!

So as we are pulling into the driveway the other day,

Kaedyn is in the back seat and keeps saying ooohhh "Pretty Red"

And this is what I see...

1st Bloody Nose, gotta capture these for the scrapbook.

I showed her a picture after I took one, and she said OOhhh So Pretty.

I guess it reminded her of what she looks like when she gets into Mama's makeup.

Kaedyn rocking out to the "Monster Mash" she loves Music.

Happy Halloween Morning

Our Halloween Dinner

Here comes Dr. Kaedyn

This little girl was wiped out!!

Until she noticed all the candy that was in her bag.

What a Scare!!

What a Scare!!

So in the middle of Kaedyn's nap she wakes up screaming hysterically. I pick her up and try to give her hugs and comfort her, and she just keeps crying and saying ouchy, ouchy and pointing to her belly. Since she still has really bad belly (GI) problems, I think it's just her tummy hurting really bad. Well the sadness and crying goes on for another hour and nothing I do seems to make her feel better. She just keeps telling me ouchy. Of course Brent isn't home, he is off helping somebody move, which I was thankful he is so willing to help others, but he was supposed to home 2 hours ago at this point. So as many parents feel in times of frustration, I start to get sad, cause I have no idea what to do. Luckily 2 minutes before the freak out of mommy begins, our daddy walks in the door. Eventually we get Kaedyn to calm down a little, and then realize she is holding (cradling) her right arm and when we try to move it she screams. So of course the medical part of Brent starts examining her little arm trying to solve the problem. Thank goodness the realistic mommy steps in and says put her in the car we are going to the Urgent Care. Well we get to urgent care, after waiting 20 minutes, the Doctor takes a quick look at her arm and hand and tells us she may have a "Blood Infection" what? Then he tells us they are now closed and we need to take her to the ER. So off we are again, and we walk into a very nice ER waiting room, but are completely disgusted by all the sick, coughing, sneezing, barfing mask wearing patients.. Ohh great the wait begins, thankfully since Kaedyn was so young and screaming in pain, they rushed us through a little quicker.

Okay to wrap the story up quickly she ended up having "Nursemaids Elbow" also known as dislocating the bone in her elbow... We were so confused, this usually happens when a toddler falls or someone graps them by the arm, etc. But for Kaedyn it happened in her sleep, and they say that's rare but when your child is a tummy sleeper they tend to sleep on one of their arms which then relaxes the muscles and she must have rolled over and popped it out of place. So Sad, I know. Bad news is they tell us once it happens it tends to happen every few months until they get a little older. So they taught Brent how to pop her elbow back into place, it's quick and simple and the second they popped it back in she was our 100% happy Baby Girl.. So Brave

Daddy and Kaedyn having a guitar "Rocker" session

Kaedyn has moved passed Bananas.

She now talks into the Cucumber.

Silly Girl

Our first Family Trip to Hawaii

So Exciting

Our First "Dental Business Trip" to Hawaii.

Hopefully many more are to come.

Kaedyn and Daddy looking so sleepy, we had to be at the airport at 4:00 am.

Kaedyn's first trip to the Beach, and she loved it!

She loved throwing the sand too, (not so fun for us)

Gotta love the way sand sticks to sunblock.

Kaedyn's got her eyes on the prize. So Yummy!

Our Favorite place for Breakfast, (As seen on Oprah)

The Aquarium was Amazing, Kaedyn loved all the bright colored fishy.

And the "Spooky" fish too!

Even though we were in Beautiful Hawaii for 10 days,
I think Kaedyn's favorite activity was sitting in the hotel bed, eating snacks and watching T.V.As soon as we would step off the elevator she would go running to our room, saying T.V, T.V.
Oh the excitement when she got her way. Yeah T.V.
We had an Amazing time at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

Our Beautiful Blue Eyed Babe.

The next few are silly pictures of Kaedyn
She is starting to get delirious after a long, hot day in the sun.

Watching the Airplanes on our way home.

September

Happy 32nd Birthday Daddy

Kaedyn was so proud of her card

We Love You Brentie

Kaedyn Loves taking pictures, just like Mommy

Rocking on her favorite Rocking Chair, daddy made her last Christmas
Whoa Horse!!!

Kaedyn Loves hiding her hands in her jammies

Our "Superstar" in Nursery

Our first day in our new ward, it was time for Kaedyn to start nursery. She just walked right in and never looked back. Brent and I still miss her so much, that we have to peek thru the window in the door several times each Sunday.

We know, "Obsessed"

She Loves her drawings she gets to make.

How do I get her tiny bum to hold up her pants??

In September we took a quick weekend drive to Clovis, CA.

Kaedyn Loves feeding the chickens at Nana & Papa's House.

Strike a Pose!!Rocking out at the Dance Party

Kaedyn's New Obsession Mommmy or Daddy's "Shoes"

August

So at the end of August

Brent's little Brother got married, So we took a quick 4 day trip to good old Rexburg

Our Little Family

What a Little Cutie!!

Waving "Hello" to cousin Elsie
Kaedyn Loves giving Kisses
Hanging out with one of her favorite Powell cousins
Cousin Rachel, Uncle Shaun & Kaedyn
Addie jumped in for a quick picture this time

OOOOOhhhhh!!!

The "Sister - in - Laws

Kaedyn's new talent that she has discovered this month (19 months old)
She loves to "Yellow" AKA Color.
She has learned many colors too,
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, White.
Good Job Kaedyn

June & July Updates

Keep checking back, I think I am on a roll to finally staying updated..
Stay tuned, there are many more "Exciting" things to share with everyone.

Slowly but surely I am finding a bit of time!!

Mother's Day 2009

Kaedyn was so excited to give me a gift.

She colored me a picture and made me a cheerios and marshmallow necklace

Almost done packing up the truck

Bye Bye Truck


I Love this Picture.

Kaedyn looking out our front door window for the last time..

As soon as the Moving truck pulled away we locked up our home for the last time. Went to the realtors office and signed all the final paperwork for selling it, and then we were off to our next home. Which was a 1 Month Hotel stay while Brent finished up his Residency at the Hospital.

One of Kaedyn's Favorite Activities in the Hotel

Kaedyn's new addicition, thanks to the Hotel

Watching T.V. & eating Snacks in front of the T.V

She runs around saying " T.V. T.V Snack, Snack"

Kaedyn being Silly in the Hotel.

Dumping her bowl of soup on her head.

This was a first..

All I had to was call Housekeeping!!! Easy Clean-up

Our last Shopping Spree at the Aurora Outlets

I sure will miss all those good deals.

Kaedyn has become a pretty savvy shopper as well.

Kaedyn's new little curl on top.

Kaedyn's first trip to the Children's Musuem in Cleveland

Mama's Bargain Shopper in Training

Kaedyn was very interested in changing all the babies diapers

Ohhhh No, Kaedyn's 1st tantrum.

(Due to mom and dad forcing her to put on the Astronaut Outfit)

Too Cute not to capture with pictures.

Sooo Sad!!!!

Happy for about 2 seconds, then we took the outfit off.

"WoW" it's amazing our time is up in Cleveland.

After 6 years in Ohio we sure have come to Love It..

It's funny to think back 6 years ago and to remember I was crying because I didn't think I could ever live in such a place. Now I am crying because I don't want to leave.

4 Years in Dental School @ Case school of Dental Medicine

+

2 Years in Residency at Rainbow Babies Children's Hospital

=

"1 Amazing Pediatric Dentist"

Way to Go Brentie!!

Our Final farewell to the "Ball Machine" in front of the Pediatric Dental Clinic

So Brent finished his Residency the first of July, Kaedyn and I flew to Fresno, CA to be with my family for a few day, while Brent drove from Cleveland, OH to meet us in Fresno, CA.

He made it in 2.5 days and only got pulled over once, for not using his blinker very well...

No ticket, just a Warning..

Kaedyn striking a Pose!!!

WoW, even cuter!!!

Swimming with her cousins

After enjoying a few days in Fresno with my family,

we packed up the car and drove to Rexburg, ID to visit Brent's Family.

Happy 4th of July

Brent's parents had just gotten home from doing service in China..

And this is Kaedyn in her cute little China dress.

After a few days in Rexburg, we were finally on our way to our final destination.

Bend, Oregon..

Sweet little Kaedyn was such a good traveler.

This pictures melts my Heart.

I Love her sweet puckered little mouth.

We finally arrived!!!

At the rental home..

So Excited!!!

***** But Wait, now the Drama Begins*****

You know us, nothing is ever simple, there always has to be drama.

So we walk into our new rental home, and like most woman I immediatly smell something, "Yucky". Brent of course, is like I don't smell anything. As we are checking out the house, the smell is worse and worse and then I also hear water running.

Okay to make a long story short, the home had been vacant for the last 30 days, no one had checked on it, and the Master Bath toliet pipes had exploded and water had been leaking for the last month. The master bedroom and bathroom was completly flooded, the kitchen ceiling was about to cave in from water damage, and the smell was just yucky.. We managed to brave the storm and stayed in the house for our 1 week we had planned for adjustment before Brent started work. Meanwhile work was being done all around us to repair the home. During that week most of the carpet was replaced & shampoed and they fixed the ceilings etc..

Us finally unloading the truck after 5 days of living there..

Kaedyn was such a Good Helper

And what do you know, that evening after we have unloaded the entire truck the "horrible, stinky, wet dog smell came back... Needless to say we couldn't take it any longer.

We called up the rental company, and of course it was back and forth of crazy conversations.. But they finally gave in and realized they were totally at fault. And they loaded up all our belongings in a new moving truck, gave us all our money back, "thank goodness" and moved us to a different home, of course this time we went with a different rental company. As far as houses go, it's 1 strike and your out with us..

At this point, Bend, OR did not make a very good first impression with me.

Below are some new pictures of us in the new house..

Thank goodness we all can laugh about the craziness now.

"Say Cheese"

Adjusting to life in Bend, OR

Visiting one of the many parks.

Kaedyn's new toy, for being such a good girl, with all of the adjustments.

Okay, so maybe the new toy wasn't a very good idea for our wild woman..

It should be very clear that you sit and bounce on the pony, not stand and bouce.


Kaedyn having so much fun.

Uh- Oh, this was bound to happen..

Help, I have fallen and can't get up.

Well, hopefully she will learn her lesson.

Obviously not... You can't keep this crazy girl down..

The perfect advertisment for Brent's Pediatric Offices..

Brush, Brush, Brush...

Our silly Mama, sure is getting creative with dress-up.

Weeee!!! Look at me!!!

Well with a new place to live, we have to find new activities.

So here is Kaedyn preparing for something new.

Eating up the Power Bar for her new adventure..

Ta Da!!!

It's Our Little Gymnast..

I'm not sure who is more Excited.

Kaedyn & her teacher on the Bars.

Playing in the favorite "Foam Pit"

What a fun day, she Loved it..

Keep checking back, I think I am on a roll to finally staying updated..

Stay tuned, there are many more "Exciting" things to share with everyone.