Life lately.

We have been quite the busy little bunch around here. Football, holidays and, oh you know, surviving WRATH OF A TWO YEAR OLD, have definitely kept things a little crazy. Crazy in a good way...most of the time.

Kenna update: She's two. Have I made that clear yet? We have good days and bad days...or as my husband would say, we have bad days and worse days :) She is extremely busy and constantly talking. Seriously, she DOESN'T. STOP. TALKING. Although sometimes annoying, I keep reminding myself that this is just her way of learning the world around her and practicing her vocabulary. She definitely excels in the language department and has even started using some Spanish in context. I wish I could take credit for that but nope, credit is all due to Dora on that one. And then there's Dora...sigh.

For Kenna's 2nd birthday party we decided to rent a school bus (because when your kid is completely obsessed with school buses, that's what you do). It was absolutely PERFECT and Kenna was one happy little child.

I thought it would be fun to be able to look back at Kenna at age 2...if we survive it, that is. So here's a little bit about our girl:

Eating: some days she's picky, some days she'll eat anything. Her favorites are yogurt with cereal and blueberries, bananas, pb & j's, granola bars, fries, tomato soup and milk.

Sleeping: 8-8 typically. Napping from about 1:30-3:30.

Wearing: Some 2T but mostly 3T now for length. 6-6.5 shoe size.

Height/Weight: 36" and 27 lbs.

Comfort Items: a couple blankets, a couple pillows, Elle (elephant stuffed animal), pink Elle (smaller pink elephant stuffed animal), froggie (weird little frog thing that rattles, attached to a small blanket), Osito (teddy bear, Spanish--she came up with that one on her own) and her pacifier...which we are still working on breaking her of at nap time.

Favorites: singing songs (twinkle twinkle, you are my sunshine, ABC's, wheels on the bus), puzzles, Dora, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Curious George, play kitchen, play dough ("pluto"), painting on her easel and lately she's been super into instruments, her "titar" (guitar), especially.

She can: say her ABC's and recognize some letters, count to 17, recognize most colors and make the sound of just about every animal.

Potty training: She has peed on the potty numerous times (sometimes even telling us she needs to sit on the potty prior to) but I still don't think she is totally ready...or let's be real, I don't think I am totally ready. I plan on waiting until she is practically begging me to full on potty train. Let's just hope that comes before the age of 4 :)

And now for some speed updating:

On September 9th, we welcomed our nephew, Calvin James Pennock, into the family.

Now he looks more like this:

Cousins doing cousin things.

This year, for Halloween, Kenna was a fox and quite possibly my favorite costume of all time. We threw Kenna the fox and and Easton the lobster into the wagon for some trick or treating around the hood. And beers for the adults, of course.

It snowed...a lot.

Carson and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary on November 7th, with a weekend getaway to McCall. Apparently the only picture I got was this one of our purple, wine stained grills.

We went to a reggae concert for a friend's 30th birthday. I may have drank too much and didn't leave my bed until 4:30 pm the next day. For the record, that is a really poor decision when you are responsible for another, much littler human life.

We hosted Thanksgiving in Boise this year. It was so great having all of our family here together in our home. PS, I realize none of the following pictures depict Thanksgiving (fail) but they are all from that weekend so I still consider that a win.

Kenna tried to kidnap baby Jesus:

Then it was Christmas! Major bullet points here: Kenna still hates Santa, we made cookies, I found Kenna an amazing Snoopy sweatshirt for 99 cents at the thrift store and we went to Bend and Portland for the holiday.

Boise State is playing in the Fiesta Bowl tomorrow against Arizona. I have been left at home while the husband is currently on his way down for the game...and by currently I mean, he is walking around the Vegas airport during his layover with a beer in his hand and probably hitting up the penny slots. So. Not. Fair. 

Go Broncos!