Christmas Etc.

Well we are back from our Christmas vacation (and have been for a couple of weeks), sorry for the delay. We had a good time with all of our families and are glad we were able to see everyone this year! Our Christmas travels started in Victorville with Chris's family, then Kennadi and I flew to Reno to be with my family, then Chris and I met up in Mammoth and spent the week with my family there, and then we drove back to Victorville for New Years and finally were home. It was fun and exhausting. Kennadi loved playing in the snow and really loved all the attention she got from everyone.
Over Christmas at my dad and Lynda's house, my dad dressed as Santa for Kennadi. She had already seen Santa at her daycare and she was weary but sat next to him for a picture. So I assumed that with us she would be nervous but fine. We assumed wrong. She flipped out screaming and crying and wouldn't even look at him. So this year we did not get the picture we had hoped for, but maybe next year!
When we got back from everything we decided to go to Sea World for our free military day. We got there in the afternoon thinking we could hit all the shows and be good, we got to 2 shows and it started pouring down rain. So we missed the ones we really wanted to see, but at least we didn't pay for it! Kennadi loved the sharks and the penguins. She kept saying "again" after we would leave there. At the end of the day when we decided to leave, we told her we were going home and she said "again sharks" which was funny because it had been a few hours since we had seen the sharks. It has been fun lately because she can tell us things that happened and tell us what she wants after the fact, she is turning into a little person!
That's all we have for now, I have posted lots and lots of pictures so enjoy!

Christmas at our house:

Kennadi's Kitchen from Nana




Playing with all her new toys

Victorville:

Kennadi's quad from Oma

Kennadi and Mia, another animal she won't leave alone
Sparks:
I got way more pictures for this day because my dad was taking them, I am good at getting pictures when I remember but it is nice to have more than one camera taking the pictures!

Kennadi and Great Aunt Lyndi

Kennadi and Auntie Keeli
Kennadi and Grandma LyndaKeeli, Kama, Grandma, Lyndi, Me and Kennadi

Grandma and her kids


Kennadi kept chewing on carrots all day nut not actually eating them

She absolutely loved Shadow, Grandma's cat, and wouldn't leave him alone

Mammoth and Crowley:
Lianne and Kennadi


They fight for my moms attention

Sledding, Kennadi absolutely loved it!



We realized snow is a natural child gate, we let her go outside while Chris shoveled and didn't have to worry about her running in the street or getting into anything because she would have to crawl through 4 feet of snow and she couldn't do it. If she fell it was on fluffy powder so she couldn't get hurt. Other than the freezing cold factor, snow is actually a pretty good baby sitter.



When we woke up the morning after one storm the snow was taller than Kennadi. Mammoth had the most snow in the world all of December!
Kennadi very much enjoyed all of Drake's new toys including the sled, the Buzz Lightyear space ship and the bike.



Once we told her it was ok to eat snow, she did it every time we went outside.




Everywhere Rusty went Kennadi was not far behind

Heading to our Christmas Party:




Sea World:

Chris and Kennadi dancing in the rain




Random Pics:

Rock Band

Payton, Kennadi and Avery at Chris's going away party

I took my new camera to the park and got some cute pictures, I am still trying to find time to really learn the camera and all the settings though