Mom's Birthday

Yesterday Was my Mom's birthday. We were able to pull off a surprise birthday party, for the first time ever! My dad planned the whole thing thing and while he was at work the kids worked together and got things put together. The hardest part was getting everything into the house and set up in the 30 minute window that Mom was picking dad up. This included the temperature sensitive food that Mom couldn't see, and the decorations, but like I said it was a huge success and it was so nice to have everyone there!

I seriously do not know how my mom does it. She amazes me day in and day out. When most people hear that she had 7 kids they are pretty shocked that she is still sane. If you have ever had a chance to meet my mom you would know she is more than sane. She is the best example of someone who never gives up, who has complete faith in the gospel, and someone who has their priorities straight. She has taught all of us kids How to be our best selves and has helped us when she can, and stood by us when we needed to grow. I love her so much and feel so blessed to have her in my life.

Mom turned 55 this year, and in her words she has 45 more years to go! Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Some Pictures from the party , Enjoy :)

Ashley Me and Court Getting Ready for Mom

 Greyson Just Hanging Out With Mom

Hanging Out with The Family

Corgan Playing On The Cell Phone With Courtney

Cassidy Cuddling Simba While He slept. Such a good aunt.

I am not quite sure what was going on here. . . . . Courtney and Greyson.


It Was such a great party, and I think Mom was truly surprised and Happy to have all of her kids there.  Happy Birthday Mom We Love You!!

The Two Guys guys In My Life.

I have two of the the sweetest, happiest, well behaved, little nephews in the world. I seriously LOVE Corgan and Grey.  Now you might be wondering why this post is coming now, and why I am talking about them again. And there is are plenty of good reasons, one being I should be studying for my chemistry final. Another being this, I work night shift. A lot of the woman I work with amaze me. They work all night then go home and sleep only a few hours then get up and take care of there kids all day. I often say to them that I can't imagine not going home and not getting my 8 hours of sleep after work with no interruptions, they go on and say its worth it. . . . 

Well on sunday after work I went to my sister Ashley's house because Grey was getting blessed that morning. I got to there and laid there for about an hour until I fell asleep, Then about an hour after that I heard the kids wake up. My sisters husband is the ward clerk so he is gone Sunday morning's. So I had told Ashley I would help her get things ready for the blessing, I was dreading not having my sleep and having to get up and help with the kids.( As a side note, If anybody knows me they know how much I love kids, I mean love kids I will usually do anything to hold babies (outside of work) and to take care of kids. I have been this way since I myself was a little child, most people would put me in the slightly,  or just plain obsessed category.) So its a big deal for me to not want to be taking care of children. So I got up and went downstairs and Ashley was feeding the Kids. It took Corgan all of about 10 seconds to start squirming to try to get away from Ash to try to come over to me, He just started talking his own language and in it I could make out "Hi Kenzie How's your Day" I think thats when I forgot about sleep. 

Corgan then came over and sat by me and talked about the animals, and letters, and other random things. He kept laughing and smiling. He kept pointing to Grey and showing me random things. He was so happy I was there, and I was so happy I was there. I picked Grey up out of the seat, and started talking to him. Grey has learned to smile and slightly laugh this past week or so. He was going crazy with his smiles! It was making my heart melt, You know when you see a babies first little smile how   precious it is! Oh I just wanted to squeeze him. After about half an hour of playing and laughing with the boys Corgan came over and said he wanted to hold Grey, So I let him. I was Laying on the couch and Corgan Laid Next to Me and I put Grey On him. We sat there for Maybe five minutes, It just made me think of how lucky I was to be able to be taking care of the boys. 

I love these kids! I am so lucky to live so close to them, and have sister who lets me come over and visit them so often. And after sunday, and taking care of kids for a little on no sleep, I respect the mom's in my life even more! 

The Nephew Has arrived.

Ashley and Just had there little boy on Thursday morning, Since I work at the hospital she delivered at I was able to hang around after work till she delivered and do his newborn bath. He is such a Handsome little man!! I got to snuggle him a lot for his first two nights because I was working, so when Ashley was sleeping I was snuggling him in the Nursery. Ashley and Justin are such good Parents, and Corgan is such a good older Brother!! I love this new little guy so much, Greyson is such a sweet, calm, and content baby.

The Past Six Months

I am not good at updating a blog, and I apologize to all of those who are interested in reading it (Tara). Anywho, I also don't update it because my camera broke. Which is a good thing it broke now instead of when my kids who don't exist yet were starting to walk, or talking, or doing funny little things. Or even worse, what if it had broken when me and my Husband first met, and I forgot to make the " This is where it all starts" Album on facebook and I didn't have pictures of every second we spend together. That would be a disaster. So lets all be glad it broke now, and I have a while to go get a new one before all that stuff happens.

Anywho in the last six months.
(Disclaimer I will be stealing the following photo's from other people.)

I moved to Provo into the Sperry House with 8 other girls, one being my sister Court. I moved down there to go to school. The school thing didn't last long but I had a blast getting close with the girls, and  having fun with friends I had met before when I moved down there.

These girls are not all roomates, but its the only picture I have with all of us in it.

Back Row- Me, Not one, Kelly, Becca, Annie, Abbie, Not one

Front Row- Not one, Not one, Marrissa, Not one, Not one, and Christine. If that makes Sense :)

 I loved It down there !!

When I move down there I decided to quite my job up at Primary Childrens and Find a Job down there. It was really hard to leave primaries for many reasons. One of the main reason's was because as long as I could remember I had wanted to work in the NICU. Once I started working up there I realized how much I loved it, and I want to go back once I graduate from College!!  I also hated leaving because of the people I met up there! I loved working with people who were so funny, friendly, and brilliant. I loved working with nurses, nurse practitioners, Fellows,  and Doctors who were so willing to let me listen to what was going on and watch procedures and just learn about the unique things that go on up at Primaries. I loved it there. 

  

So when I got the Job on the Mom/Baby unit at American Fork Hospital It was quite the Change. It was hard to adjust to. But It has been totally worth it. At first anytime the health babies would do anything funky or weird I would automatically think something was very wrong with them because that's where my head had been. It was hard being on a unit where it was healthy people, happy people, where death was not it the back of the parents head. I don't think people understood why I wouldn't like being on a healthy floor rather then a NICU. But It was all I knew, it was what I was used to and I hated the change at first. But I have come to love it. I love being able to be a part of the care given to the mom and the babies. I love the people I work with, I love the place I work, and I love sending home healthy babies just days after they are born. :) It's different but it is a good different. 

With school, I moved to Provo to try school out at UVU. It sucked. I didn't think I hated school, just thought I hated going to school. Oh no I hated going to school at UVU.  So I quit, not surprising to most of those who know me. So when I moved back home I signed up for classes at SLCC for this summer and so far (1 week) they are going great. I am actually enjoying them this time around. I can't quit, or I won't have health insurance and for someone like me its less of a pain to pay tuition and go to class then try to be an adult.

During the long break I had of school. I spent a lot of time with friends, family and working.  So here are some pictures. :) Enjoy 

The sisters and Corgan. 

Ben, Me, Taya, Shaun

Sisters at Cassi's Graduation From SlCC

 Amber, James, and I after Dying easter eggs 

 

And of course here is Corgan, I just Love this Kid. He is the Cutest little guy ever!! I love that if you ask him " What does Kenzie Say?" He replies with " Hey" He says it right to, not just Hey, but Hey . .

So thats whats going on in my life. See ya again in six months. Or maybe I wll catch onto this blog thing. . . . 

Tara Says

I have something to blog about. So lets play a little game of empty the cell phone photo's.


This is my future niece. ( Some of my family begs it to be a nephew)



Isn't she cute , kinda looks like a gummy bear She is due on June 10th, I am so excited.


This is Corgan, The big brother, He has grown out of his gummy bear Stage. I freaking love this kid!!!


This my friends is David Osmond one that was on American Idol, I met the guy, okay concert. . . Cool story huh


This Is Ben, We went to the pet store for fun one day. The birds loved him, so much they got jealous of him and fought over him. Resulting in this priceless photo.



And this is me and Corgan just taking a nice drive home from Draper. He really does smile some times. And He likes me most of the time.




I will update this again in six months!!