New Car!

Hooray for new cars!! I've been talking about getting one for a few years now and I finally took the plunge.  Check out my new Honda Pilot!  Seats EIGHT which is beyond awesome.  And the best part of the 3rd row is it's an actual row where you can sit comfortably and not have your legs in your chest, without having the car be 100 feet long.  I'm SO excited that we will actually be able to drive with other people in the same vehicle, instead of having to take multiple cars everywhere because kids are in car-seats until they are 20...  We went with the entertainment package which included a DVD player and 2 wireless headsets, which I'm sure will come in handy when K is older.  If you are sitting in the back you can listen to whatever you want or watch the movie while the people in the front listen to what they want to listen to. It drives super smooth, is very comfy, is really quiet, gets decent gas millage for a SUV and has all kinds of cool features throughout the car.  I'm in love!

Kendall was in love with the car from the start too :)

Let's drive this baby home mom!

 The seats slide forward and fold up and down independently

 

 DVD player!  That remote you see in front of the screen... that pops out :)

 LOVE it!!

ONE

I think we went through some kind of time warp this past year.  Wasn't I just pregnant?  It's really hard to believe that our little girl has turned one but at the same time, looking back over the past year, I remember every moment of her growth.  What a smart, fun, silly, beautiful girl Kendall is turning into and it's still the beginning of her journey.  We are the luckiest parents in the world!

Kendall has got the walking thing down pretty well but is still choosing to crawl for the most part.  It doesn't surprise me too much because she always seems to learn something then stop doing it for a bit while she masters something else.  This time it's her vocabulary.  Kendall is saying hi (especially when on the phone - which is every object at this point), Dada, Momma (still only mostly when she is upset though), bye bye, up, Hanna and she mimics numerous other words and phrases.  The past two days she's been mimicking I love you, which is pretty much the best thing ever :)  We did an at home weigh in of her last weekend and we think she is around 21 pounds now.  Although she did have the stomach flu for 4 days and she looks like she lost some weight.  Her 1 year appointment isn't until next month so I'll update you after that with her real stats.  We were so busy on her actual birthday that I forgot to take her 12 month pictures, and then she got sick, so here they are a week late.  OH!  And still NO teeth!  Crazy right??

 Our little munchkin - she still wasn't feeling well :(

These are some of Lexi's hand-me-downs that I'm in love with!  They are a little big but that just means I get to put her in them longer :)

What a big girl!!

 Her actual birthday fell on a Tuesday, which worked out great for me since I'm off on Tuesdays :)  Kendall, Nonnie, Grammy and I decided to go to the Oakland zoo to celebrate.  It was a beautiful day and we had a really nice time.  After we got home Kendall, Mike and I headed to swim lessons (more  on that later) then over to Cary and Lucas's house to share the birthday cake our friend Whitney made for Kendall.  Cary's birthday was Friday so it was only fair we celebrate her birthday as well.  No more cake for this little one for a while after last week!

 Nonno came out to see the birthday girl and my new car (more on that later as well)

 Love!!

 Me and my 1 year old at the zoo

 Kendall was all dressed up for a reason.  That is the dress my mom and I both wore on our first birthdays.  Maybe even Auntie Lex and Heather too.  I'm going to dig up some pictures to post of all of us in it.

 Kendall with her Grandmothers :)

 Whoa!  Do you see that too!?

I loved the little goat petting zoo they have!  Kendall liked it too :)

 I was trying to keep her from walking through poop!

Grammy teaching Kendall about the animals

Kendall loves playing in the back of my new car!

 Kendall fought her nap the entire day.  She fell asleep a minute before we hit the zoo and didn't fall back asleep until we got to Nonnie and Nonno's!  We turned her back around by the way.  The book for the car seat says to face them forward if they are over 20 pounds, the seat says backwards up to 40 pounds and the suggested age backwards is up until 2 years old - but follow what the car seat says.  So confusing!!

 Cary and Kendall cutting their birthday cake

So awesome!  Whitney did an amazing job making this (and it was yummy too)!

Cake up the nose!

She was upset she didn't get the whole cake this time!

Father's Day

Mike's second Father's Day was a little hectic, but I think he still had a great day :)  First thing in the morning the amazing Kim came over to take Kendall's 1 year pictures.  She got some adorable ones for K and Mike that I can not wait to see!  After she left it was brew time for Mike.  His Father's Day request was for his daughter and wife to brew with him, which sadly didn't totally work out.  Kendall went down for a nap after her pictures and I went on a cleaning rampage to put away all the stuff from the party.  I did hang down with him while we had lunch though!  After the beer was done we headed back to the County Fair which ended up being another disappointment because the beers got judged SUPER late this year and the results still weren't posted (Mike entered 9 beers this year).  I'll post the results when we get them in the mail.  There were a zillion people at the fair so we didn't stay long since we had already walked around last Monday.  After a quick trip to Toys R Us to buy Kendall's 2nd big girl car-seat and to Mike's parents house to say hello we went back home to relax and BBQ.  Maybe we'll have a make-up brew day with him soon!

I ordered a bunch of new hats for Kendall, most of which got photographed by Kim.  Here is her new baseball beanie - which I think its beyond cute!

The lady that made them for me hand stitched a SF for us!

I made Kendall a shirt for Daddy's Day

Back of the shirt

Front of the shirt

I was blowing bubbles for Kendall and Hanna was going crazy trying to eat them.  Kendall was cracking up!  I probably did this for 10 minutes and Mike finally grabbed the camera :)