Happy Birthday JR!

Today is a special day for our daddy for two reasons it is his big 26th birthday and it has been 9 months today since Kai was born. JR was so excited when he found out that Kai would share the 21st with him. We love J you are a great dad and husband and we are super lucky to have you. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Wedding, Mothers Day, and Kai and his BOOK...

Ok this weekend was a pretty busy one, so this will be one of the longest posts I have done in awhile. Saturday JR's cousin got married the wedding was beautiful and JR looked HOT (so did the bride)! It is not that often you get to see your husband in a tux so that was fun for me. They got married at a place in Salt Lake called Millenial Falls, we had sushi, chicken, chocolate covered strawberries and danced the night away (ok JR and I really didn't dance the night away but all the funny drunk people did)! Then Sunday was Mothers Day, I bought myself a dress the one I wore to the wedding and a new cute hat in the picture with me and Kai. Kai bought me a Willow Tree statue and JR gave me some perfume and a cute card. It was weird to have my first mothers day but it was a good one thanks J. Then just as entertainment I have to tell you about "the book". Friday morning I left Kai on the bed like I always do to play toys while I got ready, well I hear him talking to himself but he sounds ticked off he wasn't crying but he was "cursin". I walk into the room and he has a book his Auntie Erin had bought him torn up and the barn window around his leg! It was pretty cute...so Enjoy (and sorry it's so long)

Just an Update

So it has been awhile since my last post but nothing cool has really happened. Kai had his first ear infection 2 Sundays ago and then this Monday he had his first fall...lovely huh?! He was sitting on the couch (I know what you are all thinking) and Brooke brought Eli in the room and sat him on the floor and as soon as she sat him down I thought Kai is going to reach for him. So I looked over my shoulder and right as I did he was head over feet and getting ready to fall right off. I yelled and as I yelled he went right off and Brooke and I both jumped for him but we weren't fast enough. Man talk about being worried all day I didn't want him to go to sleep I felt so bad. I learned my lesson though he won't be sitting on the couch anymore, poor guy! Other than those two things he is growing well and he is healthy. I have just started teaching swimming lessons at The Legacy Center in Lehi. I teach from 4-6 pm right now and then in the summer it is a 10-1 pm schedule, and the best part about it, is that I get FREE daycare because I am an employee. I like teaching and I am glad I have this skill to fall back on especially since it doesn't require me to be away from Kai for very long but I can still help out a little. Well that is about it I am pretty boring otherwise JR is just working hard and has been busy this last week with his cousins helping get ready for one of them to get married so maybe I will post pics this weekend from the wedding. Sorry no pics this post just don't have any to share right now.

RECIPES

So I saw this same idea on another friends blog (thanks Liz) and thought it would be fun to see what kind of response I get. I love to cook but just like so many people I find that I make the same thing over and over cause it is easy. So any of you that have any good recipes, that are easy but not common I would love to get them and try them. I decided as well since I am the one begging for "non common" recipes that I could share one myself hope you all enjoy!

Chicken Rotell:

4 chicken breasts
1 can rotell tomatos (mild)
1 can cream of chicken soup
1-2 cups shredded cheese
Doritos

Cook chicken and shred it. Mix rotell tomatos and cream chicken soup together in bowl then add shredded chicken. In a 13X9 baking pan start to layer, Doritos first then chicken mixture then cheese and repeat until pan is full. Cook in oven at 350 degrees for about 20-25 minutes just until cheese is melted and chicken mixture is bubbling a bit. Serve with a little sour cream and maybe a salad on the side mmm it is really good.

For all of you that try it let me know if you like it and thanks for sharing if you do ;)

COUSINS

Auntie Jess took pictures of Kai and Eli the other day and I just couldn't pick one they were all cute. Can you believe Kai is only a month older than Eli!? In some of these pics he looks way older. What if Kai has Giantism?

Kai was TaGGed by Brooklyn...

Kai was tagged by his cute little friend Brooklyn so now I get to write 10 cute things about him this will be a fun tag for me sorry if it is not so fun to read..

1. Kai has always been a great sleeper he slept through the night at 8 weeks and has ever since, this is number one to me and I know all you mama's will understand why.

2. I love how Kai always has a smile for anyone that wants one, you smile at him and he will smile right back.

3. Latley one of his favorite things to do is play with his toys. Every morning I put his toys on the bed with him and he will serioulsy play alone for almost 30 minutes.

4. Kai has a really fun giggle I wish you could all hear it, he doesn't giggle on command so it is one of my favorite things when he does.

5. I love that he talks himself to sleep and wake's up talking to himself (gotta love baby monitors).

6. As you all know he has a helmet and I was really nervous about him having it but he has been so good with it and doesn't act like it bothers him at all.

7. Latley Kai loves the bath as you have seen from other posts and being a swimming teacher this makes me so happy.

8. Kai loves going for walks and because of this I have been able to take advantage of the good weather when it comes and get a workout. I can tell already most of our summer will be spent outside.

9. I love when Kai and cousin Eli play together it is so cute how interested they are in eachother.

10. I love his chubby legs and how he has never said no to food. A lady in church said "well he hasn't missed a meal huh"..I don't know how I feel about that because I am not a skinny mom but it was funny anyways.

Dad's day off...

JR had a day off this week, so we decided to make the best of it. Kai's day started off in the toy box, then we decided to visit Grandma and Grandpa Great! (JR's grandparents) they were thrilled to see Kai, and Kai got to hold a 2 day old chihuahua while we were there it was soo little and cute but I forgot to take a picture :(. After we left G and G great's house we went with Erin and Tom for lunch at Ruth's diner (very good food), and then we went back to their house for a good ole game of canasta and of course Erin and I won! Then we can't forget the sore loser's (Tom and JR) crying on the couch. Then Skyler (Erin and Tom's dog) almost knocking Kai off his back cause JR decided to call for him right as Kai had sat down..uh hello! All in all it was a nice day it's fun to have daddy home with us during the week.