The Daly Dish

Friday, March 16, 2012

FEBRUARY

This month was a month of being sick and tired. Literally! On February 14th our little family drove around to family members and announced that we are expecting baby #3!!!

We made little Valentines bags that said from Greg, Lyndi, McKinley, Kasidy, and BABY!

Super original right?:)

We told everyone early because I have been so sick with this baby! With my other two I was fine. Maybe a little sick in the morning, but I'd just eat breakfast and I was good to go the rest of the day. This current baby has made me a lot more sympathetic to all the mothers out there who do get sick! For those of you who are wondering if I still LOVE being pregnant, the answer is YES! Even though I am sick, I love knowing that I am making a little baby and that soon it gets to be a part of our family. I know that it is a huge blessing and I am so glad I get to be a mom!

Just a quick side note...this baby was a little surprise. We WERE planning on having a fall or spring baby, so not a huge surprise, except that I decided I just wasn't quite ready for a fall baby. I had made up my mind to just wait a little longer, get my life a little more organized and have a little spring baby. Turns out that wasn't in the plan and here we are planning for our fall baby.

It will be fun to have a different season kid, but man, if it's a girl I have to buy warm cloths instead of using the hand-me-downs. It doesn't really matter though:) I just want a healthy baby!

- Since being sick, playing with my kids consists of laying next to them and contributing very little feed back. I did, however, manage to capture little Kasidy playing babies with her Christmas present bunk bed! She is so stinking cute! I love how she cheeses to the camera!

- We also celebrated valentines day. I got our Disneyland pictures developed and put into their autograph books. The girls love looking though them and talking about our trip.

- McKinley was excited for school, and looked so festive! I experimented with her hair and it turned out better than I thought it would. McKinley loved coming home and showing me all of her Valentines! She told me who each one was from, and what role they play in her life at school. ex. "This one is from Skye, she likes to play kitchen with me when we can't go outside for recess." or "This is from Cooper, he is cute but he likes to just play with the boys." It's so fun to see her growing up.

McKinley and Kasidy also loved the new tradition we started this year. If you notice the mailbox next to McKinley...we all have one. This mailbox is for cupid to leave something each day until Valentines. The girls loved opening their mail and seeing the surprise inside each morning. Cupid left small things like little candies, or socks, sometimes a coupon for their favorite desert. The hard part was coming up with 14 different surprises:)

- On the 18th we headed up to Bear Lake. This was a fun adventure! We went snowmobiling and sledding. We had a blast! There were just two events that we could have done without.

#1: Greg took our little family up the side of the mountain without enough momentum and we tipped over. Everyone was fine and we landed in powder, but later that day McKinley kept asking me if I had a bump on my head. "No McKinley I don't." I just left it at that, but later that day I noticed SHE had a bump on her head by her eyebrow. It was HUGE! I felt so bad that I didn't dig a little deeper into that question she had asked me! As the bump went down it went darker and our little girl had a bad bruise! It looked like a black eye! I wish I would have taken a picture of it. So from that accident McKinley got a black eye, and I will count that as a blessing! Things could have been much worse.

#2: Kevin and Beckham. They got their machine stuck and were gone long enough for us to start a search party. Long story short, it was fun, but we will be staying on groomed trails from now on.

February has been wonderful! We are excited for our little surprise, and adding one more to our family!

JANUARY 2012

What a wonderful New Year! Here are the highlights of January...

- My sister Lacey got married to Todd Buris on the 12! They were married in the Bountiful Temple! Everything was beautiful; the weather, the ceremony, the reception, but mostly my sister. She was glowing! I love you so much Lacey and I am so happy for you!

- Greg and I took McKinley skiing for the first time on the 14th. McKinley can be very cautious when trying new things so I was nervous for her, but she did amazing!!! She was so excited the whole time. Way to go brave girl!

I love this picture of Greg and McKinley! Her smile is so sincere and darling!!!

- On the 15th Greg and I celebrated our 8th Wedding Anniversary! I love you Greg, thank you for being an amazing husband and father! We decided to celebrate by taking our family to Disneyland!

- Then of course...Disneyland! We left Tuesday the 17th, stopped in Vegas for the night (Thanks Jim and Candace!), then came home Sunday the 22. It was the perfect time to go! The crowds were small, and wait time was 10 min max for a ride. In face there were many times we didn't even get off a ride because no one was waiting in line! It was perfect!

At Grandpa Jim's house in Vegas!

A welcome note from Grandpa to the girls! They loved it!

Playing in the yard while we packed up the car. Now on to Disneyland!

The girls loved it! Seeing all the princesses was a highlight for sure! We went non-stop the whole time. If the girls were tired, they slept in their strollers. It was great, except that they missed the night shows. Kasidy missed World of Color at California Adventure, and McKinley missed the fireworks/Tinkerbell in Disneyland. We tried waking her up to see Tinkerbell fly across the castle but she wouldn't wake up for anything! Greg was pretty much throwing her in the air and she didn't budge!

It took awhile for Kasidy to warm up to the Disney characters

Kasidy held her arms out like she was flying! So cute!

Toon Town! They loved playing on everything and exploring.

I LOVE Kasidy's face in this picture! It makes me laugh!

The girls didn't want to leave Minnie's kitchen. They had a blast!

McKinley was SO BRAVE at Disney Land! She went on all the roller coasters! Including Space Mt. I thought she would just go once, cause she didn't know better, but when it was my turn to go she was excited to have another turn!!! Way to go Kinners!!!