New Years Eve!

31 December 2008

We celebrated New Years Eve at home this year, with Colin & DJ!

We hung out together & had a 'Meet The' night (watching 'Meet The Parents' & 'Meet The Fockers'!)

Kennedy, of course, wanted to start the New Year off right, by reading lots of books with Daddy!

Looks as though DJ & Colin were in deep thought watching our 'Meet The' movies!?

Kodi & I - 5 minutes before the New Year

Can these goof balls ever be serious? Haha!

Kennedy, with one of her best buddies, DJ. She adores him!

Wow! That's all I can say.

Are Kodi & DJ in the same place Colin is? Apparently Colin didn't get the memo on making rediculously weird faces?

All in all, Kennedy & I had a Blast New Years Eve, with these boys!

Sledding!

29 December 2008

After searching in every store in town for sleds, we finally gave up, & borrowed my sister's, & went sledding the Monday after Christmas for family night.

We went to the big Hill off of 5400 S & 3200 W, which is one of the best sledding hills around!

We had such a blast! Even Kennedy had so much fun! She kept saying 'my turn, my turn!'

Here Kennedy & I are sledding down one of the little hills. I love this photo. I think it's really cool how we are focused on, but everyone else in the photo is blurry.


Colin & Kodi

Colin thought it would be fun to sled for a little bit with just his shorts & short sleeve shirt on. As you can see, he paid the price! His arm was major snowburned!

The first video is of Kennedy & I sledding down one of the little hills.

The second video is of Kodi going off one of the jumps. His landing is pretty sweet!

The last video is of Colin going off the same jump. His landing was not so sweet, but pretty funny!

Christmas in T-VILLE

After spending Christmas morning in South Jordan, at Grandma Jani 's house, we drove in the snowstorm, back to our apartment in Taylorsville, to open presents with my parents & colin.

Kennedy didn't see what Santa brought her until noon (what a good sport ;)

She was so excited about all the new toys Santa brought!

'It's all for me?'

'Look, Santa brought me a baby!'

What Santa Brought Kennedy: Disney Princesses Chair, Curious George Monkey & Book, Leap Frog Karaoke machine, bounce 'n' go worm, Sesame Street color/sounds toy, Goldilocks Puzzle, Water Baby (not pictured because Kennedy would not let go of it long enough to take a picture) & Lots of Books for our little bookworm!

Nana & Grandpa (My Parents) gave Kennedy a fun Puzzle Matching Sesame Street Book. Kennedy has so much fun playing with it, especially since 'Melmo & Hoey' (Elmo & Zoe) are a big part of the book. Kennedy's latest favorite toys/movies/books are anything to do with 'Melmo & Hoey'!

Colin (my cousin who is Staying with us, which Kennedy adores), gave Kennedy this beautiful child size REAL guitar for Christmas. She loves it & calls it her 'ding ding'.

Kennedy decided this marvelous gift box was more fun to sit in than the chair Santa brought her! Silly kid!

I had so much fun wrapping this present! I used all the little scraps left over from wrapping other presents & taped them all together to wrap it! Kennedy especially liked how easy it was to open!

Kennedy was not very excited about how many presents she opened that had clothes inside! Notice her expression of dissapointment as she opened yet another present with clothing!

And yet, shortly after... she was playing dress up with all her new clothes! Clothes must not be so bad after all?

Kennedy's favorite gift from Kodi & I for Christmas was a bucket of blocks We bought that were really inexpensive! Funny how sometimes the cheapest things are the most played with!

She was so proud of herself! So were we! She can stack up to 7 blocks on top of eachother (this photo only shows 5)!

The dollhouse I regifted to Kennedy for Christmas, that used to be mine, became the ultimate block building platform! Kennedy had so much fun watching colin stack 20 or 30 blocks at a time & then she would quickly knock them over before he could get anymore on top!

Kennedy all worn out from Christmas morning/afternoon! (Pre-nap/Pre-bath). She had something from breakfast at Grandma Jani's still stuck on her face!

Nana gave Kennedy these cute pink Disney Princess pajamas!

They were among the 10 pair she received for Christmas, from Mommy & Daddy, Grandma Jani & Grandpa Scott, & Nana & Grandpa!

She won't be getting cold at night anytime soon!

After Kennedy had a nap, Kodi, Colin, Nana, Kennedy, & I all climbed in the car to visit Great Grandma Torgerson & Grandpa Torgerson!

We then all went to my sister, Rachael's house, to see the rest of my family!

Christmas Morning at Grandma Jani's

woops! missed this photo! but couldn't not post it! Kennedy got so excited when she opened this gift from Grandma Jani & Grandpa Scott! She couldn't control her excitement & started crying! But was soon after trying to ride it while I was still putting it together!

This year, we started Christmas day off by waking Kennedy up at 6 am, loading her & presents into the car & driving to Kodi's mom's house (Grandma Jani).

It was pretty snowy on the drive there, but nothing compared to the driving later the same day!

When we arrived, a little after 6:30, we were very surprised to walk inside & see that all the lights were out & everyone was still asleep. This was very unusual from years past, when Tiff, Enoc, Jani & Scott would all be up and making breakfast by the time we got there (with Derek & Angelita yet to arrive.)

Kennedy was still very tired at this point, but ready for whatever was going on.

Kodi woke everyone up (including Derek & Angelita, who stayed over, to insure that they would be there before too late in the day,) & by about 7:30 everyone was ready to open presents!

Kennedy was very intrigued with this toy that Oliver got from one of his Aunt's on Enoc's side.

Yay! A photo of me! That never happens! I'm always behind the camera! Thanks for taking pictures Scott!

Kennedy, patiently waiting for Kodi to open a really fun sing along book she got from Grandma & Grandpa Thomas (Scott's parents).

So cute! Daddy/Daughter reading! (Tinkerbell!)

Oliver & Jani

Angelita & Derek (& one of Tiff's cute puppies in Angelita's lap)

Somehow we didn't get any photos taken of Tiff, Enoc, or Scott!?

This is what it looked like outside when we were leaving! Lots of snow! Scott Shoveled the walk for us just in time though (after this photo was taken!)

Christmas Party with the Torgerson Bunch!

20 December 2008

Wohoo! I'm finally getting around to Christmas Blogging!

Christmas this year was so much fun & so busy!

The Saturday before Christmas all the Torgersons got together at Steve & Kathy Love's Wardhouse to Celebrate Christmas.

Everyone brought their own potatoes & a topping to share & there was lots of other yummy food and dessert! (yum, holiday food)

Santa came & brought all the kids a present that their parents 'helped' pick out!

Kennedy was really excited to see Santa, until it was her turn to sit on his lap! She wouldn't sit on his lap by herself, so Daddy sat with her (poor santa!)

She finally calmed down when she saw the present waiting for her in Daddy's arms. Santa brought Kennedy a fun lift the flap book about Christmas. She loves her Christmas book & still wants to read it even though its almost February! (she doesn't know, or care what month or holiday it is!)

Cute little Oliver (Kennedy's closest cousin - 1 year apart) half asleep on Santa's lap! Poor little guy didn't feel very good.

Kennedy's 'Grandpa Kent' trying to convince her to come sit with him & Santa!

Kennedy just loves her Grandpa, so of course she sat with him (even though scary Santa was there too!)

Kennedy loved this slide that was at the church!

She's really smart, knows most of her ABC's, can sign or say just about anything you ask her, but she is definately not very coordinated when it comes to getting on a slide! Lol! Guess she's too busy learning other things!


Unfortunately, this video isn't the best quality, but I love it!

Kory, Kerry, & Kent all sang a beautiful Christmas song together at the party!