August

August has been a very busy month. Kaida turned 5 months old. We had 2 family reunions. And it feels like we are always on the go.

Family picture at Blast Off

Kaida's sad face. This is what we see a lot.

The girls. Ridlee loves to hold her sister.

Kaida is 4 months old!

I can't believe Kaida is already 4 months old. She is starting to get out of her colicky stage and laughing when we play with her. She thinks Ridlee is hilarious. Kaida is now 24 inches long and 11.7 lbs. Tall and skinny little thing.
We have enjoyed watching the Blue Angels for the past 5 days. They flew right over our house. Ridlee did not like the noise or the house vibrating. She did look at one that flew right about us and said "look mom is has sparkles!"
We also went to a condo in Ogden and went swimming everyday with Kyler and Brandy. Ridlee had a blast.
Camping

Hanging out with her friend Emery

Daddy and his girls

Blue Angels (I'm standing on my back porch)


Kyler and Ridlee

4th of July

The 4th was fun. Ridlee is still afraid of fireworks. She liked the big ones at the river for a little while. I think the noise it what she hates the most. Ridlee loved getting candy at the parade.

Finally Summer

Kaida just turned 3 months old. She is happier more often which is nice. Ridlee likes to talk to Kaida and get in her face. Their personalities are soooooo different, it's funny. In the past month we have been to Utah to visit family again. We went camping in Palisades. Both girls did great camping. They both slept throught the night in the camper. I wish Kaida would do that at home. I have adjusted to being a stay at home mom and I'm not in survival mode anymore. Yeah for me. We also put a playset in the backyard. Ridlee loves going down the slide.



Camping

We survived 2 months

Kaida just had her 2 month check up. She is now 8lbs 15oz. She is our little runt. She still wears preemie and newborn clothes! She is still colicky. I hope that passes soon. I need a break. Kaida wants to be held 24 hours or a day or she tells you about it. The only time both girls are happy is when we are shopping! They are born shoppers. SO needless to say my house is a mess and I might get to clean it in a month or so when I'm not tending to 2 demanding opinionated girls.

We did make a trip to Utah and Ridlee got to play with her cousins.



We also went camping. It snowed on us, but then it would be sunny and nice. We had bipolar weather. It was fun to get out. Ridlee loved riding her 4-wheeler all over. She was very upset when her battery died.

The Girls

Hattie Bates Photography

Happy Easter

We spend Easter with Travis's family. Ridlee loved playing with her cousins. She also loved all of the candy and treats. On Saturday we made a 20 foot banana split. It was yummy.

Ridlee wanted to sit on the Easter Bunny lap




Kaida is so tiny next to a standard football!

Kaida Lyn Snowder

Kaida was born Tuesday March 23rd at 1:40pm. Weighing in at 6 lbs 15 oz and 20 1/2 inches long. She has lots of dark blonde hair and olive skin. She is sooooo good. She slept all through the night. Freaked me out cause I wanted to feed her. Here is one picture. I will post a slide show later.

Last Dr Appointment

Today is such a good day. I had my last Dr appointment. I am dialated to a 3, 50% effaced and I lost weight!! How great is that. And the sun is shinning. I actually have motivation to get things done (gotta love nesting). And I am loving having a new car (2008 Toyota Highlander). Yep this is going to be a great week! (I am Mrs. Positivity right now. That might change if I go into labor in the middle of the night) My next post will be pictures of my beautiful little girl (as long as the ultrasound was correct). Good-bye for now.

36 week update

My doctor told me she would enduce me on the 23rd. Yeah!!!! (I knew this 2 weeks ago but I was too lazy to post it) I can't wait to have Kaida join us. Ridlee is getting excited too which is really cute.

First Haircut

Ridlee got her first haircut today. Before we left the house I told her Aunt Tangi was going to get scissors and cut her hair. She started crying and yelled "No she's not." Once we got to the salon she did great. She sat so well in the chair and was happy the whole time. (It might have something to do with the fact that she ate candy the whole time)

30 week update

Our baby girl is doing well. She acts like she wants to get out of my belly. She moves so much and scraps her arms and legs against my belly. It's fun to watch my stomach jump and move. Ridlee is excited about the baby. She will ask to see her sister. When anyone asks what is your baby sister's name she will say Kaida. We weren't 100% sold on that name but now it looks like we don't have a choice. Whenever we say a different name for the baby she looks at us funny and says "no, it's baby Kaida."

New Years

We spent New Years with Travis's family. We did a lot of sledding and playing in the snow with the 4-wheelers. Ridlee didn't like the snow very much at first. I was pulling her very slowly in a sled around the driveway and she was crying her head off. She yells at me "Mommy I'm crying!" (As if I couldn't hear her) I laughed really hard at that one. She did go down the giant hill with me in Ucon. But we had to dodge a kid and Ridlee got sprayed in the face with snow and after that she wanted nothing to do with the snow. So she played in the truck.


"Mommy, I'm crying!"

Kyli, Brynn and Ridlee

Totally cheesing it while pretending to drive

Also while we were sledding Ridlee told me she needed to go potty. We tried to improvise. It didn't work out so well. She got stage fright.

More presents

Christmas

Wow December has flown by. Christmas was good. Ridlee had a lot of fun opening presents. She would start to unwrap a gift and yell "oh my goodness...a box!" We has to prompt to her to open the box to see what was inside. She loved Santa and anytime she say a picture of Santa she would get excited. When she heard jingle bells she would yell Santa. She loved singing christmas songs. It was really cute. Her are some pictures.