Look at his smile!!`

My friend Susanne took this picture and I can't believe he actually smiled in it!!

Craft It Forward!!

The first three people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! 2- What I create will be just for you. 3- It’ll be done this year. 4- You have no clue what it’s going to be. 5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.The catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 3 people who do the same on your blog. The first 3 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! Who’s in? I signed on with Erin, so I'll show you what I get when I get it!!

MOVIE SPOILER ALERT!!!!

So we went and saw Knowing last night. Horrible movie!! It was actually okay until the end and then I thought it was a really stupid ending, and that ruined the movie for me. It was just like the new Indiana Jones movie. So if you saw that then you know what I mean about the end. I will say that the effects were really cool on the big screen, there was a plane crash and a run away subway crash that were way cool, but not worth the $9. I say wait till it comes out to rent and go to redbox, it's worth the $1!

HAPPY BIG 30!!!!!

Today is Akoni's 30th birthday!! Just wanted to show a few cute pictures of him as a baby. We don't really have a lot of recent pictures, so you just get the young ones.

Akoni, I love you. You are the best husband, father and friend that I could ask for. I am so lucky to have found you and that I get to be married to you forever and ever.

I have the BEST Husband EVER!!!

I just want to say that I have the best husband in the whole world! Yesterday around 7:30am I started to get some stomach cramps that honestly felt like I was in labor again. All I could do want lay hunched on the floor and beg Adriann to get dressed for school and try to fix something to eat for breakfast. I called Akoni and luckily he was getting off work early and said he would be home by 8:30!! I somehow managed to drive Adriann to school without throwing up in the car and then came home and crashed in my bed.

Long story short, I basically sat in my bed from 8am - 6pm. I only got up to throw up and pee, which wasn't much since I couldn't eat or drink anything. So this is where my gratitude for my awesome husband come in. He took Adriann and Kenyon all day for me. He took them to lunch and to the store and basically let me lay in bed with Kamden all day and just get better. I think I must have had either food poisoning or the 24 hour flu (which I've heard is basically food poisoning), but luckily it wore off by dinner time and I felt so much better!

So a HUGE THANK YOU TO MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND FOR LETTING ME REST AND GET WELL!! I LOVE YOU!!

A few of my favorites..........

These are some of the pictures my friend took of Kamden.

Check out my friends blog....

My friend Susanne took some pictures of Kamden today and she has them on her blog, so check them out if you would like. Under my friends she is listed as Ashbys.

Okay lots of pictures!!

Here are some pictures from my mom's camera while she was here visiting. They went home today and am so sad because they were such a help and I am going to miss them so much!! But we had tons of fun while they were here. So enjoy the pictures!

Kamden Joseph Ganir is here!!

Here is a quick picture of Kamden barely 4 days old! Thanks to wonderful Erin who came over and took this picture for us I am able to post a picture of him. When I went to download my pictures from my camera card to my computer, all of my pictures got erased from the card!! We have no idea how it happened, but we have NO pictures from the hospital. We have to put our card into our printer which then puts the pictures onto our computer, so we think the printer somehow erased the card. So I am not going to try that again. We have taken more pictures, but I have to get them on a disc and then I will post more. So check back in a few days.

Kamden's birth went great. I was induced since I was due on the 4th and the doctor didn't want me to go too far over my due date. So I went in on Monday morning (2/9/09, cool birthday huh?!) and he was born at 4:26pm. It was a great experience, and so far he is a great baby!! He weighed 7lbs. 5oz. and was 21 1/2 in. long. And he has DARK hair!! Other than that things are good and we're just trying to adjust to having a baby in the house again after 4 years, and trying to keep the kids from smothering him. But we are enjoying having him here finally and are loving him to pieces.


Here is me the day before Kamden was born. I'm so glad I'm not pregnant anymore!!

WISH ME LUCK!!

Obviously I have not have a baby yet since I am posting right now. I am going to be induced tomorrow morning since I was due on Wednesday and my Doctor doesn't want me to go past Monday. So wish me luck because I am freaking out now that I know it's coming! But I am also so excited to be done with this..........I'll post when I get back from the hospital!

Soooo apparently since my baby has not come yet my baby ticker says that I am getting more pregnant? That doesn't really seem fair!

I know that Due Date doesn't mean anything.........

So if anyone has any tips on how to make a baby come faster..........Please offer them! I'm not in a huge rush, but I'm really sick of being pregnant and well I guess yeah I just want this baby out! I need to figure out how to not have such a hospitable uterus. My kids just get really comfortable and don't want to come out, so HELP!!

On Friday it was such a beautiful day and the kids wanted so bad to go to the park after school, but I just did not want to go and sit at the park. So I said hey, let's go to the beach? It was gorgeous!! I just sat on the sand for an hour and let the kids run around and play. It was so fun. I can't believe that it was January and we were at the beach!








I tried so hard to roll their pants and not have them get all wet, but that didn't go real well, and this is what we ended up with!! They got a little too close to one big wave......and the pants had to come off!!

Kenyon is 4!!

Kenyon turned 4 at the end of this month. We just had a fun dinner with Todd and Ruby Staley from our ward. Ruby wanted to make us dinner and how could we turn that down, and it just happened to be on Kenyon's birthday, so it was nice to have someone come and share his cake with, so I didn't end up eating it all!!





Giving hugs to Adriann for her present, a fun Diego Art Kit!!



Todd and Ruby gave Kenyon this snake and I'm so happy I got this picture!! He was goofing off, but it's so funny!!



This is Kenyon's cake that he helped me decorate. I let him just do whatever he wanted and when he was changing the top of the sprinkle holder, the entire top came off and they all fell out onto the cake! It was a brand new sprinkle thing too, so there were a lot of sprinkles!! But that just made it so much more yummier!

The Kids Birthday Party

So with the baby on the way and both kids Birthday's in January, we did a joint Party at Chuck E. Cheese's!! Plus most of their friends are siblings, so it was a great way to have a big fun party and put less stress on me! Ha Ha Ha Ha! Less stress?.........Never have a party at Chuck E. Cheese!! They have changed all the rules now and you can't just walk in and have a party anymore. There is a new fire code and there has to be a seat for every person, so you have to wait at the door until they have a seat for everyone in your party and then they will let you in! Long story short, it was crazy at the beginning, but luckily it all turned out fine and we all had a great time! So here are just a few pictures:

I didn't have a lot of energy to make cool cakes this year, so I decided to do the fun number cakes! Kenyon wanted a cars cake, so I just put cars on it, and Adriann is obsessed with Littlest Pet shop, so we just put some of her animals on the cake. And yes, I washed all the toys before they went on the cake!!




Just some presents they got, Kenyon would not look at the camera, so I didn't get any good pictures of him.





This was on the way home, they were asleep before we even left the parking lot, I guess they had a good time!!

Do you see my baby ticker?

So I know that I'm getting close to having this baby, but I noticed that my baby ticker is in the single digits today and I actually got scared! I am so torn between wanting this baby out so that I don't have to pee every 15 minutes, but it's the kind of pee where I think I am going to pee my pants and then like 1 Tbs. of pee comes out, I want to be able to sleep at night, I want to be able to roll over in my bed and not have to be out of breath and have it take extreme effort to roll over, I want to have more than 4 shirts fit me and one pair of pants that I don't have to either rubberband the waist or have pulled all the way down under my belly, I want to be able to bend over, not have help putting on socks, walk without feeling like I am arched and about to do the limbo, and lots of other beautiful things that come with being pregnant. But at the same time I love feeling the baby move inside me, I love being able to wear whatever, look huge and not have to worry about looking fat because everyone knows that I am pregnant, I don't have to at the moment actually take care of the baby yet, I still have my hands free to wrangle in the other kids, I can still use the excuse that I can eat whatever I want because I'm pregnant, and other stuff.

Sorry for the rant, but I am just trying to get rid of some of my anxiety that I am finally starting to feel. I have been so consumed with Holidays and Birthdays and now that it's Kenyon's birthday today, this is my last thing that I had to check off before the baby could come. So now I have 9+ days to freak out about the baby coming..........

Adriann's 6th Birthday!!

Just a few pictures of Adriann's 6th Birthday from almost 2 weeks ago! Wow time flies!! I can't believe that she is 6! And yes if you noticed she has 3 different outfits on from the same day, that's our Adriann! I think she had more on during the day, but I didn't get pictures in the other outfits!





Her new obsession, Littlest Pet Shop!! I was always not wanting these because there are so many little parts, but they are actually really cute!! Grandma and Aunty Rachel got her a whole bunch to jump start her collection!!



I love that she still loves Dora!!



With her cake. I didn't make a cool one this year on her birthday, we're saving that for her party!

Christmas 2008

We had such a fun Christmas. Akoni's brother and his wife and 2 kids came and stayed with us for a week and we had such a blast. There were too many pictures to post, so here are just a few of the kids.

A few pictures of Adriann:


So this is beginning to be a tradition that I really don't want. We have gotten a snow globe for Adriann the past 2 Christmases and each year she has broken them on Christmas day! So sad. I found a plastic one after Christmas this year, so I'm thinking that might be the way to go next year.....



With her Hello Kitty purse. It's so cute! She puts all her stuff in it and carries it around!


A Hello Kitty CD player! This is the greatest thing for her. She sits in her room and listens to music and just sings all day!




Just a few pictures of Kenyon:

With his new Hat and Transformer!!



If you have ever seen the movie "3 Ninjas", then you would understand that these Jelly Beans were from Tum Tum!! He became obsessed with Jelly Beans after watching that movie, so wasn't it nice of Tum Tum to get him some for Christmas?!



His new Jersey! Can you tell that he is sick of pictures at this point?




It was a fun Christmas and we all had a wonderful time! Now we just have 2 birthdays and a baby coming, wow 2009 looks way to busy!!