The Kearns Family

We love our "magic Bullet"

2011-10-29T11:55:00.000-07:00

Wendy Thanks for the Magic Bullet, as you can tell the kids love it!

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Macey came up to me and said mom look, I use this when I'm cutting wood... it's my kitchen Aid mixer cover. I'm glad she's learning proper safety while working with tools!

Just can't get enough

2011-10-22T18:53:00.000-07:00

This boy eats more cereal then I do in the mornings. He had a huge bowl and then decided to get in the cupboard and empty the rest of the box of cereal into a pot. At least he ate it.

Our little preschooler

2011-09-08T21:18:00.000-07:00

We decided to do a preschool with Macey and 3 of her friends. Each mom is taking a few months to teach. It's so fun to see how excited Macey has been for preschool. She's been loving it!

Logan seems like he's enjoyed his time with just mom. Macey does her best at taking care of him, even if he doesn't really need help!

Here's the cute little preschool group.

2011-07-25T21:24:00.000-07:00

We looked in the bathroom the other day and there Macey was doing her business with her skirt pulled up to her neck.

Our little 3 year old!

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Cohen was great at helping Macey blow out her candles. Poor boy surrounded by 7 "princesses". He did pretty well. They're showing us their rings.

Here's a little pre-party photo shoot. I'm not sure where she learned how to model!

This is how Alan poses for all his pictures!

Here's Macey on her real Birthday.

Am I really 30

2011-03-17T20:00:00.000-07:00

How did I get to be 30? I'm so grateful for my family and friends, and for how great the past 30 years have been!

Some friends of mine threw me a "Minute to Win It" party. It was exciting!

These girls were so cute! You're supposed to work the cookie down your face and into your mouth. They just had fun balancing it on their foreheads!

Logan's walking

2011-03-01T11:40:00.000-08:00

Logan's walking! He's been doing it for awhile, but this last week he's been walking better and all over the place. It's hard to get video of him 'cause as soon as I get near him with the camera he tries to attck me!

2011-02-05T11:24:00.000-08:00

We bought a little 10 gallon fish tank. We love it! I think these may be the only pets we ever have! (Alan's not a big fan of pets in the house) (He's behind me and getting mad that I'm writing this, he made sure I added "in the house". He thinks all you animal lovers are going to hate him!) Some friends and I had a little craft get together to make some V-Day decorations. Here's mine!Alan and I made this table the other day. I got the plans off this awesome site called ana-white.com I love it. I have a list of a million other things I want to make. If only I had the time, money, and tools!

Happy Birthday Logan

2011-01-19T13:55:00.000-08:00

He started out slow, bu got the cake eating down by the end!

Our Birthday Boy! He had lots of help from his sister.

December for the Kearns

2010-12-10T12:53:00.000-08:00

Macey and her friend Avalyn playing in the snow.

Ice cream anyone?! As you can tell, we're all very excited about it!

Grandma and Grandpa Kearns, those candy canes were the kids favorite gifts!

Macey and Logan opening their Mega blocks. I think Alan was more excited about them then the kids.

Merry Christmas!

Before the sprint down the stairs to the Christmas tree.

Happy Halloween

2010-11-16T12:01:00.001-08:00

Alan and Lisa

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This is the way we look when the kids are in bed by 8:00pm. Oh what joy!

Angela and Evan

2010-10-19T13:47:00.000-07:00

Alan's sister Angela and her boyfriend Evan came last weekend. We had a great time hanging out with them. Macey LOVED Angela. We went to our friends house and made apple cider on their cider press. It was yummy.

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Already driving.

These are Macey's two best friends. Estelle and Avalyn.

Logan is pulling himself up on EVERYTHING. He's loving his new found freedom

Aaron's wedding

2010-10-19T13:06:00.000-07:00

Alan's brother Aaron got married the end of September. It was a lot of fun seeing all of Alan's siblings and his parents. Logan and his cousin Bryant were the only two kids around, so they got plenty of attention. Can you tell these two boys are related?!

Tonsils and Adenoids

2010-10-19T12:58:00.000-07:00

Macey had her tonsils and adenoids out in September. She is like a new girl. We are so grateful that we found an answer to all her health problems. It was a hard recovery but she's doing wonderful now.

This is right before surgery. Alan took Macey back before they put her under. As you can tell she's a little nervous.

Boo

2010-10-19T12:43:00.000-07:00

I made these boo blocks the other day. I've had a few people ask me how to do them. I just used 2x4s' or 2x6's paint them, cut out scrapbook paper to fit the block size, apply modpodge to the block and stick on the scrapbook paper. I print the letters from word and just have them outlined if I want white letters, and then I cut them out. I do Modpodge over the scrapbook paper, apply the letters, and then do Modpodge over the letters. I love Modpodge!

piano and singing

2010-10-18T21:00:00.000-07:00

I think the kids get their musical talent from me!

Family

2010-07-27T15:22:00.000-07:00

For Enrichment I taught how to make these blocks. They are super easy and cheap to make. (Here they are Kari!)

Life latley

2010-07-26T16:15:00.001-07:00

Life has been pretty busy since June. We had two big vacations weeks apart and a little excitement in between. Here's a bunch of pictures so you can see what's been going on.

Branson/Arkansas

2010-07-26T16:01:00.000-07:00

Mid June we went on a vacation/Blair side family reunion to Branson Missouri and Mena Arkansas. We had a wonderful time enjoying the shows in Branson, and the outdoors in Mena.

We took the red eye in hopes that the kids would sleep the whole flight. No luck. Macey was delirious with tiredness but just wouldn't lay down and relax. She finally fell asleep 30 minutes before we landed. I never want to do that again!

It was fun to see my sisters son Russell who is one month younger then Logan.

We spent a day at the water park.

In Mena we did a little pond fishing. Grandpa had the special fishing pole that kept catching fish!

Macey's Febrile Seizure

2010-07-26T16:00:00.000-07:00

Right before our vacation to Afton Macey started running a fever. It was only 102 but I thought I'd just call the doctor and talk to them, they said if I wanted to bring her in they had an appointment open in an hour. I wasn't going to take her in, but last minute thought I would. Alan randomly had an open morning and said he'd come along. While in the doctors office Macey had a Febrile Seizure. These type of seizures happen when your temp. spikes quickly.

Macey's was a pretty bad one. She quit breathing and turned blue. There were about 5 doctors in the room and they were pretty stressed. We later heard her oxygen level was at a 60 which is pretty low I guess. She finally came out of the seizure and the doctors called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital. When she got there her temp was 106. They kept her for 24 hours and she was fine. She recovered pretty quickly.

It was very scary. I was so glad that we were at the doctors office, and that Alan was there also. What a blessing.

I love that cheesey smile!

Afton Wyoming

2010-07-26T15:51:00.000-07:00

Macey loved riding with Grandpa

Grandpa wore the kids out as they raced each other.

We hiked up to the intermittent spring.

Family Pictures

2010-05-13T14:30:00.000-07:00

A friend of ours took some family pictures for us. As you can tell Macey doesn't like to smile for pictures. Logan will usually smile at anything. We're not sure which picture we like the best. What do you vote?

#1

This is the best smile we could get out of Macey. We had 5 people making weird noises and dancing around behind the camera girl while Macey gave us her "you're all crazy" look.

Patty Cake Baaaakers man!

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As you can see at the end of the video I stopped it just in time to save Logan from an eye poke.

Favorite Pictures

2010-03-11T13:03:00.000-08:00

We finally got Macey to wear this coat we got from my sister, but then she wanted to wear it everywhere so we eventually had to hide it.

Isn't this hat awesome? I wish I had one!

What a smile!

Birthday and Blessing

2010-03-11T12:42:00.000-08:00

Macey turned 2 years old on Sunday!
She was very excited and didn't mind getting sung to one bit!

She got a tricycle for her birthday, and loves it.

Also on Sunday was Logan's baby blessing. Wendy thanks for the vest, it worked great. Who would of thought he could wear 6 month clothes at 2 months old.

My parents, brother Kevin, Aunt Eileen, Uncle Larry, and Aunt Joan came to the blessing. It was wonderful.

I just love this little guy!

An UnWinter Party

2010-03-10T13:39:00.000-08:00

One of our friends threw an unwinter party where we basically wore summer clothes, had a BBQ, and played summer type games. It was great!

Sweet dreams

2010-02-03T14:19:00.000-08:00

This is one of my favorite pictures of our sleeping little Logan.

After Macey saw me taking pictures of the kid she insisted on laying next to him and having her blanket on her and her sleeping buddy Cosmo. What a cheesey little smile.

After this picture she turned to him and said "wake up dude". Where did she get that...ok I guess I call him dude sometimes. Funny how kids pick up on things.

Our little terrible almost two year old!

2010-02-03T13:50:00.000-08:00

Not to long after Christmas I was tired of having our kitchen half painted, and so one Saturday morning while Alan was playing basketball I thought I'd get started painting. I figured Alan would be home "soon" to watch Macey and that she couldn't get into too much trouble while I was busy. Oh I was wrong.

While I was painting she decided to pull out all our games and scatter them around the room. This included games with tiny pieces such as Ticket to ride and Risk.
When Alan got home we opened the door to our bedroom where Macey had also been playing. We found that she had taken her pjs off, put on one of my T-shirts, pulled our clothes basket up to our dresser, pulled out one of the drawers, climbed in it so she could reach my jewelry and was playing with my necklaces and bracelets. I think she had one of the best Saturdays of her life, doing whatever she wanted to do!

Around Christmas we taught Macey "What does Santa Clause say", and she'd say "Ho Ho Ho". Well she got a little mixed up and started calling everything with a beard, or a hat a Ho Ho. She's still doing it. The other day a guy came over to work on our Furnace that keeps breaking (that's another story!), and he had a red beard. When he walked in Macey started saying, a Ho Ho, a scary Ho Ho.

He's here!!!

2010-01-23T21:04:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures of little Logan Kearns

He was born Sunday January 17th at 12:00 pm exact!

Sister picture!

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My sister Kari is due the end of Feb, and I'm due in a few weeks. This pictures about a month or maybe two old. I think I've tripled in size since then!

Time for an UPDATE!!!

2009-12-25T17:28:00.000-08:00

I thought I better post a little update on what's been happening the last few months before I go into labor and get even farther behind on our blog!

So here's the first big and exciting thing that's happened. Beginning of November we moved into our new house. We are are absolutely loving it, and will post some pictures once we get things a little more organized. (When will that be??? Possibly never...atleast it feels that way!)
We had the priviledge this year of having Alan's parents, brother Aaron, and sister Angela come for Christmas. We are so grateful they did and had so much fun with them.

Macey enjoyed all the attention, and loved to have even more people she could climb on and drag around.

This is a picture of Jim and Macey trying out the skateboard ramps at the park down the road. They looked like they were having fun.

It was fun to watch how excited Macey was about her gifts!

Alan and Ange by the tree...awh how cute!

Here's Aaron and Al...this is the first we've seen of Aaron since he's been back from his mission. It was great to see him.

Grandpa and Macey having a little bit to eat!

Jim and Julene just looked so cozy sitting by the fireplace drinking their hot coco I had to take a picture. Excuse the yellow blob on the wall, we didn't get around to painting that room before Christmas. What do you think of the color!

Well we made the switch from crib to toddler bed. It was a hard decision, but when we had two nights in a row where she woke up and fell out of her crib while climbing out, we decided it had to be done.

She now loves her big girl bed and sleeps pretty well in it.

At the beginning of December we went with some friends up to their cabin. There wasn't much snow, but it was tons of fun.

October

2009-12-25T16:35:00.000-08:00

We went to the Seattle Zoo for the weekend

It was a little rainy but very worth it. Macey was worn out by the end.

Alan and I had tons of fun playing the role of "Lucy Legs" and "Elvis" in a murder mystery game put on by some friends. Alan won best dressed, and I was the only one who guessed correctly who the murderer was!

I made tons of fresh apple cider with our friends apple press and some free apples! YUM!

Due to popular request here is a picture of our little Unicorn! We had to bribe/distract her with candy in order to get her costume on at first. Once she figured out that you get candy by going from house to house she totally forgot about the costume!

We went trick or treating with some friends of ours.

Our GIANT Pumpkin

2009-10-14T22:08:00.000-07:00

Our neighbors parents grew pumpkins and had a few HUGE ones. We thought the one our neighbor had was awesome. This morning when I came outside we had this pumpkin sitting on our door step. Macey thought it was pretty awesome. I can't wait for all the yummy pumpkin seeds!I asked Macey if she loved the pumpkin, and the next thing I know she's kissing it!

Has it really been 10 years?!!!

2009-10-13T14:40:00.000-07:00

I had my 10 year high school reunion just the other weekend. It was so much fun to get together with some of my good friends from high school. In a lot of ways it felt like nothing had changed!

Kearns baby #2 is a...

2009-09-22T20:33:00.000-07:00

BOY!!!

Due January 22nd.

Camping

2009-08-19T14:09:00.000-07:00

We went camping up by Mount Rainer last weekend with some friends. It was beautiful and tons of fun. Macey even slept through the night. That's better then Alan and I can say.

Ewww stinky

2009-08-07T13:54:00.000-07:00

Macey is a lot like her dad in that she's very aware of smell. Most times when we change her diaper she plugs her nose and says ewww.She also waves her hand in front of her face and crinkles her nose.

Party with the parents!

2009-08-02T14:54:00.000-07:00

Alan's parents, Jim and Julene came to visit us in Yakima for a couple of days. Despite the 104 degree days we all had a wonderful time.

Macey loved Grandma and Grandpa from the very beginning. As soon as they got to our house she jumped in Grandma's lap and wanted her to read a book.

We stopped by a local orchard and thought we'd check out how we looked as fruit.

Some people in our ward had a bunch of raspberry bushes, peach, and apricot trees that they said we could come pick fruit from.

I think both Grandpa and Macey ate about as much as we picked!

My parents had us all over for a barbecue. It was fun to see Macey run back and forth from one set of Grandparents to the next. She was loving it! You can see which side of the family Mace gets her height from!

By the end I think we did a thorough job of wearing ourselves out. We can't wait till Jim and Julene come back and visit again!

2009-07-31T16:03:00.000-07:00

When we were at the beach on the 4th of July weekend my niece Anna had this purse that Macey LOVED, and so Anna gave it to her. (thanks Anna, we love you!) Macey carries it around with her all the time. The purse and Dolly are her favorite. Mace has kind of a weird smile in this picture 'cause she fell and has a huge FAT lip.

I also forgot to mention that my aunt provided ty-dye on our 4th of July vacation. Here's a picture of Macey in her sweet ty-dye onesie. She wanted the camera and was mad I was trying to take a picture with it.

Finally I let her play with one of our cameras while I took a picture with the other.

Good old 4th of July!

2009-07-17T14:57:00.001-07:00

For the 4th of July we went to Lincoln City, which is a little beach town on the Oregon Coast. My whole Family (minus my brother in law Adrian) were able to come. We stayed in a beach house courtesy of my parents, and had a wonderful time.Macey got a flag at a parade we went to. She enjoyed waving it around.

Here's a shot of the girls as we sat around chatting on the stairs. Always a popular place to gather!

We did fireworks on the beach as well as made smores. This is a picture of Anna loving her sparkler!

Nichole, Mom, and Amy tried out the sparklers too.

As well as Alan!

A shot of the family

We also played lots of games. The Whitings love games!

Macey loved my brother Jeff and was constantly wanting to go to him. Here they are at the parade.

We've got a climbing machine

2009-06-23T13:30:00.000-07:00

It seems like every time I turn around she's climbing on something else. I can't stop this girl! The video is the first day she discovered how to climb on the table. I'd take her down and she's just climb right back up.

Crazy Hair Messy Face

2009-06-19T15:58:00.000-07:00

I love to see Macey's hair in the morning. She must have some pretty wild nights!

Here's a funny video of her feeding herself.

Did I tell you we planted a garden?

2009-06-19T14:50:00.000-07:00

Well we did! Just down the road from us is a community garden. We decided to try our hand at it, but have been struggling a bit. Our plants just don't seem to be growing at the same rate as everyone else s around us. I think we need to water more. We're going to try that! Even though it's just down the road it's hard to get there everyday and water. Plus Macey likes to pull the plants she sees, as well as touch all the mud that happens as a result of watering. Some of the things we planted are, tomatoes, squash, carrots, peas, watermelon, and peppers.

Here are a few pictures from the day we planted everything.

Models for an hour!

2009-06-06T15:07:00.000-07:00

Alan's co-worker's wife (Laura) works for a photographer here in Yakima. Last month he was teaching a class to people who come from all over the world to learn from him, and they asked if we'd like to be models for it. It didn't feel as awkward as I thought it would be to have 40 people standing around watching us, posing us, and telling us what to do.
In this picture Macey was supposed to be looking at Alan, but she was too distracted by all the on lookers. There were 2 or 3 people behind Alan trying to get her to smile, but still look like she's looking at him. This was the best they got.

Amy thanks for letting me borrow your clothes!

Memorial Day

2009-06-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

I'm kind of a delayed blogger, but I eventually get around to it!

For Memorial Day my parents broke out the Wave runners and we went to Lake Vantage for a barbecue and some fun at the beach

I think this was Macey's first watermelon, and she absolutely loved it. She kept eating the rhine.

We were going to take Macey out on the wave runners, but right after this picture I let go of her and she face planted it in the sand.

The only person who could console her was Grandma. For real.

After some of us took a nap, we played an exciting game of croquet.

Al and I taught Macey how to play while everyone else napped.

We had a wonderful Memorial Day!

The new hang out spot

2009-05-22T16:37:00.000-07:00

So it all started this morning. I was doing stuff in the kitchen (you know the stuff moms do!), and it was pretty quiet so I thought I'd check on Macey. As I went into the living room I saw that she was just sitting on the stairs playing with a little car, and was happy as could be. She ran around a bit, but always heads back to the stairs.

Slowly she starts collecting things and bringing them back to the stairs.

Here's her collection around 9:00 before we headed out to do somethings.

Later this afternoon she decided to head back to her new hang out spot and create more of a collection.

Some of the things you may not be able to tell she collected are a dryer sheet, Alan's sock, a fruit snack wrapper, a framed picture, her coat, a toy car, remote controls, and of course her car and stroller. Who knew how much fun the stairs could be?

Maybe we should enter her in an eating contest!

2009-05-22T16:28:00.000-07:00

This girl can eat like no other. The other day we had pancakes. She ate 2 and I ate 2 1/2 and was stuffed.Her favorite food is banana, she's the fastest banana eater I've ever seen.

She also loves goldfish. When I'm making dinner I'll set some goldfish out on this stool, and Macey loves to sit on it like a little desk and eat away.

Sundays at the Blair's

2009-05-22T16:14:00.000-07:00

Most Sundays we go to my parents house for dinner and games. Now that it's warmer out we've started up our croquet tournament. We love it.

Macey loves Grandpa.

Sometimes our croquet game can get a little tricky.

I'm feeling a bit guilty!

2009-05-19T11:06:00.000-07:00

The next Sunday we were back we had a talk in church on Pride. It seems that bragging (gloating) about things is a bit prideful. Please forgive me for "Gloating" about our cruise. (But IT was awesome, not me of course!)

Jogging stroller/ Bike Trailer

2009-05-15T14:19:00.000-07:00

So were looking for a jogging stroller/bike trailer that can collapse down to be put in a car, and that is not super expensive. Anyone have any suggestions on where we can find one?

Time to Gloat

2009-05-14T16:30:00.000-07:00

Alas, we are back from our cruise. I'd have to say it was my favorite vacation ever. Yes it's a big statement, but I do believe it's true! I'd highly recommend a cruise to anyone interested. We were gone for a week, and left Macey with my parents. We weren't too worried since Macey LOVES my mom...quite possibly more then us!

We went with my sister Kari and her husband Todd and had such a fun time hanging out with them. Our boat was called the "Freedom of the Seas" and was amazing. It had rock climbing, mini golf, a surf machine, ice skating rink, ping pong, a huge theater, and many other awesome things. The places we stopped at were Haiti, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman. Below are a bunch of pictures of all we did.

This is Alan and I on the "Flow rider"

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In Haiti we hung out on the beach a lot...as you can tell from Al's feet we should have used more sunscreen.

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In Jamaica we hiked up some waterfalls.

This dude sang us a song

This is a view of Jamaica from a plantation

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I just think this picture is funny, 'cause Alan looks like a Giant.

Amy thanks for letting us borrow your cute dresses for formal night

Warm weather, Beaches, and Lots of food...here we come!

2009-05-02T12:34:00.000-07:00

Did I mention Alan and I are going on a cruise to the Caribbean? We can't wait!

Arbor day excitement

2009-04-28T19:59:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago we went to an Arbor Day event held at a local place here in Yakima. They had tons of exhibits, and animals, and cool stuff. Macey's favorite was the puppies. She LOVES dogs. I have to agree, they were pretty cute.

I can't believe we let her touch this snake... gross. Alan was holding it and Macey grabbed it and started squeezing. I don't think the snake really liked Macey.

They had a reptile exhibit with frogs and snakes and turtles.

Yikes that's one scary bear.

Happy Easter (Last month)

2009-04-28T19:45:00.000-07:00

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter a few weeks back. We gave Macey an Easter basket full of marshmallows and Alan and I hid each others baskets that had real candy in them. Mmm I love Reeses peanutbutter eggs. Alan found his basket right away.

Later in the day we went to my parents house and had dinner with some of my cousins and their kids, and my aunt. We did an Easter egg hunt. Macey found two eggs and was content to sit and hold them.

The things she learns

2009-04-28T12:15:00.000-07:00

We discovered that Macey loves push cars like this one. Every time we've been at friends houses who have them she loves them. So I decided I needed to find one for her. I checked on craigslist to see if I could find one, but they weren't much cheaper then the ones at the store. The next day as I was taking the garbage out, guess what I saw next to the dumpster? You guessed it. This car. (For those who know Alan and I, you won't be surprised what I did.) It had some peeling stickers on it and the plastic was faded from sun, but it looked fine other then that. I waited a few day just to make sure no kid left it there on accident, and then I took it! It's now Macey's all time favorite toy.

In my defense, those of you who are thinking what a horrible mom I am for giving my daughter something from the garbage, it was actually next to the garbage and I gave it a good cleaning before I let her touch it.

Which brings me to the title of my post. "the things she learns". I used disinfectant wipes to clean it up. The next day Macey got into her diaper wipes pulled one out, ran over to her car and began wiping it down. It's amazing how much kids notice and copy.

Here is just another example of what kids copy. Macey found a calculator we had laying around and next thing I know she's walking around holding it on her ear and jabbering away. I guess it does kind of look like a cell phone. I guess this is what we have to look forward to when she's a teenager.

Thanks

2009-04-27T12:34:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the info on the great website. Very cute backgrounds. I was going to post too, but Macey just woke up from her nap...dang it. Maybe later.

Blogger templates

2009-04-22T13:35:00.000-07:00

Anyone know of a good place to get blogger templates. I checked out Pyzam but didn't find something I love. I'd like something more simple and Springy (as in Spring time feeling, not bouncy. It's a new definition of the word!)

Mmmm, Spaghetti

2009-03-27T17:23:00.000-07:00

I just thought this picture was cute. We finally got a computer and Internet. So I'm back to blogging. I guess I should really say picture posting. As you can tell I'm not really much of an actually "Blogger". I'm excited to catch up on what's been going on with everyone else the past 4 or 5 months. Sorry about not being very good with keeping in touch.

Macey's 1st Birthday

2009-03-27T17:00:00.000-07:00

She loved eating her cake.

She knew it was all hers

We decided to keep the party small and just had my mom, dad, and brother over to celebrate. I don't know why we didn't take a picture with everyone. I hate when I forget things like that.

She wasn't shy about opening her presents. Of course her favorite part were the bows!

Alan's family called and left a message singing Happy Birthday to her. She LOVED it...that is until she deleted the message.

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It's amazing that in just one year this little baby can grow into.....

This little girl

And she can walk too!!!

Hope you had a Merry Christmas

2009-01-01T15:59:00.000-08:00

This Christmas was very exciting and busy. Each of my siblings and their families came for the Christmas Holiday. It's been a long time since we've had all the "Blair's" and their families together. Wendy, Adrian, and Scarlett came the day after Christmas so they're not in the picture, but don't worry we got another family picture to document the rare event! Every year we line up on the stairs while my dad takes a picture, and then we run downstairs to the living room to see the beautiful tree, and of course what Santa brought us.The cousins, especially Kaylee loved taking care of Macey. I appreciated their help.
Here's a picture of Mace with her Christmas orange.

We finally have clean clothes!

2009-01-01T15:33:00.000-08:00

So my wonderful husband sacrificed sleep and warmth on the day after Thanksgiving to stand in line for a few hours outside Sears to get us a sweet new washer and dryer. Macey loves to sit and watch them run.

2008-12-31T19:33:00.000-08:00

It's been great living in Yakima and being able to be around for Family events. We celebrated my Dad's 29th Birthday earlier this month!!!

Macey has learned how to pull herself up on everything and anything since I last wrote. Her favorite is the dishwasher. As soon as we open it she sprint crawls for it.

The new style...just you wait!

2008-12-31T19:29:00.000-08:00

Macey seems to sport a new hair-do after every nap

Catch up post

2008-11-15T15:12:00.000-08:00

Well I had to do a big catch up post, 'cause it's been awhile since I've posted, and it probably will be awhile before I do it again. We moved out of my parents house (yeah!), and into a town house out in Terrace Heights. This past few weeks we've been doing a lot of moving and unpacking and furniture shopping. We're loving having our own place, as well as miss being so close to my family and spending so much time with them. They have been sooo great in letting us stay with them. When I have more time I'll post some pictures of our new place, as well as pics of our sweet table we got and hopefully sweet couch we're going to get.

Isn't this a cute picture of Macey...I just thought I'd post it 'cause she's so dang cute...I'm not bias of course!

Apples + Apples + Apples= Apple Sauce!

2008-11-15T14:58:00.000-08:00

Alan had work off Monday, so we spent it making and canning apple sauce with my mom. We made a heck of a lot of apple sauce...60+ jars that will last the Kearns and Blair family a long time! It was fun but exhausting by the end.

Macey was very helpful...she chased us around in her walker, and tried to pick up the apples out of the many boxes we had.

Alan worked on his squishing and cranking coordination...he got really good at it! Notice how focused he is :)

2008-11-15T14:48:00.000-08:00

My cousin Sarah came into town a few weeks ago. It was so fun to get together with her and our friend Heidi. I sure wish Sarah lived closer, but atleast we'll be able to see each other when she comes home to visit.

We tried to take a group picture of all the kids, but didn't have much success...Steven was ready!

Happy Halloween

2008-11-15T14:06:00.000-08:00

We had to post a picture of our little tiger...I have some sweet video of her growling, but for some reason video posts aren't working for me, maybe I'll get it later...you'll just have to wait in suspense for it!

Scary I know

Can you tell which heads are the pumpkins, and which are ours?! My favorite is my mom...she hates weird face pictures!

Boys and Girls, don't try this at home

2008-10-15T11:50:00.000-07:00

Alan's been practicing his balancing skills with Macey...he did this with no net or ropes!

These are the practice pictures
This one is hilarious (and really the whole reason for the post)...I was trying to get Macey to look at me and Alan started to drop her. Yes folks that face expression was not posed!

Falls here!!!

2008-10-15T11:22:00.000-07:00

I just love the Fall...especially in Yakima. This last weekend we went to a friends orchard and picked apples. This was both Macey and Alan's first experience with picking apples. They loved it. Were going to make a whole bunch of apple sauce, and probably a few apple pies, and of course just eat some of the apples we picked. I can't wait for the apple cider, that's my all time favorite!

Elder Blair is home!

2008-10-10T09:22:00.000-07:00

My brother Todd got back from his mission to Lima Peru on Wednesday. We were so excited to have him home. On our white board we had a "Count down till Todd's home". He lost a lot of weight, but looked so happy and good, and full of excitement. We were all so happy to see him. Two years is a long time!

He bought Macey a cute little snow hat that she looks adorable in as long as she keeps it on!

Happy Birthday Alan

2008-10-02T15:09:00.000-07:00

Alan turned 27 on the 26th of September. He got a Costco card, hair clippers, a sweater, Cinnamon Rolls, an apple pie, money, admission into the Central Washington State Fair and an Elephant ear (kind of like a scone for those who don't know) from his wife, and family. I'm so grateful to be married to such a wonderful man!

Our little "Walker"

2008-10-02T15:00:00.000-07:00

So about a month ago, maybe more, we bought Macey this little walker. Smartest thing we've ever done...OK in regards to buying something for Macey. She absolutely loves it! She can travel around and go where she wants to go. She's pretty speedy too. Her favorite thing to do is chase the dog around the house. Taddy (the dog) has discovered where she can go to be close to us, but where Macey can't get her.

Alan...the "Bread Winner"

2008-10-02T14:33:00.000-07:00

Well here's Alan, all dressed up for his first day of work! Actually, he's going on two weeks now, I'm just slow at posting. This second week has been a lot better then the first. Now that he's done with the corporate trainings, he's starting to learn and work more in the things he'll be doing. Macey and I miss having him around all the time...but of course we're happy he has a job! We had a great, low responsibility vacation while it lasted!

How do we get that giant picture of us smaller. Anyone know?

2008-09-19T10:06:00.002-07:00

New Job

2008-09-19T10:06:00.001-07:00

Well after 4+ months of searching for a job that we thought would take about 1/2 that, we found IT !!! Despite our original desires to live somewhere other then Yakima WA (where Lisa is from), we gave into the need for a job and took the great opportunity that presented its self.

Alan will be working at a place here in Yakima called Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health. It's a large company that has a number of different branches that are scattered throughout Central Washington. His job will have the responsibilities of working with 4 or 5 families and their youth through a new program. Because it is a new program being implemented he'll get the opportunity to go to some trainings throughout the US each month, as well as work with a small team of co-workers to get things started and running smoothly.

Alan and I are both very excited!

Blah Blah Blah

2008-09-19T10:06:00.000-07:00

Well I guess Macey doesn't think much of what we have to say. We talk and all she has to say to us is Blah Blah Blah.

Haircut revealed

2008-08-14T14:50:00.000-07:00

Alright here's the hair cut...I guess you can't really see it to well, but I don't have any other pictures of it right now and I don't want to take one right now 'cause well I just woke up. I guess it didn't turn out bad, I just wanted it different. My problem is I'm not sure how I really wanted it, so maybe who ever would have cut it would have had an unhappy customer. I don't remember if I said this before, but I think I'm going to stick to bringing in pictures of what I want.

I Just Hate Bad Hair Cuts

2008-08-14T14:39:00.001-07:00

So I got a hair cut that I'm just not sure about. I told the lady I wanted an A line. I thought A lines had a little layering in the back...am I wrong? My hair cut is shorter in the back and gets a bit longer in front, but it's more like a bob. I think I'm going to have to start bringing pictures in of the hair cut I want as well as going to more expensive, better places. I guess it serves me right for being cheap! No more "SuperCuts" for me.

2008-08-14T14:20:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago my sister Kari came with her 4 kids to stay with us for two weeks. We had tons of fun going swimming, hiking to Boulder Cave, going to the Yakima Museum, jet skiing, and playing games. It's so much fun to be around family. Alan and I want to make sure we live around family when we grow up and get a home!

Jeff and Nichole decided to surprise us and drive all the way from Provo to come visit us Pioneer Day weekend. It was fun to see mom's shock when they showed up at the Pioneer Day Picnic.

Here we are a the Museum with all the kids.
Macey got lots of love and attention from her cousins.

Look what I can do

2008-08-02T20:17:00.000-07:00

For those of you who have not seen Macey in a long time we wanted to share with you some of the things she's learning to do.

#1- Push ups- it's never too early to start working on those biceps.

#2- Look at that form- She's a natural born sky diver
#3- First step carousel horse, Second Kentucky Derby
#4- Blending in with the crowd- Waldo's got nothing on Macey

2008-08-02T19:45:00.000-07:00

#5- Rolling over scene one

#6- Rolling over scene two
#7- How do I get these to my mouth

#8-She's an expert at drooling. That's where she gets the name "Drool Face Mace" #9- And she discovered her tongue

2008-07-08T17:50:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to show off a few pictures...

Macey is normally a very smiley little girl, but as soon as we bring out the camera, she goes serious...camera shy I believe! We got a pretty good smile for this picture though.

We were trying so hard to get a good smile for this picture because of the cool background, but she wasn't in the mood.
Just cute!

Our vacation to Banff Canada

2008-07-08T17:32:00.000-07:00

Two days after we got back from Alaska, we went with my family on vacation to Banff Canada. We had a great time. The scenery was very similar to Alaska's scenery...gorgeous place.

In this picture we are standing by Lake Louise. The water was a turquoise color.

We went on a Gondola ride up to the top of a mountain. It was beautiful.
Despite the serious look Macey was a little Angel on the drive there and back. It's about 10 hours each way, and she didn't cry once. She was content just hanging out with Cosmo.

Fun in Alaska

2008-06-21T20:46:00.000-07:00

Alan Macey and I spent the last few weeks in Gustavus Alaska at Alan's house. We had a great time hanging out with Alan's parents, Aunt Marsha and Aunt Susanne. We also enjoyed fishing, kayaking, bike riding, and watching the wildlife. It's great to be married to an Alaskan! Below are a ton of pictures of some of the fun things we did. Here's Alan working on reeling up a big fish...I think it was a 100+ pounder!
Here are the Halibut Alan, the Aunts, and I caught. The one on the left is about 200 pounds, that is one big fish! Let's just say we were a bit warn out after reeling in that baby!
This is a picture of Alan's parent's boat "Alaskan Dream"

Warning: this video is rated PG-13...for fish violence

2008-06-21T20:45:00.000-07:00

Here's a little footage of catching the BIG Halibut

2008-06-21T20:40:00.000-07:00

We also went kayaking, it's so beautiful in Alaska. We had quite a few warm, sunny, beautiful days.
Macey had a lot of fun too. She's getting bigger everyday. She smiles and coos a ton. She rolled over for the first time the last day we were in Alaska.
I really wanted to pull the anchor. I did a good job for awhile, but finally had to get Alan to come help me. Now I know why Jim (Alan's dad) is so strong!

2008-06-21T20:03:00.000-07:00

When we were there we saw this moose and her twin baby moose walking through Alan's neighbor's yard. We also had a black bear walk through Alan's yard, but we weren't quick enough to get a picture of it.

Alan and Jim caught a 30 something pound King Salmon one morning, too bad I don't really like Salmon. Everyone else seemed to enjoy it! Here's Mace hanging out with the Salmon!

Farmer Alan

2008-06-21T19:56:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago we met up with some of our friends from BYU (The Bleazards) in the Tri-cities. We had a great time. They showned us around Jason's parents farm. We had fun driving a tractor, playing games, and going to the dairy farm. Alan was even daring enought to milk a cow.

Happy or Sad...I just don't know!

2008-06-21T19:52:00.000-07:00

Macey has a love hate relationship with Grandpa B. sometimes she'll be be laughing and smiling at him, and the next second she could be screaming in terror. She's not quite sure how she's feeling in this picture.

Chilling

2008-06-21T19:44:00.000-07:00

I know these are some pretty silly pictures. It was kind of funny, Macey was crying, and Alan was laying on the bed holding her above him. He put her chin on his and she instantly stopped crying and sat there calmly looking around the room.

2008-05-18T22:23:00.000-07:00

Two months old, and they already named a grocery store after her.

2008-05-18T22:19:00.000-07:00

I came down stairs and found Macey happy as can be with her little bow
that fell down over her nose.

2008-05-05T16:50:00.000-07:00

Alan graduated with his masters in Social Work the end of April, and wanted to take some time off before he started a new job. What better place to get free rent and relax then in Yakima, Washington! We're living with my parents as Alan looks for a job, and then we'll move to wherever that may be. It's been fun so far spending time with my family. We may also be going up to Alaska for a few weeks to hang out with Alan's parents. The time off is nice, but if any of you know of a good Social Work job, let us know, we're on the look out!