Altima No Mas

There is nothing like a car accident to make you appreciate how smooth life is on a regular basis.  Wednesday afternoon Kenzie has a wonderful afternoon swimming with Kenzie and the Hegewalds and on the way home she was rear ended by someone who was cruising along at 45 mph.  She got smushed into the car in front of her like a pancake.  She was pretty shaken up and Kenna was pretty startled, but both were able to walk away from the accident.  Kenna got a cut on her chin from the zipper on her hoodie and Kenzie had some soreness, bruises around where the seat belt was, and her tailbone hurts pretty badly.  She is still hurting a bit, but I am a lucky dude to have all three of my girls in good health after the accident.

My response time is a little slow from downtown Dallas, so luckily Lix was there to save the day.  She picked Kenzie right up and took her to our OB to have the bambino ultrasounded and checked out.  She was moving around and everything appeared to be ok.  

Here is the car.  We got a rental and everything and now are just working with insurance companies to see if this thing is toast or if they are going to fix it.

I am very thankful that God kept Kenzie, Kenna, and Kenzie+1 safe.  I am a lucky guy to be constantly surrounded by so many beautiful and happy women and I am glad everyone is ok...minus Kenzie when she sits :-(

This weekend I managed to be pretty productive on Friday so that I could spend all day with Kenna on Saturday.  I decided that we would take a beach trip, which in our area consists of taking all of your sand toys and going to the local sand volleyball court at the park.  Kenna was not one to complain and insisted that we bring Jenna along to join in the fun.  They had a great time playing in the sand and filled their buckets for hours.

We had an awesome time at Bo's birthday party on Saturday and Kenna loved seeing Jarom's bunnies in his backyard.  Happy birthday Bo!

Utah R&R

First of all, the swing set was a hit, but not right out of the gate.  Kenzie got home from Delaware on a Thursday night and I guess their plane ride was a bit too bumpy.  Mix that with too much orange juice and an hour long car ride home from the airport and you get a puking Kenna in the backseat.  So I wasn't able to show Kenna the swing set right away, but after her bath she was just as excited to see it.  She has been on it ever since.  Seriously.  For hours on end.  Swinging.  Swinging.  Swinging.  Her smile was worth all the work.  Kenzie was pretty happy about it too.

We took off to Utah for a long overdue week-long trip.  It was awesome to spend so much time with family and we got to do some pretty fun stuff while we were out there.  I will put lots of pictures in with the text so that it is a bit more interesting.

First of all, Dawnene and Caleb put together a sweet ride for Kenna to play with while she was out there.  She took it outside, inside, and all around and was pretty good at driving it around/ordering Anna to push her around by the time we left.

I also introduced Kenna to Cafe Rio.  She made me very proud and loved our daily "dates" to Cafe Rio.  She was a bit sick of it by the end of the week because I made her go every day, but so was I.

The first weekend we were there we went to general conference with David and Dad.  It was really cool to go and Kenzie and I both agreed that you pay a bit more attention to the talks and stuff when you are actually there in the conference center.  It was cool to be able to see the prophet when he was talking and to see all the other apostles.  Very fun.

Also, I went to priesthood session with Caleb and B-diddy.  Caleb pondered a lot.

The next few days consisted of lots of games of Bang, lots of smiles, push ups on David's back, hair cuts from Kristi, trips to farms with Grandma and Grandpa, Cafe Rio, Horse rides, golf games, grilling, eating, playing outside, playing inside, and other fun stuff.  Kenna really loved all of the time that she got to spend with Anna, Caleb, Brigham, Kristi, David, assorted missionaries at grandpa's house, and of course, her grandparents.

We had an awesome Easter Sunday with both families too.  It started with an Easter egg hunt at the mission home.  Kenna was pretty good and found all 68 eggs that the Easter Bunny had hidden away. 

Two other important things happened while we were there.  The first was that it snowed a few inches.  I was really hoping for this because we didn't get a single bit in Texas this year.  I am not sure we ever will so it is important that it snows in Utah every single time we go out there.  Kenna got all bundled up in grandma's one-size-fits-all-grandbabies snowsuit and made her first snow angel.  She stayed out playing in the snow longer than any of the adults and loved it.

The second important thing was that we got some family photos taken while we were out there.  Don't be fooled.  We look happy and it seems like it was a good photo shoot, but halfway through Kenzie tried to switch Kenna's outfit and then the wheels came off.  Kenna had a bit of a tantrum and would not smile or pose.  However, there were at least a few good ones before the breakdown started.