It has been way to long since I posted on here! Life got busy. In the last few years we have done a lot. I am not even going to try and list all the details. To sum it up We purchased a house June 2010, had another baby boy 22 July 2010(Ethan Blaine McKinney), and so much more. Bradley was Baptised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints during the summer of 2011. Bradley is finishing up 3rd grade, Jamie is almost done with 1st grade, Brandon is in preschool and Ethan loves being at home alone when all three are gone. He thrives on one on one time.

For all that don't know we are expecting another baby. The due date is 11 Aug, 2012. We will find out the first week of April what the sex of the baby is.

We get to go to California in a week. We are all so excited.

Stay tuned for our trip update and the announcement of boy or girl!

Jamie

This Summer Jamie had a lot of fun, but she also had some ruff days!

Jamie Riding the kid swings at the Eastern Idaho State Fair

Jamie on the beep beep cars(boy were they loud)

Our cowgirl on the tractor at the fair

She only has on one boot because I cut open her toe
opening a door a few days earlier

Jamie practicing roping

Riding the McKee's barrel train

Jamie's arm after the cast

She would not move her arm after they took her cast off,

and it was so stiff it was hurting her.

Jamie did not like them taking the cast off.

Jamie at the park on her birthday

Jamie's birthday cake at the zoo!

Since Jamie could not go swimming

she decided she wanted to go to the zoo for her birthday

Jamie turned 4 and she wanted to put on the candles her self.

Jamie splashing in the water.

It rained so much this spring we had puddles everywhere.


Jamie showing us her new red cast

Her arm right after she broke it

Watching the 4th of July fireworks.

Wow, I am bad at keeping everyone updated. We had a great summer, but it went by way to fast! Her is a update on what Brad did this summer. The pictures are not in any particular order.

Brad at Lewis and Clark Caverns

Watching 4th of July fireworks!

On a tractor at the Eastern Idaho State Fair

Milking a fake cow at the fair

Riding a kiddy ride at the fair(he was bored with the kiddy rides)

Getting on the bus, First Day of 1st grade!

Waiting for the bus

Playing on an inflatable at the park

Playing soccer

Brad was awesome and it was only his first year!


Running to home playing T-ball

Batting at T-ball

Kindergarten Graduation

Blowing out his Birthday candles

Brad's cake was a tank. He turned 6 this year. He had his first friend b-day party and since the weather was bad they went bowling.

Cute Jamie with her sunglasses on. She really wanted these rose colored glasses.

Brandon has decided my dryer is fun to play in.

Brandon's Birthday!

Brad and Jamie searching for Easter Eggs

Brad still on the hunt!

Well hopefully spring will decide to stay so we can start planting our garden. Every time it warms up for a day or two a big blizzard follows. Brandon wanted to play outside so bad. He escaped out the back door and decided it was to cold and he started to cry.In March Naithan and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. We also got to celebrate Brandon's first birthday. I can not believe he is one all ready. He has finally decided to walk some. He walks all over our house, but as soon as we go somewhere he goes back to crawling. He is also cutting his molars. He is busy but so much fun. He wants to be outside all the time! If I will not let him go out he stands by the back door crying. If the big kids are outside he stands there pounding the door and yelling at the big kids through the glass. He also really likes to play on the kitchen table. My little monkey can climb almost anything.

Bradley can read. He pretends like he can't, but that is because he likes us to do it for him. He is real excited to play t-ball and soccer this summer.

Jamie is being a little princess. Bossy but so cute at the same time! She makes sure her brothers are doing what they are supposed to. Naithan thinks she needs some competition. She loves music and dances all the time. She is not all girl though. She loves to play in the mud while dressed in a skirt. She loves watching Scooby-Doo and Transformers with her big brother.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Picture Tag

This is a picture of Bradley and Jamie.

They were going out to wait for the bus on Brad's first day of school.

I Tag Heather Gavin. Post your fourth picture from your fourth folder.

Happy Holidays

Wow. I can not believe it has been so long since I last posted. Sorry about that, life has been so busy. We had a great Thanksgiving.

We got to go Christmas Tree hunting. My kids love to go pick out and cut down their own tree. We have a tree, now we just need to decorate it.

Earlier in the month Naithan had the Fireman's Ball. He loves to perform. He is learning how to play the bag pipes and they are the ones who do the ball. I did not get to go this year because I was in Colorado Springs. I had a Mary Kay retreat. I had so much fun hanging out with the girls.

Well lets see if I can update everyone on the kids. Well baby Brandon is not so baby anymore. He is a crawling machine. He is into everything. He loves to climb and perch on things. He is a mover and a shaker. At church he directs the music while singing and dancing. He is learning how to wave. He says Momma, Dada, Bampa, Baba and lots of other things we can not understand. He finally cut a tooth this last week and is working real hard on his second one. He is still a happy little thing. Jamie still dances all the time. she dresses up in her dress up and dances. She also likes to play house. She is getting so big. She tales me all the time that she is almost big enough to get married in the Temple, and that she is getting bigger everyday. She loves to watch the sun set and to look at the Temple. She is so excited to go to Primary in January. Bradley is doing real well in school. If I could just get him to hold still and focus for a few minutes, my sanity might be spared a little. Better to have active kids than lazy slugs though. He has had so much fun going over to friends houses to play. He thinks he is so big, and talks about getting baptised in about 2.5 years. He is also excited to be 8 so he can be a cub scout. Bradley has started listening to me read chapter books before bed, and he loves them.

I hope that everyone had a great Halloween. We had a lot of fun. I got to go to Brad's school to help with his party. The the kids and I went to their doctor appointments and visited Nait at work for maybe one minute. As soon as we walked through the door he got a call. The doctor said all the kids are great. She was very impressed by Brandon's motor skills. He is seven months and he crawls, pulls himself to standing, and stands and will only hold on with one hand while reaching for things. He has also started sitting down rather than flopping to get down from standing. He is a busy boy! Brandon is now 16lbs 11ozs, Jamie is 30.5lbs, and Brad is 46lbs.

After the doctor we went to my Moms. I got to take my kids over to the trunk or treat. Than I made deviled eggs while they went trick or treating with every one. We had a great time.

During potato harvest we were able to go to the cabin for four days. We had so much fun. It was snowing, so we did not go through Yellowstone National Park. We are going to go in the spring when the animals are having there babies. We did to get to see a moose and her baby right in the yard of the cabin. The kids played and played even though it was cold outside. They love going to the cabin. We tried to take family pictures while we were there. We wanted to take them outside, but it got so cold that we had to go back inside. Brandon lost his spoon under the stool, so he climbed through it. We did not pose him in the picture. He did it all by himself. He loves to climb and he has started to crawl for real instead of inchworming it. He pulls himself to standing and walks along furniture. He also lets go and only holds on with one hand. He loves to smile and be happy.

Bradley had his primary program last Sunday. He held real still the entire time. Which is good for my active boy. He loves to speak at church, so he had no problems saying his part. He had it memorized the day they sent it home with him. His part was "I can do family history work for my ancestors so that they can receive Temple blessings." Bradley is so much fun. He has more energy that anyone could imagine.

Jamie loves to play house. She is always pretending to cook me something. She loves to dress up all pretty and to have her hair and makeup done. She is all sugar and spice. Spice because she is such a tease. She loves to tease her brothers. Her thing right now is to call her big brother a pumpker head. She likes to say pumpker instead of pumpkin. Her laugh is so contagious.

Happy Harvest Everyone!

Well I can not believe it is October. I feel like every time I blink I loose a huge section of my life.

Bradley came home from school yesterday so excited. He got a gift certificate for a free bag of bread sticks at little ceasers for reading. He wants to go and redeem it after school today. Bradley loves kindergarten. It is so good for him. It is helping him to learn to control his wiggles a little more. We just got into the hang of our routine and potato harvest starts monday. That means I get my boy home for a week and a half with no school. Naithan has four days off in a row next week, so we are going to go to my Grandfather's cabin in Island Park. We are all so excited. We love to spend time as a family up at the cabin.

Yesterday we spent the day bottling applesauce and dehydrating apples. It was so much fun. The kids were a lot of help.

Brandon is 16lbs. He is also crawling now. I can not believe how big he is. Six months sure goes by quickly.