We have our first Israelsen cousin! YAY! Little Olivia Pulsipher was born September 10th and is doing very well. We are just so sad we live so far away. Jacob's sister Andrea and her husband Ben live up in Idaho. I am just dying to see the new little bundly of joy. Hopefully we are up there before too long. Congrats Ann and Ben! We are so excited to have Olivia in the family.
"WHY?" This is the word I hear at least 2.6 million times a day. It doesn't even really seem to matter what answer I give either. Kenna is never satisfied. I am really trying to be creative with my answers too. Why is Dad at work? Why can't I go outside? Why is Allie crying? And everytime I give an answer she just keeps asking why. Circles and circles. The other day I tried to repeat the same answer over and over to try and wear her out, but I ended up wearing out and quitting first. Nice.
Here is another cute Kenna moment. A few weeks ago she was riding in the car with Jacob at night and looked out to see the moon. She always gets so excited when she finds it and says, "Hey, it's the moon!" Then she said, "I need to get some of those....oh what are they called? I need to get some wings so I can fly to the moon!" So cute. Then the other night when we were driving home she found the moon and was watching it, then after a little while she said, "Hey, the moon is following me!" Jacob looked over at me and said, "I don't think I realized that until I was like 6." HA! Thank goodness our child is smarter than us. We must be doing something right.
So for some sad news, our dog Sydney has diabetes. Yep, who had any idea dogs could get diabetes? It really is so sad. In order to keep her around, we will have to give her a shot of insulin every day. Hmm. The poor thing is so skinny and is just not doing well. We have been resolved to the fact that we are going to have to put her down. Now you have to know that I have really come to love this silly little furry creature. Jacob got her as a puppy on the day we went on our first date and she came with us on the horse ride. Not only that, she has been with us ever since we've been married and has made the trek with us on all our moves. But, I suppose that's how life goes. Amazing how attached I get. I tell Jacob she is kinda like our first kid. I'll keep you updated.
Whew, that was somber. We really have been having fun down here lately. To try to be brief, I will update along with the pictures.
#1 is at the County Fair on Labor Day. In the morning Jacob and I ran our 4th 5K together. It was really fun. I am quite proud of myself! I improved my time just a hair more. We had a little neighbor girl watch Kenna and Allie while we ran and then immediately afterwards there was a parade. Kenna LOVES parades! Allie just squirms and wants to wander everywhere. She hates being confined and gets pretty ticked when she can't move around, but we managed. Then we went over to the fairgrounds and Kenna was so excited to ride the carousel. Jacob kept holding on to the tail of the horse and Kenna kept pushing it off because she wanted to do it all by herself. Everytime she came around she would wave like crazy, it was so fun!
#2 is at the State Fair in Salt Lake. After growing up on a farm where horses were readily available, Jacob was pretty dismayed to be paying to let Kenna ride the pony, but after her sweet little smile and all her excitement, Jacob probably would have paid for it a few times. These little girls have daddy wrapped right around their little fingers! She got to ride all by herself and she was the proudest little girl there ever was! Allie just watched and squealed for Kenna. Maybe next year little Allie! We had such a fun time at the fair with some of Jacob's family. It made us homesick. We weren't ready to come back to Cedar City.
#3 is also at the State Fair. They have a little pre- 4-H show, so Kenna and daddy went out to practice a bit the night before. She was in heaven and thought she was big stuff. They got so many stares and comments, it was so fun to watch people gawk at them. Then the next day was the little show and she walked around the arena like she was quite the little cowgirl. They gave all the kids a little blue ribbon at the end and she displayed it proudly!
#4 is me and my ladies last weekend. We decided to go for a ride up the canyon and around by Cedar Breaks. It's really pretty up there. We drove around by Navajo lake to let the girls play for a bit, but it was really windy and cold. Yep, jackets and shorts. That's great parenting right there folks, go ahead and take notes. This picture turned out really cute of the two girls. It's hard to get them both smiling decent and looking at the camera. No, I'm not trying to look like Tina Turner, it was just windy. But I would like her legs....
Allie got the shaft on pictures, I guess. Don't you worry, she definitely makes her presence known. She climbs on EVERYTHING and I have to watch her close. She is finally starting to take a few steps and is so very proud of herself when she does. Still waiting for an official first word, but sometimes she calls Kenna "na." Not sure if it's on purpose or not. Guess we'll just keep waiting!
